The Moscow lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. Don John Trump'Tiger King' star Joe Exotic requests pardon from Trump: 'Be my hero please' Zaid Jilani discusses Trump's move to cancel racial sensitivity training at federal agencies Trump International Hotel in Vancouver closes permanently MORE and others at Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign had close ties to top Russian government officials, according to a new report from the Associated Press.

Documents reveal Natalia Veselnitskaya served as a ghostwriter for high-level Russian government lawyers and collaborated with senior Interior Ministry personnel, according to the AP, who received the information from a London-based investigative unit, the Dossier Center.

The Dossier Center is run by Russian opposition figure Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Reports emerged in April that Veselnitskaya was closer to the Russian government than she previously admitted. The New York Times reported at the time that Veselnitskaya had worked for Russia’s chief legal office against the U.S. Justice Department in a fraud case against a top Russian firm.

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“I am a lawyer, and I am an informant,” she said in an NBC interview in April. “Since 2013, I have been actively communicating with the office of the Russian prosecutor general."

It has previously been reported that the British music producer who set up the meeting between Trump Jr. and Veselnitskaya told Trump Jr. that the information she could provide — allegedly dirt on then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonFox News poll: Biden ahead of Trump in Nevada, Pennsylvania and Ohio Trump, Biden court Black business owners in final election sprint The power of incumbency: How Trump is using the Oval Office to win reelection MORE — was “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”

“If it’s what you say I love it especially later in the summer,” Trump Jr. replied to Goldstone.

Special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE is currently investigating the ties between Russia and the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election.