Gradus ad Parnassum

or, Stepping up to Lev

Updated 7/26/23: Cut and revised version

Remember Lev Parnas (photo by Timothy A. Clary/Getty Images via Slate)? The comical Ukrainian-born Florida businessman with the company called Fraud Guarantee who kept turning up all over the first Trump impeachment case as a Giuliani associate, alongside his morose partner Igor Fruman? He's in prison, I guess fo…