https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-comply-Trump-impeachment-inquiry-lawyer.html I'll help Democrats' impeachment probe says Rudy Giuliani's indicted associate after ditching Donald Trump's former attorney for new lawyer Lev Parnas' new attorney says he will comply with a request from the three impeachment inquiry committees to co-operate with their probe Parnas is on bail waiting for trial in New York on charges of funneling illegal foreign cash to political campaigns including a pro-Donald Trump PAC He had initially been represented by John Dowd, who was Trump's attorney for part of the Mueller inquiry, who had rebuffed request to co-operate But his new attorney Joseph Bondy says: 'We will honor and not avoid the committee's requests to the extent they are legally proper.' Parnas denies the charges as does his business associate Igor Fruman, both of whom worked with the president's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani ByREUTERSandASSOCIATED PRESS PUBLISHED:17:04 EST, 4 November 2019|UPDATED:18:04 EST, 4 November 2019 Lev Parnas, an indicted Ukrainian-American businessman who has ties to President Donald Trump´s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, is now prepared to comply with requests for records and testimony from congressional impeachment investigators, his lawyer told Reuters on Monday. Parnas, who helped Giuliani look for dirt on Trump's political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, is a key figure in the impeachment inquiry that is examining whether Trump abused his office for personal political gain. His apparent decision to now work with the congressional committees represents a change of heart. Parnas rebuffed a request from three House of Representatives committees last month to provide documents and testimony. '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,' said the lawyer, Joseph Bondy, referring to his client's constitutional right to avoid self-incrimination. His previous lawyer, John Dowd, wrote to the committees in early October complaining that their requests for documents were 'overly broad and unduly burdensome.' Dowd previously represented Trump during part of the Mueller inquiry. Parnas pleaded not guilty in Manhattan federal court last month to being part of a scheme that used a shell company to donate money to a pro-Trump election committee and illegally raise money for a former congressman as part of an effort to have the president remove the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. The indictment does not address the issues involved in the impeachment inquiry. Parnas would be a crucial witness if he were to cooperate. He has said he played a key role in connecting Giuliani to Ukrainian officials during Giuliani's investigation into Biden and his son Hunter. Trump's request to Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in a July 25 phone call to investigate the Bidens was at the heart of a whistleblower complaint by an intelligence officer that sparked the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry on Sept. 24. Parnas and his business partner Igor Fruman - whose joint venture was called Fraud Guarantee - are both waiting trial in New York. Last Friday a judge refused to release Fruman from house arrest. U.S. District Judge Paul Oetken in Manhattan said at a hearing that there was a risk the Belarus-born Fruman, would flee the country. Fruman, who lives in Florida, did not appear in court. Fruman was arrested on Oct. 9 at a Washington-area airport along with Parnas, carrying a one-way ticket to Vienna. He was released on bail, but ordered confined to his home and subject to electronic monitoring. Federal prosecutors have accused Fruman and Parnas of using a shell company to donate $325,000 to the pro-Trump committee and of raising money for former U.S. Representative Pete Sessions of Texas as part of an effort to have the president remove the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. That effort was carried out at the request of at least one Ukrainian official, prosecutors said. Trump ordered the ambassador, Marie Yovanovitch, removed in May. Fruman and Parnas have pleaded not guilty. Fruman's lawyer, Todd Blanche, said at Friday's hearing that any claim Fruman was trying to flee was 'completely false' and that he often bought one-way tickets when traveling. Blanche said Fruman needed to move more freely in order to take care of his three school-age children. He said there was no risk that Fruman, who has been a U.S. resident for 25 years and a citizen for 15, would flee, adding that he 'has his entire life' in the United States. Oetken, however, said Fruman also had substantial business ties in Ukraine, and that it was 'impossible to know' based on the available evidence whether he had been trying to flee when he bought the one-way ticket. Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicolas Roos told a judge that Fruman's brother Steven had initially failed to disclose his interest in a holding company linked to the scheme when he was screened to be a backer of a $1 million bail bond. Roos said of Steven Fruman: 'It appears he could be involved in some of the conduct in the indictment.' Igor Fruman's defense attorney, Todd Blanche, responded by calling prosecutors' interest in the brother's finances a 'fishing expedition.' The exchange followed reports last month that prosecutors had subpoenaed Steven Fruman shortly after his brother was arrested.