Hunter Biden made a 'proper request' to State Department about Ukrainian company, lawyer says

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Hunter Biden's lawyer is denying that his client acted improperly after a new report said the president's son sought assistance as a board member of the Ukrainian company Burisma from the State Department when Joe Biden was vice president. Abbe Lowell, Hunter Biden's attorney, said in a statement that in 2016, his client and others asked various people including the then-ambassador to Italy, John R.

ambassador to Italy, the report said, though the Times said the actual text of the letter was redacted. NBC News has not obtained these documents. The State Department confirmed that the documents were released as part of an ongoing Freedom of Information Act request and would be made available to the public in the coming weeks. A White House spokesman told NBC News that Biden was not aware when he was vice president that his son was reaching out to the U.S.

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