Giuliani intermediaries Parnas and Fruman are charged in a campaign-finance case

Date: 2019-10-09
Entry type: associate-criminal-charges
Current status: Parnas and Fruman were charged; Giuliani was not charged in that indictment

The charges applied to Parnas and Fruman—not Giuliani—while the impeachment record separately documented their work in Giuliani's Ukraine channel.

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Federal prosecutors charged Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman with campaign-finance offenses after their airport arrests. The House impeachment report separately documented that the pair helped Giuliani pursue Ukraine contacts and the removal of Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch. The indictment charged Parnas and Fruman, not Giuliani; their work for Giuliani connects the charged donor network to his Trump-directed Ukraine channel.
- U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York: Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman Charged With Conspiring To Violate Straw And Foreign Donor BansCharging announcement: defendants, alleged straw-donor and foreign-donor scheme, and presumption of innocence
- U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: The Trump-Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry ReportSection II.A, pages 33–50: Parnas and Fruman's role in Giuliani's Ukraine effort