Judge William Pauley III.

A firm accused of having ties to a massive heist of $230 million from the Russian Treasury hasn't made any payments on the $5.9 million settlement it reached with the U.S. government earlier this year, and the government has moved to reopen the case to enforce the agreement.

In a ruling issued Friday afternoon, U.S. District Judge William Pauley III of the Southern District of New York denied motions by Prevezon to grant immigration parole to Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer whose June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort at Trump Tower raised concerns about Russian influence in last year's presidential election.

Pauley also denied immigration parole for Prevezon owner Denis Katsyv, who Veselnitskaya successfully represented in a money laundering case.

In a letter to Pauley, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan partner Faith Gay, a member of Prevezon's U.S.-based defense team, requested immigration parole for Veselnitskaya and Katsyv to appear in a conference in the case next week regarding the government's anticipated motion to enforce the settlement agreement, citing “importance of this matter and the unusual circumstances of this case.”

But Pauley said that argument does “very little” to justify granting the request for parole, as the subject matter of the government's anticipated motion is “no more unique than any other case in which a party seeks to excuse its performance under a settlement agreement.”

Defense attorneys also argue Prevezon was not yet required to make payments toward the settlement.

Prior to the May settlement between the government and Prevezon—announced just before the case was set to go to trial—the government alleged that Prevezon took a $1.9 million cut from the Treasury scheme.

“In view of recent revelations regarding Russia's outsized influence, there may have been more to this money laundering case than a few luxury condominiums at 20 Pine St.,” Pauley said in the ruling, referring to a piece of high-end Manhattan where about $582,000 of the money from the Treasury was allegedly invested.

Judge William Pauley III.

A firm accused of having ties to a massive heist of $230 million from the Russian Treasury hasn't made any payments on the $5.9 million settlement it reached with the U.S. government earlier this year, and the government has moved to reopen the case to enforce the agreement.

In a ruling issued Friday afternoon, U.S. District Judge William Pauley III of the Southern District of New York denied motions by Prevezon to grant immigration parole to Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer whose June 2016 meeting with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort at Trump Tower raised concerns about Russian influence in last year's presidential election.

Pauley also denied immigration parole for Prevezon owner Denis Katsyv, who Veselnitskaya successfully represented in a money laundering case.

In a letter to Pauley, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan partner Faith Gay, a member of Prevezon's U.S.-based defense team, requested immigration parole for Veselnitskaya and Katsyv to appear in a conference in the case next week regarding the government's anticipated motion to enforce the settlement agreement, citing “importance of this matter and the unusual circumstances of this case.”

But Pauley said that argument does “very little” to justify granting the request for parole, as the subject matter of the government's anticipated motion is “no more unique than any other case in which a party seeks to excuse its performance under a settlement agreement.”

Defense attorneys also argue Prevezon was not yet required to make payments toward the settlement.

Prior to the May settlement between the government and Prevezon—announced just before the case was set to go to trial—the government alleged that Prevezon took a $1.9 million cut from the Treasury scheme.

“In view of recent revelations regarding Russia's outsized influence, there may have been more to this money laundering case than a few luxury condominiums at 20 Pine St.,” Pauley said in the ruling, referring to a piece of high-end Manhattan where about $582,000 of the money from the Treasury was allegedly invested.