Parnus & Potus: Journalists dig up nearly 3-year-old foreign newspaper clipping, strike gold

Lev Parnas' relationship with the president might have begun years earlier than previously reported.





-Lev Parnas described himself to a foreign correspondent at the cash-bar event in midtown Manhattan as a friend of the president-elect who didn’t live far from his South Florida winter home.

Parnas arrived at Trump’s November 2016 election night party, which was held in a ballroom at the Midtown Hilton, with two other men in suits and their heavily made-up wives, according to a forgotten but newly relevant dispatch from the event published at the time in Le Figaro, France’s oldest daily newspaper. https://www.lefigaro.fr/elections-americaines/2016/11/09/01040-20161109ARTFIG00009-les-fans-de-trump-reunis-au-hilton.php

The Ukrainian-born businessman told the paper that a friend from his hometown of Boca Raton, Fla., had hosted several fundraising events for Trump and that his daughter had traveled around the state singing on the candidate’s behalf. It is not clear what friend Parnas was referring to.

“We are confident,” Parnas, told the newspaper, “America wants a change.” The newspaper described Parnas as an insurer. (Parnas co-founded a company, Fraud Guarantee, that at some point retained Giuliani as a lawyer.)


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https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/11/lev-parnas-giuliani-trump-private-party-044698

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