Feds Charge Russian Oligarch at Center of Campaign Finance Scheme Involving Ex-Rudy Giuliani Associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman – By Adam Klasfeld (Law and Crime) / March 14, 2022
Federal prosecutors unsealed charged on Monday against the Russian oligarch at the center of Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman’s plot to funnel foreign money into the 2018 midterm elections. Tycoon Andrey Muraviev, who is still at large and believed to be in Russia, allegedly agreed to wire $1 million to fund hundreds of thousands of dollars in political contributions.
Fruman pleaded guilty to soliciting a contribution to a foreign national in September.
Parnas fought the charges at trial along with his co-defendant Andrey Kukushkin. A jury ultimately convicted the men on all charges in late October. Prosecutors say that $150,000 of Muraviev’s money wound up being actually donated to U.S. politicians.
