Nunes corruption developments

CNBC reported Sunday that Lev Parnas plans to tell committee members that aides to Nunes, the Intelligence Committee's ranking member, planned to meet with two Ukrainian prosecutors in an effort to obtain evidence to aid Trump's reelection bid, but abandoned the efforts once they realized that Schiff's staff would be alerted to the trip.

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Parnas's planned testimony, if accurate, would implicate Nunes's staff in the president and Giuliani's efforts to push Ukrainian officials to open politically charged investigations into Biden, a top contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

  The Hill

The House Intelligence Committee, led by Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), is reportedly in possession of audio and video recordings of a close associate to Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's lawyer, related to their efforts to persuade Ukraine's government to launch investigations politically benefiting the president.

Recordings provided to the committee by Lev Parnas, one of two Giuliani associates previously arrested on suspicion of committing campaign finance violations, include conversations between Giuliani and Trump himself, ABC News reported Sunday.

  The Hill

That's...interesting.

"Mr. Parnas has vociferously and publicly asserted his wish to comply with his previously issued subpoena and to provide the House Intelligence Committee with truthful and important information that is in furtherance of justice, not to obstruct it," Parnas's attorney said in a statement Sunday.

So....he's already been subpoenaed? Or was that just for documents?

The recordings were reportedly provided to Schiff's committee in response to a congressional subpoena, though some information requested by the Democrats remains in the hands of federal investigators in New York, according to ABC.

Parnas's attorney also told reporters days ago that his client is prepared to tell congressional investigators about a meeting between the panel's ranking member, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), and a Ukrainian prosecutor that occurred as Nunes was aiding the Trump administration's search for dirt on the former vice president.

"Mr. Parnas learned from former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Victor Shokin that Nunes had met with Shokin in Vienna last December," his attorney Joseph Bondy told CNN.

Will the conflicts and problems associated with Parnas being charged in New York be detrimental to the Democrats' Senate impeachmen trial? Things can't get any more complex, can they? Don't answer that question.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.