Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani's buddies were served a federal sandwich. |
Lev Parnas and Igor Furman are both being held on hefty "get out free" cards.
They are both born in former Soviet countries and could face automatic deportation if they're not naturalized. They face up to twenty years in federal time out for campaign finance fraud.
The suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
These men resided in Florida and worked for Giuliani to promote a politically charged investigation into Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate running for president. They were arrested on Thursday as they were trying to flee the United States.
Two other men David Correia and Andrey Kukushkin are facing a federal sandwich as well.
These men along with Giuliani and Fox News contributor John Solomon were promoting a kookspiracy theory about the 2016 elections, and also help dig up dirt on Hunter Biden, the former vice president's son and his association with a Ukrainian gas company.
The two men were frequent associates of Republicans. They had dinner with Trump and Donald Trump, Jr. in 2018, and Parnas bragged about dining with the Trumps at the White House last year.
The Southern District of New York had laid the indictment on Thursday. The men are accused of funnelling money from a mysterious Russian billionaire who wanted to keep Trump in the White House in 2020. This is a federal crime. You can't accept money from foreign donors and try to conceal campaign funds for personal use.
Former Texas Republican congressman Pete Sessions is also under the radar. He is considering a run for a district being vacated by a Democrat in order to get back into Washington, DC. He was defeated in the Blue Wave of 2018 by Colin Allred. Sessions wrote a letter calling for the cannon firing of Trump appointed U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovich. She was fired out the cannon in July shortly after the Ukraine call with the new president Volodymyr Zelensky.
Two men with ties to Russian operatives caught in Virginia. They were trying to flee the United States. |
Republicans are having trouble trying to defend this.
The House of Representatives under the Democrats is demanding information from Trump and White House officials. They warn Trump that if he keeps delaying or denying them information, they will proceed with Articles of Impeachment.
There was a second whistleblower who detailed in a memo about the call between Trump and Zelensky.
"The official described the call as 'crazy,''frightening' and 'completely lacking in substance related to national security,'" the memo states. "The official asserted that the President used the call to persuade Ukrainian authorities to investigate his political rivals, chiefly former Vice President Biden and his son, Hunter."
The feds noted that the two men were planning on fleeing the United States and avoid extradition.
The two men had dinner with Giuliani before they ended up leaving for the airport.
This is a big freaking deal. That directly puts Giuliani under the federal watch.
More to come.
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