(CNN) – A lawyer for an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani tells CNN that his client is willing to tell Congress about meetings the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee had in Vienna last year with a former Ukrainian prosecutor to discuss digging up dirt on Joe Biden.
The attorney, Joseph A. Bondy, represents Lev Parnas, the recently indicted Soviet-born American who worked with Giuliani to push claims of Democratic corruption in Ukraine. Bondy said that Parnas was told directly by the former Ukrainian official that he met last year in Vienna with Rep. Devin Nunes.
“Mr. Parnas learned from former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Victor Shokin that Nunes had met with Shokin in Vienna last December,” said Bondy.
Shokin was ousted from his position in 2016 after pressure from Western leaders, including then-vice president Biden, over concerns that Shokin was not pursuing corruption cases.
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Bondy tells CNN that his client and Nunes began communicating around the time of the Vienna trip. Parnas says he worked to put Nunes in touch with Ukrainians who could help Nunes dig up dirt on Biden and Democrats in Ukraine, according to Bondy.
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Giuliani has told CNN previously about his conversations with Shokin and Parnas, saying that this was part of his legal work for his client, President Trump. Parnas’ claims about Nunes’ alleged involvement offers a new wrinkle and for the first time suggests the efforts to dig up dirt on the Bidens involved a member of Congress.
Parnas’ claims that Nunes met with Shokin, which has not been previously reported, add further context to a Daily Beast report that Parnas helped arrange meetings and calls in Europe for Nunes last year, citing another Parnas’ lawyer, Ed McMahon.
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In the Capitol on Nov. 14, as CNN began to ask a question about the trip to Vienna, Nunes interjected and said, “I don’t talk to you in this lifetime or the next lifetime.”
“At any time,” Nunes added. “On any question.”
Asked again on Thursday about his travel to Vienna and his interactions with Shokin and Parnas, Nunes gave a similar response.
“To be perfectly clear, I don’t acknowledge any questions from you in this lifetime or the next lifetime,” Nunes said while leaving the impeachment hearing. “I don’t acknowledge any question from you ever.”
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EXCLUSIVE: An associate of President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani is willing to testify that Rep. Devin Nunes met with an ex-Ukraine official to get dirt on Joe Biden, his lawyer says https://t.co/ssosttLlSW
— CNN (@CNN) November 23, 2019
EXCLUSIVE: An associate of President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani is willing to testify that Rep. Devin Nunes met with an ex-Ukraine official to get dirt on Joe Biden, his lawyer says https://t.co/WOBraPsJdf pic.twitter.com/3YF0lxXy6V
— CNN (@CNN) November 23, 2019
Discovery is gonna be lit. Look for Nunes to not follow through.
— Adrian Wapcaplet (@AdrianWapcapIet) November 23, 2019
He's going to drop the suit before then or expects a lower court to dismiss the case. He just wanted the headline tomorrow. They should countersue to force an embarrassing discovery @DevinNunes
— Justloldude (@justloldude) November 23, 2019
Lajes Boy was HPSCI Chair. Admittedly he was a boob of a HPSCI chair, but he KNEW the entire nutball Ukraine-Did-It Upside-Down 2016 bullshit was FAKE NEWS — and authored by the SVR.
He knew. He deserves the coming pain more than anyone on Team Trump. https://t.co/zVmdpM0iDN
— John Schindler (@20committee) November 25, 2019
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