Hunter Biden sought help from US ambassador for Ukrainian company Burisma, lawyer confirms

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The overture occurred during Joe Biden's time as vice president.

, attempted to enlist support from the U.S. Ambassador to Italy in 2016 to arrange a business meeting on behalf of Burisma for a prospective energy deal, according to his attorney.

"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," Lowell said. The actual text of Hunter Biden's 2016 letter to Ambassador John Phillips was not included in the documents obtained by the Times. But according to Lowell, Hunter Biden reached out to the embassy to see "if they could make a simple introduction of Burisma's Geothermal company to the President of Tuscany where such projects were being considered."

Hunter Biden sat on the board of Burisma for nearly five years and earned more than $2 million from the energy firm during that time, according to court records filed as part of his tax case in California.

 

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