Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of Trump lawyer
Rudy Giuliani who worked as his envoy in Ukraine, communicated with a top aide to Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) about an effort to find damaging information on former Vice President
Joe Biden, documents released Friday night by House
Democrats revealed.The evidence shows Derek Harvey, a former
White House official and top aide to Nunes, communicated extensively with Parnas and sought to speak with Ukrainian prosecutors who were giving Giuliani information about Biden, reports The
Washington Post. The documents corroborate Parnas' own claims about Nunes' office's involvement in the scheme.Parnas has said
President Trump and his associates were working to push
Ukraine into announcing an investigation into Biden. The messages, the Post writes, "indicate Nunes' office was aware of the operation at the heart of impeachment proceedings against the president — and sought to use the information Parnas was gathering." Nunes, the top
Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, did not comment on the documents.Read more at The
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