A federal judge on Tuesday declined to revoke the bail of Lev Parnas, the Rudy Giuliani associate charged in Manhattan with campaign finance violations, finding that he had not intentionally tried to hide assets from prosecutors.

U.S. District Judge J. Paul Oetken of the Southern District of New York acknowledged several “concerning” statements Parnas made about his financial condition but said they did not rise to the level of intentional deception, as prosecutors from the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office had claimed.

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