The fourth defendant in a case centered around business associates of President Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, on Wednesday by authorities at a New York City airport, the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan confirmed.
“The defendant was taken into custody by the FBI at JFK earlier this morning,” Nicholas Biase, a spokesman for the office, told The Hill.
David Correia was one of four individuals named in an indictment that accused a pair of Florida businessmen with orchestrating a straw donor scheme to circumvent campaign finance laws. Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, associates of Giuliani’s, allegedly funneled money to numerous Republican committees, including a $325,000 donation to a pro-Trump super PAC using a fake energy company they created.
Correia is accused of using foreign money to generate political support for a marijuana business in Nevada and other states. Parnas and Fruman, who are also charged with making false statements to election regulators and conspiracy, were arrested outside Washington, D.C., last week after the charges were leveled.
Another man named in the indictment, Andrey Kukushkin, was arrested in California.
It remains unclear if Correia’s arrest occurred after arriving in New York, or if he was planning to depart for somewhere else. Prosecutors said Parnas and Fruman were trying to leave the United States at the time of their arrest, which occurred at the Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia.
William Sweeney, assistant director in charge at the FBI’s New York office, said at the press conference, said last week that the allegations stemmed from an investigation about “corrupt behavior [and] deliberate lawbreaking.”
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