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
immediately because they quote, it is difficult to overstate the extreme flight risk that mr. parnas now poses. why did they change their minds on whether he needed to be in jail or not? before they were fine with house arrest on an ankle monitor. according to this filing from prosecutors tonight they say they have just realized that mr. parnas lied to them about his financial situation and 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 interfere in the 2016 election, it was ukraine instead.