were taking aim at the pair for their suspicious movement of money to political campaigns in the U.S.

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According to court documents unsealed Thursday, the dual interests of the Giuliani associates sometimes overlapped.

Among the beneficiaries of their largess, prosecutors allege, was a U.S. congressman who received $5,400 last year from the pair, who also pledged to raise $20,000 for the lawmaker as they sought to enlist him in an effort to remove Marie Yovanovitch as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.

In his July 25 call to Zelensky, Trump makes an apparent disparaging reference to Yovanovitch, suggesting that she was ultimately recalled for criticizing the president. During the same call, he urged the Ukrainian president to work with Giuliani andU.S. Attorney General William Barr to assist in the investigation of the Bidens.

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The congressman who received the political donations was not named in court documents, but a person familiar with the matter identified the lawmaker as former Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas.

Sessions wrote Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last year, urging the ouster of Yovanovitch, who was recalled in May.

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Parnas and Fruman, however, made their biggest political splash last year when their company, Global Energy Producers, was credited with giving $325,000 to the committee that supports Trump's re-election, America First Action SuperPac.

The campaign contribution sparked a complaint to the Federal Election Commission–and at least two