Giuliani associate can give impeachment investigators phone data, documents seized by prosecutors, judge says
A federal judge in Manhattan ruled Friday that an indicted associate of President Trump's personal attorney can provide Congress with evidence in his criminal case that is of interest to impeachment investigators.
U.S. District Judge J. Paul Oetken granted an application from an attorney for Lev Parnas seeking permission to give lawmakers access to phone data and documents seized by federal prosecutors after his October arrest. The House Intelligence Committee subpoenaed the materials as part of its impeachment inquiry, according to Parnas attorney Joseph Bondy.
The materials are expected to include documents taken from Parnas’s Florida home, along with a complete readout of his iPhone. Bondy has said there is relevant information contained in the materials, though he has not disclosed specifically what that might be.
Review of these materials is essential to the Committee’s ability to corroborate the strength of Mr. Parnas’s potential [impeachment] testimony,” Bondy wrote to the court last week.
Prosecutors did not object to the items being given to Congress.
Parnas and his co-defendant, Igor Fruman, were business associates of Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal attorney, and were recruited by the former New York mayor to help him investigate Trump political rival Joe Biden. The former vice president is a leading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.
Parnas and Fruman were arrested in October and charged with violating campaign finance law. Prosecutors allege they filtered foreign money through a bogus energy company they purported to operate and made donations to American politicians on behalf of foreign interests. Both men have pleaded not guilty.
Giuliani has said he sought Parnas’s help investigating Biden. He is not named in the indictment charging Parnas and Fruman, but people familiar with the matter have said he is under investigation by federal prosecutors in New York.
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Rudy is on his way to being on the list of felons hired by the fat lying bastard