BREAKING: Rudy Giuliani's Ukrainian associate Lev Parnas agrees to cooperate with House impeachment probe

An attorney for Lev Parnas, an associate of President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, confirmed that his client would comply with requests for records and testimony from congressional impeachment investigators.

Parnas is believed to have played a key role as an intermediary in the alleged U.S. pressure campaign on the government of Ukraine to launch investigations that benefited Trump politically.

“We will honor and not avoid the committee’s requests to the extent they are legally proper, while scrupulously protecting Mr. Parnas’ privileges, including that of the Fifth Amendment,” said Parnas’ attorney, Joseph Bondy, in a statement that was first reported Monday by Reuters.

Parnas is one of two Ukrainian Americans who helped Giuliani dig up dirt on Hunter Biden, the son of Trump’s political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden. Hunter Biden once served on the board of a Ukrainian energy company.

Along with Igor Fruman, an associate, Parnas is also believed to have acted as a go-between for the Trump administration as it pursued a shadow foreign policy with Ukraine designed to aid in the president’s reelection effort by tarnishing Biden and the Democratic party.

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