Unable to get members of Universal Distribution List using Powershell

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I am trying to write a script to list out all members of a "Universal Distribution List" using Powershell. However I keep getting an empty result set back.

When I run the following command against a "Global Distribution List" it works fine and I can see who belongs to it. dsquery group -name "SomeGroup" | dsget group -members -expand

However as I mentioned when I run this against a "Universal Distribution List" I get no results. Can anyone help?

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