Florida businessmen who helped Giuliani in Ukraine arrested on campaign finance charges

Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman were arrested late Wednesday night for funnelling $325,000 in illegal donations from Russia into a Trump super PAC.

In May 2018, the two men gave $325,000 to the pro-Trump super PAC American First Action through an LLC, the group confirmed to NBC News.

In addition to the illegal donations, both men worked with Rudy Giuliani on his attempts to investigate Biden in Ukraine.

Fruman and Parnas worked with Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal attorney, Giuliani has previously said, as part of his dealings in Ukraine that involved efforts to encourage the nation to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. Parnas is Ukrainian, while Fruman is Belarusian, according to the indictment unsealed Thursday.

From left, Donald Trump, Jr., Tommy Hicks, Jr., Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman

EDIT- Adding aditional info from the source article to clear up the Russian confusion

The men were charged with four counts, including conspiracy, falsification of records and lying to the FEC about their political donations, according to the indictment that outlines a conspiracy to funnel a Russian donor’s money into U.S. elections.

SOURCE ARTICLE

INDICTMENT


Florida businessmen who helped Giuliani in Ukraine arrested on campaign finance charges

why did you have to lie??

Russia is not mentioned in the link

there is no russia so you are lying

No need too but you did.

negative flags for you

a reply to: thedigirati

Negative flags? Whats that?

How dare you read the link!!!! a reply to: thedigirati

Original OP headline:

Two men who helped Giuliani investigate Ukraine arrested for funneling Russian money to Trump

Not seeing anything about the money coming from Russia in other articles either.

OP...please show where you see this listed as money from 'Russia'.
TY

originally posted by: Alien Abduct
a reply to: thedigirati

Negative flags? Whats that?

it's a glitch in the system if the page is refreshing and a person takes their flag back it will show negative on thepost

it was a topic 2-3 days ago

but it applies to this thread well.

a reply to: Gorgonite

No mention of Russia in your source AT ALL, and your own source states that the PAC put the money into a segregated account immediately until they figured out if it was above board or not:

In May 2018, the two men gave $325,000 to the pro-Trump super PAC American First Action through an LLC, the group confirmed to NBC News. "Accordingly, America First Action placed that contribution in a segregated bank account, it has not been used it for any purpose and the funds will remain in this segregated account until these matters are resolved," a PAC spokesman said. "We take our legal obligations seriously and scrupulously comply with the law and any suggestion otherwise is false."

a reply to: Gorgonite

Not only was Russia never mentioned, but Trumps PAC never even used the money...it was put in to a segregated account from the get go and remains there until this whole thing is sorted out.

originally posted by: thedigirati

originally posted by: Alien Abduct
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Negative flags? Whats that?

it's a glitch in the system if the page is refreshing and a person takes their flag back it will show negative on thepost

it was a topic 2-3 days ago

but it applies to this thread well.

ah okay, I was looking for the negative flag icon hahaha

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originally posted by: thedigirati
why did you have to lie??

Russia is not mentioned in the link

there is no russia so you are lying

No need too but you did.

negative flags for you

You are correct, it is not mentioned in that article. However, it is mentioned in the source article.

The men were charged with four counts, including conspiracy, falsification of records and lying to the FEC about their political donations, according to the indictment that outlines a conspiracy to funnel a Russian donor’s money into U.S. elections.

LINK

Also, it is laid out in more detail in the indictment LINK

a reply to: Gorgonite

Well its a good thing they put that money to the side then huh?

Trumps people doing the right thing yet again. Thanks for bringing the integrity of the trump campaign to light

a reply to: IAMTAT

Edited the main post to include the source article and indictment which outlines where Russia comes in to play.