Who’s the Secret Russian in the Indictment of Giuliani’s Pals? We Found Some Clues.
Booking photos of Lev Parnas, left, and Igor Fruman./AP When the US attorney for the Southern District of New York charged two associates of Rudy Giuliani and two other men on Wednesday with campaign finance violations, the indictment contained a big mystery. Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman—who had been helping Giuliani search for dirt on…
We Found the Corruption: Giuliani Pals Making Shady Donations to Pro-Trump GOPers for Ukrainians
Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP As Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump squawk that the president’s quid-pro-quo-ish call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was only prompted by Trump’s heartfelt desire to address “corruption” in that former Soviet bloc nation, a new scandal has emerged in the United States that illustrates how corruption works here. This caper has implicated…
What Cable News Anchors Get Right—And Wrong—About Real-Time Fact-Checking
Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty We live in an age where disinformation is a serious and dangerous threat to our democracy. And that has never been more apparent than in the past couple of weeks, when the details of a phone call between Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky—in which Trump pressured the Ukrainian leader…
Rudy Giuliani Has a Record of Being Very Opposed to Anti-Corruption Efforts
Rudy Giuliani at Fox Business Network studios on September 23, 2019.Roy Rochlin/Getty Images President Donald Trump and his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, insist that their bid to pressure Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden reflected their broader concern about rampant corruption in the former Soviet republic. That is, of course, ridiculous. Trump’s request to Ukranian president Volodymyr…
Two Key Figures in the Ukraine Scandal Just Hired Trump’s Former Attorney
John Dowd leaving a federal courthouse.Yana Paskova/Getty Images President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, John Dowd, has agreed to represent two businessmen who helped Rudy Giuliani seek dirt on Joe Biden from current and former Ukrainian officials. Dowd represented Trump in matters relating to special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe until March 2018. Dowd’s new…