Will They Explain Their Connections to Ukraine Scandal?
Last Monday, the Associated Press reported that an oil magnate involved in a scheme to push lucrative contracts to entities connected to Trump allies had given a ton of money to Washington Republicans — including $20,000 to Claudia Tenney.
That was just the beginning.
By week’s end Syracuse.com reported that one of Rudy Giuliani’s associates, who was arrested at a DC airport for funneling Russian money to US campaigns while attempting to flee the country, had used an alias to funnel a serious amount of that shady cash to Tenney.
And Tenney isn’t alone — Congressman Katko shares Tenney’s connection to that same indicted businessman who had given over $2,000 to his campaign.
Now that Tenney and Katko have been forced to rid themselves of the thousands they took from these indicted businessmen, they must immediately explain their connections to this scandal.
Check it out:
Giuliani’s indicted associate used alias to donate cash to Katko, Tenney
By Mark Weiner | October 14, 2019
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. John Katko and former Rep. Claudia Tenney received campaign cash from a Soviet-born businessman indicted last week for trying to influence state and federal elections with hidden foreign money.
Katko and Tenney each accepted $2,445.34 from Igor Fruman in 2018, who used the alias Igor “Furman” to make the donations, a violation of election law, according to the indictment and Federal Election Commission records.
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A federal indictment unsealed Thursday said the businessmen made the donations to help their own financial interests and the political interest of at least one unidentified Ukrainian government official.
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Fruman and Parnas leveraged their political donations as part of a broader effort using laundered foreign money to oust the U.S. ambassador, Marie Yovanovitch, at the request of one or more Ukrainians, prosecutors said.
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Prosecutors alleged in the indictment that the men hid the true source of the money, a private lending transaction between Fruman and unidentified third parties.
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