Exclusive: Trump lawyer Giuliani was paid $500,000 for work a company co-founded by indicted assoc.

[MelissaB]

Exclusive: Trump lawyer Giuliani was paid $500,000 for work a company co-founded by indicted associate Lev Parnas

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Exclusive: Trump lawyer Giuliani was paid $500,000 to consult on indicted associate's firm

Karen Freifeld, Aram Roston

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, was paid $500,000 for work he did for a company co-founded by the Ukrainian-American businessman arrested last week on campaign finance charges, Giuliani told Reuters on Monday.

The businessman, Lev Parnas, is a close associate of Giuliani and was involved in his effort to investigate Trump’s political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, who is a leading contender for the 2020 Democratic Party nomination.

Giuliani said Parnas’ company, Boca Raton-based Fraud Guarantee, whose website says it aims to help clients “reduce and mitigate fraud”, engaged Giuliani Partners, a management and security consulting firm, around August 2018. Giuliani said he was hired to consult on Fraud Guarantee’s technologies and provide legal advice on regulatory issues.

Federal prosecutors are “examining Giuliani’s interactions” with Parnas and another Giuliani associate, Igor Fruman, who was also indicted on campaign finance charges, a law enforcement source told Reuters on Sunday.

The New York Times reported last week that Parnas had told associates he paid Giuliani hundreds of thousands of dollars for what Giuliani said was business and legal advice. Giuliani said for the first time on Monday that the total amount was $500,000.

More: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-whistleblower-giuliani-excl/exclusive-trump-lawyer-giuliani-was-paid-500000-to-consult-on-indicted-associates-firm-idUSKBN1WU07Z

[dalton99a]

1. Giuliani probably has a shitload of dirty money hidden offshore

[Leghorn21]

2. Is this the best night EVER??!!

I believe it may well be!!!

[Major Nikon]

3. It gets even better

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trumps-former-top-russia-adviser-to-testify-in-house-impeachment-probe/2019/10/14/e6015c1c-ee34-11e9-8693-f487e46784aa_story.html

[onecaliberal]

4. That is absolutely delicious.

[tanyev]

5. Fraud guaranteed!

[Jarqui]

6. Rachel reported the Ukraine city contract Rudy had was not paid by the city.

It was paid by Ukrainian-Russian developer Pavel Fuks
https://www.thedailybeast.com/federal-prosecutors-eyeing-rudy-giulianis-lobbying-work-after-arrest-of-ukraine-associates

(who) told The New York Times earlier this year that Giuliani had been employed as a “lobbyist for Kharkiv and Ukraine” in 2017, though Giuliani denied that claim.

Fuks was involved in some of the Moscow Trump Tower dealings and also paid $200,000 for VIP Trump inaugural tickets.

One can BS about this and that but as Manafort & Cohen found out, it is hard to BS about money.

Rudy is in deep shit.