Saturday, January 4, 2020

Judge: Parnas May Give Investigators His Evidence



A Federal judge's ruling yesterday clears the way for phone records and documents seized from an indicted associate of corrupt loon Rudy "Rudy Colludey" Giuliani to be given to Congressional impeachment investigators. Federal District Judge J. Paul Oetken ruled that Lev Parnas can give the investigators evidence from his criminal trial that would be of value to the impeachment investigation. The evidence was seized by Federal law enforcement after Parnas was arrested last October while boarding a flight to Vienna with a one-way ticket.
"The materials are expected to include documents taken from Parnas’s Florida home, along with a complete readout of his iPhone. [Parnas' attorney Joseph] Bondy has said there is relevant information contained in the materials, though he has not disclosed specifically what that might be.

'Review of these materials is essential to the Committee’s ability to corroborate the strength of Mr. Parnas’s potential [impeachment] testimony,' Bondy wrote to the court last week." (our emphasis)
Parnas was enlisted by Giuliani in his attempts to manufacture political dirt on potential Dem candidate former VP Joe Biden in Ukraine on behalf of corrupt impeached moron Donald "A Favor" Trump. Parnas was on his way to meet fugitive pro-Putin oligarch Dmytro Firtash in Vienna when he was arrested on campaign finance violations. Federal law enforcement officials stay Firtash is tied to Russian organized crime, and has been eager to curry favor with Trump to have Federal bribery charges against him dropped.

Giuliani is reportedly under Federal criminal and counter-intelligence investigation for his dealings with Ukraine and various corrupt figures there. Parnas' evidence could further corroborate the impeachment case against Trump, and tie Giuliani to a variety of crimes involving everything from additional campaign finance violations to fraud and conspiracy.

(photo: Parnas and Giuliani. Alex Edelman/AFP via Getty Images)

1 comment:

donnah said...

I doubt that there will be any type of evidence of Trump's wrongdoing, crimes, or lies that will persuade a single Republican to disavow their loyalty to him. Senators have already aligned with McConnell in a flat out promise to clear Trump. Perennial pansies like Collins and Romney will put on their scolds face and still “reluctantly” vote to clear him. Again, the “shooting on 5th Ave” rule will hold up.

I AM glad that the Democrats continue to amass evidence and will attempt to control the proceedings. McConnell's brash statements about the Senate refusing to convict Trump will stand and even though Trump is going to be cleared, we will have the hard evidence of Trump's crimes on the record for all of history. It will prove that Trump was a criminal and that his party supported his criminal behavior.