Federal prosecutors are asking a district court judge to revoke bail for Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas, who is charged with campaign finance violations, according to USA Today.
In a letter on Wednesday to U.S. District Court Judge Paul Oetken, prosecutors for the Southern District of New York reportedly wrote that Parnas lied about his assets and attempted to mislead his pretrial supervising officer. Parnas, despite giving his net worth as just over $450,000, provided documentation of assets totaling $43,500, they added.
Prosecutors also wrote that Parnas did not inform them of a $1 million transfer he received from a Russian bank account in September, according to the newspaper.
“Parnas poses an extreme risk of flight and that risk of flight is only compounded by his continued and troubling misrepresentations to … the government,” prosecutors wrote. “Accordingly, the government moves to revoke Parnas’ bail and seeks his remand pending trial.”
Prosecutors said in the filing that $1 million transfer was sent to an account under Parnas’s wife Svetlana’s name and appeared to be “an attempt to ensure that any assets were held in Svetlana’s, rather than Lev’s, name,” according to Bloomberg.
“The majority of that money appears to have been used on personal expenses and to purchase a home,” prosecutors added.
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Prosecutors ask judge to revoke Giuliani associate Les Parnas's bail https://t.co/KQvPFZVT69 pic.twitter.com/tfPxGGcDuE
— The Hill (@thehill) December 12, 2019
Let me get this straight. Giuliani has been touring the world digging up dirt on Democrats in the company of a suspected felon who has received $1 M payments from mysterious sources in Russia. https://t.co/zGQbsv7aCf
— Greg Miller (@gregpmiller) December 12, 2019
A federal judge rejected prosecutors’ request to lock up indicted Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas Tuesday, allowing him to remain under home confinement in Florida. @erinmdurkin reports from SDNY @politico https://t.co/TBPD4IvIMh
— Darren Samuelsohn (@dsamuelsohn) December 17, 2019
Prosecutors now saying the $1M payment that went to Parnas from a Russian account was in fact from Firtash. Per Reuters:https://t.co/vzcPuNXvCc pic.twitter.com/LO4GKfldRo
— Andrew Prokop (@awprokop) December 17, 2019
See how this works? Republicans spent months saying Ukrainian officials interfered in the 2016 election all while they were soliciting disgraced Ukrainians to help interfere in the 2020 election. It’s all very Soviet: accuse your enemy of doing what you yourself are guilty of. https://t.co/w8B9aushf1
— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) December 17, 2019
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