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One of Trump attorney Rudolph Giuliani’s Ukrainian-American allies, Lev Parnas has handed a collection of information to the House Intelligence Committee. It could shed more light on alleged efforts by the President to influence U.S foreign policy to get his own political benefit. Parnas is one of 2 Giuliani associates who were arrested for alleged campaign finance violations in October. He has now given the committee a cache of WhatsApp messages, text messages, and images. His attorney Joseph Bondy said on Twitter Monday morning, “It has a detail interaction with a number of individuals connected to the impeachment inquiry”. Bondy also said he and his client have also turned over the contents of one of his iPhones and another Samsung phone to the committee.

It is noteworthy, the information contained in them remains under a judge’s protective order prohibiting its public disclosure. Bondy added that he and Parnas will be working to provide the other materials, including the contents of 2 more iPhones to the committee as soon as possible. Prosecutors from the U.S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York charged Parnas and Fruman, along with 2 associates, with conspiring to circumvent the federal laws against foreign influence by engaging in a scheme to funnel foreign money to candidates for federal and state office so that the defendants could buy potential influence with the candidates, campaigns.

Parnas and Fruman were allegedly key players in Giuliani’s scheme to force the termination of top U.S diplomat in Kyiv, Marie Yovanovitch. Giuliani reportedly believed she was an impediment to his goal of having Ukraine’s government to announce investigations into Biden and his son Hunter. John Dowd is a criminal defense attorney who once represented Trump during the early stages of Mueller’s probe. He said in a statement to Congress at the time of the two men’s arrest that the pair had been assisting Giuliani in his work on Trump’s behalf. But, Jay Sekulow (one of Trump’s current attorneys) said in a statement at the time that neither Trump nor his campaign was aware of the campaign finance scheme detailed in the indictment against Parnas and Fruman.