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The 2 Giuliani associates arrested by SDNY, Lev Parnas & Igor Fruman helped fund efforts to investigate Trump’s political rivals & were also part of the pressure campaign on Ukraine to investigate Democrats. This is HUGE! #ThursdayThoughts nytimes.com/2019/10/10/us/…

2-"Two associates of the president’s private lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, who helped fund efforts to investigate one of President Trump’s political rivals, were charged in a separate case with violating campaign finance laws, according to court documents.

3-"The two men, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, believed to be important witnesses in the House’s impeachment inquiry of Mr. Trump, were arrested on campaign finance charges. The arrests and charges were first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

4-"Two other men, David Correia and Andrey Kukushkin, were also indicted. Mr. Parnas and Mr. Fruman aided Mr. Giuliani’s efforts to gin up investigations in Ukraine into former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his son Hunter Biden, among other potentially politically

5-"beneficial investigations for Mr. Trump. Mr. Parnas had been scheduled to participate in a deposition with House impeachment investigators on Capitol Hill on Thursday, and Mr. Fruman on Friday. Neither had been expected to show up voluntarily.

6-"House Democrats issued subpoenas on Thursday to force them to do so. Mr. Parnas and Mr. Fruman were arrested and were expected to appear in court in Northern Virginia on Thursday, according to a spokesman in the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan.

7-"The indictment said Mr. Parnas and Mr. Kukushkin are Ukrainian-born Americans, while Mr. Fruman was born in Belarus and became an American citizen. Mr. Correia is American-born. Mr. Kukushkin was arrested Thursday in California, and Mr. Correia was still at large, according

8-"to a law enforcement official who was not authorized to discuss the matter and spoke on condition of anonymity. Mr. Parnas and Mr. Fruman have acted as emissaries in Ukraine for Mr. Giuliani as he has sought to uncover information about, and encourage investigations into,

9-"Mr. Trump’s rivals, including Mr. Biden. Mr. Parnas, who has known Mr. Giuliani for years, worked with Mr. Fruman to connect Mr. Giuliani to Ukrainian prosecutors who provided information to Mr. Giuliani, as The Times revealed in May.

10-"Mr. Parnas and Mr. Fruman are based in South Florida, and are executives of an energy company that donated $325,000 to a pro-Trump super PAC last year, prompting a Federal Election Commission complaint by a nonpartisan campaign finance watchdog accusing the men and the

11-"company of violating campaign finance laws. Last month, Mr. Giuliani sought to minimize the significance of the campaign finance inquiry into the two men. “They had a campaign finance issue,” he said in an interview late last month. “I referred them to a campaign finance

12-"expert who pretty much resolved it.” Their lawyer, John M. Dowd, who previously represented Mr. Trump against the special counsel’s inquiry, did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the arrest." ~NYT *Story still developing. #ThursdayThoughts

It's reported that Giuliani's associates were arrested at Dulles airport with 1-way International Tickets, and that they'd both had lunch with Giuliani immediately before departing for the airport. Man this story is SO big, SO incriminating & so satisfying! #ThursdayThoughts

Here's the actual Indictment, in case you haven't read it.. man, whomever Congressman 1 is, they are so royally screwed right now.. and so, my friends, are crazy Rudy & his Lord & Master, Donald Trump. #ThursdayThoughts
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From the Indictment: "PARNAS and FRUMAN committed to raise
$ 20 , 000 or more for a then- sitting U . . Congressman (" Congressman
) , who had also been the beneficiary of approximately $ 3 million
in independent expenditures by Committee- 1 during the 2018
election cycle.

2-"PARNAS and FRUMAN had met Congressman- 1 at an
event sponsored by an independent expenditure committee to which
FRUMAN had recently made a substantial contribution. During the
2018 election cycle, Congressman - 1 had been the beneficiary of
approximately $ 3 million in

3-"independent expendituresby Committee
1. At and around the same time PARNAS and FRUMAN committed to
raising those funds for Congressman - PARNAS met with
Congressman- 1 and sought Congressman - ' s assistance in causing the
U . S . Government to remove or recall the then- U . .

4-"Ambassador to
Ukraine (the " Ambassador " ) . PARNAS' efforts to remove the
Ambassador were conducted, at least in part, at the request of one
or more Ukrainian government officials. Moreover, in an effort
to reach their contribution commitment to Congressman - 1 and
further

5-"their political goals, in or about June 2018, after FRUMAN
had already made a maximum $ 2 , 700 contribution to Congressman- 1, FRUMAN paid for another maximum $ , 700 contribution to
Congressman- 1 that was made and reported in PARNAS' ." ...

It appears that Congressman-1 is former TX Rep Pete Sessions (R) who recently announced that he's running again in 20. #ThursdayThoughts
rollcall.com/news/congress/…

It's going to be REALLY interesting to see how Trump handles backing away from Rudy Giuliani now.. how long it'll take Trump to throw Rudy HARD under a bus, to fire him.. DT has a rally in Minneapolis tonight, his first since the Impeachment inq became formal.. What a day!