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What Prosecutors Revealed About Firtash And Parnas

December 17, 2019 5:27 p.m.

For Manhattan feds, a crucial question remains in the saga of Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas: Who is paying for that?

They partly answered that question for the public at a Tuesday court hearing, saying that a lawyer for Ukrainian billionaire gas middleman Dmytro Firtash had wired Parnas’s wife Svetlana $1 million over the course of a few weeks in September.

But what does that tell us about Parnas’ work with Giuliani himself?

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