Treasury Dept Sanctions Ukrainian Lawmaker Who Met With Giuliani, Peddled Biden Dirt

US President Donald Trump (R) listens as his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani speaks to the City of New York Police Benevolent Association at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ, on Aug. 14, 2020. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

• The Treasury Department announced sanctions against a Ukrainian lawmaker accused of pushing disinformation about Joe and Hunter Biden.
• Andriy Derkach met late last year with Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani. In May, he released covertly recorded tapes of conversations in 2016 between Joe Biden and then-Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko.
• The Treasury Department alleges that Derkach has been “an active Russian agent” for more than a decade, and that he has used disinformation to undermine the 2020 election.

The Trump administration on Thursday announced sanctions against a Ukrainian lawmaker who met last year with Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and has pushed for a corruption investigation into Hunter Biden, the son of 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden.

The Treasury Department accused Andriy Derkach of waging a pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign “in an attempt to undermine the upcoming 2020 U.S. presidential election.”