An indicted Ukrainian-American businessman with ties to President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani is now prepared to provide testimony and records to congressional impeachment investigators, his lawyer told Reuters on Monday.

Lev Parnas, who helped Mr. Giuliani investigate the actions of Democratic frontrunner Joseph R. Biden in Ukraine, had rebuffed a request from three House committees last month to provide documents and testimony. But he recently changed lawyers.

“We will honor and not avoid the committee’s requests to the extent they are legally proper, while scrupulously protecting Mr. Parnas’ privileges including that of the Fifth Amendment,” his new lawyer, Joseph Bondy, told Reuters.

His previous lawyer, John Dowd, told the committees last month that their requests for documents were “overly broad and unduly burdensome.”

Mr. Parnas pleaded not guilty in federal court last month to taking part in a campaign-finance scheme that funneled money to a pro-Trump campaign committee and illegally raised money for a former Republican congressman in an attempt to persuade the president remove the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.

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