The Investigation Into Rudy Giuliani's Associates Has Widened

[KelleyKramer]

The Investigation Into Rudy Giuliani's Associates Has Widened

Federal investigators have acquired records — many obtained earlier this month by BuzzFeed News — showing a whirlwind of lavish spending by Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, two key operatives who dug up dirt on Joe Biden for President Trump.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mikesallah/federal-investigators-are-probing-suspicious-financial




A federal grand jury investigating activities surrounding Rudy Giuliani’s back-channel campaign in Ukraine has demanded legal documents that include records of extravagant spending at Trump hotels and millions of dollars in financial transfers by Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, two key operatives who carried out the plan, according to a source familiar with the demand.

The documents requested by a subpoena that was issued in Florida last week could shed light on whether other people, including foreign nationals, were trying to influence the top levels of government and impact the 2020 presidential campaign.

The subpoena also shows the investigation has extended beyond campaign finance violations — the current charges against two of the defendants in the shadow campaign — and may examine more serious financial crimes. The documents in question, some of which were previously obtained by BuzzFeed News, show dozens of transfers totaling more than $3 million into accounts belonging to Parnas last year as he and his business partner Fruman jetted into Ukraine and other countries in search of damaging information on Joe Biden.

The demand for the documents comes after at least one US bank raised concerns about a series of suspicious transactions in Parnas’s accounts, which had hallmark signs of money laundering and fraud, according to two senior law enforcement officers. Among the suspicious transactions is one for more than $250,000 — money that arrived, late last year, as the two business partners were setting the groundwork for the plan in Ukraine and launching a marijuana venture, according to court records and the law enforcement officers.


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[tblue37]

1. Tried to *manufacture* dirt. ("Dug up" implies there was dirt and they found it.) nt

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[mr_lebowski]

2. +1 poor word choice by the author (nt)

[MagickMuffin]

3. Exactly THIS

I keep yelling at Rachel to please please please stop using the term "digging up dirt on the Bidens" as you implied and as my own observation when using the republicon talking point of "digging up dirt" that there is no dirt to find.

They are not digging up dirt. They ARE manufacturing dirt. Making s**t up out of thin air.

[True Blue American]

4. We have the whole

Russian Mafia running our Government.

Proof was Putin and Erdogan dividing up the spoils yesterday while Trump ranted like a crazy man.

Now Barr has been drawn into the Ukraine scandal. It will be a pleasure to see him in the hot seat, just like John Mitchell!

[olegramps]

5. The Republican Party is rotten to its very core. Nothing more than a pack of gangsters.