Politics 2 Giuliani Associates Arrested On Campaign Finance Violations

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  1. SlyPokerDog

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    Two associates of Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's personal attorney, have been arrested and charged with campaign finance violations.

    Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman were arrested at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan.

    The two reportedly aided Giuliani's efforts to have Ukraine launch an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden. It is unclear if the charges are related to the Ukraine scandal.

    https://www.npr.org/2019/10/10/7688...iates-arrested-on-campaign-finance-violations
     
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    #DrainTheTrumpSwamp
     
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    Link to the indictment. Among various campaign finance charges, here is the bombshell:

    At and around the same time PARNAS and FRUMAN committed to raising those funds for Congressman-1 PARNAS met with Congressman-1 and sought his assistance in causing the U.S. government to remove or recall the then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine. PARNAS's efforts to remove the ambassador were conducted, at least in part, at the request of one or more Ukrainian government officials.

    One of these "officials" is almost certain to be Yuriy Lutsenko. According to NPR, Parnas was born in Ukraine, is one of Rudy's "fixers", and was directly involved in pressuring both Ukrainian prosecutors involved in the conspiracy to ratfuck Biden:

    "I arranged the Shokin call with the mayor," Parnas tells NPR, referring to Giuliani by his title from when he was mayor of New York City.

    There also were meetings in late January in New York and mid-February in Warsaw with Yuriy Lutsenko.

    "I was present but I'm not going to comment on what was discussed in those meetings," says Parnas.

    The Original Quid Pro Quo with Yuriy Lutsenko to Exchange Maria Yovanovitch's Termination for Investigations into Biden and 2016
    You might remember Maria Yovanovitch as the woman whom Trump said "was going to go through some things" in his July call with Zelenskyy. Her firing by Donald Trump was the "quid" in the original quid pro quo conspiracy that Giuliani arranged in March 2019 with Ukraine's top prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko. Here is the run down:

    “We’re not meddling in an election, we’re meddling in an investigation, which we have a right to do...Somebody could say it’s improper. And this isn’t foreign policy — I’m asking them to do an investigation that they’re doing already and that other people are telling them to stop. And I’m going to give them reasons why they shouldn’t stop it because that information will be very, very helpful to my client, and may turn out to be helpful to my government.”

    • But it doesn't work, and in July they decide that Trump himself needs to pressure Zelensky directly. In the July phone call, Trump personally admonishes Zelenskyy for screwing up the Lutsenko deal:
    In a White House transcript of a July 25 phone call, President Trump seemed to admonish the new Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, for firing Lutsenko: “I heard the prosecutor was treated very badly and he was a very fair prosecutor so good luck with everything.”

    The rest is history. Zelenskyy asks about military aid, Trump says "I would like you do us a favor, though", and then directly asks Zelenskyy for the same investigations into Biden and the Black Ledger that they had originally extracted from Lutsenko in exchange for Yovanovitch's termination. Lutsenko himself, now with no hope of getting his job back, readily admits the allegations of wrong doing by Hunter Biden were fabrications.

    Now SDNY has arrested two men who appear to have done the legwork coordinating with Lutsenko.
     
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    So the quid pro quo has evolved over the months:
    1. Recalling Yovanovitch
    2. Meeting with President
    3. Military assistance
     
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    SDNY told Barr about this last night, while these two idiots were arrested at the airport trying to leave the country, there are unsubstantiated reports that they didn't buy those plane tickets until after Barr was notified.
     
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    shit. he's going to have to let another country get bombed now to divert attention away from this. watch ur backs allies.
     
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    very convenient.
     
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    not really, those agents had to interrupt watching porn on their laptops to go drive somewhere
     
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    collusion...forget the pee tape...it all starts with Rudy!
    donald and rudy.jpg
     
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    You still have power or are you a slave to that deep state PGE army?
     
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    They were having lunch with Giuliani at Trump's hotel in DC yesterday prior to the arrest.

    LMAO, you can't make this shit up.
     
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    Any bets on how soon Trump and Giuliani say, "They barely even knew them."?
     
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    Or..."anybody would have taken that meeting"
     
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    "It was a perfect meeting!"
     
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    2 down, 3 to go
     
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    So.....

    They had lunch with w/ Rudy yesterday.

    Today they were arrested at the airport with one way tickets out of the country.
     
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    Nope, nothin' to see here...
     
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