1. Parnas's lawyer says Parnas met with Firtash at Giuliani's direction, and encouraged Firtash to help with hunting for dirt on Biden. nytimes.com/2019/11/25/us/…
He's likely now realized that, thanks to his very public link to the Giuliani gang, how much he's undercut his efforts to thwart extradition. He's now spinning himself as some innocent naif, "sucked into" this fight against his will.
The guy already had a very public loathing for Biden, after all—and per DOJ, was an "upper-echelon [associate] of Russian organized crime."