Politico: Giuliani associate Parnas offers to comply with subpoena

Published Nov. 5, 2019 at 2:23 pm

Lev Parnas, a Ukrainian-Floridian businessman who is both a client and associate of Rudy Giulianis arrives for his arraignment in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) on October 23, 2019. - Parnas was arrested for campaign finance violations along with fellow businessman Igor Fruman in Virginia. Both Parnas and Fruman are being held on a million dollars bond and have been served with subpoenas to testify as a part of the impeachment investigation conducted by the US House of Representatives. (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP)

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An indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani is offering to participate in Congress’s ongoing impeachment inquiry, although major legal hurdles remain before lawmakers’ seem likely to be able to tap the potential new source of information on President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.

Lev Parnas, a Ukrainian-born U.S. citizen currently under house arrest in Florida on campaign finance charges, is offering an olive branch to Congress after previously rebuffing a subpoena issued by the House Intelligence Committee last month.