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Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon received campaign donations from one of the men indicted this week on charges of violating campaign finance laws in connection with the president’s pressure on Ukraine.

The World-Herald brought the donations to Bacon’s attention. His campaign said that as soon as the congressman “discovered the illegality of these donations,” he donated that amount to two anti-sex trafficking charities.

The donations came from Igor Fruman, one of two men arrested Wednesday night on charges of violating campaign finance laws in connection with their efforts to funnel foreign money from Russia into President Donald Trump’s campaign. He and Lev Parnas were arrested at Dulles International Airport as they were boarding an international flight.

They are associates of Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer.

The two Florida-based businessmen also are accused of involvement in efforts to oust the then-U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, who was removed from her job by the Trump administration earlier this year. House Democrats are examining whether she was recalled because she opposed Giuliani’s efforts to put pressure on the Ukrainians to investigate presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter.