Two men with ties to Rudy Giuliani allegedly lobbied and pledged to raise money for a U.S. congressman for help ousting the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.
The indictment was made public following the arrest of the two businessmen with ties to Giuliani, who is the president’s personal lawyer. It alleges that Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman leveraged a flurry of GOP political donations in a campaign to force Yovanovitch’s removal, an effort prosecutors say was aided by laundered foreign money.
Later that same day, Sessions sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo seeking Yovanovitch’s dismissal because he had “notice of concrete evidence” that she had “spoken privately and repeatedly about her disdain for the current Administration.”Campaign finance records show Parnas and Fruman later contributed $2,700 apiece to Sessions’ campaign, the maximum allowed individual contribution.
Sessions added that “several congressional colleagues” were the source of the allegations in his letter claiming that Yovanovitch had disparaged Trump, not Parnas and Fruman. He also sought to distance himself Giuliani, whom he described as a friend of more than 30 years. “I don’t know those gentlemen,” said Trump, speaking on the South Lawn of the White House. “Now it’s possible that I have a picture with them, because I have a picture with everybody .... I don’t know them. I don’t know about them. I don’t know what they do .... Maybe they were clients of Rudy. You have to ask Rudy.”
Also serving in leadership roles at the Trump-aligned PAC were Tommy Hicks Jr., a Dallas investor and the current Republican National Committee co-chairman, as well as Nick Ayers, the former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence. “What makes this so dramatic is who these people are, their connection to Giuliani,” said Briffault, who studies campaign finance. “I think it’s a bombshell because of its connection to Ukraine and Trump.
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