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Former Giuliani associate Lev Parnas wants a judge to order the White House and Justice Department to turn over any records referring to the reasons he was charged.
Dec 22, 2020 8:25 PM EDT
NEW YORK (AP) A lawyer for Lev Parnas, the indicted former associate of Rudy Giuliani, asked a federal judge Tuesday to order the White House and Justice Department turn over any emails or text messages in which they discussed the decision to charge his client with making illegal campaign contributions.
The defense attorney, Joseph Bondy, filed court papers seeking to dismiss the charges, saying he suspected Attorney General William Barr orchestrated Parnas’ indictment “as a means to protect the President and thwart his potential testimony in the impeachment inquiry.”
Bondy also requested an evidentiary hearing to determine why Vice President Mike Pence and others weren’t prosecuted for receiving “improper” campaign contributions.
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Fashion mogul Peter Nygard was arrested Monday in Winnipeg on sex trafficking and racketeering charges brought by federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York.
The nine-count indictment charges Nygard with “a decades long pattern of criminal conduct involving at least dozens of victims in the United States, the Bahamas and Canada,” acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said in a release.