Rudy pal spills
Gives impeach probers his cell phone files
One of Rudy Giuliani’s criminally charged pals has given House impeachment investigators texts, photos and other records involving key people who worked on President Trump’s politically motivated bid for Ukrainian investigations, the Giuliani associate’s lawyer said Monday.
Lev Parnas — who worked closely on Giuliani’s Trumpendorsed hunt for Ukrainian dirt on Joe Biden and other Democrats — dispatched his lawyer, Joseph Bondy, to Capitol Hill over the weekend to meet with House Intelligence Committee staff and give them the contents of one of his iPhones, according to Bondy.
“We worked through the night providing a trove of Lev Parnas’ WhatsApp messages, text messages & images,” Bondy tweeted along with a photo of Parnas together with Trump, adding the records turned over to the committee detail “interactions with a number of individuals relevant to the impeachment inquiry.”
Bondy declined to comment further on the nature of the records, other than confirming to the Daily News that the photo he tweeted out was from a Republican National Committee fundraiser at Trump’s Mar-aLago club in March 2018.
Later Monday, Bondy said Parnas had also turned over the contents of one of his Samsung cell phones to the House Intelligence Committee after securing a court order to release it.
A spokesman for the intel panel did not return a request for comment.
Parnas’ cell phones had been held by the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan, which charged him and fellow Giuliani pal Igor Fruman in a sweeping pro-Trump campaign pg finance scheme last year that overlapped with matters at the heart of the impeachment inquiry.
Bondy tried to convince congressional Democrats to let his client testify in the House impeachment inquiry, saying he had crucial firsthand information of efforts by Giuliani and other Trump allies to pressure Ukrainian officials into announcing investigations that would prove politically beneficial to the president before the 2020 election.
But Democrats didn’t take Bondy up on his offer before impeaching Trump on Dec. 18.
However, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has pertinently said his committee’s investigation into Trump’s alleged Ukraine misdeeds is ongoing, and Bondy remains hopeful Parnas will get his day in the spotlight.
“LetLevSpeak,” he capped off his Monday tweet.