X Marks
the Spot: Rudy’s crooked pals indicted as
Trump plays dumb
(Never
met them, doesn't know them ditto Pence)
Update (October 10, 2019): Rudy Gee up to his eyeballs in
corruption and a lot based on this CNN story and more specifically
here
from Law and Crime (GOP-connected):
Rudy
Giuliani‘s friends, clients, and Ukrainian
hatchet men Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman and others listed below face several
felonies over their roles in various conspiracies and efforts to defraud the
U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC) by allegedly misrepresenting the source
of funds and for unlawfully soliciting
foreign campaign contributions.
Before it
all fell apart, however, Parnas and Fruman were ascendant backdoor power
players in GOP politics across the country. Starting in late 2016, Parnas began
spreading his financial largesse across the country by way of various state
Republican Party groups.
Highlights and Introduction with this Headlines just
before two were ready to board a plane, one-way tickets out of the U.S. – then
taken into FBI custody and later charged in Federal court –
Two of Rudy Giuliani's
business associates at the center of the Ukraine investigation will NOT comply
with the impeachment inquiry, their lawyer John Dowd says
· Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman are two former
USSR-born real estate entrepreneurs
· They said they will not attend
depositions this week or hand in any documents
· Their lawyer is John Dowd who
defended Trump during the Mueller inquiry
· Whistleblower who overheard the
Ukraine phone call said “it was frightening”
Washington (CNN) – Two men tied to Rudy Giuliani's
effort to solicit Ukrainian interference in the 2020 election have been
arrested and charged with unrelated campaign finance violations.
The men, Lev
Parnas and Igor Fruman, were already in the spotlight as House Democrats ramp
up their inquiries and prepare for articles of impeachment against Trump.
Now they'll
face legal problems of their own. They were named in a criminal indictment, just unsealed, along with two others who allegedly participated in the
scheme – so, that Giuliani mess now totals five.
Here's a breakdown
of those four men and their alleged crimes at the CNN link.
Rudy
Giuliani is a train wreck in the making and totally out control. This headline
from The Independent (UK) is damn scary in and of itself:
“To disrupt the world” – Giuliani gives bizarre FOX News interview before posting angry
4:54 am tweet
Trump personal lawyer said his mission was “to disrupt the world” as he
attempted to defend his involvement in the Ukraine scandal.
The former
New York City mayor made the claim while being questioned about his role in
pushing for an investigation into Trump’s potential rival, Joe Biden and his
son, Hunter Biden.
Giuliani’s contact with Ukrainian officials on behalf of Trump
is now at the center of the impeachment inquiry
sparked by the release of a whistleblower complaint by an alleged CIA
official who worked in the White House.
During an interview with FOX News, Giuliani was asked
why he was involved, rather than the State Department or the AG.
Martha MacCallum FOX
host asked: “Why are you the president’s personal
attorney? What is your personal mission?”
Giuliani responded
“Wow,” then added: “To disrupt the world.”
Then he continued: “My
mission is to defend my client in the best traditions of the legal
profession.... It is in the best interests of my client to unravel the
corruption in the Ukraine which involve mostly collusion in the election into
which Joe Biden inserted himself.”
Giuliani,
who has been subpoenaed for documents by the House Democrats, has
repeatedly claimed that Biden acted corruptly in Ukraine on behalf of his son
Hunter.
A former
prosecutor in Ukraine said last month that the former vice president's
son did not violate anything.
It has since
emerged that he was warned by US envoy Kurt Volker that his sources were untrustworthy.
Biden’s
campaign has complained that Giuliani is spreading false, debunked
conspiracy theories on behalf of Trump.
Giuliani claimed his investigation concluded before Biden
announced he was running for president in 2020 – although the dates he gave suggested his
investigation ended before it began saying:
“I started the
investigation in November 2018, I ended the investigation in March 2018. How could it possibly be to affect the 2020 election? How would I have known back then that he was
going to run and why would I have not investigated him if he was central to the
whole story?”
Several
hours after the interview, Giuliani went online to accuse DEM Rep. Rashida
Tlaib of suggesting that Trump, his lawyers, and other White House officials
could be arrested by Congressional police.
In an apparently angry 4:54 am tweet,
Trump made the baseless claim that it was: “Evidence of a
conspiracy to violate civil rights and to defraud us. Failure to cover it by
blaring headlines shows you’re part of Corrupt News Network.”
My 2 cents: This Trump scheme is well-planned up
to now is now running off the rails and that is something Trump never
anticipated because he has always got his way and escaped prosecution and any
jail time for his crimes,
But, not this time. Drain the swamp Trump says, but hell,
he is the swamp. And it runs deep.
“Gators are extra” — very hungry and unfriendly.
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