June 29, 2022
Former Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas on Wednesday was sentenced to one year and eight months in prison following his conviction at trial of campaign finance violations and his admission to conspiring to defraud investors in his anti-fraud startup Fraud Guarantee.
June 22, 2022
Former Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas is hoping to avoid prison time when he's sentenced next week for campaign finance violations as well as conspiring to defraud investors in his anti-fraud startup, arguing that he'd cooperated with Congress with its impeachment inquiry into former President Donald Trump.
March 25, 2022
Former Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas on Friday admitted to conspiring to defraud investors in his anti-fraud startup Fraud Guarantee, months after he was convicted at trial of campaign finance violations stemming from a purported scheme to leverage foreign donations to U.S. political candidates into support for a legal cannabis venture.
March 15, 2022
A Manhattan federal judge hit Ukraine-born cannabis entrepreneur Andrey Kukushkin with a year in prison Tuesday for scheming with former Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas to funnel $1 million from Russian tycoon Andrey Muraviev into U.S. political campaigns.
March 14, 2022
Federal prosecutors on Monday unsealed the indictment against a Russian tycoon accused of making illegal political contributions in support of a cannabis venture, claiming that he made the donations in the names of straw donors.
March 09, 2022
Manhattan federal prosecutors say an entrepreneur convicted alongside former Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas played a "pivotal role" funneling foreign money to American politicians to support a Russian-backed cannabis venture and should be punished with up to five years in prison.
March 08, 2022
Former Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas and his ex-business partner cannot overturn a jury verdict finding them guilty of using $1 million worth of illicit campaign contributions to garner support for a Russian-backed cannabis venture, a Manhattan federal judge said Monday.
March 02, 2022
A former business partner of Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas asked a New York federal judge on Tuesday to spare him prison time for his conviction of campaign finance violations, saying he is needed at his California home to care for his fiancee's mother, who fled from Kyiv, Ukraine's capital during the recent Russian invasion.
January 21, 2022
Former Rudy Giuliani associate Igor Fruman on Friday was sentenced to a year and a day in prison after previously admitting to soliciting $1 million from a Russian financier to make illicit political contributions in support of a cannabis venture.
January 10, 2022
A former Rudy Giuliani associate who copped to soliciting $1 million from a Russian financier to make illegal political contributions supporting a cannabis venture asked a New York judge on Friday to spare him prison time, arguing the dollar figure made the crime seem worse than it was.