Giuliani associate Lev Parnas handed 20 months in prison for campaign finance fraud – as it happened
by Adam Gabbatt in New York from Environment | The Guardian on (#60WRH)
- Lawyers had sought leniency as Parnas had helped inquiry
- Mixed results for Trump-backed candidates in primaries
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It was a mixed Tuesday for Donald Trump-backed candidates in Republican primary elections around the country. Colorado voters largely rejected most Trump-supporting candidates in Tuesday's GOP primaries, although Lauren Boebert, the extremist Colorado Republican congresswoman, won her bid for relection.
In Illinois, Mary Miller, who had been criticized after she declared the Supreme Court's abortion decision as a victory for white life" - a spokesman said she had mixed up her words - won in after she was backed by Trump. Darren Bailey, who was also endorsed by Trump, won the Republican gubernatorial primary in the state.
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