WASHINGTON (TND) — Hunter Biden’s highly-paid position on Ukrainian gas company Burisma's boardhas been reported on for years.
In May 2014, apress release announcing his position as Director was sent out for the world to see. But what the job entailed, at a time his father was serving as vice president, is now coming more clearly into view.
The New York Times reported Tuesdayhe sought help from the State Department, "writing to the U.S. Ambassador in Italy seeking assistance for Burisma, when the company was having difficulty securing regulatory approval for a geothermal project in Tuscany."
In a recent interview with The National Desk, President of the Government Accountability Institute Peter Schweizer talked about the questions that have been raised for years following his book, Secret Empires.
The concern has always been about Hunter Biden and his family and of course, his father as Vice President and President of the United States, is that they were running sort of an influence-peddling scheme.”The U.S. State Department does not appear to have gotten involved.
The documents detailing the action were just released shortly after President Joe Biden decided not to run for re-election, timing the State Department calls coincidental.
The revelations also come after a court filing last week detailing payments from a Romanian businessman to Hunter Biden and a business associate who wanted the U.S. government to intervene in a corruption investigation of him in his home country.
The money was reportedly wired through what House investigators call shell companies.
In an interview with Newsmax on Aug. 10, House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., spoke about the investigation.
“The concerning thing for the banks was not only the fact that they didn’t know why in the world there would be a wire going into a fake LLC that was seldom used but the fact that it's the sitting Vice President of the United States' son getting this wire which would lead to a national security threat which would suggest a potential bribe."
All of these allegations are tied to Hunter Biden’s federal tax case which is set to take place in California just about three weeks from now.
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