Billionaire Oil Magnate Funded Travel by Lev Parnas
Lev Parnas arrives at federal court in New York on December 2, 2019.Scott Heins/Getty Images A billionaire Republican donor helped to bankroll travel by Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, as Parnas maneuvered to press the Ukrainian government to announce investigations that would help President Donald Trump politically. House Democrats on Wednesday released…
Lev Parnas Says Trump “Knew Exactly What Was Going on”
Lev Parnas arrives at court in New York on December 2, 2019.AP Photo/Seth Wenig Lev Parnas, an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, leveled a series of sensational allegations in an appearance Wednesday night on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show, implicating President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and Attorney General William Barr, among others, in the…
Indicted Ukrainian Oligarch Paid $1 Million to Giuliani Pal, Prosecutors Say
Lev Parnas arrives at Federal Court on December 17, 2019 in New York City.Stephanie Keith/Getty Images Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash paid $1 million to Lev Parnas, an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, federal prosecutors said in a court hearing Tuesday in Manhattan. Firtash, a natural gas mogul with Kremlin connections, lives in Vienna and is…
The Nunes Crew Is Neck-Deep in the Ukraine Scandal
J. Scott Applewhite/AP During the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment hearings last month, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the panel’s ranking member, angrily decried the process. He called the proceedings a “drug deal” concocted by the Democrats for TV ratings and claimed Donald Trump had done nothing wrong in his attempt to get Ukraine to launch investigations…
Rudy Giuliani Has a Foreign-Lobbying Problem, and It Just Got Bigger
Rudy Giuliani speaks to the Organization of Iranian American Communities during their march to urge regime change in Iran, outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York on September 24, 2019.Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images) Rudy Giuliani is in danger of being charged with acting as an unregistered foreign agent. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are…
Donald Trump Has Had a Lot of Terrible Lawyers. Rudy Giuliani Might Be the Worst.
Mario Ruiz/ZUMA As a candidate, President Donald Trump boasted that he would hire “the best and most serious people.” But as impeachment bears down on his presidency, a lot of his problems may be because he has hired a very bad lawyer. That man, of course, is Rudolph Giuliani. Trump brought Giuliani—a former federal prosecutor,…