and the case against them lays out allegations they funneled illegal donations including foreign money to various republican candidates and causes including to the main super-pac supporting president trump s re-election. and the relationship between these two indicted gentlemen and president trump remains murky, but at least in the case of lev, he s the one on the left of your screen, the guy whose eyes are slightly closer together, at least in the case of lev, he has maintained in court that, effectively, he works for president trump. his lawyer explained to the judge overseeing his case in the southern district of new york that lev was working for rudy giuliani in giuliani s capacity as the president s personal lawyer. so the president has rudy giuliani working for him as a personal lawyer. in that capacity, the president has rudy giuliani go to ukraine and mount this pressure campaign against ukraine to deliver these political favors for the president, right, that s what president t
debate and markup through the night and then they ll reconvene tomorrow morning with the expectation that ultimately they ll vote as a committee on these impeachment articles by the end of the day, sometime tomorrow. but even as these proceedings are under way tonight, just a couple of hours ago, we got a jaw-dropping bit of new news in the criminal case that is proceeding through federal court in new york, a case that is sort of adjacent to and abutting these ongoing impeachment proceedings on capitol hill. because when president trump tasked his personal attorney, rudy giuliani, to basically take over the u.s. government s interactions with ukraine so the president could get these political favors from ukraine, the scheme for which the president is now being impeached, when president trump sent rudy giuliani to work on that scheme, mr. giuliani had helpers. beyond the trump administration officials and ambassadors who were all told to call rudy and coordinate anything they were doing
in the middle of lev parnas running that scheme in ukraine with rudy giuliani at the president s direction, in september of this year, september 2019, he neglected to mention to prosecutors that, quote, he received $1 million wired to him from a bank account in russia. oh. prosecutors say he also neglected to mention hundreds of thousands of dollars he received as a kind of pass through from that kremlin connected oligarch who has hired trump connected lawyers who has hired lev to work for them. that lawyer is one of the people in ukraine who s been providing giuliani with faudr for todder impeachment scheme. and he didn t mention that someone in russia wired him a million dollars last month. while he was working for rudy giuliani in giuliani s capacity as president trump s personal lawyer.
impeached for, but as part of that work for the president, rudy giuliani has another guy working for him, lev parnas. and it s not just some, you know, public bragging puffery like social media claim, oh, i m working for rudy giuliani in his capacity as the president s personal lawyer. this is actually lev parnas s quite serious lawyer telling a federal judge that. my client worked for rudy giuliani in mr. giuliani s capacity as president trump s personal lawyer. well, tonight, just a couple of hours ago, federal prosecutors in this case have now written to the judge that s overseeing the lev parnas case to say that they, the prosecutors, no longer believe it is safe to allow lev parnas to be out on house arrest with an ankle monitor while he s awaiting trial on these felony charges. prosecutors say that he is a, quote, significant flight risk and he should be remanded to custody immediately. they say, quote, it is difficult to overstate the extreme flight
risk that mr. parnas now poses. why did they change their mind on whether he needed to be in jail or not? before, they were fine with house arrest. why now do they say, oh, no, you got to put this guy in jail? according to this filing from prosecutors tonight, they say they have just realized that mr. parnas lied to them about his financial situation and his assets after he was arrested, when they were going through the process of setting his appropriate bail terms, he lied to them about something big. what specifically? well, according to prosecutors, he neglected to mention to them, among other things, that in september of this year, so, right in the middle of him working on this scheme with rudy giuliani at the direction of president trump to pressure ukraine into giving president trump political favors and pressuring ukraine into supporting this weird russian disinformation thing that russia didn t interveer in the 2016 election, it was ukraine instead. in the middle of lev parnas