By Now it can be completely told. With Joe Biden no longer running for president, the mainstream media has finally acknowledged what everyone else already knows: the Biden family, led by Hunter, uses the president’s influence to make money.
With a second term in the White House no longer in his future, the Biden administration has revealed records showing that while Joe served as vice president, Hunter asked for U.S. government assistance related to Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company that paid him a huge payday.
The New York Times writes that The records, which the Biden administration had withheld for years, indicate that Hunter Biden wrote at least one letter to the U.S. ambassador to Italy in 2016 seeking assistance for the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, where he was a board member.
“I want to be careful about promising too much,” wrote a Commerce Department official based in the U.S. Embassy in Rome who was tasked with responding.
“This is a Ukrainian company and, purely to protect ourselves, U.S.G. should not be actively advocating with the government of Italy without the company going through the D.O.C. Advocacy Center,” the official wrote. Those acronyms refer to the United States government and a Department of Commerce program that supports American companies that seek business with foreign governments.
Abbe Lowell, a lawyer for Mr. Biden, said his client “asked various people,” including the U.S. ambassador to Italy at the time, John R. Phillips, whether they could arrange an introduction between Burisma and the president of the Tuscany region of Italy, where Burisma was pursuing a geothermal project.
Despite State Department officials feeling discomforted by the request, Lowell told The Times that everything was proper, saying, “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.”
The new proof should bolster the current fraud case against the president’s son. Earlier in the week, as part of his tax fraud case, Special Counsel David Weiss introduced evidence that Hunter illegally failed to register as a foreign agent, noted The Associated Press.
“Hunter Biden was hired by a Romanian businessman accused of corruption who was trying to “influence U.S. government policy” during Joe Biden’s term as vice president, prosecutors said in court papers Wednesday.
Special counsel David Weiss’ team said Hunter Biden’s business associate will testify at the upcoming federal tax trial of the president’s son about the arrangement with the executive, Gabriel Popoviciu, who was facing criminal investigation at the time in Romania.
The allegations are likely to bring a fresh wave of criticism of Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings, which have been the center of Republicans’ investigations into the president’s family. Hunter Biden has blasted Republican inquiries into his family’s business affairs as politically motivated, and has insisted he never involved his father in his business.
Prosecutors plan to introduce evidence that Hunter Biden and his business associate “received compensation from a foreign principal who was attempting to influence U.S. policy and public opinion,” according to the filing. Popoviciu wanted U.S. government agencies to probe the Romanian bribery investigation he was facing in the hopes that would end his legal trouble, according to prosecutors.”
In 2017, Popoviciu received a seven-year prison sentence following his conviction for real estate fraud, a charge he has consistently denied. A former attorney who represented Popoviciu did not immediately respond to a phone message on Wednesday.
The outlet said that Hunter Biden and his attorney refused to comment on the story.
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