new york a florida man who helped rudy giuliani expersonal lawyer of former president donald trump seek damaging information against joe biden in ukraine was sentenced to a year and a day in prison and fined 10000 friday in an unrelated campaign finance caseigor fruman was told to report to prison march 14 he pleaded guilty in september to a single charge of solicitation of a contribution by a foreign national as part of the plea he admitted soliciting a million dollars from a russian entrepreneur andrey muraviev to donate to republicans in nevada florida and other states as part of an effort to launch a recreational marijuana business federal prosecutors in new york had urged judge j paul oetken to sentence fruman to between three and four years in prison defense lawyers had argued he should face no incarceration because he has otherwise led a lawabiding life fruman was charged in the case along with lev parnas another florida businessman who helped giulianis attempt to spoil bidens quest for the presidency on the democratic ticket the pair served as liaisons between giuliani and ukrainian officials and business tycoons as the former new york city mayor tried to persuade prosecutors in that country to investigate bidens son hunter over his work for an energy company us prosecutors havent brought any charges in connection with the ukrainian influence campaign which was the subject of one of former president donald trumps impeachment trials but focused instead on donations that fruman and parnas made to us politicians as they sought to build influence in republican political circles parnas was convicted in october of campaign finance crimes and awaits sentencing politicians who got the illegal donations including florida gov ron desantis and former nevada attorney general adam laxalt have said they were unaware the money secretly came from a foreign source muraviev was not charged in the casegiuliani who worked for trump as a personal attorney faces a continuing investigation into whether he was required to register as an agent of a foreign government during his dealings with ukraine authorities the inquiry partly involves an examination of whether giuliani offered to lobby or influence the trump administration on behalf of ukrainian figures giuliani has said everything he did in ukraine was done on trumps behalf and there is no reason he would have had to register as a foreign agent following raids on giulianis home and business last year former federal judge barbara jones was appointed by a judge to determine what materials on electronic devices seized in the raid can be turned over to criminal prosecutors in a fourpage report issued friday jones said only a few dozen items among tens of thousands of communications on seven of his electronic devices have been prevented from being turned over to prosecutors because they contain privileged communications she said she was awaiting further assignments