Lev Parnas and Rudy Giuliani (ALEX EDELMAN/AFP via Getty Images)
Federal investigators executed search warrants last week as part of an investigation into Rudy Giuliani and whether he may have acted as an unregistered foreign agent while serving as the personal lawyer to former President Donald Trump.
The search warrants suggest that the criminal investigation is honing in on his dealings in Ukraine, including whether he violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Giuliani has previously come under scrutiny for “shadow lobbying” for a number of foreign clients but never registering as a foreign agent.
Federal investigators are reportedly looking into whether Giuliani’s efforts pushing Trump to remove Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, were done at the behest of Ukrainian officials in exchange for damaging information about Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s business in Ukraine. That effort to dig up dirt on the Bidens ultimately led to Trump’s
What next for The Lawns site at Cottingham set to go on sale
It was closed by the university in 2019 (Image: Simon Renilson/Hull Daily Mail)
A charity campaigning to save threatened 20th century British buildings has included The Lawns, the former University of Hull halls of residence, in its latest top ten “at risk” list.
The Twentieth Century Society (C20) aims to save outstanding buildings and examples of design that have helped shape the British landscape since 1914 and has today released its Top 10 Buildings at Risk List 2021, which places The Lawns, at Cottingham, in fourth place.
The university closed The Lawns in 2019 and the 40-acre site has now been earmarked for housing and is being put up for sale this month.
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