David Correia

David Correia, will admit in Manhattan federal court to duping investors in a company he founded with Mr. Parnas, Fraud Guarantee, that offered a kind of insurance against swindles. Mr. Correia, a former golf pro, and Mr. Parnas were first indicted in October 2019 on federal campaign finance charges, accused of participating in a conspiracy to conceal the source of hundreds of thousands of dollars in political contributions. New charges filed in September 2020 accused the men of bilking their investors in Fraud Guarantee, which they founded in 2012. Prosecutors said investors had pumped $2 million into the company, but it never got off the ground. Mr. Correia is also expected to plead guilty on Thursday October 29. 2020 to making a false statement to the Federal Election Commission in connection with the campaign donations. Under the expected plea agreement, Mr. Correia could face 33 to 41 months in prison, according to federal sentencing guidelines. Correia has a long history with Parnas that continues to the present day, according to Florida business records. Parnas and Correia are listed as co-founders of Fraud Guarantee, a Florida-based fraud protection company. Other public filings in the state of Florida show they’ve been business partners as far back as 2011. And the Miami Herald reported recently on another tie between Correia and Parnas. The pair reportedly worked together on a failed moviemaking venture that ended in a lawsuit — a lawsuit that happened to raise questions about a mysterious LLC that was recorded as donating $325,000 to the pro-Trump super PAC America First Action. After investors in the failed film project “Anatomy of an Assassin” sued to get their money back, according to the Herald, they got an ominous call. “He said the Ukrainians were upset because we were ‘a dangling participle’ and we needed to make a deal to make them go away,” Diane Pues recalled to the Miami Herald. A federal judge has ruled that Parnas owes $500,000 to Diane and Michael Pues, the Herald reported. “He said we no longer knew who we were dealing with and that the Ukrainians had ties all the way up to the State Department and the White House and they were partners with Rudy Giuliani,” Diane Pues told the Herald. The Ukrainians, the Herald reported, were Parnas and Fruman. The man making the call was reportedly David Correia. Like his business partners, Correia appears to be connected to Trumpworld. A photo he posted on Facebook in January 2018 shows him posing with President Donald Trump.