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Judge rules Parnas can release more documents to House Intelligence committee.
Link to tweet
Adam Klasfeld
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@KlasfeldReports
Just got off the phone with my colleague @JRuss_JRuss, who attended today’s hearing in the Lev Parnas case in SDNY.
Igor Fruman, represented by Manafort’s old lawyer Todd Blanche, claimed privileged info was being released.
The judge said it’s #HPSCI’s issue. He won’t intervene
ON UPDATE:
Here's a minute by minute description of what transpired. If I'm understanding this correctly, it appears that neither Parnas nor Bondy knew how to access his data in the Cloud. Now they do.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1222985250269278209.html
Parnas has handed over three devices to Congress so far: an iPhone 11, a samsung phone (unclear on if its a galaxy), and the contents of the iCloud, which many people in court seemed confused about. ...
Despite wanting to give this info over, Parnas hasn't provided the passwords to any of his devices to the government, so they've been working with the FBI to "crack them open," as US attorney said, and have provided all the info they can to Parnas so he can hand it to Congress
The whole hearing today seemed to have been called because of a misunderstanding about how iCloud works. Bondy, Parnas' lawyer, asked the gov to provide iCloud info to them like they did the phone info, but the gov was like...
... 'No, if you have the iCloud password you can do that yourself, we're not gonna do the work for you.' Bondy, in court, said they spoke to some of the "younger people in the office" who explained how to access Parnas' iCloud data to provide to Congress.
So the hearing started with everyone being like, 'Haha nvm sorry for the confusion we withdraw the request.' But Fruman's lawyer, Todd Blanche, took the opportunity to take up an issue w Parnas complying w Congress' subpoena. ...
Despite wanting to give this info over, Parnas hasn't provided the passwords to any of his devices to the government, so they've been working with the FBI to "crack them open," as US attorney said, and have provided all the info they can to Parnas so he can hand it to Congress
The whole hearing today seemed to have been called because of a misunderstanding about how iCloud works. Bondy, Parnas' lawyer, asked the gov to provide iCloud info to them like they did the phone info, but the gov was like...
... 'No, if you have the iCloud password you can do that yourself, we're not gonna do the work for you.' Bondy, in court, said they spoke to some of the "younger people in the office" who explained how to access Parnas' iCloud data to provide to Congress.
So the hearing started with everyone being like, 'Haha nvm sorry for the confusion we withdraw the request.' But Fruman's lawyer, Todd Blanche, took the opportunity to take up an issue w Parnas complying w Congress' subpoena. ...
