Someone's having second thoughts.
Lev Parnas, a Ukrainian-American businessman who became mixed up in President Trump's impeachment inquiry, is reversing course and is now prepared to comply with congressional impeachment investigators' requests for records and testimony, Reuters reports.
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Parnas first said he wouldn't cooperate with the House inquiry, but his lawyer, Joseph Bondy, told Reuters on Monday that "we will honor and not avoid the committee's requests to the extent they are legally proper."
Parnas was recently indicted on charges of using a shell company to donate money to a pro-Trump election committee. Read more at Reuters.
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