The one-time major player in Trump’s Ukraine scandal is going to prison after being found guilty of all six counts he faced regarding illegal political donations.
Lev Parnas, the sketchy Florida businessman who became an infamous associate of Rudy Giuliani ’s during the Trump administration, was convicted of multiple federal campaign-finance charges on Friday. A Manhattan jury took less than six hours of deliberation to return guilty verdicts on all six counts Parnas faced. Prosecutors alleged that Parnas had schemed with co-conspirators to use foreign money to donate to political candidates in several states in the hopes of buying favorable treatment for a cannabis company he and Igor Fruman, another Giuliani buddy, had been trying to launch.
