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EXCLUSIVE: Since at least October 2019, the feds have been looking into Giuliani’s effort to convince the White House and a reluctant State Department to grant a visa to a former Ukraine official https://trib.al/Qflrj6f
Sources tell us the visa issue is one aspect of a probe into whether Giuliani’s efforts during the Trump-Ukraine saga constituted illegal lobbying. Federal investigators are also looking into Giuliani’s attempt to get Marie Yovanovitch fired. https://trib.al/Cff0yma
Giuliani’s efforts to secure a visa for Viktor Shokin became well known during the first Trump impeachment trial https://trib.al/Cff0yma
The controversial former prosecutor general’s name appeared as one of 12 people whose communications with Giuliani prosecutors sought under a search warrant executed by the FBI at the former mayor’s apartment late last month. https://trib.al/Cff0yma
Giuliani first became involved in attempts to secure a visa for Shokin in early 2019 when he invited the former Ukrainian prosecutor to New York to interview him about his allegations of corruption against Biden and his son, Hunter. https://trib.al/Cff0yma
The failed effort to secure a visa proved to be a flashpoint between Giuliani and Yovanovitch and provided fodder for his campaign to have her fired https://trib.al/Cff0yma
