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Jan 15, 2020 • 17 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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Lev Parnas was using Joseph Ahearn, America First Action’s director of development, to send things to Donald Trump Jr. to tweet about Ukraine. “Sent,” Ahearn wrote in March, per docs @politico has written about here: politico.com/news/2020/01/1… ImageImage
@politico Here are the docs: docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU…
Four days later, Parnas sent Ahearn a Daily Wire story titled "Calls Grow To Remove Obama’s U.S. Ambassador To Ukraine.”

That same day, Trump Jr. tweeted the story: Image
In May, on the same day Parnas sent Ahearn a pic in a flak jacket, Parnas wrote: “It’s more important than ever to get a good ambassador that’s loyal to our president in there please make sure you pass on the message every ear more important than ever.”

“Yes,” Ahearn replied. Image
This batch of documents also contains messages between Parnas and Tommy Hicks Jr., cochair of the RNC.

In July, @MikeSallah7 reported Parnas, Hicks, Fruman had breakfast in Beverly Hills. buzzfeednews.com/article/mikesa… ImageImage
Per Politico, these docs were "released late Tuesday night but not publicly noticed.”

I’m seeking clarity from the committee around this — seems odd for them to post all these docs and not tell anyone.
politico.com/news/2020/01/1…
Parnas to Harry Sargeant III, a fellow Floridian businessman, on March 25, 2019:

“Team trump dinner celebration I’m officially part of team trump tomorrow big day my brother I’ll call you tomorrow.”

Appears to have sent a photo as well, but hard to see. Image
Sargeant was reportedly working with Parnas and Fruman "to install new management at the top of Ukraine’s massive state gas company. Their plan was to then steer lucrative contracts to companies controlled by Trump allies…”

apnews.com/d7440cffba4940…
Follow Miriam for details from the Lutsenko texts, which she’s translating!
Here’s Sargeant scolding Parnas for asking him to approve car service.

“Don’t bother w this stuff pls…LEV take a and drink cheap vodka." Image
Again, Sargeant seems unhappy paying for Parnas’s expenses. He assures Sargeant he’ll be reimbursed.

As we’ve reported, Parnas has a history of convincing people to loan him money and never paying it back.

See here: buzzfeednews.com/article/emmalo…

And here: buzzfeednews.com/article/mikesa… Image
One day before Yovanovitch was recalled from Ukraine, Parnas wrote:

“Working hard to save our country my brother !!!!

The bomb is dropping tomorrow" Image
Then, on May 6: “They just recalled her finally.”

Sargeant replies: "Awesome!!" Image
Appears as though Parnas was talking to Andriy Yermak, an advisor to Zelensky, as late as September 2019: Image

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Mar 16, 2021
New: @ODNIgov has released a declassified report on foreign interference in the 2020 elections.

Read it here:

dni.gov/index.php/news…
@ODNIgov Highlights:

- Putin authorized Russian government to attack Biden and help Trump, and to sow divisions/undermine faith in elections

- Iran went after Trump and also tried to sow divisions/undermine faith in elections

- NO “indications” that vote tallies were targeted
@ODNIgov Senate Intel Committee Chair @MarkWarner:

"[T]he problem of foreign actors trying to influence the American electorate is not going away and, given the current partisan divides in this country, may find fertile ground in which to grow in the future.”
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Dec 16, 2020
Sen. Chuck Grassley just tried to pass his bipartisan bill to update the Foreign Agents Registration Act by unanimous consent in the Senate, but Sen. Bob Menendez objected.

Menendez, the ranking member on the Foreign Relations Committee, said they need to study the issue more.
Grassley's been working for years on updating FARA to help the Department of Justice enforce the 1930s-era law, which hasn't been updated since the 1960s.

Here's the most current bill text:

congress.gov/bill/116th-con…
In a speech before he asked for UC, Grassley noted that the bill’s bipartisan cosponsors — Sens. Feinstein, Cornyn, Shaheen, Rubio, and Young — sit on the Foreign Affairs, Judiciary, and Intelligence Committees, all relevant to FARA.
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Dec 14, 2020
Some personal news: A little while ago, I decided to begin the application process for a new US work visa. If all goes well, I’ll be able to work in the US again in a couple months.

So if you’re an editor looking to expand your team, please get in touch! My email is in my bio.
A little about me: I’ve covered national security, federal law enforcement, politics (including Congress), and more in the US. I’ve also covered Canadian governments and news.

I love scoops and doing original, investigative reporting. And I'm bilingual in French and English.
When I was laid off this summer, I lost my previous work visa and came back to Canada to figure out my next steps: either apply for a new visa to return to DC long-term or fly back to DC to pack my things and move back home. After a lot of thought, I chose the former.
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Dec 4, 2020
It's official: the final version of the NDAA contains major reforms to the United States' anti-money laundering regime. Most notably, shell companies will be forced to disclose their true owners to Treasury -- a major gap in the regime that has been criticized for years.
Here's the bill text:

Statements from @MarkWarner, @SenatorRounds, and @SenDougJones applauding the inclusion of their Illicit Cash Act -- the Senate version of the beneficial ownership legislation -- in the final NDAA:
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Sep 21, 2020
NEW: Remember when HSBC avoided criminal charges for allowing drug kingpins to to launder millions by promising the US DOJ it would clean up its act?

Well, the #FinCENFiles reveal the bank kept facilitating and profiting from suspect transactions:

buzzfeednews.com/article/anthon…
The #FinCENFiles show that the bank continued to do business with companies that its own employees raised red flags about. Here are some examples:

buzzfeednews.com/article/anthon… Image
The DOJ has increasingly relied on deferred prosecution agreements to fight high-level corporate crime — ie, no criminal charges.

But the approach has produced an ineffective cycle of accusations and inaction, apologies and broken promises.

#FinCENFiles
buzzfeednews.com/article/anthon…
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Sep 20, 2020
Finally, I can share the project I worked on for nearly two years at @BuzzFeedNews:

The #FinCENFiles — 1000s of SARs & other docs — offer an unprecedented view of global financial corruption, the banks enabling it & the govt agencies that fail to stop it. buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
This was a massive team effort -- it's been a privilege to work with @JasonLeopold, @MikeSallah7, @TomBWarren, @a_cormier_, @scottpham, @jtemplon, @jsvine, @TanyaKozyreva, @Richard_AHolmes, as well as @ICIJorg & all the partner organizations.
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