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opinion https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/21/opinions/rudy-giuliani-russia-contribution-obeidallah/index.html

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Two men connected to Giuliani's Ukraine efforts arrested on campaign finance charges

(CNN) Two associates of Rudy Giuliani connected to efforts to dig up dirt in Ukraine on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden were arrested Wednesday on criminal charges for violating campaign finance rules, according to a spokesman for the Southern District of New York.

Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas were detained at Dulles Airport outside of Washington and are expected to appear in court in Virginia on Thursday.

The investigation was conducted by federal prosecutors in New York.

Parnas was Giuliani's fixer in Ukraine, introducing him to current and former officials as far back as 2018, according to CNN's reporting.

They gave hundreds of thousands in donations to a Trump-allied super PAC, according to the Miami Herald.

The Wall Street Journal first reported the arrests.

America First Action, the super PAC, told CNN in a statement they have not used the donation made through by the men through the super PAC.

"America First Action placed that contribution in a segregated bank account, it has not been used it for any purpose and the funds will remain in this segregated account until these matters are resolved," America First Action's spokeswoman Kelly Sadler said in a statement. "We take our legal obligations seriously and scrupulously comply with the law and any suggestion otherwise is false."

This story is breaking and will be updated.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upBCQo5bkJc

4-1/2 minutes

Randy Rainbow is at it, again.

Mij will love this

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Peter Kuper



Peter Kuper is a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The Nation and MAD magazine where he has written and illustrated SPY vs. SPY every issue since 1997. He is the co-founder and editor of World War 3 Illustrated, a political graphics magazine that has given a forum to political artists for 40 years. He has produced over two-dozen books including The System, Diario de Oaxaca, Ruins (winner of the 2016 Eisner Award) and adaptations of many of Franz Kafka's works into comics, including The Metamorphosisand Kafkaesque (winner of the 2018 Reuben Award) . His latest graphic novel is an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. He has lectured around the world, and has taught comics courses at The School of Visual Arts in NYC and Harvard University.

It is often said that the best defense is a good offense. Rudy Giuliani certainly knows that, so he has gone on the offense by publishing an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal in which he argued that Donald Trump merely requested that Ukraine root out corruption, he didn't demand it. Giuliani also made the point that out of a five-page transcript of the call to Volodymyr Zelensky, only six lines are about the Bidens. That may be true, but that is somewhat like saying that out of his life of 26 years, John Wilkes Booth spent only 5 seconds assassinating Abraham Lincoln.

Giuliani didn't address a key issue of why he, a private citizen, was running an alternative foreign policy channel, separate from (and at times, opposed to) the State Department's. Nor did he rebut the numerous witnesses who said that Trump attempted to pressure Zelensky into digging up dirt on the Bidens and on the 2016 election. But given the trouble that Giuliani may soon be in, putting himself in Trump's good graces may prove valuable if some day he needs a pardon.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-case-for-the-impeachment-defense-11573605427

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/470199-giuliani-pens-op-ed-slamming-unprecedented-impeachment-inquiry