Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas sentenced to 20 months in prison for fraud and campaign finance crimes

Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani who was a figure in President Donald Trump's first impeachment investigation, was sentenced Wednesday to a year and eight months in prison for fraud and campaign finance crimes.

Parnas, who had helped Giuliani connect with Ukrainian figures as part of a campaign to dig up dirt on President Joe Biden's son, had sought leniency on the grounds that he'd helped the Congressional probe.

But prosecutors said the Soviet-born businessman's aid was in response to a subpoena and deserved little credit.