Lev Parnas, a Rudy Giuliani associate with ties to Ukraine, arrives for a bail hearing in federal court, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019 in New York.
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Explosive Parnas Docs Tie Trump to Ukraine Dirty Tricks
WASHINGTON (CN) – On the eve of transferring the articles of impeachment to the Senate, House Democrats have released a trove of explosive documents from Rudy Giuliani’s now-indicted associate Lev Parnas providing new evidence tied to the Ukraine scandal.
The batch of files expose covert surveillance of ousted U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, ties to a Russian mafia-linked oligarch under federal indictment and intimate details of the pressure campaign on newly elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
A week before two central figures in the plot – Parnas and his accused co-conspirator Igor Fruman – were arrested, President Donald Trump personally signed off on their criminal defense attorney.
“The president consents to allowing your representation of Mr. Parnas and Mr. Furman [sic],” Trump’s current attorney Jay Sekolow wrote to the president’s former attorney, John Dowd, on Oct. 2, 2019.
The 59-page trove begins with a note Parnas scrawled on a notepad from the Ritz Carlton hotel in Vienna, Austria.
The first line in Parnas’ notes lays bare the plan to have Ukraine’s president investigate Trump’s political rival: “Get Zalensky [sic] to announce that the Biden case will be investigated.”
Scanned copies of the handwritten notes released Tuesday – stamped on the bottom right by the U.S. Attorney’s office – repeatedly refer to attorneys for oligarch Dmytro Firtash, who is under federal indictment in the United States on bribery and racketeering charges.
Those Firtash attorneys include repeat Fox News commentators Victoria Toensing and Joseph DeGenova, as well as Michael Cohen’s counsel Lanny Davis.
After Zelensky won the election, Giuliani wrote him a letter requesting a meeting with him in mid-May 2018, bringing Toensing along with him as a guest.
“I will need no more than a half-hour of your time, and I will be accompanied by my colleague Victoria Toensing, a distinguished American attorney who is very familiar with this matter,” Giuliani wrote.
A week before Trump agreed to their legal counsel, Parnas and Fruman were detained at Washington’s Dulles Airport before they boarded a flight bound for Vienna. Firtash is currently living in Austria’s capital city.
The coordinated effort to oust Yovanovitch, meanwhile, comes into focus through text messages Parnas exchanged with Robert Hyde, a Republican congressional candidate.
“Wow. Can’t believe Trump hasn’t fired this bitch. I’ll get right in that,” Hyde texted Parnas in March 2019.
Routinely tracking Yovanovitch’s whereabouts through a contact with embassy access, Hyde passed the information along to Parnas.
“They know she’s a political puppet. They will let me know when she’s on the move,” Hyde texted Parnas, who responded: “Perfect.”
The next day Hyde alerted Parnas: “Update she will not be moved special security unit upgraded force on the compound people are already aware of the situation my contacts are asking what is the next step because they cannot keep going to check people will start asking questions.”
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