What Is Foreign Interference, Anyway?
Planet Money
NPR
4.6 • 29.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Planet Money from NPR. |
| 0:07.2 | If you were anywhere in the vicinity of the internet last month, you probably heard about |
| 0:12.0 | these two guys. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Moisha. |
| 0:14.0 | Moisha, I'm Ryan. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Ryan. |
| 0:16.0 | Love Parnas and Igor Frumen there sending love to their friend Moisha alongside their |
| 0:21.0 | pal Rudy Giuliani. |
| 0:23.0 | I can't wait to come back. |
| 0:25.0 | See you in your brain soon. |
| 0:27.0 | We love you. |
| 0:28.0 | Love and Igor were traveling recently when their travel plans were interrupted. |
| 0:35.0 | Love Parnas and Igor Frumen were arrested at Dulles Airport last night as they were getting |
| 0:39.7 | ready to leave the country with one-way tickets. |
| 0:43.2 | The two were charged with campaign finance violations. |
| 0:47.5 | Love and Igor are American citizens who allegedly helped route foreign money into American |
| 0:54.0 | elections. |
| 0:55.0 | In part, they are charged with taking money from a Russian oligarch, laundering at a smidge, |
| 1:01.3 | and then giving it to US politicians. |
| 1:04.2 | Which by the way we know, in part because someone involved wrote a message that literally |
| 1:07.9 | spelled out, hi, a Russian oligarch sent us money to funnel to politicians. |
| 1:12.8 | Why do people still spell out their crimes in writing? |
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