Michael Tracey’s tweet about the curious cases of Rudy Giuliani made me ask whatever happened to Lev and Igor?
Lev Parnas turned up in a Washington Post story last week, “All the president’s ‘Guys’“:
… a fraternity of oddballs, attention hounds and hapless bagmen who never would have come within 100 yards of presidential affairs under normal circumstances — but who now, thanks to President Trump, will remain part of history long after we forget their names. Scaramucci. Lewandowski. Omarosa. Seb Gorka. Carter Page. Mike Lindell and his company, MyPillow. Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas and his old company, Fraud Guarantee.
Parnas and his partner, Igor Fruman, were detained at Dulles Airport while holding one-way tickets to Germany, charged with planning to direct funds from a Russian citizen to U.S. politicians. Today Parnas is under house arrest, allowed out only to go to the store or walk the dog. He’s got three children at home, the youngest still in diapers, which he is changing for the first time in his parenthood. And with plenty of time to think about it, he’s come to regret his time as a Trump Guy.
Turns out their court date date “on charges of violating campaign finance laws to Feb. 1, 2021 because of difficulties caused by the coronavirus pandemic.”
One of Parnas’s former business partners recently pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a scheme to dupe investors in a company he founded with Lev Parnas.
I guess we’ll have to wait until February to hear the last stanzas of The Ballad of Lev and Igor.