| In SDNY Parnas and Correia Hit With
Fraud Guaranty Superseding Indictment Trial
Feb 1
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Periscope
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 17 – Whether any US
government agency engaged in
wiretapping not authorized by
a court in connection with the
prosecution of Lev Parnas,
Igor Fruman, David Correia and
Andrey Kukushkin came up near
the end of a conference in the
case on December 2,
live-tweeted by Inner City
Press here.
More on Patreon, here.
On April
15, amid Coronavirus, the
entire trial was pushed back
past the election, and into
2021: "as to Lev Parnas (1),
Igor Fruman (2), David Correia
(3), Andrey Kukushkin (4)
granting [109] JOINT LETTER
MOTION addressed to Judge J.
Paul Oetken from AUSAs Douglas
Zolkind, Nicolas Roos, and
Rebekah Donaleski dated April
14, 2020 re: Proposed
adjournment of pretrial
schedule. ENDORSEMENT: The
parties request to adjourn the
trial date and pretrial
deadlines is granted. Pretrial
motions shall be filed by
October 5, 2020; responses by
November 2, 2020; and replies
by November 16, 2020.... The
trial date is hereby adjourned
to February 1, 2021. The court
hereby excludes time under the
Speedy Trial Act, 18 U.s.C.
3161(h)(7)(A), through
February 1, 2021, finding that
the ends of justice outweigh
the interests of the public
and the defendants in a speedy
trial for the reasons stated
in this letter. (Signed by
Judge J. Paul Oetken on
4/15/2020)."
Now on
September 17, a superseding
indictment "LEV PARNAS and
DAVID CORREIA were charged in
a Superseding Indictment with
conspiring to commit wire
fraud in connection with their
efforts to raise funds
ostensibly for their business,
“Fraud Guarantee.” The
Superseding Indictment also
includes additional campaign
finance charges against the
defendants. In October
2019, PARNAS, CORREIA, IGOR
FRUMAN, and ANDREY KUKUSHKIN
were charged in a four-count
indictment alleging that each
of the defendants conspired to
violate the ban on political
donations and contributions by
foreign nationals. In
addition, PARNAS and FRUMAN
were charged with conspiring
to make contributions in
connection with federal
elections in the names of
others, and with making false
statements to and falsifying
records to obstruct the
administration of a matter
within the jurisdiction of the
Federal Election Commission
(“FEC”). The Superseding
Indictment returned today – in
addition to charging PARNAS
and CORREIA with conspiracy to
commit wire fraud – charges
CORREIA with making false
statements to and falsifying
records to obstruct the
administration of a matter
within the jurisdiction of the
FEC; charges PARNAS, FRUMAN,
and CORREIA with soliciting a
foreign national to make
donations and contributions in
connection with federal and
state elections; and charges
PARNAS, FRUMAN, and KUKUSHKIN
with aiding and abetting the
making of donations and
contributions by a foreign
national in connection with
federal and state
elections. The case is
assigned to U.S. District
Judge J. Paul Oetken in the
Southern District of New
York. Trial is currently
scheduled for February 1,
2021."
Back on
February 3 SDNY Judge Oetken
began the scheduled conference
by shooting down the FISA
violation arguments, citing
decisions by the Second
Circuit and his fellow SDNY
Judges Edgardo Ramos and Paul
Engelmayer. He asked the
prosecutors about the progress
of discovery.
There are
still 20 devices not
"cracked," although it is
complicated because with
subpoenas for iCloud accounts,
multiple devices' information
is revealed.
A trial
date of October 5 was set,
with another conference if
necessary penciled in for July
16 at 2:30 pm. Afterward in
front of 40 Foley Square
Parnas' lawyer Bondy snarked
at the impeachment trial as a
trial by friends; Parnas said
he's trying to get the truly
about Trump and Giuliani and
Ukraine out, but declined to
answer if he is cooperating.
Then he got into a big black
car, saying he was glad to be
back in New York. Inner City
Press Periscope video here.
Inner
City Press
said it would
be there- and
it was. The
case is US
v. Parnas, et
al.,
19-cr-00725
(Oetken).
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