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Hunter Biden sought State Department help for a Ukrainian energy company while President Joe Biden was vice president, according to the New York Timeswhich obtained the information from the agency through a FIOA request dating back to 2021.
The publication of the paper is important for three reasons. The agency first released the document after Joe Biden announced he would not seek re-election, underscoring concerns among Republicans that the Biden administration was covering up Hunter's foreign dealings that enriched the Biden family while Joe Biden was Vice President.
Second, Hunter failed to register as a foreign agent for his work with Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian energy company that paid him $83,000 a month — or $1 million a year — just weeks after his father was. announced as the “point person” for US foreign policy towards Ukraine. Hunter had no experience in energy or Ukraine before becoming a company board member and asking the US government for help.
Third, the State Department sat on the document during the 2019-2020 impeachment proceedings of former President Donald Trump, who accused the Bidens of colluding with Burisma. Democrats wrongly alleged that Trump engaged in a quid pro quo to obtain information from Ukraine about the Bidens. The Senate exonerated Trump.
In 2016, Hunter asked the US ambassador to Italy for help regarding Bursima's “problems in securing regulatory approval for a geothermal energy project in Tuscany.” time informed Tuesday:
The difficulty is reflected in emails, found on Mr Biden's laptop cache, from one of his associates to an Italian businessman who claimed to have links to Enrico Rossi, the president of the regional government of Tuscany at that time.
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Mr. Rossi said in an interview that he never met Mr. Biden. He did not recall the US Embassy contacting him about the project.
Although Mr. Biden's letter to the ambassador is referenced in the correspondence, The Times was unable to review its contents because the State Department appears to have drafted it in its entirety. The department cited exemptions that allow the retention of records that would compromise individual privacy, the attorney-client privilege or the government's deliberative process.
Joe Biden was allegedly unaware of Hunter's request in 2016, the time reported, even though Joe Biden boasted that same year that he forced the firing of Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin, that investigated Burisma for corruption. In 2015, Burisma was under suspicion of money laundering and public corruption. Shokin investigated the case before his firing, which came under pressure from then-Vice President Biden, who threatened to withhold $1 billion in US aid to Ukraine if the Ukrainian government did not fire the prosecutor investigating Burisma .
Although the Bidens' work in Ukraine is well documented, the Justice Department did not charge Hunter with violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), which requires people to disclose when they lobby the US government on behalf of foreign interests.
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Special Prosecutor David Weiss could still charge Hunter with the FARA violation because his declaration of love agreement was broken. It was negotiated in 2023 to give Hunter broad immunity. The sweetheart deal collapsed under court scrutiny, and Weiss later filed separate gun and tax charges in Delaware and California, respectively. The tax trial is scheduled for September.
In a tax-related court filing last weekWeiss stopped short of accusing Hunter of “improperly coordinating with the Obama administration,” after failing to indict him for years for FARA violations, choosing instead to indict the president's son for alleged violations prosecutors and weapons, potential crimes that Republicans claim falls short. of justice
Court documents alleged, however, that Hunter accepted $3,101,258 from the Romanian partner Gabriel Popoviciu for “influencing US government agencies” when Joe Biden served as vice president.
Wendell Husebo is a political reporter for Breitbart News and a former RNC war room analyst. He is the author of Politics of the morality of slaves. Follow Wendell “X” @WendellHusebø or on Social Truth @WendellHusebo.
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