In recent weeks, the remarkable scope of the interplay of these two groups has become more apparent, thanks to news reports about their interactions and a willingness of one Giuliani associate to begin hinting about what he knows. That associate, Lev Parnas, has good reason to make clear how much he knows: Facing federal campaign-finance charges, he’s eager to give prosecutors justification for cutting a deal.
The upshot, though, is that we now have a much better sense of what Giuliani and his associates were alleged to be doing during a period in which the former mayor was also helping effect Trump’s pressure campaign on the Ukrainian government. We’ve compiled recent reports to give a sense of how Giuliani and his allies were quietly working with those Ukrainian officials.
View the complete November 28 article by Philip Bump on The Washington Post website here.