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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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GOP lawmakers have lost their damn minds. Storming the impeachment hearings won't save Trump.
via @mkraju: Roughly 2 dozen House GOP'ers stormed the SCIF, delaying the Cooper testimony. Gohmert and Byrne were yelling about what they call a sham process.

via @kyledcheney: Phones in the the SCIF is a significant breach. Rules on that are ironclad.
@mkraju @kyledcheney Behold: House Republicans storm the SCIF with non-committee members, yelling about they call a “sham process,” all in a desperate attempt save Trump from impeachment.

Idiots.
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Polly Sigh
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Bill Taylor: "I sensed something odd when Sondland told me he did not wish to include most of the regular interagency participants on a planned call Jun 28 with President Zelensky [Volker and Perry] ... [and] he wanted to make sure no one was transcribing or monitoring the call."
Bill Taylor: Sondland said the security assistance money would not come until Zelensky committed to pursue the Burisma investigation … [On a Sep 1] I told Sondland that Trump should have more respect for another head of state.
Bill Taylor: Trump told Sondland on a Sep 7 call that he wasn't asking for a ‘quid pro quo’ but Zelensky better “go to a microphone and say he is opening investigations of Biden and the 2016 US election, and Zelensky should do it himself [or no US aid].”

Straight up mob speak.
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Polly Sigh
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FYI, Bill TAYLOR, who texted Sondland: "Are we now saying security aid and WH meetings are conditioned on investigations?"

––> Is the same then-Amb to Ukraine Bill TAYLOR who in 2008 uncovered Dmytro Firtash's ties to Russian mob boss Semyon Mogilevich.
“In my 10 short months in Congress—it’s not even noon—and this is my most disturbing day in Congress so far. Very troubling.” -Rep Andy Levin, as he left Bill Taylor’s "alarming" deposition this morning.
by @rebeccaballhaus #Maddow on.wsj.com/35SEnsN
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Laura Rozen
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In lead-up to Zelensky's inauguration, Parnas & Fruman approached Kolomoisky during a trip to Israel. They wanted a 6-figure payment, Marks said, & in exchange they could set up a meeting between Zelensky & delegation of US officials (Pence, Perry)...
“They also touted their connection to Giuliani. ‘They were going to be responsible for arranging for American government officials to come to Mr. Zelensky's inauguration,’ he added.
Kolomoisky refused, Marks said.”

But we know Trump nixed Pence, sent Perry instead.
In fall of 2018, Parnas was telling his wealthy contacts that he was short on cash and seeking loans...Among his alleged troubles..was that he needed money to pay Giuliani to be a spokesperson for one of Parnas' companies. Giuliani has said he was retained by that company
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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."

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."
"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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We should do a whole thread of all the photos. We can call it the “I never knew the guy, I was dead at the time!” thread. 🙄 #Parnas #Fruman #LevAndIgor #Correia #Kukushkin
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Michael Carpenter
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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…
Today's indictment claims a Russian businessman ("Foreign National 1") covertly channeled dark money into the U.S. election system through shell companies and cutouts ("straw donors") associated with Parnas, Fruman and their co-conspirators.
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This dark money was reportedly channeled to a pro-Trump Super PAC, America First Action, & also to TX Rep Pete Sessions. Together with Parnas and Fruman, Sessions lobbied Mike Pompeo to remove US Ambassador Masha Yovanovitch before the end of her term. texastribune.org/2019/10/10/pet…
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Brian Cates
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How to take down your own front runner for your party's nomination for President:

Step 1: start a new fake scandal against Trump based on an anonymous whistle blower

Step 2: Trump suddenly holds Biden in front of himself

Step 3: HA HA HA!

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Because their strategy to remove Trump from office by getting a Special Counsel appointed to find evidence to use for impeachment so utterly failed, Democrats frantically searched for the past several months trying to find something that could replace it.
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