Giuliani Paid $500K By Associate Arrested For Campaign Finance Violations

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani on December 5, 2018. (Photo by Alex Edelman / AFP)
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Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani was paid $500,000 in 2018 for legal consulting work he completed for Lev Parnas, one of his associates who was arrested on campaign finance charges last week, Giuliani told Reuters on Monday.

Parnas and Igor Fruman were also reportedly involved in Giuliani’s efforts to pressure the Ukrainian government to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden.

Giuliani confirmed to Reuters that Parnas’ company, Fraud Guarantee, approached his law firm in August 2018 for legal advice on regulatory matters, Reuters reported.

Several outlets have reported that federal prosecutors are looking into Giuliani’s relationship with Parnas and Fruman.

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  1. Avatar for schmed schmed says:

    Giuliani confirmed to Reuters that Parnas’ company, Fraud Guarantee, approached his law firm, Dewey, Cheatham & Howe

    This sounds like a Marx Bros. movie…

  2. ‘‘Giuliani confirmed to Reuters that Parnas’ company, Fraud Guarantee’’

    More like Guaranteed Fraud.

  3. Bet this gets more and more interesting as they dig further and further.

    RudyColludy is screwed.

    (BTW, although it’s not in the caption, isn’t the guy on very left in the photo above the article one of the two bozos who were caught at Dulles trying to scarper?? Or is it some poor guy who has the misfortune to have a passing resemblance…?)

  4. Avatar for erik_t erik_t says:

    Imagine paying half a million dollars for legal consulting work from a guy who can’t resist going on cable news and telling God and everybody all sorts of shit about the cases he’s working on, including his own.

    How many copies of SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP, ADMIT NOTHING, SHUT UP can I get printed at Kinko’s for half a million dollars? I’m willing to splurge for the yuuuge, classy fake gold leaf treatment.

  5. $500K would buy a lot a “legal advice.” Even if Rudy charges $1,000 an hour, that’s 500 hours. I’d love to see the work product generated by this work on “regulatory matters.”

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