Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani is looking for a new lawyer, report says, after abruptly parting ways with his last one in the middle of the Ukraine scandal

• President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, is still on the lookout for a defense attorney, sources told CNN Wednesday.
• Giuliani is reportedly under investigation by New York federal prosecutors for his business dealings and political activity in Ukraine.
• Giuliani parted company with his previous attorney, Jon Sale, two weeks ago.
• Giuliani had just refused to comply with a congressional subpoena from House Democrats probing claims that Trump committed impeachable offences in his dealings with Ukraine.
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President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, is seeking a new defense lawyer as prosecutors probe his business dealings and political activity in Ukraine, CNN reported Wednesday.

Giuliani parted ways with his previous attorney, Jon Sale, around October 9, after refusing to comply with a subpoena from House Democrats probing whether Trump should be impeached for pressuring Ukraine to probe his political rival Joe Biden.

At the time, Giuliani told Politico that he was no longer retaining Sale's services because Sale had done what he had hired him for in responding to the congressional subpoena.

According to three sources who spoke to CNN, Giuliani is now seeking another defense attorney as he faces scrutiny on even more fronts.

Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York are probing his activities in Ukraine, and the FBI is looking to determine whether his activities constitute a counterintelligence threat.

According to three sources who spoke to CNN, Giuliani is now seeking another defense attorney as he faces scrutiny on even more fronts.

Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York are probing his activities in Ukraine, and the FBI is looking to determine whether his activities constitute a counterintelligence threat.

The New York Times reported that Giuliani was under investigation after his associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, businessmen from Florida both born in former Soviet states, were arrested earlier in October on campaign finance charges.

Soon after, CNN reported that there was a counterintelligence aspect to the probe.

Parnas and Fruman are accused by prosecutors of illegally sending foreign to a pro-Trump PAC, and to the campaigns of Republican candidates. In a court appearance Wednesday, the pair denied the charges.

Giuliani would not directly comment to CNN on whether he was hiring or had hired an attorney. In a tweet Wednesday night, Giuliani defended his activities as Trump's lawyer.

Giuliani had worked with the pair to investigate unsubstantiated accusations that Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, were involved in corruption in Ukraine.

They also worked on a groundless conspiracy theory that Ukraine secretly interfered in the 2016 election to help secure a Democratic victory, then pinned the blame on Russia.

The Democratic impeachment probe focuses on whether Trump withheld military aid from Ukraine in order to pressure Ukraine to announce an investigation into the Bidens and the election interference conspiracy.