Renewable Revolution

Las Vegas Mixx (191 posts)   Mon Nov 4, 2019, 10:10 PM

Organized Crime Family Values - the new 🐘 Republican Party

Parnas and Fruman, both American citizens born in the former Soviet Union, aren’t ordinary political operatives. Parnas has long been a low-level grifter. Fruman owns an Odessa beach club called Mafia Rave, and a joint investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and BuzzFeed News found ties between him and an Odessa organized crime figure named Volodymyr Galanternik, known as “Light Bulb.”

The duo first appeared on the American political scene in 2015 as enthusiastic supporters of Donald Trump. They became big-dollar donors to a number of Republicans; their Instagram accounts would soon fill up with photos of party elites. Then, this year, McCallion learned they were poking around Ukrainian politics, where they were spreading conspiracy theories that Ukraine, not Russia, had interfered in America’s election in 2016.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/opinion/trump-ukraine.html


Donald Trump Jr. has hired a lawyer with extensive experience representing mafia families ... to represent him in matters relating to the Trump administration’s ties with Russia.... Futerfas has personally represented people with alleged ties to New York’s Bonanno, Gambino, Genovese, and Colombo crime families.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-jr-hires-lawyer-who-represented-the-mob

Kerik, who was Giuliani’s top cop in New York and later served three years in federal prison for tax fraud and other crimes, talks regularly with his old friend.
https://time.com/magazine/us/5714740/november-11th-2019-vol-194-no-20-u-s/