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Parnas and Fruman Charged with Conspiring to Violate Straw and Foreign Donor Bans (Indictment) Whistleblower Complaint on Ukraine (Kelly Smith, comp.) 1 (10/10/2019)

handle is hein.presidents/usgvtwht0088 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK SEALED INDICTMENT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 19 Cr. V. LEV PARNAS, IGOR FRUMAN, DAVID CORREIA, and ANDREY KUKUSHKIN, Defendants. The Grand Jury charges: INTRODUCTION I. Through its election laws, Congress prohibits foreign nationals from making contributions, donations, and certain expenditures in connection with federal, State, and local elections, and prohibits anyone from making contributions in the name of another. Congress further requires public reporting through the Federal Election Commission (the FEC) of the sources and amounts of contributions and expenditures made in connection with federal elections. A purpose of these laws, taken together, is to protect the United States electoral system from illegal foreign financial influence, and to further inform all candidates, their campaign committees, federal regulators, and the public of (i) the true sources of contributions to candidates for federal