Former Rudy Giuliani amigo Lev Parnas may have revealed a staggering scandal on Wednesday, with Ukrainian gas billionaire Dmytro Firtash at the center.
Everyone was in the loop.
Lev Parnas is a semi-sentient walking, talking thumb. He is so far beyond untrustworthy as to be a convenient avenue to sow disinformation, telling Democrats what they want to hear so we get way out over our skis.
It might be true. It wouldn’t shock me at all. But let’s see the receipts, Lev.
We’re gonna need a bigger loop…
“That’s still no quid pro quo, because we never stopped the prosecution of Firtash (yet).”
(nb. the prosecution of Firtash is suspended indefinitely while he stays in Vienna, per the Austrian Minister of Justice’s say-so)
Hey, if the VonTrapp family could make it out of Austria, arrangements could be made for Firtash…
Dusting off my copy of Rosetta Stone software. I want a job as an “interpreter” too!
Follow the money.
Mother Jones and other publications had previously reported that Parnas and his associate Igor Fruman told various people earlier this year that they were being paid by Firtash. And Firtash told the Times that he paid the men’s travel expenses while considering a deal they pitched him to sell American liquefied natural gas to Ukraine.
But $1 million seems unlikely to be a mere travel expense. And the revelation of the payment suggests that Firtash’s efforts to win favor with Americans close to Trump went further than previously reported. Using funds with unexplained origins, Parnas and Fruman since 2018 provided more than half a million dollars in political contributions to support Trump and other Republicans. The allegations against them include making illegal donations US politicians—including to a former member of Congress, Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), who met with Parnas in 2018. According to federal prosecutors, Parnas sought Sessions’ assistance in helping “remove or recall” Marie Yovanovitch, who at the time was the US ambassador to Ukraine.
That perked a lot of people up:
Barr is On The Team
“What do you do about a problem like Giuliana?”
I’d climb every mountain, ford every stream, to nail the SOB.
Hey all you scumbags you can try running but the hiding is all over with. I hope this is the beginning of nailing the Barr prick.
How do you remove charges against someone without paying the “team member”? How much made its way to Barr?
https://theweek.com/speedreads/889820/lev-parnas-says-attorney-general-william-barr-basically-team
Sounds like Nancy may have a bit of info about Barr. Or she could just be kidding, I suppose. 
If they’re not careful, this is going to get to the point where the semi-sentient deplorables understand it.
DiGenova,Toensing and Parnas squeeze Firtash for a $million up front, and $100,000 a month. For that he remains indicted, under threat of extradition and trapped in Vienna.
And now the scheme is exposed and the prospect of his fees paying off are drastically diminished.
I wouldn’t want a pissed off Euro mobster looking to get even with me…
By October of 2019, the whistle blower complaint was known and things were getting very dicey. Trump released the call read-out on Sept. 25 Trump said he would put Zelensky’s folks in touch with Barr. At that point Barr was not happy and put out a statement trying to shield himself. No way was Barr going to drop the charges against Firtash. Barr needed to CYA.
The level of blatant criminality in this “administration” continues to astonish. Question: are these Republicans uniquely corrupt? Or is it simply that Trump has removed all constraints, bureaucratic and otherwise, and these people are now able to fully express their actual nature as Republicans? Given the response of the rest to Trump of the GOP I think I’m going with the second option. It’s a party of bad people finally unleashed and allowed to be their true selves.
What’s it going to take, Mitch ?
All Congress members who got money through big GOP super PACs got Russian mafia rubles from folks like Firtash and Depriaska. It makes clear why they are all in with Dear Leader.
Regarding Sessions, the indictment against the two men states that they “committed to raise $20,000 or more for a then-sitting U.S. Congressman” who is referred to in the court document as “Congressman-1.” The indictment goes on to state that the congressman “had been the beneficiary of approximately $3 million” in donations from a campaign committee. NBC News and other outlets identified that person as Sessions and reported that the committee was a Trump-aligned super PAC.