Why would Rudy Giuliani associate and indicted dealmaker Lev Parnas name his company “Fraud Guarantee”?
Is there a worse name for a company with the stated mission of helping “reduce the risk of fraud”?
Well, Parnas apparently had a reason for the unusual name: Google search results.
When Parnas and Fraud Guarantee co-founder David Correia set up the company, Parnas picked the name so that people Googling the words “Parnas” and “Fraud” would see something positive — Parnas’ business — rather than his long history of legal trouble.
The Wall Street Journal reported the factoid on Thursday citing unnamed people familiar with the matter.
Parnas, Correia, Parnas’ other business partner Igor Fruman and the businessman Andrey Kukushkin were all charged this month for an alleged conspiracy to violate campaign finance laws by funneling foreign cash into U.S. elections. They’ve all pleaded not guilty.
Perhaps ironically for the Fraud Guarantee founders, their alleged scheme was publicized by a disgruntled investor who sued Parnas to get back $500,000 the investor had given a failed movie project.
When the investor saw reports of the $325,000 donation from another Parnas and Fruman company to a pro-Trump super PAC, the investor sued in court and argued the money should go to him.
In stir?
Guaranteed…
Speaking of the Ukrainian Dynamic Duo:
ETA. I didn’t know about McCarthy’s role in an event with the two.
The other night Rachel ran through all the shady business Parnas has been involved in over the years. It seems that others take the fall, while he quietly slips out the backdoor. And who pays a President’s private lawyer so they can claim Presidential immunity?
Karma has now decided to take action.
Lev Parnas (in his WASP form, Larry Parnell) has a checkered history of his own fraud, having been a principal or employee of 3 financial firms kicked out of the business (see red Warning Sign emoji with exclamation sign) by FINRA/NASD for very bad behaviors. This guy is a white-collar criminal of long standing: https://brokercheck.finra.org/individual/summary/2418073
Further proof, perhaps, that our white-collar criminal justice system is very flawed.
And now he is effectively repping both †Я☭mp and Firtash. What kind of BagMan is he, exactly?
“Birds of a feather flock together.” —Everybody
Rudez Dudez are like the Forest Gump of this criminal Russian-driven (I assume) fiasco - except instead of filled with good will an innocence, the Dudez are grifting all along their journey.
The infected GOP couldn’t be saddled with more appropriate baggage and criminality.