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Zorro

(15,740 posts)
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 08:13 PM Jan 2020

Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow really doesn't want to talk about who's paying Rudy Giuliani

For all of the focus on corruption and foreign influence that lingers around the Senate’s impeachment trial of President Trump, there’s a significant potentially overlapping question that remains unanswered: Who’s paying Rudolph W. Giuliani, Trump’s personal attorney?

In October, Giuliani told The Washington Post that he wasn’t being paid by the president.

“My other clients are paying me for the work I do for them,” Giuliani said. “Nobody is paying me for a single thing I’m doing for Donald J. Trump.”

Since Giuliani isn’t an administration official, he doesn’t need to reveal that information publicly — so he doesn’t. After his associates Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas were arrested that same month, Giuliani admitted that he’d received $500,000 from the pair for his work representing them, money that originally came from a personal injury attorney on Long Island. (After his arrest, Parnas was accused by federal prosecutors of failing to report a separate $1 million payment he’d received from a lawyer working for an oligarch named Dmitry Firtash.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/01/30/trump-lawyer-jay-sekulow-really-doesnt-want-talk-about-whos-paying-rudy-giuliani/

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Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow really doesn't want to talk about who's paying Rudy Giuliani (Original Post) Zorro Jan 2020 OP
Maybe Sekulow is the paymaster. Receives donations, cuts checks or NCjack Jan 2020 #1
Putin-Firtash-Parnas,Fruman-Giuliani,RNC,Trump PAC lagomorph777 Jan 2020 #2

lagomorph777

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2. Putin-Firtash-Parnas,Fruman-Giuliani,RNC,Trump PAC
Fri Jan 31, 2020, 04:04 PM
Jan 2020

Somehow Parnas and Fruman are both Giuliani's clients and his employees.

Interesting web to untangle there.

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