America's Mayor may be headed to a big house. Not Gracie Mansion. "I think prison is where Giuliani is going to end up," Lev Parnas, a former henchman to Trump lawyer and confidante to Rudy Giuliani , said on CNN's "NewsNight" With Abby Phillip.
Parnas knows a thing or two about life on the inside. He was found guilty on all six criminal counts leveled against him , including conspiracy to make foreign contributions to political campaigns as well as making false statements, falsifying records, and other crimes. ALSO READ: Republican dodo birds have a death wish for us all Parnas was arrested along with fellow Giuliani cohort Igor Fruman back in 2019 for allegedly setting up a shell company to funnel hundreds of thousands in Russian donations to Republican candidates in a bid to open a cannabis business .
Parnas, who would later cooperate in Trump's first impeachment inquiry into his dealings with Ukraine, was sentenced to 20 months in prison and ordered to pay $2.3 million in restitution for the charges. Now that he's free, the convicted felon Parnas foresees his one-time sidekick Giuliani as heading on a similar prison path.
Just today, Giuliani, 80, received a harsh dressing-down in his Chapter 11 bankruptcy case . Giuliani filed for Chapter 11 protection soon after a Fulton County jury awarded $148 million to Georgia election workers Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman for the reputational and emotional harm they weathered when Giuliani falsely accused them of stealing votes from .
