to get the u.s. government to fire the u.s. ambassador to ukraine, the gentleman on the left, we believe as of tonight, is still in federal custody in alexandria, virginia, but we believe the gentleman on the right, who was arrested at the same time on the same charges, we believe he has now been bailed out on a million dollars bail. now, these two were not the only two arrested. right? you ll remember from this indictment that there were four men who were charged all together in this alleged campaign finance scheme. those two guys whose mugshots we ve got, lev and igor, but also one of their alleged co-conspirator who was arrested in san francisco. as of this evening we believe he, too, has been bailed out on a million dollar bond in advance of what s expected to be his first federal court appearance in manhattan in the jurisdiction where he s been charged tomorrow. we also got word today that the fourth man who was charged in this indictment, a man who until yesterday was at large,
arriving from an international flight at jfk airport. and we do not yet have a mugshot for him, but we do have this handy picture of him posing with donald trump. just as we have a number of other pictures of donald trump posing with the defendants in this case. we had initially expected lev and igor, the two giuliani associated who were arrested at dulles airport last week, the guys for whom we have the mugshots, we were originally expecting them to be arraigned tomorrow in federal court in new york as well. as i mentioned, one of them, igor, is now out on bail. even though we believe the other one is still in custody. that s interesting that their fates may be taking different directions here. i should also note that their arraignment had been expected to be tomorrow in federal court in new york. it s now been moved to wednesday of next week. we re not sure why that happened, but the federal judge who s going to be hearing their case set a new date for lev and igor to be arraigned in
dad s car and lets you take it home, i don t know what the right thank you present is for that. but you might start with a seven-page english language dossier of false accusations against the family of the leading democratic opponent who s going to be up against donald trump in his re-election effort in 2020? i mean, is that a nice way to start your thank-you note to russian intelligence? dear kind sirs, first of all are you using synthetic motor oil or regular? because i need to get the change and i don t want also, please enclose please. so there s paul manafort in federal prison. in large part for not paying taxes on the millions of dollars he took from pro-putin political parties in ukraine. there s the guy who wrote up the supposed dirt on joe biden who s linked to russian intelligence. there s lev and igor arrested by the phish when they were reportedly on their way to vienna with one-way tickets out of this country. who s in vienna?
fascinating new reporting that when lev and igor, rudy giuliani s guys, these guys who have now been arrested, when they were trying to do this sort of side hustle in yukraine alongside the get biden plan, when they were trying to replace the top guy at the head of a big ukrainian natural gas company and instead install their own people to run that firm, nbc reports tonight it appears that deal was being sought by lev and igor, specifically to benefit this guy for whom they were apparently working. dmytro firtash. trying to get back into that part of the natural gas business with help from giuliani s buddies. dmytro firtash, meanwhile, has been providing sworn statements to rudy giuliani. giuliani has been waving around on television saying this is the evidence against joe biden, this is why biden must be investigated. i mean, what makes what makes this all so nuts, right, i mean, impeachment thing is very
criminal investigations tepid tend to be o bake from the outside by nature. might get an old-fashioned leak to the press, a hint. sometimes we heard from someone who has honest to goodness firsthand experience with the investigators and can talk about what they ve been asked. u.s. counterintelligence agents have been examining rudy giuliani s business dealings with two men indicted last week on campaign finance charges since at least early 2019 according to a manhattan lawyer. the lawyer, kenneth mccallion, who represented several ukrai ukrainian clients including yulia timeshenko said agents contacted him in february of march this year. asked if rudy giuliani had dealings with lev parnas or igor