Hunter Biden reportedly sought US government help for Ukrainian gas company Burisma

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Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden asked the U.S. ambassador to Italy for help regarding an energy project a Ukrainian gas company was pursuing while his father was vice president, according to The New York Times.

Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, wrote a letter to the ambassador in 2016 seeking assistance for Burisma, which had been working on a geothermal project in Italy, the newspaper reported, citing newly released records and interviews.

At the time, Hunter Biden sat on the board of Burisma, which was having trouble getting regulatory approval for the project, a businessman involved in the project told the newspaper

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-burisma-state-department-italy-1053ec65050e45e6a03905b960a87445

[NoMoreRepugs]

1. Next up at the NYT the latest on Hillary's laptop.

[FalloutShelter]

3. Yeah... I'll listen to this just as soon

As I see an investigation of how Jared got his hands on 2billion, or maybe how TSF attempted to launder 10mil from Egypt into his 2016 campaign.
Otherwise… they can STFU

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. Who gives a fuck? I like Ukraine, But what I want to know is 2 things.

(1) Did Trump take a $10MM bribe in 2016?
(2) How did Jared Kushner get $2BB to start an investment company from Saudi Arabia?

[FalloutShelter]

4. Beat me to it.

[OAITW r.2.0]

6. LOL...Maybe I just read the post a few seconds earlier than you did!

Great minds think alike.

[Marcuse]

5. Comer would have had hearings through the election anyway.

Hunter Biden’s lawyer said his client’s outreach to the ambassador on behalf of Burisma was a “proper request” and that he had asked “various people” to help arrange an introduction between Burisma and the president of Italy’s Tuscany region.

“No meeting occurred, no project materialized, no request for anything in the U.S. was ever sought and only an introduction in Italy was requested,” attorney Abbe Lowell said.

[Pisces]

7. No longer matters, now that Biden is not running. He's the worst but soon we won't have to worry about

What else he did.

[Omaha Steve]

8. AFTER a review by forum hosts LOCKING

DUPE of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143290111

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