Many of Parnas’ records were seized by the FBI in raids on his home and elsewhere around the time of his arrest last month.
An indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani is offering to participate in Congress’s ongoing impeachment inquiry, although major legal hurdles remain before lawmakers’ seem likely to be able to tap the potential new source of information on President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.
Lev Parnas, a Ukrainian-born U.S. citizen currently under house arrest in Florida on campaign finance charges, is offering an olive branch to Congress after previously rebuffing a subpoena issued by the House Intelligence Committee last month.
“He will comply with a subpoena to testify as long as it doesn’t implicate some validly-held privilege of his,” said Joseph Bondy, a New York-based attorney for Parnas. “He’s not going to be held in contempt of Congress. He’s facing the subpoenas and will honor them to fullest extent possible. Where necessary, he may invoke the 5 th Amendment.”
“The bottom line is he’ll sit in the chair and he may invoke the privilege and maybe he will get immunity given that this is a matter of some import to national security,” Bondy added.
Bondy also said Parnas intends to comply with a subpoena for documents the House Intelligence Committee already issued.
Many of Parnas’ records were seized by the FBI in raids on his home and elsewhere around the time of his arrest last month at Dulles Airport near Washington as he prepared to board a flight to Vienna with his business partner, Igor Fruman, who was also arrested.
Last month, John Dowd, a former personal attorney for Trump, wrote to the panel on behalf of Parnas and Fruman saying they had not been given enough time to comply and warning that the records sought include information “protected by the attorney-client, attorney work-product and other privileges.”
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