Ex-Giuliani associate switches plea in conspiracy case

An associate of former President Donald Trump‘s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani asked a judge to let him change his plea to guilty on a conspiracy charge that could put him behind bars for at least a year.

Lev Parnas, a Ukraine-born businessman, pleaded not guilty to wire fraud conspiracy in November. Parnas and his co-defendant, David Correia, were accused of conning investors into giving more than $2 million to an oddly named insurance business, Fraud Guarantee. Prosecutors say Parnas and Correia funneled most of those funds to themselves for personal and political use.