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NEW: Federal prosecutors investigating Giuliani associates have launched an investigation that could include criminal charges of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, campaign finance violations & money laundering.

My latest with @KaraScannell & @CNNPaul: cnn.com/2019/11/25/pol…
According to a subpoena sent to at least one witness, the charges include conspiracy to defraud the US, acting as an unregistered foreign agent, obstruction of justice, making false statements to fed officials, wire fraud, money laundering and violations of federal election laws.
The subpoena, which asks for documents and communications with or relating to Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, also seeks any records relating to Rudy Giuliani, his security firm Giuliani Partners, and any related people or entities.
Last week, Gordon Sondland testified there was a quid pro quo for Ukraine to announce investigations into Trump's political opponents, which came from Giuliani at the "express direction of the President." Giuliani has previously told CNN he has "no knowledge of any of that crap.”
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DOJ revealed late Fri that it has 24 emails related to Trump's involvement in the withholding of security assistance to Ukraine. It marks the first official acknowledgment from the administration that emails about Trump's thinking related to the aid exist. cnn.com/2020/02/01/pol…
The filing—released near midnight, just hours after the Senate vote against subpoenaing documents & witnesses in the impeachment trial—is the first official acknowledgment from the administration that Trump was directly involved in asking about & deciding on aid as early as June.
Per @kpolantz: "The administration is still blocking those emails from the public and has successfully kept them from Congress."
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NEW: The "Take her out" recording reported today was made by Igor Fruman and shared with Lev Parnas "shortly after it was recorded," according to Parnas's attorney Joseph Bondy.

For @CNN with @eorden and @KaraScannell: cnn.com/2020/01/24/pol…
@CNN @eorden @KaraScannell Parnas has previously described in interviews the 2018 dinner at which the recording allegedly takes place. Parnas has said that at that dinner, he witnessed Trump telling a top aide, John DeStefano, to fire the ambassador.
@CNN @eorden @KaraScannell "In the conversation, the subject of Ukraine was brought up," Parnas told CNN. "And I told the President that—our opinion—that [Yovanovitch] is bad-mouthing him and that she said that he's gonna get impeached—something like that. I don't know if that's word for word."
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NEW: With Lev Parnas’s legal fate still in limbo, @KaraScannell and I offer a closer look at Parnas’s lawyer Joseph A. Bondy and his high-wire legal act: cnn.com/2020/01/20/pol…
@KaraScannell The Parnas documents released two days before the articles of impeachment were delivered to the Senate jolted a trial that had largely been mapped out for weeks. The legal strategy is risky, but Bondy's career is dotted with defendants many might shy away from representing.
@KaraScannell "I have no doubt [prosecutors] deliberately tried to thwart the flow of this evidence. I have no doubt that it was a belief that if you circle the wagons with these lawyers and then put a lid on Lev that's part of a coordinated plan to protect the President," @josephabondy says.
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