Giuliani meets Ukrainian prosecutor Lutsenko while seeking material on Trump's rivals
The impeachment inquiry traced Giuliani's January meetings with Yuriy Lutsenko to the private channel later used to press for investigations benefiting Trump.
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The House impeachment inquiry found that Rudy Giuliani met Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko in New York in late January 2019 and pursued allegations about the Bidens and the 2016 election. The committee treated those contacts as the beginning of a private foreign-policy channel serving President Trump's domestic political interests rather than the regular diplomatic process.
- U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: The Trump-Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry ReportExecutive Summary and Section II.A, pages 33–45: January 2019 meetings and private channel