Notable personal detailsLev Parnas is a Soviet-born American entrepreneur, political activist, and author who emigrated to the United States in 1976 and later lived in Florida. He studied briefly at Brooklyn College and Baruch College and worked in real estate and on Wall Street before moving to Florida in the mid-1990s. He became nationally known through his involvement in the 2019 Ukraine-related political scandal and later testified before the U.S. House Oversight Committee in March 2024.