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Posted: 2020-01-18T00:29:13Z | Updated: 2020-01-18T01:50:31Z

The House Judiciary Committee released more documents Friday from Lev Parnas , the Rudy Giuliani associate at the center of the Ukraine scandal that prompted President Donald Trump s impeachment in December.

The documents include communications that appear to further detail efforts to surveil then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch. They also show frequent communication regarding Ukraine between Parnas and Derek Harvey , an aide to Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), despite Nunes claims he didnt have a role in the scandal.

Parnas, who was indicted last year on campaign finance charges, helped Giuliani, Trumps lawyer, search in Ukraine for damning information about former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. Parnas has since cooperated with the Houses impeachment inquiry , as well as with federal investigators who are probing Giuliani and his work in Ukraine.

The newly released documents can be found here . They include more of Parnas communications with Robert Hyde , a Republican congressional candidate in Connecticut, as well as messages with Harvey, the Nunes aide. There are also photos documenting Parnas ties to Trump and the White House, as well as iMessages with Giuliani .

The latest document dump comes after the House Intelligence Committee released damning evidence from Parnas earlier this week, including letters from Giuliani to Volodymyr Zelensky when Zelensky was president-elect of Ukraine, and WhatsApp messages between Parnas and a man who apparently tracked the whereabouts of Yovanovitch in March.

Yovanovitchs location is again mentioned in Fridays tranche of files. Screenshots provided by Parnas appear to show Hyde texting with a Belgian number about the ambassador.

I will give you the address next week, reads one text from the Belgian number, which had sent Hyde a tweet about Yovanovitch.

She has been there since Thursday never left the embassy, reads another text.