A West Palm Beach man wanted in a campaign finance case involving associates of Rudy Giuliani is in federal custody after flying Wednesday to Kennedy Airport in New York City to turn himself in, federal authorities said.

David Correia, 44, was indicted with two Giuliani associates and another man, who were arrested last week on charges they made illegal contributions to politicians and a political action committee supporting President Donald Trump. Giuliani, a former New York City mayor, is Trump's personal lawyer.

All four defendants were expected to appear Thursday in Manhattan federal court. A lawyer for Correia was not listed in court records Wednesday afternoon.

Prosecutors said Correia participated in efforts by co-defendants Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman to leverage outsized and allegedly illegal political donations to Republican candidates and committees to advance their business interests.

Both Parnas and Fruman have a history of business dealings with Giuliani. Prosecutors said that, among other things, the pair made campaign contributions with the intent of lobbying U.S. politicians to oust the country's ambassador to Ukraine. At the time, Giuliani was trying to get Ukrainian officials to investigate the son of Trump's potential Democratic challenger, Joe Biden.

Correia is accused of conspiracy with the other defendants, including Ukrainian-born U.S. citizen Andrey Kukushkin, to make political donations to politicians in New York, Nevada and other states with the aim of trying to get support for a new recreational marijuana business.

Giuliani has said he had no knowledge of illegal donations and hadn't seen any evidence that Parnas and Fruman did anything wrong.

Correia is listed as the registered agent for a Florida company tied to a series of wire transfers prosecutors allege was part of an elaborate effort to hide the true source of funds used to make the donations.

He posed with then-U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions in a 2018 photo taken inside the Texas Republican's Capitol Hill office that Parnas posted on social media with the caption "Hard at work !!"

Sessions fits the description in the indictment of an undisclosed congressman who prosecutors allege was part of a coordinated effort to remove the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.

In related developments, Giuliani attorney Jon Sale, co-chair of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough's white-collar and government investigations practice in Miami, wrote Congress on Tuesday's deadline to say the former New York mayor would not comply with a House document subpoena in the impeachment probe examining U.S. dealings in Ukraine.

Giuliani later tweeted that Sale, who was retained this month, was no longer representing him, completing his work by delivering the subpoena response.

Tom Hays reports for the Associated Press.

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