The subpoenas were issued to Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, who worked with Giuliani to dig up dirt on former VP Joe Biden and his son in Ukraine. The two were separately indicted on the same day on charges of funneling foreign money into US elections.
The subpoenas to Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, the associates working with Giuliani to dig up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden and his son in Ukraine, come after Parnas and Fruman signaled they would not attend depositions scheduled for this week.The subpoenas are separate from the indictment, in which federal prosecutors allege that Parnas and Fruman illegally funneled foreign money into US elections.
The subpoenas to Parnas and Fruman add to a rapidly growing list of subpoenas issued as part of the Democratic impeachment inquiry. The committees have sent subpoenas to the State Department, White House, Pentagon and Office of Management and Budget, as well as to Giuliani and US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland.More subpoenas are likely in the coming days in response to White House stonewalling of the impeachment probe.
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