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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.

@ShimonPro @WSJ After lunch with Giuliani at Trump's DC hotel, Parnas and Fruman tried to flee the country for Vienna, Austria, home Manafort associate, Dmytro FIRTASH, who recently hired Trump legal advisors, Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing, to represent him.
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Marie Yovanovitch told lawmakers she was forced to leave Kiev on “the next plane” this spring and removed from her post, with State’s No. 2 official telling her she had done nothing wrong but State was under significant pressure [by Trump] to remove her.wapo.st/2q0hkeU?tid=ss…
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Polly Sigh
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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.
by @davidenrich #Maddow nyti.ms/2B0GM6w
@davidenrich Recall, Deutsche Bank managing director Rosemary Vrablic, who attended Trump's inaugural as a VIP guest, steered $300M+ in loans to Trump in the years before the 2016 election.

"After Trump took office, Deutsche shifted into damage-control mode."
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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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Polly Sigh
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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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Today's stunning indictment against Giuliani associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman demonstrates that #Russia remains a player behind the current Trump/Ukraine scandal. The same networks that linked Paul Manafort to Russia are on display here. washingtonpost.com/politics/two-b…
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BREAKING: 2 businessmen who helped Giuliani in Ukraine have been arrested on campaign finance charges, law enforcement sources tell @NBCNews.
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👉🏼unregistered foreign agent

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👉🏼false & misleading #FARA statements
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