The gov has seized *a lot* of Parnas' devices. The list they gave: 6 devices at the time of arrest, including a Samsung device, iPad, 2 iPhones, cell phone. Then 8 more from his house: 3 more iPhones, Samsung galaxy phone, iMac, and iPad (no phone in court, may have missed 1)
[correction from previous typoed tweet]: Parnas plans to cooperate with Congress in their investigation. The Gov. in this context is the executive branch of government, DOJ. Gov lawyer told the court that they would happily provide the requested info to Congress. ...
The gov lawyers said that they haven't been able to get into any of the encrypted devices, and that FBI has been working overtime to get into them. Said if Parnas provides them the passwords it will speed up the process and they will be able to get the devices to Congress faster.
It is unclear which of the devices are relevant to Congress' subpoena. Also unclear whether Parnas plans to give the government the passwords, though the Judge encouraged the defense team to discuss this with the US attorneys.
Parnas' lawyer also said there were hard copy documents Parnas wanted to provide to Congress. The gov said they would be happy to scan them and make them available to Congress as well.
But Parnas' legal team and the gov weren't totally in harmony. Parnas' lawyers requested that the court let Parnas go outside on his house arrest for two hours a day to "exercise" and "see the sun." The government said they opposed this motion b/c Parnas is a flight risk.
Fruman (who is charged alongside Parnas but wasn't present in court today) tried a similar request a couple weeks ago. Didn't go too well for him either. Here is my article from that hearing: buzzfeednews.com/article/emaoco…
The government also said that the investigation into Parnas is ongoing, meaning that there could plausibly be additional charges on top of the ones for which Parnas has already been indicted. The next hearing will be on Feb. 3, but the trial likely won't be until summer or fall.
