{"id":113975,"date":"2019-10-10T16:04:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T14:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/10\/10\/republican-donors-tied-to-rudy-giuliani-reportedly-arrested-on-campaign-finance-charges-live\/"},"modified":"2019-10-10T16:04:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T14:04:59","slug":"republican-donors-tied-to-rudy-giuliani-reportedly-arrested-on-campaign-finance-charges-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=113975","title":{"rendered":"Republican donors tied to Rudy Giuliani reportedly arrested on campaign-finance charges \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, two Florida businessmen, have donated to Republican campaigns, according to the Wall Street JournalSign up for the US briefing and get a new perspective 3.04pm BST Rudy Giuliani minimized campaign-finance charges against Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman as recently as two weeks ago, a New York Times reporter noted.2 WEEKS AGO: Rudy Giuliani minimized the campaign finance issues facing his Ukrainian researchers LEV PARNAS &amp; IGOR FRUMAN, telling me \u201cI referred them to a campaign finance expert who pretty much resolved it.\u201dYESTERDAY: Parnas &amp; Fruman were arrested on campaign finance charges 2.56pm BST Parnas, one of the men arrested on campaign-finance charges, was scheduled to be deposed today by House Democrats leading the impeachment inquiry against Trump.USA Today has more: Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman helped Rudy Giuliani meet a key Ukrainian prosecutor as the president\u2019s personal lawyer sought to discredit Trump\u2019s political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden. &#8230;But in a legal dust-up that appears unrelated to the Ukraine scandal, the campaign contribution sparked a complaint to the Federal Election Commission \u2013 and at least two lawsuits \u2013 because of questions about the source of the money. Despite the generous political contributions, Parnas faces a $510,000 federal judgment in a case over a debt for a movie that never got made. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2019\/oct\/10\/donald-trump-news-impeachment-inquiry-live-nancy-pelosi-updates\" target=\"_blank\">Republican donors tied to Rudy Giuliani reportedly arrested on campaign-finance charges \u2013 live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, two Florida businessmen, have donated to Republican campaigns, according to the Wall Street JournalSign up for the US briefing and get a new perspective 3.04pm BST Rudy Giuliani minimized campaign-finance charges against Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman as recently as two weeks ago, a New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}