SCOOP: A grand jury has demanded legal documents that include bank records on Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, two key operatives who worked on the Ukrainian backchannel campaign with Rudy Giuliani. By @MikeSallah7, @JasonLeopold, and me: buzzfeednews.com/article/mikesa…
@MikeSallah7 @JasonLeopold The documents in question, some of which were previously obtained by BuzzFeed News, show dozens of transfers totaling more than $3 million into accounts belonging to Parnas last year. buzzfeednews.com/article/mikesa…
The demand for the documents comes after at least one US bank raised concerns about a series of suspicious transactions in Parnas’s accounts, which had hallmark signs of money laundering and fraud, according to two senior law enforcement officers. buzzfeednews.com/article/mikesa…
Among the suspicious transactions is a $263,000 transfer from Fruman’s company to an account he shared with Parnas — on the same day their indictment says Fruman received $500,000 from the unnamed Russian businessman. buzzfeednews.com/article/mikesa…
The subpoena, which was served on a source who requested anonymity, led to the release of information that included records detailing bank statements for several corporations controlled by Parnas, his wife, and Fruman, dating back at least three years. buzzfeednews.com/article/mikesa…
The records show a lot of large, round-dollar transfers, some times back and forth, between Parnas and Fruman’s business accounts — something money laundering experts said raises red flags.
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And some news on David Correia: His wife, Katie Correia, received several thousand-dollar transfers from accounts controlled by Parnas last year. buzzfeednews.com/article/mikesa…
This isn’t Parnas’s first brush with the law. In 2008, the FBI in Orlando started looking into his company, Edgetech, which sold “The Edge,” a precursor to the smartphone. buzzfeednews.com/article/mikesa…
For my fellow 90s kids who love a little early 2000s nostalgia, here’s a version of the device that appears to have preceded “The Edge.” ebay.com/itm/EDGE-TECH-…
Even more news: In 2008, Parnas and Edgetech were sued by a bank in Indiana for bouncing a $100,000 cheque. The bank’s lawyer wrote that Parnas and another executive “may have committed a criminal act reportable to federal authorities.”
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