Christmas came early this year for a hack politician who was briefly elevated to a position a breath or scandal away from leading New York despite plenty of previous press coverage about how he used his campaign cash from his state Senate position to pay for a lavish wedding celebration for himself attended by a who’s who of Gotham’s political elite while leaning on a big donor who wanted public money in exchange for those “donations” to hide contributions to his failed city comptroller campaign that busted the limits of the matching-funds system that turns each dollar donated into eight and that’s intended to open up NYC’s democracy when a federal judge threw out the top bribe-taking charges against him.
federal investigators seized
last month that are relevant to his case.
Lev Parnas and Rudy Giuliani. (Photo courtesy of Lev Parnas)
MANHATTAN (CN) In the wake of last month’s sunrise raid of Rudy Giuliani’s home and office, indicted Ukrainian businessman Lev Parnas is now seeking a peek at evidence seized from former President Trump’s longtime personal attorney.
Along with fellow Giuliani-linked businessmen Igor Fruman and Andrey Kukushkin, Parnas was indicted in October 2019, accused of funneling political donations through a limited liability company and employing straw donors.
Southern District of New York prosecutors brought additional counts a year later in a superseding indictment, but attorneys for trio sought the dismissal of both indictments “for a gross violation of the defendants’ attorney-client privilege” arising from an email chain with attorneys and advisers related to their joint cannabis business venture.