Livingston worked for the trade group, called the Association of Enterprises UKRMETALURGPROM, for only two months. They discussed Trump’s steel tariffs and the upcoming visit to Washington of Natalia Mykolska, Ukraine’s deputy minister of economic development and trade.

But a Justice Department disclosure filed by his firm shows that Livingston spoke with Croft and another White House aide, Virginia Boney, by phone on May 17, 2018, as part of his lobbying work for a Ukrainian association of steel companies. It’s unclear when Livingston’s conversations with Croft about Yovanovitch took place. Livingston didn’t respond to a request for comment Wednesday. And Croft’s testimony has thrust the former congressman into the spotlight of the impeachment inquiry, as House Democrats more broadly examine Trump’s attempts to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rivals. Trump ultimately recalled Yovanovitch in May.īut the filings do show that Livingston and his firm, the Livingston Group, represented multiple Ukraine-related clients during Trump’s presidency. Her removal has become a focus of investigators examining Ukraine shadow diplomacy carried out by President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and his associates. Livingston’s lobbying disclosure filings shed little light on who - if anyone - paid him to push for Yovanovitch’s ouster. Livingston was seeking the removal of Ambassador Yovanovitch.” “It was not clear to me at the time - or now - at whose direction or at whose expense Mr. “He characterized Ambassador Yovanovitch as an ‘Obama holdover’ and associated with George Soros,” Croft said in her opening statement.

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