Pete Sessions identified as 'Congressman-1' in indictment of two foreign-born Trump donors who connected Giuliani to Ukrainian prosecutors
CommentTobias HoonhoutOctober 10, 2019Two foreign-born Trump supporters who were clients of Rudy Giuliani and helped connect Giuliani with Ukrainian officials as he sought an investigation of Joe and Hunter Biden were arrested late Wednesday and charged with campaign-finance violations.
The indictment states that the two men made contributions “for the purpose of gaining influence with politicians so as to advance their own personal financial interests and the political interests of Ukrainian government officials.” It also references a congressman — identifiable as former Texas Republican Congressman Pete Sessions — who Parnas and Fruman pledged to raise $20,000 dollars for, to seek help “in causing the U.S. Government to remove or recall the then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine.
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