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Fri Oct 11, 2019, 05:24 PM Oct 2019

Pete Sessions' Comeback Complicated by latest Ukraine-related Arrests

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Former Republican Rep. Pete Sessions' climb back into Congress was already off to a rough start, with some in his own party suggesting he was carpetbagging by leaving the Dallas district he lost last fall to try to get elected in a far more rural and politically safe one.

Now he may have bigger problems: a federal indictment that appears to link him to a campaign finance scheme and the Ukraine scandal at the heart of the impeachment investigation.
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Prosecutors allege that Parnas urged a congressman to seek the ouster of the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine at the behest of Ukrainian government officials. That happened about the same time that Parnas and Fruman committed to raising more than $20,000 for the politician.

The indictment does not accuse Sessions of wrongdoing or mention him by name, simply referring to the person as "Congressman 1." But donations made by Parnas and Fruman match campaign finances reports for Sessions.

More:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/arrests-may-cloud-district-switching-183919924.html

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Pete Sessions' Comeback Complicated by latest Ukraine-related Arrests (Original Post) hurl Oct 2019 OP
So it's a safe district? They'll elect him in prison. dem4decades Oct 2019 #1
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