Citing Lev Parnas' dwindling defense funds, a lawyer for the Rudy Giuliani associate has asked to withdraw from in a campaign finance conspiracy case
NEW YORK — An attorney for indicted Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas has asked to withdraw as the Ukrainian-born defendant in a campaign finance conspiracy case apparently runs low on legal funding.
New York City defense lawyer Joseph Bondy will continue to represent Parnas in a campaign finance conspiracy case if U.S. District Court Judge Paul Oetken approves the withdrawal request. Similar motions are often routinely granted. The Soviet-born defendants also reportedly aided Giuliani's drive to oust Marie Yovanovitch, who served as the U.A. ambassador to Ukraine. After Trump complained about Yovanovitch, the U.S. Department of State abruptly recalled the veteran diplomat from her post in May.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York argued that Parnas' $1 million bail bond should be revoked because he had access to seemingly unlimited foreign funding. As proof, they cited $1 million in loans to Parnas and his wife, Svetlana Parnas, from Ralph Oswald Isenegger, an attorney for indicted Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash.
Financial records Bondy filed in court on Dec. 20 showed that Parnas and his wife had burned through all but roughly $95,000 of the loans as of late November, with major chunks of the funds going to secure Parnas' release bond and to a down payment on a since-aborted plan to buy a Florida home.
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