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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Giuliani associate <keyword id="12369390" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="lev-parnas" source="Orion">Lev Parnas</keyword> was convicted on 6 campaign finance-related charges after a high-profile trial.</li><li>His co-defendant, <keyword id="12369391" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="andrey-kukushkin" source="Orion">Andrey Kukushkin</keyword>, was also found guilty of the two charges against him.</li></ul>Lev Parnas, a Ukrainian business associate of former New York mayor <keyword id="11931698" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="rudy-giuliani" source="Orion">Rudy Giuliani</keyword>, was found guilty on Friday of six counts of campaign-finance charges following a high-profile trial in Manhattan. His co-defendant, Andrey Kukushkin, was also convicted of two charges against him. Two other defendants who were charged in the case, Igor Fruman and David Correia, previously pleaded guilty, while Parnas and Kukushkin went to trial.Parnas and Kukushkin <a href="https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/exactly-what-straw-donations-look-like-prosecutor-tells-jurors-lev-parnas-funneled-russians-money-as-high-profile-trial-wraps-up/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were accused of</a> funneling $1 million from the Russian businessman Andrey Muraviev, $150,000 of which prosecutors said illegally went to US campaigns. Prosecutors said the defendants funneled the money in a bid to gain political backing and licenses for their marijuana venture."There was an agreement to bring Andrey Muraviev's wealth and corruption into American <keyword id="11893346" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="politics" source="Orion">politics</keyword>," assistant US attorney Hagan Cordell Scotten <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/21/prosecutors-urge-conviction-lev-parnas-516539" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told jurors</a>. "It is plain as day that these defendants agreed to donate Muraviev's money to US political campaigns."Scotten added: "There's nothing wrong with being Russian and there's nothing wrong in selling marijuana with a license. You just can't donate to American politicians to get that license.""Make no mistake, the purpose behind this conspiracy was influence-buying," Scotten said, <a href="https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/exactly-what-straw-donations-look-like-prosecutor-tells-jurors-lev-parnas-funneled-russians-money-as-high-profile-trial-wraps-up/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Law &amp; Crime</a>.Muraviev has not been charged with any wrongdoing.Parnas' defense attorney, Joseph Bondy, argued that the donations were legitimate and called the allegations against his client "poppycock.""There was no effort to hide anything whatsoever," he said, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/21/prosecutors-urge-conviction-lev-parnas-516539" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Politico</a>. "There was no effort to make a donation in the name of another person whatsoever. This is not some hidden payment through some shell company that's designed to mislead."<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/22/politics/lev-parnas-verdict/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN reported</a> that Parnas faces up to five years in prison for each of five counts against him, and that the sixth count accusing him of falsifying records to the Federal Election Commission carries a 20-year maximum sentence. Each of the two counts Kukushkin was found guilty of carries a five-year maximum prison sentence, per CNN.Prosecutors <a href="https://twitter.com/KlasfeldReports/status/1451629998880743435" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked on Friday</a> that Parnas and Kukushkin be immediately remanded to prison, but US District Judge Paul Oetken refused the request, noting that the defendants were not a flight risk.This story is developing. Check back for updates.

Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas convicted for funneling foreign money into US campaigns

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A Russian oligarch was indicted for a scheme to illegally donate to US political campaigns. </li><li>The Justice Department unsealed an indictment that named Andrey Muraviev on Monday. </li></ul>A Russian oligarch was charged with making illegal contributions to political campaigns in the US as a foreign national in order to curry favor for retail cannabis licenses, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/russian-oligarch-charged-making-illegal-political-contributions">the Justice Department</a> announced on Monday. The DOJ said Andrey Muraviev, 47, was linked to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lev-parnas-guilty-plea-status-conspiracy-charge-fraud-guarantee-giuliani-2022-3">Lev Parnas</a>, Andrey Kukushkin, and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/igor-fruman-prison-campaign-finance-scheme-2022-1">Igor Fruman,</a> all of whom were previously charged in connection to illegal campaign contributions. "As alleged, Andrey Muraviev, a Russian national, attempted to influence the 2018 elections by conspiring to push a million dollars of his foreign funds to candidates and campaigns. He attempted to corrupt our political system to advance his business interests," US Attorney Damian Williams said in the DOJ announcement.Insider <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lev-parnas-guilty-plea-status-conspiracy-charge-fraud-guarantee-giuliani-2022-3">previously reported</a> that Parnas and Fruman, associates of former President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani, were entangled in an illegal straw donation scheme. The scheme aimed to disguise $1 million in campaign donations on behalf of Muraviev so they could garner favors from politicians who could grant Muraviev retail marijuana and cannabis licenses, the Justice Department said.Federal law prohibits <a href="https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/foreign-nationals/#:~:text=Federal%20law%20prohibits%20contributions%2C%20donations,federal%2C%20state%20or%20local%20election.">foreign nationals from donating to political campaigns. </a>The Justice Department said that Muraviev's money was "used to reimburse and fund federal and state political donations in Florida, Nevada, and Texas" and that he also agreed to pay for donations to politicians in New York and New Jersey. "To obscure the fact that Muraviev was the true donor of the money, the funds were sent to a business bank account controlled by Fruman's brother, and then the donations were made in Fruman's and Parnas' names," the DOJ said. Parnas and Kukushkin were <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lev-parnas-andrey-kukushkin-convicted-trial-2021-10">convicted on six campaign finance-related charges</a> in October 2021 and are awaiting sentencing. Furman <a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-joe-biden-europe-manhattan-campaign-finance-07c83dcbb9ecc93d14e65b43e0eb72bb">pleaded guilty</a> in September to one count of solicitation of a contribution by a foreign national and was sentenced to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/igor-fruman-prison-campaign-finance-scheme-2022-1">a year in prison in January. </a><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/10/whos-the-secret-russian-in-the-indictment-of-giulianis-pals-we-found-some-clues/">Mother Jones</a> previously reported that Muraviev is the founder of one of Russia's largest cement companies, Sibir Cement. Additionally, as of 2012, he had invested $50 million in his Parus Capital account, a Russia-dedicated investment fund, the outlet reported. Attorneys for Parnas, Fruman, and Kukushkin did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. Insider was unable to reach Muraviev.

A Russian oligarch was indicted for using associates to make illegal donations to US politicians

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11899444" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="vladimir-putin" source="Orion">Vladimir Putin</keyword> fired five <keyword id="13718279" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="generals" source="Orion">generals</keyword> from the Russian <keyword id="11898555" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="military" source="Orion">military</keyword>'s top brass, per local media outlets.</li><li>The dismissals come just days out from the 100-day mark of <keyword id="11894337" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="russia" source="Orion">Russia</keyword>'s invasion of <keyword id="11985141" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ukraine" source="Orion">Ukraine</keyword>.</li></ul>Russian President Vladimir Putin fired five generals from the military's top brass this week amid Moscow's stumbling invasion of Ukraine.Putin's dismissal of the generals was reported by the Russian newspaper <a href="https://english.pravda.ru/news/russia/152176-putin_sacks_generals/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pravda</a>, which cited an extract of the decree that a source confirmed to be authentic.Per the outlet, the decree listed five major generals — Vasily Kukushkin, Alexander Laas, Andrey Lipilin, Alexander Udovenko, and Yuri Instrankin — as well as police colonel Emil Musin.All five major generals held leading positions in the military for their various regions. Their firing comes weeks after <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-fires-2-generals-for-ukraine-failures-uk-claims-2022-5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two generals were fired</a> for performing poorly in Ukraine.According to UK intelligence, Lieutenant General Serhiy Kisel, who commanded the elite 1st Guards Tank Army, was suspended for <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/captured-documents-say-elite-russian-unit-lost-tanks-kharkiv-ukraine-2022-5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">failing to capture Kharkiv</a>. Meanwhile, Vice Admiral Igor Osipov, who commanded Russia's Black Sea Fleet, was fired after <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-moskva-sinking-wake-up-call-for-navies-experts-say-2022-4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Moskva battleship</a> was sunk in April. Meanwhile, Russia's top commander for the <keyword id="13186997" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="ukraine-war" source="Orion">Ukraine war</keyword>, Gen. Alexander Dvornikov, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russias-ukraine-top-commander-war-not-seen-2-weeks-report-2022-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has not been seen for weeks</a>, leading some US officials to speculate that he might have been removed from his post.At<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-russian-officer-elite-decimated-9-who-were-killed-in-combat-2022-3" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> least 25 Russian generals and commanders</a> have been killed in action amid the Ukraine war.Apart from the reshuffling and culling in the ranks of Russia's military elite, trouble has also been brewing among rank-and-file officers involved in the conflict. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/putins-private-army-115-members-fired-refusing-fight-ukraine-2022-5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">More than 100 members of Putin's "private army' were fired</a> for refusing to fight in Ukraine, and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/hundreds-of-russian-soldiers-fled-refused-to-fight-ukraine-report-2022-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hundreds of Russian soldiers have deserted the military</a>.Russia's invasion of Ukraine <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-media-told-to%20ignore-day-100-of-putin-ukraine-war-2022-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has gone unexpectedly poorly</a>, particularly after it suffered <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-suffers-devastating-losses-among-junior-officers-uk-2022-5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"devastating losses" of its junior officers.</a> Western officials estimate that some <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ukraine-ben-wallace-vladimir-putin-tobias-ellwood-crimea-b2065050.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">15,000 Russians have been killed in the invasion</a>. Ukraine, meanwhile, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/GeneralStaff.ua/posts/326884206291331" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed it has killed 30,000 Russian troops.</a>Friday <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2022/jun/01/100-days-of-war-in-ukraine-how-the-conflict-has-developed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">marks the 100th day of the Ukraine war,</a> which began when Putin launched an unprovoked invasion of the country on February 24.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Giuliani associate <keyword id="11931697" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="igor-fruman" source="Orion">Igor Fruman</keyword> is expected to plead guilty in a federal case against him.</li><li>He was charged with campaign-finance violations, conspiracy, false statements, and falsifying records.</li><li>It's not immediately clear which charge or charges he'll plead guilty to. </li></ul>Former New York mayor <keyword id="11931698" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="rudy-giuliani" source="Orion">Rudy Giuliani</keyword>'s Ukrainian-born business associate, Igor Fruman, is expected to plead guilty in a federal case against him.Fruman will appear at a change of plea hearing in a Manhattan federal court on Wednesday afternoon, but the charge or charges he will plead guilty to are not immediately clear.Fruman and his associates, Lev Parnas, David Correia, and Andrey Kukushkin, were <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/giuliani-associates-charged-with-violating-campaign-finance-law-2019-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested in October 2019</a> and charged with campaign-finance violations, conspiracy, making false statements to the Federal Election Commission, and falsifying records.A <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/lev-parnas-and-david-correia-charged-conspiring-defraud-investors-their-fraud-insurance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">superseding indictment</a> filed last September additionally charged the defendants with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.Correia <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/lev-parnas-associate-david-correia-pleads-guilty-fraud-lying-n1245123" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pleaded guilty</a> to two of those charges - defrauding investors and making false statements to the Federal Election Commission - last year and was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/david-correia-sentenced-prison/2021/02/08/4a4bc1ba-6a28-11eb-9ead-673168d5b874_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sentenced in February</a> to one year in prison.Fruman and Parnas made headlines shortly before their arrest when it surfaced that they were under federal criminal investigation related to their work for Giuliani. In particular, the two men aided Giuliani in his quest to dig up dirt on Joe and Hunter Biden in Ukraine. They were also <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-told-giuliani-associates-get-rid-of-yovanovitch-in-recording-2020-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">involved</a> in Giuliani and then President Donald Trump's effort to oust Marie Yovanovitch, the US's ambassador to Ukraine.Giuliani's work in Ukraine connected to US domestic <keyword id="11893346" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="politics" source="Orion">politics</keyword> was a central pillar in Trump's first impeachment inquiry, after which the House of Representatives impeached him for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.This story is developing. Check back for updates.

Rudy Giuliani's associate who helped him dig up dirt on the Bidens is expected to plead guilty in a federal case

Good afternoon. Here are the top stories so far today.For more daily and weekly briefings, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/subscription/newsletter">sign up for our newsletters here</a>.What happened today:<ul><li><a href="https://viking.businessinsider.com/us/posts/613ba76afdabbb2291243302"></a>Florida appeals court reinstates DeSantis order banning masks rules in schools. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/florida-desantis-school-mask-mandate-ban-reinstated-court-rules-2021-9">A Florida circuit judge on Friday issued a stay in Gov. DeSantis' mask mandate ban, effectively reinstating DeSantis' order barring public schools in the state from requiring face masks, Reuters reported.</a> This follows a Second Circuit judge who ruled the opposite earlier this week. The ruling effectively reverses any mask mandates Florida schools had previously put in place. </li><li>CEOs welcome Biden's vax-or-test mandate. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-vaccine-test-mandate-business-response-walmart-amazon-google-apple-2021-9">Business Roundtable, a lobbyist group whose members include chief executives from companies like Amazon, Walmart, Apple, Google, and Home Depot, said in a statement Thursday that it supports Biden's plan requiring companies with over 100 workers to mandate vaccines or weekly tests.</a> "America's business leaders know how critical vaccination and testing are in defeating the pandemic," Joshua Bolten, the group's president, said.</li><li>Justice Stephen Breyer is "very, very, very" against Texas abortion decision. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/supreme-court-justice-stephen-breyer-texas-abortion-decision-was-wrong-2021-9">Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer criticized his fellow conservative justices' recent decision to uphold a strict Texas law that bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.</a> Breyer, the court's most senior liberal member, called the majority opinion "very, very, very, wrong," in an interview with NPR published on Friday.</li><li>Biden tells Republicans threatening to sue over vaccine mandates to "have at it." <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-have-at-it-gop-legal-challenges-to-vaccine-mandate-2021-9">President Joe Biden dared Republican governors and lawmakers to sue his administration over newly unveiled vaccine mandates after speaking at Brookland Middle School</a> in Washington, DC, on school reopenings. "Have it at," Biden told a reporter who asked him about potential legal challenges to the administration's new, wide-ranging COVID-19 vaccination requirements.</li><li>Giuliani associate Igor Fruman pleads guilty. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/igor-fruman-rudy-giuliani-associate-pleads-guilty-federal-case-2021-9">Igor Fruman, a Soviet-born Ukrainian businessman and a former associate of Rudy Giuliani, pleaded guilty on Friday to one count of soliciting a contribution by a foreign national.</a> He and his associates, Lev Parnas, David Correia, and Andrey Kukushkin, were arrested in October 2019 and charged with campaign-finance violations, conspiracy, making false statements to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), and falsifying records.</li></ul>That's all for now. See you Monday.

Giuliani associate Igor Fruman pleads guilty to one felony count of soliciting a contribution by a foreign national

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>President Donald Trump said on Friday that he doesn't know if former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is still his personal attorney.</li><li>"I haven't spoken to Rudy," Trump told reporters. "He has been my attorney."</li><li>Giuliani, however, replied, "yes," when The Washington Post asked him if he was still representing the president.</li><li>Trump's efforts to distance himself from Giuliani come in the wake of reports that Giuliani is under federal investigation by prosecutors at the Southern District of New York.</li><li>Two of Giuliani's foreign associates were arrested and charged on Wednesday with campaign-finance violations, and prosecutors are now examining Giuliani's relationship with the men.</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.</a></li></ul>President Donald Trump appears to be distancing himself from his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, amid reports that Giuliani is under investigation by federal prosecutors at the Southern District of New York (SDNY)."I don't know," Trump said Friday when reporters asked him if Giuliani was still his lawyer. "I haven't spoken to Rudy ... He has been my attorney."When The Washington Post's Josh Dawsey <a href="https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/1182764418263859200" target="_blank" rel="noopener">texted</a> Giuliani asking him about Trump's comments and if he was still representing the president, Giuliani replied, "Yes."Giuliani and Trump are at the center of a public firestorm surrounding their efforts to get the Ukrainian government to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, ahead of the 2020 election.On Wednesday, two of Giuliani's foreign associates were arrested and <a href="https://games-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/documents/74b3e937-293b-4fac-b4df-ec4c3e6a2426/note/a2a3f7f2-fe70-43c0-bb92-41a273f5f592.pdf#page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged</a> by the FBI with campaign-finance violations.The Soviet-born men, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, are suspected of trying to funnel foreign money into a pro-Trump super PAC and other entities to gain leverage in US political circles. Prosecutors also allege Parnas and Fruman tried to influence US-Ukraine relations.Two of their associates, David Correira and Andrey Kukushkin, were also indicted along with Parnas and Fruman on Thursday.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/giuliani-associates-charged-with-violating-campaign-finance-law-2019-10" data-analytics-position="3">2 of Rudy Giuliani's associates who prosecutors say helped him dig up dirt on Joe Biden have been charged with campaign finance violations</a>Parnas and Fruman were directly involved in Giuliani's efforts to dig up dirt on the Bidens, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/10/us/politics/lev-parnas-igor-fruman-arrested-giuliani.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=Homepage">according to reports</a>, and Giuliani has been working with them since at least March. On Friday, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rudy-giulianis-relationship-arrested-men-subject-criminal-investigation/story?id=66212654" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC News reported</a> that federal prosecutors at the SDNY - the office Giuliani used to run - are scrutinizing the former New York mayor's relationship with the two men.Trump and Giuliani's efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate the Bidens were at the center of an explosive whistleblower complaint that a US intelligence official filed against Trump in August.Among other things, the complainant alleged that the president abused his power to "solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 US election" during a July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.Giuliani was mentioned 31 times in the complaint and is described as a "central figure" in Trump's effort. The complaint said Attorney General William Barr "appears to be involved as well."Giuliani has said that he got involved in Trump's efforts only after State Department officials asked him to do so. Text messages between several top US diplomats and Giuliani that were released last week confirmed Giuliani's claim.The whistleblower's complaint is at the heart of a brewing congressional impeachment inquiry looking at whether Trump used his public office for private gain. House Democrats sent out a flurry of subpoenas and document requests, but the White House said earlier this week that it would not cooperate with what it views as a "partisan and unconstitutional" process.

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