Igor Fruman, former Giuliani associate, pleads guilty to campaign finance charges

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Businessman who made headlines for helping Rudy Giuliani seek damaging information on Joe Biden pleads guilty to charge alleging he helped facilitate illegal foreign campaign contributions in an effort to build a marijuana business in the US.

Activist with Rise and Resist follow Igor Fruman, second from left, as he arrives in Federal court in Manhattan with his attorney Todd Blanche, on Sept. 10, 2021 in New York.A Florida businessman who made headlines for helping Rudy Giuliani seek damaging information on Joe Biden in Ukraine pleaded guilty Friday to a charge alleging he helped facilitate illegal foreign campaign contributions in an effort to build a marijuana business in the U.S.

Federal sentencing guidelines call for a punishment of 37 to 46 months in prison, though Fruman could get up to five years, the judge said. Sentencing is scheduled for Jan. 21. Fruman and Parnas were carrying one-way tickets to Vienna when they were arrested at Dulles International Airport outside of Washington in October 2019.with, but did not plead guilty to, arranging hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal donations to Republicans and political action committees, including $325,000 to a pro-Trump political action committee, while trying to get Americans interested in investigating Biden’s son in Ukraine during the Democrat’s successful run for president.

In court Friday, Fruman said the donation scheme was part of an effort to encourage support for a fledgling marijuana distribution business that he and others were starting in states where the drug was being legalized.

 

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I love those people with the signs behind him. They have the right idea.

Hm, maybe Putie is done with Trump, who is compromised up to his eyeballs. Could he be throwing him under the bus? Of course, the bigger question is, who is Putin grooming now?

Trump Supreme Court judges will give him two months in jail & then, case dismiss. That’s what they do.

If you could only spend equal energy in both sides of the aisle. That would be journalism. Give it a try sometime.

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