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Associates of U.S. President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani used a U.S. shell company to conceal more than $300,000 in U.S. political campaign contributions made by a Ukrainian official, according to the Justice Department. In a 21-page indictment, Manhattan federal prosecutors accuse Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, U.S. citizens from Ukraine and Belarus respectively, of "laundering foreign money through bank accounts in the names of limited liability corporations" and using stand-in donors to conceal the funds' origin. The indictment does not, however, charge the pair with money laundering. Both men were arrested Wednesday at Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C.,...