Lev Parnas was said to be a mere "translator" for Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash. Turns out it was much more — Parnas claimed Firtash was bankrolling his company, paying for private jets and bodyguards. cnn.com/2019/11/01/pol…
Long Island lawyer and Trump donor Charles Gucciardo reportedly cemented the connection between Rudy Giuliani and Lev Parnas by giving Giuliani $500,000 on Parnas’ behalf. thedailybeast.com/charles-guccia…
According to @johncardillo, a conservative radio host that works for @newsmax, who did consulting work for Parnas on the venture, Fraud Guarantee was “originally going to do something with data” but then “morphed into an insurance type play.” politico.com/news/2019/10/1…
Lev Parnas says he told Ukrainian officials in May that unless they investigated Biden, Pence wouldn’t attend Zelensky’s swearing-in AND aid would be frozen. Giuliani’s current defense is, “I never told him to say that.” nytimes.com/2019/11/10/nyr…
Giuliani associate Lev Parnas discussed Ukraine with Trump at private dinner hill.cm/pbVR06P
In response to a question about whether he was nervous that Trump might “throw him under a bus” in the impeachment crisis, Giuliani said: “I’m not, but I do have very, very good insurance, so if he does, all my hospital bills will be paid.”
Ukrainian Prosecutor General Riaboshapka confirms to @CurrentTimeTv that prosecutor Konstyantyn Kulyk will be fired for failing to take a new exam that all prosecutors have to pass in order to keep their jobs. Kulyk was key to Giuliani's Ukraine campaign. rferl.org/a/ukraine-s-ch…
Top Zelensky advisor Andriy Yermak of Ukrainegate fame spotted by @ukrpravda_news at a meeting in a Kyiv restaurant yesterday with Mercury's Bryan Lanza (@bclanza), a former aide to Trump's campaign and transition team. pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2019/…
After meeting with Trump at the White House in December, Lev Parnas reportedly insinuated to associates that the president had given him a special assignment, like some sort of “James Bond mission,” one of his confidants told CNN. thehill.com/homenews/news/…
"Parnas believed that he would carry out Trump’s directives, as dictated through Giuliani, to help advance the president’s interests in Ukraine."
Ukrainian gas executive cooperating in US probe of Giuliani
A lawyer for Andrew Favorov confirmed he is scheduled to meet with the DOJ. Favorov is the director of the integrated gas division at Naftogaz, the state-owned gas provider in Ukraine. apnews.com/196b3007d9db47…
In investigation of Lev Parnas & Igor Fruman, SDNY has subpoenaed:
Top Trump fundraiser & lobbyist Brian Ballard, 2 fundraisers for @AmericaFirstPAC, and a businessman from whom Parnas sought money for Fraud Guarantee to pay @RudyGiuliani nytimes.com/2019/11/20/us/…
When Rudy Giuliani met with a senior Ukrainian official in Madrid earlier this year and urged him to investigate the Bidens, Lev Parnas was at the table, according to Andriy Yermak, the Ukrainian official. thedailybeast.com/lev-parnas-att…
Donald Trump asked Mnuchin and Barr to intervene in the Halkbank case.
Giuliani represented Reza Zarrab. On 11 March 2017, Preet Bharara was fired. On 3 January 2018, Trump picked Giuliani law partner Mukasey to replace Preet Bharara
Zarrab said that Iran, with the help of Halkbank and Turkish government officials including Erdogan, used a complex web of shell companies and sham transactions in gold, food and medicine to get around U.S. sanctions. reuters.com/article/us-usa…
A wealthy Venezuelan hosted Giuliani as he pursued Ukraine campaign. Then Giuliani lobbied the Justice Department on his behalf. washingtonpost.com/politics/a-wea…
"While in Spain, Giuliani stayed at a historic estate belonging to Venezuelan energy executive Alejandro Betancourt López, who had hired Trump’s personal attorney to help him contend with an investigation by the Justice Department into alleged money laundering and bribery"
Giuliani called Trump to tell him he was 'joking' about having an 'insurance policy' reuters.com/article/idUSKB…
Giuliani was in talks to be paid at least $200,000 by Lutsenko as they together sought damaging information on the Bidens
"In the agreement, Giuliani’s company would receive payment to represent Lutsenko as the Ukrainian sought to recover assets he believed had been stolen from the government in Kyiv"
Rudy Giuliani Made A Surprise Visit To Kyiv And Nobody There Is Happy About It
Ukrainian and American officials in Kyiv told BuzzFeed News they had no advanced warning of Giuliani’s arrival and only learned about it from media reports. buzzfeednews.com/christopherm51…
"Mr. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, met in Budapest on Tuesday with a former Ukrainian prosecutor, Yuriy Lutsenko" nytimes.com/2019/12/04/us/…
"He then traveled to Kyiv on Wednesday seeking to meet with other former Ukrainian prosecutors whose claims have been embraced by Republicans, including Viktor Shokin and Kostiantyn H. Kulyk, according to people familiar with the effort."
Giuliani says he hopes to present findings of Ukraine trip to GOP this week
Rudy Giuliani tried to replace ambassador to Qatar. AG Barr has warned Trump repeatedly he’s a problem. Louis Freeh has been subpoenaed over Romania work with him. Rudy wanted to set up Trump-Maduro meeting. washingtonpost.com/politics/insid…
Giuliani to Trump after Ukraine trip: I got 'more than you can imagine'
During summer meeting with top Zelensky aide, Giuliani discussed interests of former Ukrainian client Vitali Klitschko. Klitschko, who was set to be fired from a city administration post, still remains at his post washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan and the FBI have announced the arrest and indictment of Larry Ray.
Ray, a former federal informant and associate of Bernie Kerik, has been hit with charges tied to a cult Ray allegedly led at Sarah Lawrence college. nbcnewyork.com/news/local/cri…
In fall 1997, Kerik asked Ray to use his contacts in RU to try to arrange a meeting between Giuliani & Gorbachev. denverpost.com/2007/12/18/giu…
"Ray [...] met Kerik at a New Jersey bar during Kerik’s rise through the ranks of the Giuliani mayoral administration. In the mid-1990s, Ray said, he and Kerik saw each other almost daily and they e-mailed frequently. Kerik often signed his missives to Ray, “I Love You — B.”"
"Ray provided [...] photos of the gathering that showed himself, Gorbachev, Giuliani and Kerik at City Hall as well as a letter from Gorbachev via an interpreter thanking him for arranging the New York visit."
Disgraced Republican lawmaker planted no-party candidate in key Senate race
Frank Artiles boasted that he planted a no-party candidate in the Miami-Dade Senate race. Artiles recruited Alexis (Alex) Rodriguez, a longtime acquaintance and Facebook friend. miamiherald.com/news/local/com…
“The no-party candidate with the same surname as the incumbent Democrat had been a registered Republican until just before his qualifying papers were filed to make him a candidate for the Florida Senate. He received 6,382 votes in the election.”
“Artiles resigned from the Senate in disgrace in 2017” for “the hiring of a former Hooters “calendar girl” and a Playboy model with no political experience as “consultants” using funds from his political committee” & “called two Black lawmakers a racist slur in a Tallahassee bar”
Covid-19 mink variants discovered in humans in seven countries
Denmark has already launched a nationwide cull of its farmed mink herd after concerns for vaccine efficacy theguardian.com/environment/20…
Dead minks infected with a mutated form of COVID-19 rise from graves after mass culling due to shallow mass graves usatoday.com/story/news/wor…
Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen broke down on Thursday when visiting a mink farmer who lost his herd following the government's order this month to cull all 17 million mink in the country to curb the spread of coronavirus. de.reuters.com/article/us-hea…
Donald Trump’s 2016 Georgia Campaign finance chair, Parker “Pete” Petit, was convicted of securities fraud by a jury in a federal court in New York on Thursday. ajc.com/ajcjobs/parker…
Petit also was a powerful top contributor to Health and Human Services secretary, and former Representative, Tom Price khn.org/news/the-trump…
In 2017, Petit tried to sue short sellers of his company’s stock to discover the authors of an anonymous blog that accused his company of "channel stuffing" — in this case, the practice of using distributors to artificially inflate sales businessinsider.com/mimedx-ceo-pet…
“Now the trumpet summons us again — not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are — but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"
“— a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, **disease,** and war itself. Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind?”
“Will you join in that historic effort? In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility — I welcome it.”
2017: Ivanka Trump’s business ties in China are shrouded in secrecy
“Information that once routinely appeared in private trade tracking data has vanished, leaving the identities of companies involved in 90% of shipments unknown.” latimes.com/business/la-fi…
In July 2018, The Trump Administration imposed an additional 25 percent tariff on $34 billion worth of Chinese goods.
Among the sectors affected were nuclear reactors, boats and aircraft, but clothing was exempted. politico.com/story/2018/07/…
RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday but made no mention of it in a Fox News appearance the next day businessinsider.com/republican-par…