It's alleged that while in congress, Republican Pete Sessions worked with Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and a pair of Russian associates who promised to raise money for Session's re-election campaign.
Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas were arrested late Wednesday night at Dulles Airport outside of Washington, D.C.
According to prosecutors out of the Southern District in New York who identified Sessions as "Congressman One," Sessions wrote a letter to the state department to try to get the US ambassador to the Ukraine removed from her post. Marie Yovanovitch eventually lost her job.
The indictment says Sessions got about $3 million dollars in donations from a campaign committee, which has been identified as a Trump-aligned super PAC
SMU political scientist Cal Jillson says "it's not clear that anything illegal has happened, but if the money was raised in the wrong way for Pete Sessions and he was aware of it he, it could be trouble for him and the trouble could be legal."
Sessions was defeated in 2018 and is now running for the seat being vacated by outgoing Republican Bill Flores. District 17 stretches from Austin to Waco to College Stations. Jillson says "as he tries to restore his congressional career by running for a new district, he is immersed in this Ukraine story. It cannot be helpful to him."