Thread by @jedshug

Obvious campaign felony by @RudyGiuliani & the lawyers negotiating these contracts to coordinate manufacturing dirt on Biden:

Soliciting foreign donations, 52 USC 30121.
Felony coordination.

Also adds to state extortion case.
@manhattanDA should indict.
washingtonpost.com/politics/giuli…

@RudyGiuliani @ManhattanDA To be clear, the alleged contracts didn't specify Giuliani to "investigate" Biden.
But the timing of a $200K contract at precisely the moment Giuliani is pushing for Biden dirt is evidence of Giuliani's private coordination, not US official diplomacy/public anti-corruption.

@RudyGiuliani @ManhattanDA 3/ I explained coordination re: Trump 2016:
Congress in 2003: federal law “shall not require agreement or formal collaboration to establish coordination.”
The regs followed: "Coordinated means made in cooperation, consultation or concert...
nytimes.com/2019/04/25/opi…

4/ Regs: "...with, or at the request or suggestion of a candidate.” No need to show any kind of agreement."
Spending for coordinated communications are considered in-kind contributions.
Foreign contributions, public or private, are illegal.
More here:
nytimes.com/2019/06/27/opi…

5/ SCOTUS upheld these limits in McConnell v. FEC on implicit suggestions, rather than agreements: “[E]xpenditures made after a wink or nod often will be as useful to the candidate as cash.”

This new timeline is more clear than winks and nods.
thedailybeast.com/robert-mueller…

So here is the criminal case against Giuliani, DiGenova, Toensing:
They all knew of this larger effort to solicit a foreign campaign donation from Ukraine (oppo research vs. Biden), which stands on its own facts.
These negotiations are evidence of coordination.

7/ And I think one could subpoena and indict on these alleged facts on the theory this was a sham contract, a specific act of coordination (trying to get paid to coordinate!) as part of the larger solicitation campaign felony, which Giuliani soon escalated to bribery/extortion.