Igor Fruman, one of the two associates of President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani who are facing criminal charges in New York, has retained a defense lawyer who is also representing former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
Fruman and another Giuliani associate, Lev Parnas, were indicted Oct. 9 by a New York grand jury on charges that they helped route hundreds of thousands of dollars into the U.S. political system, including a pro-Trump super PAC. Prosecutors contend that the funds came from abroad and that Fruman and Parnas acted on behalf of a Russian businessman and a Ukrainian government official, both unnamed.
Washington lawyer John Dowd, who led Trump’s personal legal team early in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, previously represented Fruman and Parnas in connection with a House Intelligence Committee request for their documents as part of the ongoing impeachment inquiry. Blanche, now a partner at the Manhattan-based law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, declined to comment when asked about any connection between his representation of Manafort and that of Fruman. Blanche also declined to say how his role defending Fruman came about.
Crime family discount?
Now that the mobsters are starting to fall out of the Trump tree, is anyone really shocked? GOP decided “Yeh, that’s our nominee” when EVERYONE knew he was a mobbed-up conman.
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