The House Judiciary Committee released more documents Friday from Lev Parnas, the Rudy Giuliani associate at the center of the Ukraine scandal that prompted President Donald Trump’s impeachment in December.
Parnas, who was indicted last year on campaign finance charges, helped Giuliani, Trump’s lawyer, search in Ukraine for damning information about former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. Parnas has since cooperated with the House’s impeachment inquiry, as well as with federal investigators who are probing Giuliani and his work in Ukraine.
The newly released documents can be found here. They include more of Parnas’ communications with Robert Hyde, a Republican congressional candidate in Connecticut, as well as messages with Derek Harvey, an aide to Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.). There are also photos documenting Parnas’ ties to Trump and the White House, as well as iMessages with Giuliani.
The files also include transcripts of Parnas’ recent interviews with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and CNN’s Anderson Cooper. In the interview with Maddow, Paranas claimed Trump “knew exactly” what was going on in Ukraine.
“He was aware of all my movements. I wouldn’t do anything without the consent of Rudy Giuliani or the president. I have no intent, I have no reason to speak to any of these officials,” Parnas said.
The latest document dump comes after the House Intelligence Committee released damning evidence from Parnas earlier this week, including letters from Giuliani to Volodymyr Zelensky when Zelensky was president-elect of Ukraine, and WhatsApp messages between Parnas and a man who apparently tracked the whereabouts of then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch in March.