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Parnas said Ukraine’s government has access to info on alleged wrongdoing by the Bidens and U.S. officials overseas — but that the U.S. gov proved indifferent to receiving it through official channels.

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Thanks to his friendship with Giuliani, he said, he and Fruman became the best people to get it into the Trump administration’s hands. The information could affect the 2020 election.

“I got certain information and I thought it was my duty to hand it over,” he said.

He declined to comment on the details of his relationship with Giuliani, although he said the former New York City mayor was his lawyer as well as friend.

Parnas is a former stockbroker who was threatened last year with eviction from a $5,500-per-month home in Boca Raton,

court records show. His co was evicted in 2015 for failing to pay rent. The Ukrainian-American businessman is also at the center of a $325,000 donation to a pro-Trump super PAC that is under scrutiny from federal regulators. Details about that contribution were revealed only when

an investor sued Parnas over a loan made for an unmade film Parnas was promoting called “Anatomy of an Assassin.”

Fruman, a real estate investor who also runs a NY import-export business and Parnas also allegedly bragged about their alliances with Republican power brokers like

Giuliani and 💥Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in order to procure a six-figure loan from an investor for a natural gas business they run. But the men struggled to pay the investor back on time, leading to a lawsuit.

Republican Florida Sen. Rick Scott is a big beneficiary. In 2018,

Fruman gave $15,000 to a joint-fundraising committee backing Scott’s Senate race. They also gave $50,000 to the campaign of DeSantis, a Trump ally, in June 2018 and $35,000 combined to a committee supporting failed Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Putnam.

On the website of his current company, Fraud Guarantee🤣 Parnas lists one of his early business ventures as “shipping the first containers of freight between the United States and the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s.”

Fruman is the president of the Ukrainian-based Otrada

Luxury Group, which sells cars, jewelry, boats, food and alcohol. He lives in Sunny Isles Beach (of course he does) which is also the location of Seafront Properties, LLC, for which he is the registered agent. He has “personal ties” to a powerful businessman in the Ukrainian

port city of Odessa called “the Grey Cardinal” who is believed to associate with organized crime figures

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Giuliani was said to be primarily seeking two things: Info about how material damaging to Paul Manafort was publicly leaked in Ukraine (who cares?) And an agreement from Ukraine’s gov to investigate Hunter Biden

All told, Parnas and Fruman introduced Giuliani to three current and former Ukrainian prosecutors

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