The four-count indictment, filed in the Southern District of New York and unsealed Thursday, includes charges of conspiracy, making false statements to the Federal Election Commission and falsification of records. The documents allege an elaborate scheme to help an unnamed Ukrainian government official and a person who is described as having"Russian roots" gain access to U.S.
The defendants deceived"the candidates, campaigns, federal regulators, and the public by entering into secret agreements, laundering foreign money through bank accounts in the name of limited liability corporations, and through the use of straw donors ... who purported to make legal campaign contributions in their own names, rather than in the name of the true source of the fund," according to the document.
Additionally, the indictment alleged that the men conspired to make political donations funded by an unidentified foreign national who was nervous about"his Russian roots and current political paranoia about it" to politicians and candidates. The purpose of those donations was to help gain access to recreational marijuana licenses so that they could form a marijuana business in the United States, according to the document, but that venture did not ultimately come to fruition.
The Trump campaign declined to comment, while John Dowd, an attorney for the two men, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Reached by NBC News, Giuliani said he could not yet comment. According to the document, the efforts to oust Yovanovitch were at least partially on behalf of an unnamed Ukrainian official.
In an interview with the Journal, Sessions said he did not follow up with Pompeo after sending the letter. "Separately, after several congressional colleagues reported to me that the current US Ambassador to Ukraine was disparaging President Trump to others as part of those official duties, I wrote a letter to the Secretary of State to refer this matter directly," Sessions said."My entire motivation for sending the letter was that I believe that political appointees should not be disparaging the President, especially while serving overseas.
Trump says he doesn't know them! He knows Giuliani heh! The guys are from Florida. Doesn't need much to count one and one makes two! Florida Mar A Lago.?
Brick on the wall again
These guys are very good at prosecuting jaywalkers while letting murderers on dem side to go scot-free
And trump let all of his men fall...then they couldn't put people back together at all...
Haha...lol...too hilarious...cnt wait to see how this plays
Are Lev and Igor in the AG Barr Witness Protection Program ?
Both men are U.S. Citizens .
Hey, GovMikeHuckabee. Who are your pals?
And the Florida Governor took the money as well as other Republicans with Trumps Moral ideals. The entire Republican Party is Morally Bankrupt. More Russian money in their party than in Russia.
Two Democrats
The trump crime family is unraveling
Notice how there's always a Russian involved? What a traitor.
WHERES HUNTER THOU?
I see what you did there.
It’s all happening
Lev and Igor ?!?!? ,,, you just make this stuff up.
Wonder what the real story will be in a couple days. I'll hold judgment.
All of Donald Trump's buddies are crooks but Republicans want us to believe that he is the one good one out of the bunch.😂😂
“businessmen”
MalcolmNance Rudy has done more damage to treasonous Trump than Congressmen Schiff
This must be ' There may be a photograph' photograph.
MalcolmNance This is what it’s like to look upon the face of a traitor. Smiling, pretentious and deadly.
MalcolmNance Moose, Rocco, help the President of Ukraine find his Biden papers.
MalcolmNance He’s giving the classic 45 thumbs up 👍🏻
Hey, Cue the Mar A Lago photos. And the ones with Jr. In LA at the Polo Club.
When will you cover these stories? tedlieu JoeBiden NBCNightlyNews
But he said, he didn’t knew them...is that one of them?
Lev, Igor...you’ll get much lighter sentences if you share everything you know! Come on....please? Early birthday gift for me!
And the cookie crumbles
They should be crooks like Trump and Giuliani
I like this one better. Trump says doesn't know them. He had dinner with them! Just another lie by Trump trying to protect his corruption.
I bet Rudy gave them the plane tickets.
Businessmen... Right 😂😂😂
What about Trump campaign finance laws? He paid his porn star hush money
But Trump doesn't remember meeting them, or wait 'I could have had a picture taken with them...'
They need to arrest both of these men
One goon seen here with photogenic memory/stable genius who claims he doesn’t know him
Good thing they weren’t looking into the Clinton’s! They’d be dead already!
That's nonsense. Law enforcement sources say.
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