Lev Parnas Paid His Way Into Donald Trump’s Orbit – Wall Street Journal

After Donald Trump’s election, Lev Parnas saw a possibility to cash in on his connections.

The Florida business person and Trump donor was courting investors for a real-estate job. He took among them, Roman Nasirov, at the time the head of Ukraine’s tax service, to Mr. Trump’s Florida Mar-a-Lago resort, where they chatted with the president-elect in a crowd of supporters, a video launched by Mr. Parnas’s lawyer programs. Mr. Nasirov eventually assisted fund a $10 million loan Mr. Parnas scheduled the job, people familiar with …

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