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'He conned us from day one': Giuliani's Ukraine ally leaves trail of South Florida debts
From left to right: Igor Fruman, Lev Parnas, President Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani.
Over the summer, Dianne and Michael Pues got an ominous phone call from the business partner of a Ukrainian-American entrepreneur who owes the couple more than $500,000 over a movie deal gone bad.
“He said the Ukrainians were upset because we were ‘a dangling participle’ and we needed to make a deal to make them go away,” Diane Pues recounted in a recent interview. “He said we no longer knew who we were dealing with and that the Ukrainians had ties all the way up to the State Department and the White House and they were partners with Rudy Giuliani.”
Working with Giuliani, the White House and the State Department was no idle boast.
...The “Ukrainians” are two South Florida businessmen named Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman who have recently become major Republican donors — and couriers of what they say is explosive information sourced from Ukraine about widespread corruption involving Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, American diplomats and Ukrainian officials. The exploits of Parnas and Fruman have caught the admiring eye of President Donald Trump, as well as right-wing pundits and politicians who are amplifying their material. A government whistleblower complaint — one that led House Democrats last week to open an impeachment inquiry into Trump — cited media reports detailing Parnas and Fruman’s work introducing Giuliani to Ukrainian officials....
“He said the Ukrainians were upset because we were ‘a dangling participle’ and we needed to make a deal to make them go away,” Diane Pues recounted in a recent interview. “He said we no longer knew who we were dealing with and that the Ukrainians had ties all the way up to the State Department and the White House and they were partners with Rudy Giuliani.”
Working with Giuliani, the White House and the State Department was no idle boast.
...The “Ukrainians” are two South Florida businessmen named Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman who have recently become major Republican donors — and couriers of what they say is explosive information sourced from Ukraine about widespread corruption involving Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, American diplomats and Ukrainian officials. The exploits of Parnas and Fruman have caught the admiring eye of President Donald Trump, as well as right-wing pundits and politicians who are amplifying their material. A government whistleblower complaint — one that led House Democrats last week to open an impeachment inquiry into Trump — cited media reports detailing Parnas and Fruman’s work introducing Giuliani to Ukrainian officials....
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article235626327.html
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for the $325,000 donation to the Trump PAC on May 17, 2018, came from the same corporate entity that two days earlier received the proceeds from a $3 million private mortgage. That loan was secured by a luxury high-rise condo unit in North Miami Beach owned by a separate corporation tied to Fruman.
More than half of the proceeds from the $3 million loan appear to have been used to pay off a prior bank mortgage on Fruman’s condo, with the remaining $1.2 million wired from a Miami lawyer’s trust account to a corporate entity controlled by Parnas called Aaron Investments I.
Wire transfer records show $325,000 was then wired from Aaron Investments I to America First Action, the Trump PAC.
Four days after that donation, Parnas posted a photo of himself and Fruman at an intimate “Power Breakfast!!!” with Donald Trump Jr. at the Beverly Hills Polo Lounge.
More than half of the proceeds from the $3 million loan appear to have been used to pay off a prior bank mortgage on Fruman’s condo, with the remaining $1.2 million wired from a Miami lawyer’s trust account to a corporate entity controlled by Parnas called Aaron Investments I.
Wire transfer records show $325,000 was then wired from Aaron Investments I to America First Action, the Trump PAC.
Four days after that donation, Parnas posted a photo of himself and Fruman at an intimate “Power Breakfast!!!” with Donald Trump Jr. at the Beverly Hills Polo Lounge.
https://www.apnews.com/79ea79b925d141b8b558706c44f0d77c
He has that look of "wait, we agreed no pictures"....
or three, but this is just personal opinion, scott, rubio, gaetz.
but what would I know?
