Lev Parnas was once so close to Rudy Giuliani, he named Giuliani his son's godfather. Now he is cooperating with the Trump impeachment inquiry.
The state funeral for former President George H.W. Bush in 2018 featured a who's who of U.S. political heavyweights.
The chubby man in the dark suit was Lev Parnas, a Soviet-born businessman known to few at the time. Now, the 47-year-old Florida resident is famed as Giuliani's associate in pressing for an investigation that could discredit former Vice President Joe Biden, a Trump rival in the 2020 presidential race, by digging up dirt in Parnas' native Ukraine.
He says the evidence shows Trump approved of his work to pressure Ukraine to investigate Biden. House investigators agree. They've sent it to the Senate for potential consideration in Trump's impeachment trial, currently underway in the Senate.
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