man, demetri, ukrainian billionaire who s been holed up in austria for the past five years fighting a u.s. extradition order using u.s. financial institutions. in 2015 and austrian court refused to extradite him after learning he was tied to russia. the austria supreme court upheld the u.s. extradition order so to help him fight it he asked for a lawyer with the political connections in washington to get the d.o.j. to drop the charges. he first settled on lanny davis to represent him, the same lanny davis that was special counsel to bill clinton in the 90s but he took on another client, michael cohen. if you are ukrainian billionaire that tried to persuade the trump administration help you it might not be the best idea to hide a lawyer but replace him
fruman. cnn s own record search found a decade of red flags, lawsuits and judgments analyst of questionable businesses. global energy producers, the liquified natural gas powerhouse that had been the men bragged about had no income or significant assets. even parnas s company fraud guarantee that paid giuliani s $500,000 fee doesn t appear to be a company at all. it s registration is expired. according to philadelphia attorney bruce mark parnas and fruman approached his client a ukrainian billionaire earlier this year. wanting a 6-figure payment. in exchange they told the billionaire they could set up a meeting between the new ukrainian president and a delegation of american officials, mark says his client threw them out. let s be real, he really in my opinion should have been more diligent. they re fraudsters and has a security consulting people if there is anybody doing due
president trump s personal lawyer may now need a lawyer. sources telling cnn that rudy giuliani is shopping around for a defense attorney as he faces questions about his association with two men recently indicted for campaign finance crimes, including claims of hiding the origins of a $230,000 donation to a super pac. igor fruman and lev parnas touted their connection to giuliani. vickie, let me start with you. you have a great story on cnn.com about these guys that raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars, jetted around the world, touting their connections to giuliani and trump. tell us about this ukrainian billionaire. yes. ukrainians place great stock in the culture of connections. and parnas and fruman came to him and promised him that they
and judgments and a list of questionable businesses, global energy producers, the liquefied natural gas powerhouse the men bragged about had no income or significant assets and even parnas company fraud guarantee that paid giuliani s $500,000 fee doesn t appear to be a company at all. its registration is expired. according to philadelphia attorney parnas and fruman approached his client, a ukrainian billionaire earlier this year. they wanted a six-figure payment. in exchange, they told the billionaire they could set up a meeting between the new ukrainian president and a delegation of american officials and his client threw them out. ? let s be real, he should have been more diligent. they re fraudsters and he has a security consulting company. so if thera anybody who might do a little bit of due diligence it would be mayor giuliani. wolf, sources tell cnn on the
both have reportedly been fitnessed in recent activities by a ukrainian billionaire named dmitrro fir tash. how he got to be important in that part of the worldi, why he might factor into all of this now, i should mention i did just write a book about it. i wrote this new book, blowout, that is just out. chapter 19 in my book is kind of about this which is weird and uncanny, but it s true. and the basic store of him is that the putin government installed dmytro firtash in ukraine in the middle of a series of deals that were designed to make him into a billionaire, designed to make him the dominant player in the ukrainian energy business which is very handy for russia that the guy who they installed in that job would be running the y ukrainian energy business right next door. u.s. prosecutors said he s an upper echelon associate of russian organized crime. dmytro firtash is in vienna fighting extradition to the united states where he s wanted on bribery charges in conjunction with a h