Igor Fruman, a former associate of Rudy Giuliani, was sentenced Friday to a year and a day in prison starting March 14 and fined $10,000 in a campaign finance case.
Fruman, 56, pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan to soliciting campaign contributions from a foreign national in September. He admitted that he encouraged Russian entrepreneur, Andrey Muraviev, to donate $1 million to Republicans in key states.
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“It’s a shame that will live with me forever,” he said in response to his sentencing by U.S. District Judge Paul Oetken, according to the New York Times. “But I can assure you, my family, and the government that I will never appear before yourself or another courtroom again.”
Fruman said in court he sought the foreign donations for domestic political campaigns while raising money for a marijuana company. The sentencing comes over two years after he was first indicted and arrested in October 2019. His sentencing comes on top of the over two years he spent in home confinement since his 2019 arrest.
He was initially indicted alongside Lev Parnas, 49, who pleaded not guilty. Parnas was found guilty last October on six counts related to the scheme with Fruman. It is unclear when he will be sentenced.
Fruman and Parnas both assisted Giuliani in his efforts to investigate Hunter Biden’s business activity in Ukraine prior to the 2020 election in the United States when his father, now-President Joe Biden, was facing off against then-President Donald Trump. Giuliani, a former personal lawyer to Trump, was not charged in their campaign finance scheme, but he is facing a separate investigation for his activity in Ukraine. Last April, federal agents raided Giuliani’s home and office and seized phones and computers. Investigators are trying to determine if he broke U.S. lobbying laws, the New York Times reported.
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Documents suggest that Fruman and Parnas helped Giuliani establish communication with Ukrainian prosecutors Viktor Shokin and Yuriy Lutsenko. The two prosecutors assisted in trying to find damaging information on the Biden family. Lutsenko wanted Marie Yovanovitch, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine removed. She ultimately was removed from her position. It became a focal point during the first impeachment inquiry against Trump.
