From ABC, linked on Drudge:
"[Parnas'] lawyer has begun dangling information about the alleged extent of Republican efforts to squeeze various Ukrainians for dirt about the Bidens. One strand of that information involves a Kremlin-linked oligarch named Dmitry Firtash who’s facing extradition to the U.S. to face federal racketeering and bribery charges. If you believe Parnas, Giuliani had a proposal for Firtash, one you might call a … quid pro quo. If Firtash lent a hand to Rudy’s effort to dig up dirt on the Bidens, maybe arms could be twisted at the DOJ to rethink those criminal charges:
"[O]ne of Mr. Giuliani’s associates [Parnas] has described offering the oligarch [Firtash] help with his Justice Department problems — if Mr. Firtash hired two lawyers [Toensig & DiGenova] who were close to President Trump and were already working with Mr. Giuliani on his dirt-digging mission…
Mr. Firtash’s relationship to the Trump-allied lawyers — Victoria Toensing and Joseph diGenova — has led to intense speculation that he is, at least indirectly, helping to finance Mr. Giuliani’s campaign. But until now he has stayed silent, and many of the details of how and why he came to hire the lawyers have remained murky."
Firtash claims that he doesn’t have any Biden dirt and didn’t knowingly pay to fund the search for it, but he did reportedly pay diGenova and Toensing more than a million dollars to serve as his lawyers. And apparently diGenova and Toensing were at one point involved in the Biden effort."
One FACT not mentioned in this report that should tie it all together for the reader:
Toensig & DiGenova hired Parnas as an interpreter (he has no prior experience) and paid him well for his services:
"Mr. Parnas was retained as a translator by the law firm of diGenova & Toensing. No money has been paid to Mr. Parnas by Mr. Firtash beyond his work as a translator for the law firm."
But two sources who spoke with Parnas tell CNN that he talked about how he was cultivating Firtash for his own business interests. "I'm the best-paid interpreter in the world," Parnas joked to the sources who spoke to CNN on the condition of anonymity."
