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New York Daily News
New York Daily News
NEW YORK — Ex-Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas was found guilty by a Manhattan jury Friday of violating campaign finance laws during a bumbling bid to launch a weed business and curry favor with then-President Donald Trump and other Republican big shots. Parnas, whose 2019 Ukraine dealings with Giuliani helped trigger Trump’s first impeachment, conspired to illegally funnel $1 million to U.S. politicians he and his business partners thought could help them obtain licenses to sell recreational marijuana. The pot plot amounted to a crime because Paranas and his crew bankrolled it with cash fro…