Prosecutors Concerned Giuliani Pals Are Flight Risks | Talking Points Memo

ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA — Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman — the two Rudy Giuliani associates arrested on campaign finance charges Wednesday night — made their first appearance in federal court on Thursday afternoon.


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Ya think?! LOL!

And here’s some more hot fudge chocolate topping to pour over that schadenfreude sundae:

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Can the House Intelligence Committee counsel depose them while they are jailed? I don’t see why not. We’re all Feds here, right?

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Considering they were picked up at Dulles with tickets out of the country, considering them flight risks isn’t a stretch.

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I really wanna see Trump pull his “privilege” shit on these two assholes.

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“Prosecutors Concerned Giuliani Pals Are Flight Risks.”

At this point, I think we need to start considering as “flight risks” Rudy, Bill, both Mikes, and Donald.

(Not to mention Ivanka, Jared, and the Paste-Eating Twins.)

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Maybe the two Ukrainian “wild and crazy kind of guys” should have skipped lunch and taken an earlier flight to Austria. Does anyone suppose Rudy tipped them off? And if so, who tipped off Rudy?

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Thing he gave them an orange?

So they just happened to decide to buy one-way tickets after having lunch with Giuliani… OMG.

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And if so, who tipped off Rudy?

Well, I can’t be absolutely sure, but I think he’s that guy who’s been on his knees fluffing Trump. Oh, and he’s the attorney general of the US. Just a hunch.

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Parting is such sweet sorrow.

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are screwed.

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Rawstory’s Henchmen is a little closer to the truth than TPM’s Pals and Associates.

Def. Henchman. A faithful follower or political supporter, especially one prepared to engage in crime or dishonest practices by way of service

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You’d need half a brain to be a flight risk. These assholes couldn’t get out of the USA unless an alien spaceship took them out.

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Sounds like a couple of guys who could use a really broad pardon.

I am trying to think of the bail package that would minimize their flight risk. It would make manafort’s conditons look positively benign.

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The Soviet-born, Florida based men —who were still wearing the clothes they were arrested in Wednesday — said very little in their brief appearance in front of a magistrate judge, and mostly nodded as they were read their rights.

Nicholas Roos… noted that there was a concern for a “potential for flight.”

Really?

They sure look like very fine people to me…

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Prosecutors Concerned Giuliani Pals Are Flight Risks

Nonsense.

one-way international plane tickets

I’m sure they were just planning to rent a car and drive back, maybe take the scenic route.

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Is the hot fudge sundae at Trump Whorehouse DC very good? (Not that Trump would know. He never goes there, even when he can expense it. And Chocolate McFlurrys are much more to his liking.

“the two men are possible flight risks”

OH REALLY? Ya think?

the stakes from some perspectives are greater than anything in history …

the potential downside of them spilling their guts could concern a number of parties …

… and so … they are also at risk of “involuntary flight to the after-life”

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