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- Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer, was paid "hundreds of thousands of dollars" to work for Ukrainian-American Lev Parnas at his fraud prevention firm Fraud Guarantee, The New York Times reported on Thursday.
- Giuliani told The Times on Thursday that he provided legal and business advice to Parnas.
- Both Parnas and an associate Igor Fruman were charged with campaign finance violations, according to the unsealed indictment. The men have also been called to testify in the House impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump but declined to appear.
- The impeachment inquiry was sparked by a whistleblower complaint, which alleged that Trump abused his power "for personal gain" during a July 25, phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and pressed the leader to investigate former Vice President and 2020 Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
- Giuliani has said publicly on multiple occasions that he pushed Ukrainian officials to investigate the Bidens ahead of the election.
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Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer, was paid "hundreds of thousands of dollars" to work for Ukrainian-American Lev Parnas at his fraud prevention firm Fraud Guarantee, The New York Times reported on Thursday.
Parnas is one of Giuliani's associates charged with campaign finance violations on Thursday, according to an unsealed indictment. Another Giuliani associate, Igor Fruman from Belarus, was also charged.See the rest of the story at Business Insider NOW WATCH: Here's how the top 7 Democratic presidential candidates want to transform the US economy See Also: SEE ALSO: 2 of Rudy Giuliani's associates who prosecutors say helped him dig up dirt on Joe Biden have been charged with campaign finance violations |