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So this is kind of the buried lede of all buried ledes. Apparently when they were arrested, Parnas and Fruman were headed to Vienna (with Rudy to meet them) to help with logistics for a blockbuster interview of Viktor Shokin on Hannity! cnn.com/2019/10/23/pol…
2/ This is literally the last graf in a lengthy (and good) CNN article on Parnas/Fruman's endless sleazery, payoffs, shakedowns etc. Shokin is the fired prosecutor at the center of the Biden conspiracy theory and he'd apparently been paid off by Firtash to make the accusations.
3/ Austria is where Firtash is located while he fights extradition to the US on bribery charges.
4/ restraint of hannity
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I’m in a car to studio so lines are wobbly. But I’ve wanted to capture the way the players in the Ukraine extortion scheme have used lawyer/client privilege (or claim to have) to bottle up courts or any potential investigators.
2/ I’ll get the names in later. Most of you know the faces. As you see, Giuliani is representing the two hustlers (Parnas & Fruman). He also says they are his investigators for his representation of Prez Trump & thus are shielded by his L/C privilege representing the President.
3/ Meanwhile there’s a parallel set up with the lawyers for Dmitry Firtash, the oligarch who agreed to manufacture damaging allegations against Joe Biden. Fox power lawyers Toensing and DiGenova are repping Firtash. And Parnas is part of that representation as a “translator.”
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"[Parnas and Fruman ] were going to be responsible for arranging for US government officials to come to Mr. Zelensky's inauguration ... My recollection is that they were talking about Pence and Perry, and they said they needed money to ensure that they would come."
When they were arrested, Parnas and Fruman were flying to Vienna to meet Giuliani to help Ukraine's former prosecutor general Shokin prepare for his interview the next day with Hannity.
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The day Parnas and Fruman were arrested, they were flying to Vienna to meet Giuliani to help Shokin [who has made unfounded allegations against Biden] prepare for his Hannity interview the next day.

The night of their arrest, Barr met with Rupert Murdoch.
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"The documents in question...show dozens of transfers totaling more than $3 Million into accounts belonging to #Parnas last year as he and his business partner #Fruman jetted into Ukraine and other countries in search of damaging information on Biden."

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"Among the suspicious transactions is one for more than $250,000 — money that arrived, late last year, as the two business partners were setting the groundwork for the plan in Ukraine and launching a marijuana venture, according to court records and the law enforcement officers."
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#Parnas went to Warsaw, ck dates
"I arranged the Shokin call with the mayor," #Parnas tells NPR, referring to Giuliani by his title from when he was mayor of New York City.

There also were meetings in late January in New York and mid-February in Warsaw with Yuriy Lutsenko."

npr.org/2019/09/27/765…
"In just three wks in July, he racked up charges in Warsaw, L.A., Washington, and N.Y., spending thousands at each stop. There was a $3,182 charge at a glitzy nightclub in WeHo and more than $1K at two Japanese restaurants — all on the same day." #Parnas

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Destination Vienna:

Connecting Trump, Giuliani, Parnas, Fruman & a notorious Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash, described by our DOJ as an “upper-echelon [assoc] of Russian organized crime.” #Mogilevich

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