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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFeds blew the door off a safe in Giuliani associate raids
Agents of the U.S. government have issued multiple subpoenas and conducted searches of various properties in the course of investigating Rudy Giuliani's Fraud Guarantee associates, and in one instance feds literally blew the door off a safe to access its contents, reports CNN
The subpoena to Steven Fruman is the latest indication of prosecutors' actions since the rushed arrest two weeks ago of his brother, Igor Fruman, and another defendant, Lev Parnas, at a Washington-area airport. Since then, investigators have doled out multiple subpoenas and conducted several property searches, in one case blowing the door off a safe to access the contents, sources tell CNN.
Federal prosecutors told a judge this week that they are sifting through data from more than 50 bank accounts. In addition, they've put a filter team in place as they examine communications obtained via search warrant and subpoena, sensitive to material that could be subject to attorney-client privilege because Giuliani, President Donald Trump's personal attorney, counted Parnas as a client. A filter team is a separate set of prosecutors who are assigned to examine evidence and set aside material that is privileged.
Since the October 9 arrests, federal agents visited the New York home of Steven Fruman and served him with a subpoena from Manhattan federal prosecutors, the people familiar with the matter said.
Attorneys for Steven and Igor Fruman declined to comment, as did the Manhattan US Attorney's office.
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https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/25/politics/fruman-parnas-giuliani-investigation/index.html
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Feds blew the door off a safe in Giuliani associate raids (Original Post)
kpete
Oct 2019
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RandySF
(58,899 posts)1. This story would laughed out of Hollywood
Blue Owl
(50,417 posts)2. For some reason this is totally awesome
Great Friday News Dump material...
certainot
(9,090 posts)3. reckon!!
Grins
(7,218 posts)4. No need to blow the door off
Virtually ANY commercially available safe can be opened.
usaf-vet
(6,189 posts)7. What to tell us how....? ;-) ;-)
mwooldri
(10,303 posts)5. Guiliani.... Sounds like an Italian job?
Fortunately the feds did what they're supposed to do....
Texin
(2,596 posts)6. I guess Barr will be investigating this before not too long.
Native
(5,942 posts)8. He is. I just read that Barr is getting involved in the SDNY's investigation finally.