2 businessmen who helped Giuliani in Ukraine have been arrested on campaign finance charges, law enforcement sources tell NBCNews.
The four-count indictment, filed in the Southern District of New York and unsealed Thursday, includes charges of conspiracy, making false statements to the Federal Election Commission and falsification of records. The documents allege an elaborate scheme to help an unnamed Ukrainian government official and a person who is described as having"Russian roots" gain access to U.S.
The defendants deceived"the candidates, campaigns, federal regulators, and the public by entering into secret agreements, laundering foreign money through bank accounts in the name of limited liability corporations, and through the use of straw donors ... who purported to make legal campaign contributions in their own names, rather than in the name of the true source of the fund," according to the document.
Additionally, the indictment alleged that the men conspired to make political donations funded by an unidentified foreign national who was nervous about"his Russian roots and current political paranoia about it" to politicians and candidates. The purpose of those donations was to help gain access to recreational marijuana licenses so that they could form a marijuana business in the United States, according to the document, but that venture did not ultimately come to fruition.
The Trump campaign declined to comment, while John Dowd, an attorney for the two men, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Reached by NBC News, Giuliani said he could not yet comment. According to the document, the efforts to oust Yovanovitch were at least partially on behalf of an unnamed Ukrainian official.
In an interview with the Journal, Sessions said he did not follow up with Pompeo after sending the letter. "Separately, after several congressional colleagues reported to me that the current US Ambassador to Ukraine was disparaging President Trump to others as part of those official duties, I wrote a letter to the Secretary of State to refer this matter directly," Sessions said."My entire motivation for sending the letter was that I believe that political appointees should not be disparaging the President, especially while serving overseas.
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