Federal prosecutors file new charges against associate of Trump backer Rudy Giuliani

[webfact]

Federal prosecutors file new charges against associate of Trump backer Rudy Giuliani

 

FILE PHOTO: Ukrainian-American businessman Lev Parnas leaves the Manhattan Federal Court in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., February 3, 2020. REUTERS/ Bryan R Smith

 

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors said on Thursday they had filed additional charges against Lev Parnas, a one-time associate of President Donald Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who was already facing campaign finance-related charges.

 

Prosecutors said they had charged Parnas and an associate, David Correia, with conspiring to defraud investors in an insurance company they operated. Prosecutors said a superseding indictment also includes fresh campaign finance law violations.

 

Audrey Strauss, acting chief federal prosecutor in Manhattan, said that Parnas and David Correia, one of three co-defendants charged with Parnas in an indictment the prosecutor's office issued in 2019, were charged in a superseding indictment with conspiring to commit wire fraud in connection with their efforts to raise funds for a business they called “Fraud Guarantee.”

 

Prosecutors said Parnas and Correia set up Fraud Guarantee in late 2012, and that, "ironically," they had pitched the company to potential investors as an entity that would protect investors from fraud.

 

In a statement, Strauss said: "Lev Parnas and David Correia conspired in a fraud using a company called ‘Fraud Guarantee’ that purported to insure investors against corporate fraud while in fact, as alleged, they misled investors as to what would be done with their money. ‘Fraud Guarantee’ takes on a different meaning in light of today’s allegations that the company was a vehicle for committing fraud, not insuring against it."

 

In addition to the wire fraud charges, the new indictment also charges Parnas, Correia and Igor Fruman, an associate of Parnas and Giuliani, with soliciting a foreign national to make donations and contributions, and charges Parnas, Fruman and a fourth man, Andrey Kukushkin, with aiding and abetting a foreign national to contribute to U.S. federal and state elections.

 

Joseph Bondy, a lawyer for Parnas, had no immediate comment.

 

Todd Blanche, a lawyer for Fruman, said he had no comment. Lawyers for other two defendants, Correia and Kukushkin, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

 

(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel and Mark Hosenball; Editing by Chris Reese and Dan Grebler)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-09-18

 

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[Tug]

Only the best people lol fraud guarantee ya just can’t make this stuff up lol probably all for naught trumps pet AG billey Barr will squash it that’s probably why today he was saying he is the only one it the doj who can say who gets prosecuted can we all say banana republic 

[Paul Henry]

They are very luck, Trump will deny that he knows them or ever met them. Don't worry about the photos they are just fake news.

[RocketDog]

I long for the days when the Clintons were president and we thought we were suffering from the countless scandals in the news. USA and its citizens were still held in esteem by a large part of the world. 

 

Those really were the good old days. 

Oh, and the US had a budget surplus. Retrospectively not a bad tradeoff for a bเowjob. 

[Bluespunk]

10 hours ago, webfact said:

Federal prosecutors said on Thursday they had filed additional charges against Lev Parnas, a one-time associate of President Donald Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani,

“A man is known by the company he keeps”

― Aesop

[Redline]

he should have left the country with the cash.  Committing fraud while selling fraud insurance~it was only a matter of time