Rudy Giuliani’s associate Igor Fruman pleads guilty to funneling money from Ukraine into the US through illegal campaign contributions
He said he was soliciting the donation to get support for a marijuana business Some of that money went into Florida Governor DeSantis's campaign coffers Fruman apologized in court Friday and said he was not aware of laws prohibiting foreign campaign contributions at the time he engaged in the donation scheme The Florida businessman was arrested with Giuliani associate Lev Parnas in 2019 Both men were accused of soliciting hundreds of thousands of foreign dollars that went into Republican 2020 campaigns, including a pro-Trump PAC Parnas is set to face trial in October alongside a Ukrainian-born investor Rudy Giuliani was not charged in the same crime but is currently under federal scrutiny in a criminal probe that saw his home and office raided in April By Elizabeth Elkind, Politics Reporter For Dailymail.Com and Associated Press
Published: 20:26 BST, 10 September 2021 | Updated: 20:27 BST, 10 September 2021
An associate of Rudy Giuliani who helped him look for dirt on then-candidate Joe Biden in Ukraine pleaded guilty on Friday to charges stemming from allegations he helped illegally fund Republican candidates with Ukrainian cash in the 2020 election.
Igor Fruman, a Florida businessman, pleaded guilty to a single count of solicitation of a contribution by a foreign national in a Manhattan federal court after reaching a deal with prosecutors.
Part of that deal includes him not having to cooperate with the government in other cases, and was made weeks before two other men charged alongside him are expected to face trial.
They are Soviet-born Florida businessman Lev Parnas, also linked to Giuliani, and Ukrainian-born investor Andrey Kukushkin.
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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