Fruman, then Parnas, then somewhere, Rudy’s going to go through some things.
Igor Fruman had been arrested in 2019 at Dulles International Airport alongside Lev Parnas as they were both about to leave the country. The Belarus-born Fruman and the Ukraine-born Parnas faced multiple campaign-finance charges. The two men had also been connected to Giuliani, who had enlisted them to help try to dig up dirt on Biden and convince prosecutors in Ukraine to investigate Hunter Biden. Prosecutors haven’t brought forward any charges relating to the Ukraine efforts that emerged during the 2020 presidential campaign. Parnas was convicted in October of violating campaign finance laws. Giuliani has not been charged and denies any wrongdoing.
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Giuliani Mini-Thread
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On the huge news, that the evidence FBI raided from Rudy Giuliani office has now been handed to Feds after total review by Special Master, let's do quick mini-Thread for you to show Rudy Colludy's mess. He will be arrested in days/weeks at most
Giuliani Mini-Thread 2/
Giuliani has CONFESSED to numerous federal crimes on TV. He thought Trump would pardon Rudy. Now the Feds have the EVIDENCE of Rudy's crimes including:
Ukraine crimes
Georgia election meddling
January 6th conspiracy
And MANY MANY MORE.
Giuliani Mini-Thread
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Giuliani faces at least 150 years of prison time out of 7 major crimes (plus dozens lesser crimes). He faces risk of death penalty even on crimes against USA
Donald Trump crimes with Giuliani carry about 95 years to Trump (on top of Trump's other crimes)
Giuliani Mini-Thread
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Rudy various criminal partners have confessed to many of the crimes. He himself has confessed. There are tons of collaborating witnesses. FBI had been wiretapping Rudy. And Feds now have all the evidence. His trials will be slam dunks, all of them
Giuliani Mini-Thread
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Giuliani is a former federal prosecutor who sent Mafia goons to life in prison. There is no prison where Rudy is safe. He has to spend his total prison time in solitary confinement: for his OWN safety. Rudy is utterly totally royally screwed
He will flip
PS to Giuliani Mini Thread
Many were asking about the 'insurance file' that Giuliani proclaimed he had, and Rudy used to blackmail Trump. I wrote a separate Thread about it:
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Rudy Giuliani ally Igor Fruman and ex-Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort have been friendly for years, two sources familiar with their relationship tell The Daily Beast.
And that relationship — stretching from New York to London to Kyiv — long predated Rudy Giuliani’s wide-ranging attempts to discredit the evidence that played a key role in kicking off Manafort's political downfall and eventual incarceration.
Joseph Bondy, the lawyer for Fruman associate Lev Parnas, said Manafort and Fruman were friendly for years before their respective indictments.
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This week, Giuliani was among Trump allies served subpoenas by the House select committee investigating the attack. Trump’s former adviser, Steve Bannon, has pleaded not guilty to a charge of contempt of Congress arising from a refusal to co-operate. Trump’s final chief of staff, Mark Meadows, could face the same charge. Leading Republicans in Congress have also refused to co-operate.
On Friday, the Washington Post reported that a judge has released to prosecutors more than 3,000 of Giuliani’s communications, in an investigation of work in Ukraine which contributed to Trump’s first impeachment, for seeking dirt on rivals including Joe Biden.
Flynn, who was fired from the Defense Intelligence Agency by Barack Obama, became Trump’s national security adviser before being fired for lying to the FBI about contacts with Russian officials.
He pleaded guilty but was pardoned by Trump. A leading figure on the far right, he has advocated a military coup and the establishment of Christianity as the state religion.
Flynn has been implicated in aspects of Trump’s attempt to stay in power including plans to seize election machines, the subject of a draft executive order revealed on Friday by Politico. He has resisted a subpoena from the 6 January committee.
Also on Friday, the Guardian reported that law enforcement agencies have learned of an alleged plan by “allies of Flynn” to “gather ‘intelligence’ on top Republicans”, in order to compel them to back election audits in key states.
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The Trump–Ukraine scandal revolves around efforts by U.S. President Donald Trump to coerce Ukraine and other foreign countries into providing damaging narratives about 2020 Democratic Party presidential primary candidate Joe Biden, as well as information relating to Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. Trump allegedly enlisted surrogates within and outside his official administration, including his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and Attorney General William Barr, to pressure Ukraine and other foreign governments to cooperate in investigating conspiracy theories concerning American politics.[18][19][20][21][22] Trump blocked but later released payment of a congressionally mandated $400 million military aid package to allegedly obtain quid pro quo cooperation from Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine. A number of contacts were established between the White House and the government of Ukraine, culminating in a phone call between Trump and Zelensky on July 25, 2019.[18][19][20][23] Less than two hours later, on behalf of the president, senior executive budget official Michael Duffey discreetly instructed the Pentagon to continue withholding military aid to Ukraine.[24][25][26][e]
The scandal reached public attention in mid-September 2019 after a whistleblower complaint made in August 2019.[27] The complaint raised concerns about Trump using presidential powers to solicit foreign electoral intervention in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.[28] The Trump White House has corroborated several allegations raised by the whistleblower. A non-verbatim transcript of the Trump–Zelensky call confirmed that Trump requested investigations into Joe Biden and his son Hunter, as well as a discredited conspiracy theory involving a Democratic National Committee server,[29][30] while repeatedly urging Zelensky to work with Giuliani and Barr on these matters.[31][32] The White House also confirmed that the record of the call had been transferred to a highly classified system.[33][34] White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said one reason why Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine was Ukrainian "corruption related to the DNC server", referring to a debunked theory that Ukrainians framed Russia for hacking into the DNC computer system.[35] After the impeachment inquiry began, Trump publicly urged Ukraine and China to investigate the Bidens.[36] Bill Taylor, the Trump administration's top diplomat to Ukraine, testified that he was told that U.S. military aid to Ukraine and a Trump–Zelensky White House meeting were conditioned on Zelensky publicly announcing investigations into the Bidens and alleged Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections.[37] United States Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland testified that he worked with Giuliani at Trump's "express direction" to arrange a quid pro quo with the Ukraine government.[38]
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