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Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman arrested

Two Foreign-Born Men Who Helped Giuliani on Ukraine Arrested on Campaign-Finance Charges - Parnas and Fruman are expected to appear in federal court in VA later today by @aviswanatha @rebeccaballhaus @sgurman HT @lrozen
wsj.com/articles/two-f…
@aviswanatha @rebeccaballhaus @sgurman @lrozen Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman arrest is an SDNY case
@aviswanatha @rebeccaballhaus @sgurman @lrozen Now iconic photo of Giuliani and Lev Parnas at the Trump Hotel in DC on September 20
@aviswanatha @rebeccaballhaus @sgurman @lrozen Reporting from 2018 by @lachlan that exposed Fruman and Parnas donations

Meet the Eastern European Mystery Donors Behind the Trump-Allied Super PAC - Global Energy Producers LLC is one of the biggest givers to America First Action.
thedailybeast.com/meet-the-easte…
@aviswanatha @rebeccaballhaus @sgurman @lrozen @lachlan Earlier this year @CampaignLegal @brendan_fischer filed a complaint with the FEC and called for an investigation of Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman for laundering $325K from unknown sources through shell corporations into Trump's super PAC
campaignlegal.org/update/new-wir…
@aviswanatha @rebeccaballhaus @sgurman @lrozen @lachlan @CampaignLegal @brendan_fischer And shout out to twitter researchers who are often ahead of the pack - from July 27, 2018 before MSM reporting @mrspanstreppon called it:

"Igor Fruman's partner in Global Energy Producers LLC, Lev Parnas, is a crook"
@aviswanatha @rebeccaballhaus @sgurman @lrozen @lachlan @CampaignLegal @brendan_fischer @mrspanstreppon U.S. District Court SDNY - sealed indictment

USA v Lev Parnas, Igor Fruman, David Correia, Andrey Kukushkin

assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6466…
@aviswanatha @rebeccaballhaus @sgurman @lrozen @lachlan @CampaignLegal @brendan_fischer @mrspanstreppon
@aviswanatha @rebeccaballhaus @sgurman @lrozen @lachlan @CampaignLegal @brendan_fischer @mrspanstreppon And the story all comes full circle - the pro-Trump PAC America First Action, to which Parnas & Fruman allegedly made illegal campaign donation, has per @Z_Everson spent more than $500,000 at Trump Hotel DC
@aviswanatha @rebeccaballhaus @sgurman @lrozen @lachlan @CampaignLegal @brendan_fischer @mrspanstreppon @Z_Everson Subpoena docs related to Parnas Holdings shows wire transfers:

Svetlana Parnas to Victor Imber ($3,556)

Aaron Investments I, LLC to FD Import and Export ($490K)

Aaron Investments to Jetsmarter ($12,950)

Aaron Investments to America First Action ($325K)
assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6162…
@aviswanatha @rebeccaballhaus @sgurman @lrozen @lachlan @CampaignLegal @brendan_fischer @mrspanstreppon @Z_Everson Better summary of wire transfer in/out of Lev Parnas account here from @mrspanstreppon
@aviswanatha @rebeccaballhaus @sgurman @lrozen @lachlan @CampaignLegal @brendan_fischer @mrspanstreppon @Z_Everson And a shout out to twitter researcher @ThomasS4217 who surfaced Aaron Investments I, LLC (the company behind Parnas and Fruman FEC donations) in July 2018
@aviswanatha @rebeccaballhaus @sgurman @lrozen @lachlan @CampaignLegal @brendan_fischer @mrspanstreppon @Z_Everson @ThomasS4217 Correction - @CampaignLegal @brendan_fischer
filed a complaint July 2018 with FEC calling for investigation of Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman for laundering $325K from unknown sources through shell corporations into Trump's super PAC
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Great detail caught by @StacyJannis in July story by @AubreyBelford & Veronika Melkozerova

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