For Ukraine help, Giuliani turned to unlikely Florida fixers

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President Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani turned to an unlikely pair of Florida fixers to help in a quest to get Ukrainian authorities to investigate Joe Biden, documents show.

This Facebook screen shot provided by The Campaign Legal Center, shows from left, Donald Trump, Jr., Tommy Hicks, Jr., Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, posted on May 21, 2018.

The big May 2018 donation to American First Action was part of a flurry of political spending tied to Parnas and Fruman, with at least $478,000 in donations flowing to GOP campaigns and PACs in little more than two months. He said the Ukrainian government has access to information on alleged wrongdoing by the Bidens, but that the U.S. government proved indifferent to receiving it through official channels. Thanks to his friendship with Giuliani, Parnas said, he and Fruman became the best people to get it into the Trump administration’s hands.

Campaign finance watchdogs first raised concerns about the source of the $325,000 donation to America First Action, a political action committee supporting Trump’s re-election, shortly after it was first disclosed last year. More than half of the proceeds from the $3 million loan appear to have been used to pay off a prior bank mortgage on Fruman’s condo, with the remaining $1.2 million wired from a Miami lawyer’s trust account to a corporate entity controlled by Parnas called Aaron Investments I.

Under federal elections law, political donations must be attributed to the person or entity actually providing the money as a way to avoid “straw donations.” That the source of the donation was not the same corporation as the one listed on the PAC’s federal disclosure report, Global Energy Producers, is a potential violation of campaign finance law.

Despite receiving the seven-figure payout last year from the condo loan, court records indicate Parnas and Fruman were still scrambling for cash.

 

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Ok what’s illegal about this?

Please dig deeper into Donald Trump Jr.'s involvement in this, too. He's as dirty and corrupt as his old man.

'Documents show Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman made hundreds of thousands of dollars in political donations to Republicans while facing lawsuits from disgruntled investors over unpaid debts.' Easier to buy Republican politicians than to simply pay their debts with that money?

cgfromdc No one cares about the AP bs anymore. Civil war has started

TrueFactsStated McCord, Barker, Gonzales, Sturgis, Martinez?

TrueFactsStated There will be so many that will go to jail that’s worked for realDonaldTrump

Swampy.

Was Jacob Wohl unavailable?

Birds of a feather

Be sure to shape that narrative how you like it

Poor old Rudy. From hero to zero.

Good. Maybe they can find out why The Ukraine paid Hunter $50k a month to do nothing.

This undercuts the whistleblower’s claim that Trump was digging for dirt to affect the 2020 election. All these money transfers occurred before Biden even announced he was running. This was about the 2016 election.

Is not concerned at all with wthr or not Biden is enriching his family through foreign blackmail? Seems like it. This once admirable press org has totally discredited itself through their Trump hatred. The heroic journalists who died in Vietnam are rolling over rn. Shame.

Russians supporting a PAC that gives to trump surprise surprise surprise I bet they all went to Epstein’s after dinner for dessert. All of the scandals are tied together history will tell us the truth.

Everyone's saying that Giuliani was operating on his own. He's a rogue Trump agent who is out of control. Trump must fire him and send him to prison. RudyGiuliani TrumpLife RudyDidIt

Mike Huckabee really goin for it with that deep v

So, which one is the Consigliere?

In today’s episode of - insert crime show name -

Giuliani is not in the photo so were is this information coming from. Fake News I guess

First Aired before the 2016 Election. ClintonCrimeFamily LockHerUp DemocratsAreCorrupt DemocratsHateAmerica WalkAway WalkAwayFromDemocratsForever Trump2020 Trump2020LandslideVictory SpyGate FisaAbuse ObamaGate

Mobsters all the way Crooks

Yep, Potus win again AP. Week after week he wins. Aren't you tired of it yet? HE's going to be Potus past 2024...

Just stop

Why didn’t he just do it the Obama way. Get the FBI, CIA and NSA to do it?

Russians. Go figure.

'his Democratic rival' No, the former Vice President. They are not rivals until after the Dem Primary is complete. This is a way to manipulate opinion and j'accuse 'election interference'.. So obvious.

The Sopranos s1e9 'Boca'

Well if say if Joey wasn’t dirty and son a idiot - we wouldn’t be here today. The dems protected them from the start. 😀🇺🇸👍. Keep em coming media

Rudy!!!

haha.. that's going to turn EPIC soon Trump's team dealing with russian mafia to get dirt on Biden.. Coming soon to a theater near you

This sounds about right....

looks like a mafia family picture.

Soviet born Republican donors who haven’t paid their debts doesn’t really sound all that “unlikely” if you think about it who Giuliani might turn to...

Bullshit.

Looks like an episode of The Sopranos

Where is Hunter Biden?

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