Modern-day John Dean: How Lev Parnas went from Giuliani crony to Democratic impeachment hero
by Jerry Dunleavy
| January 15, 2020 05:55 PM
An indicted friend of Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani has become central to the Democratic impeachment of President Trump, carrying echoes of the role of former White House counsel John Dean, who turned against President Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal.
Parnas, 47, along with another Giuliani associate, Igor Fruman, was criminally charged over an alleged scheme to funnel foreign money to Republican politicians. The Soviet-born naturalized U.S. citizen with a checkered business history burst into the headlines on Tuesday night when House Democrats released a trove of texts and documents related to efforts to remove then-Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch from her post in Kyiv.
Now poised to become a hero to Democrats who yearn for a modern-day Dean, Parnas will appear on liberal favorite Rachel Maddow’s show on MSNBC Wednesday night.
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