Posted on 10/10/2019 2:09:40 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Two associates of Rudy Giuliani made their initial appearance before a federal judge on Thursday, less than 24 hours after they were arrested on campaign finance violations while trying to board an international flight with one-way tickets at Dulles International Airport outside of Washington D.C.
Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman appeared in federal court in Alexandria, Va. to face a four-count indictment alleging that they, along with two other co-defendants, conspired to violate a ban on foreign donations and contributions in connection with federal and state elections.
The two men remained mostly silent during their appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael Nachmanoff, who set their bond at $1 million each. Nachmanoff said he was reluctant to agree to a bond package but noted the mens' defense team and the government had agreed on it.
Terms of bond included $1 million per suspect and the surrender of passports and all other travel documents, as well as travel restricted to the Southern District of Florida and Southern District of New York. They also will be subject to home detention and GPS monitoring, according to the agreement.
Both Parnas and Fruman are expected to remain in custody for at least the remainder of the day, until the terms of the bond are met.
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What the hell is Rudy up to.......?
I don’t believe a thing being reported
Giuliani, an attorney for President Trump, said he finds it “extremely suspicious” that the arrest was made in connection with an FEC matter that has yet to be resolved, and which Giuliani said is a civil matter. He acknowledged, however, that both men “logistically helped” in his collection of evidence against Hunter Biden, and that they helped connect him with Viktor Shokin and Yuriy Lutsenko former Prosecutors General of Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose July phone call with Trump jumpstarted the impeachment inquiry, denied on Thursday knowing Parnas and Fruman and said Washington so far has not requested any documents from him regarding the two men.
Straw Donors. Well, these boys have all types of exposure, good luck fellas.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm not having read the article the first that comes to mind is “of course they’re one way tickets, they are going home.” The other thing that hits me is “international”. Yup they don’t live in this country, so I suppose they are going home to another which takes an “international flight”.
Now I’ll read the article, and see if the new all left all the time FOX (other than Hannity, and a couple of other shows I’m tiring rapidly of.) is trying to make something out of this more than it is.
So? Is Giuliani supposed to follow everyone around? The Dems have people *Biden* at the top doing illegal stuff and it goes down and throughout.
The insanity continues. Both men were born in the USSR. Now unfortunately they are experiencing the USSA.
If they have any sense at all, they will find a way to escape to freedom and go have a beer with Snowden. Astonishing that we now live in a nation where travel outside the country is increasingly restricted for political reasons.
They are being targeted solely for being associated with Rudy, who is defending Trump.
B A N A N A _ R E P U B L I C
Which I find curious.
I’ve flown quite a bit and my purchases of one-ways has been under heavy scrutiny in the past.
You KNOW that the Southern District of New York District judges almost certainly approved wiretaps on these two. The FBI agents working for the Southern District of New York Prosecutors almost certainly knew about their trip and arrested them at a point where the SDNY could claim they were “fleeing”.
And certain FReepers think it’s hunky dory that the DemocRATS use the Blue Slip process (thanks to the Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham) to not allow Trump to fill any of the VACANT SDNY District Judgeships.
How the #### can you ask such a silly thing???
They’re trying to #### him.
OK, you don’t like him for whatever reason but don’t say ridiculous things.
Since when has it been illegal to purchase a one-way airline ticket?
This was done so the RAT media talking points all day would be “Rudy Giuliani... election fraud”.
If this had been associates of AOC or Joe Biden, you would NEVER hear the media make the connection. Instead, this will be said 1000 times today “Rudy Giuliani... election interference”.
Bastards. I hate the media with a black hatred usually reserved only for the worst of the worst. Oh, but I repeat myself.
“What the hell is Rudy up to.......?”
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Well, I see the Southern District of New York has you thinking the way they want you to think.
OK so we are enforcing foreign political donations now? This will not end well for democrats if enforced fairly.
You wouldn’t believe. And when I flew as a single gal....I ALWAYS was targeted. And that was in the 80’s-90’s.
It's not, but the writer wants it to sound like they were trying to flee.
We gonna put them in solitary confinement at Ryker’s over political donations and being associated with Rudy?
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