Giuliani-Linked Defendant Parnas to Remain Free on Bail as Judge Rejects Prosecutors' Bid to Revoke
Federal prosecutors asked Manhattan U.S. District Judge Paul Oetken to revoke Parnas' bail package after they discovered alleged misstatements and omissions he made after his arrest in October at Washington Dulles International Airport.
December 17, 2019 at 03:03 PM
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A federal judge on Tuesday declined to revoke the bail of Lev Parnas, the Rudy Giuliani associate charged in Manhattan with campaign finance violations, finding that he had not intentionally tried to hide assets from prosecutors.
U.S. District Judge J. Paul Oetken of the Southern District of New York acknowledged several "concerning" statements Parnas made about his financial condition but said they did not rise to the level of intentional deception, as prosecutors from the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office had claimed.
"There's certainly lots of suspicious information here … but I don't know that that's clear and intentional misstatements such that bail should be revoked at this point," Oetken said following about 90 minutes of argument.
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