Judge okays $1 million bond for Giuliani associates Parnas and Fruman, related marijuana scheme revealed

A judge today approved a $1 million bond in property and business for two associates of President Trumps personal attorney Rudolph Giuliani, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, along with mandatory home confinement and GPS monitoring.

Parnas and Fruman remain in custody until those conditions are met.

Their next hearing date is set for next Thursday afternoon in SDNY.

They were been arrested on charges of conspiring to funnel money to U.S. politicians from overseas, and attempting to manipulate U.S.-Ukraine foreign relations, the just-unsealed indictment reveals.

New filing in Fruman and Parnas case: Order to Unseal Indictmenthttps://t.co/96mTmqQKQH pic.twitter.com/VFxSKi4Lva

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[Read the indictment: U.S. vs Lev Parnas et al.]

Parnas and Fruman have reportedly been working with Giuliani to cook up opposition campaigns against Democratic presidential candidate and former VP Joe Biden, and The Washington Post reports the two men were arrested Wednesday evening at Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, D.C., where they had one-way tickets on a flight out of the country.

Excerpt:

The pair have been under investigation by the U.S. attorneys office in Manhattan. At an initial court appearance Thursday afternoon in Alexandria, Va., prosecutors said they were concerned Parnas and Fruman were flight risks, but that they would negotiate with their lawyers about a possible bail package.

Wednesdays arrests mark the first criminal charges to emerge out of the U.S. governments suddenly controversial relationship with Ukraine tying discussions about diplomacy to alleged violations of campaign finance law.