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BREAKING: As Trump bullied Ukraine to investigate his political rival Joe Biden, Trump donors Parnas, Fruman, and Sargeant – associates of Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani – were hatching a plan to profit from Ukraine’s state-run natural gas company. apnews.com/d7440cffba4940…
Sargeant, who donated $100K in Jun to the Trump Victory Fund, told a senior exec at Ukraine’s state-run gas company that he regularly meets with Trump at Mar-a-Lago and that the gas-sales plan had Trump’s full support [because he's getting a cut?].
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A former business partner of Favorov [senior exec at Ukraine’s state-run gas company, Naftogaz] said that Favorov described his meeting with Sargeant, Fruman, and Parnas to him soon after it happened and that Favorov perceived it to be a shakedown.
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Who here thinks that TRUMP planned on getting a cut of this deal?🙋🏻‍♀️
In recent months, Trump's lawyer, Giuliani, met with imprisoned Paul Manafort, whose pro-Putin dirty work in Ukraine was financed by Russia mobster Dmitry Firtash, who was “the de-facto head of Naftogaz [Ukrainian state-owned gas company] under Yanukovych.”wapo.st/2po2crp?tid=ss…
Because if you're going to run a racket on Ukrainian state-owned gas company, Naftogaz, who better to go to for advice than Manafort, bagman for Firtash, who made billions doing the very same and, though exiled in Austria, still wields power in Ukraine.
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Deutsche Bank does not have Trump’s tax returns. At some point in *recent* years, they got rid of them.

A former senior bank executive, who saw the returns, said normal practice was for Deutsche to keep such materials on file.
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@davidenrich After the 2016 election, Deutsche shifted into damage-control mode. In the weeks before the inaugural, they commissioned reports to figure out how the bank had gotten in so deep with Trump [as their shredders ran nonstop].
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US prosecutors were not intending to unseal the indictment against Giuliani associates Fruman and Parnas and 2 others [Kukushkin and Correia] Thursday, but their hand was forced when Fruman and Parnas attempted to flee the country.

Who tipped them off?
cnn.com/2019/10/10/pol…
via @ShimonPro: US Attorney just now said Parnas and Fruman had one way international tickets.
@ShimonPro via @wsj: Prior to heading to Dulles to flee the country on Wednesday, Parnas and Fruman had lunch with Rudy Giuliani at the Trump International Hotel in DC, according to a person who was in the hotel and saw the three together.

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SCOOP: Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, two Soviet-born Trump donors who helped Giuliani’s efforts to investigate Joe Biden, were arrested late Wednesday on criminal charges of violating campaign finance rules.
by @rebeccaballhaus @aviswanatha @sgurman #Maddow wsj.com/articles/two-f…
@rebeccaballhaus @aviswanatha @sgurman Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, who are embroiled in Giuliani's scheme to shakedown Ukraine's state-owned gas company and smear the Bidens, have been under investigation by the SDNY, and are expected to appear in federal court in VA later on Thursday.
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@rebeccaballhaus @aviswanatha @sgurman Giuliani associates, PARNAS and FRUMAN, via their foreign donations, sought to advance political interests of a Ukrainian govt official with whom they were working.

Like Sam Patten, who funneled $50K from a Ukrainian oligarch into Trump's inaugural fund.
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TeamTrump is likely up to mischief, which we will probably learn more about in the coming days.

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3/16 And Trump already has a shady history with releasing information.

Forget the obvious like his tax returns, school grades, and secret meetings with Putin.

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New York Times report from May on Biden, Ukraine and Burisma Holdings:

"No evidence has surfaced that the former vice president intentionally tried to help his son by pressing for the prosecutor general’s dismissal.”

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