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I know this isn’t a reliable news source, but this popped up on my tablet:

Two Giuliani associates involved in Trump-Ukraine controversy arrested on campaign finance charges

WASHINGTON – Two Ukrainian-born business partners, who showered Republican campaign committees with nearly $500,000 and dined with President Donald Trump at the White House, were arrested late Wednesday on campaign finance charges, federal authorities said Thursday.

Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman helped Rudy Giuliani meet a Ukrainian prosecutor as the president’s personal lawyer pushed for an investigation into Trump’s political rival Joe Biden. Both of the men also are among the prospective witnesses House Democrats want to question in their impeachment inquiry.

The indictment charges Parnas, Fruman, David Correia and Andrey Kukushkin with federal campaign finance law violations.

Parnas and Fruman began attending campaign fundraising events in March 2018, the indictment alleges.

They had no significant history of political donations and “sought to advance their personal financial interests and the political interests of at least one Ukrainian government official with whom they were working,” the indictment charges.

Among their beneficiaries, according to court documents, was a U.S. congressman who last year received $5,400 from the pair who sought to enlist the lawmaker in an effort to remove the then-U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. The congressman was not named in court documents, but a person familiar with the matter identified the lawmaker as former Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas.

Sessions wrote a letter last year to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, urging Yovanovitch’s ouster.

https://news.yahoo.com/two-rudy-giuliani-associates-once-070003538.html