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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It is most likely that Rudy turned these guys in...
They were donators to Sessions and then Sessions was fired.
Rudy was investigating Ukrainian corruption and then RINO swamp creature Sessions was fired...
Sessions knew of the deep state and Obama admin. corruption and his own. That’s why Sessions was sitting back on Spygate, why he was fired and why Rudy has now exposed these 2.
I think what you are seeing is Trump/Rudy exposing further deep state corruption.
Do any of these 2 have connections to Romania? Didn’t Rudy mention Romania just yesterday?
Yes. This is the Southern District of New York, famous as the home of Preet Bharara, who never met a business he didn’t want to kill. He left in 2017, but it’s still attack dog territory.
These two men have been involved in these lawsuits for years, although I think at least one was settled out of court. They are civil cases that had nothing to do with campaign stuff but were basically unaccountability in use of funds, slow repayment of loans, etc.
That said, it’s certainly possible that some of their money was improperly directed, and in that case they should be investigated. But this is all way too, too convenient for the enemies of Trump and Giuliani.
Probably it has raised a flag since 9/11.
I am sure that the final report for the investigation into this matter will be out sometime next month, two months at the latest...
..... Definitely an eyebrow raiser ..... And a significant amount of fuel to pump into the Left’s Conspiracy Machine. This will keep’em going for a while ....
I was going to say that after 9/11, flying one way is a dumb move if you are trying to be sneaky...everyone knows one way tickets get extra scrutiny.
If they were going to Pakistan it would be fine.
B A N A N A _ R E P U B L I C
Trump is in charge of Federal law enforcement. People in the chain of command that led to this must be called to answer, and the answers better be pretty good.
ML/NJ
This is just an attempt to smear Giuliani, because he is defending Trump.
I believe so, yes.
SDNY counterattack.
Not really. Beginning with Sally Yates, we have learned that the President is, in truth and in fact, NOT in control of Federal law enforcement.
Giuliani says he is going to drop something that will raise questions regarding the timing.
He is saying he thinks this is in response to his investigations in Ukraine
If trump isn’t going to use Fed Law Enforcement, can i have them? It’s been 34
months.
I wonder if this is something like this, I give you some money and you give some money to a political group.
At first it looks bad, but who is to say I gave the money to you for you to donate in your name? Who says it wasn’t your own money and the money I gave you was for some other reason like I owed you the money for some reason unrelated?
They have to prove it. That’s why this is usually handled civilly because it is almost impossible to prove criminally.
The only reason they would do this, they got them stone cold or this is political.
Actually, Trump got rid of her; and quickly.
He needs to do this with people who think they are lifers.
ML/NJ
Useful Idiots believing the MSM no questions asked are the bigger problem.
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