including illegal donation to Trump PAC
Lev Parnas, a former associate of Rudy Giuliani, was found guilty Friday of federal campaign finance criminal charges.
Parnas previously played a role in the first impeachment of then-President Donald Trump, having helped Giuliani in an effort to dig up dirt on President Joe Biden in Ukraine.
Lev Parnas, a former associate of Rudy Giuliani, was found guilty Friday of multiple federal campaign finance criminal charges that included funneling illegal donations to a political action committee supporting then-President Donald Trump.
Another man, Andrey Kukushin, also was convicted by the same jury in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, a day after prosecutors and defense lawyers rested their cases following a two-week trial.
Both men were accused and convicted of using money from a Russian man named Andrey Muraviev for donations to U.S. political candidates in a purported effort to start a recreational marijuana business. Foreigners are barred from making political donations in the United States.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/22/form...ance-case.html
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