Memos: Burisma relentlessly pressured Obama administration #Biden

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State Department memos show the Ukrainian company that paid millions of dollars to Joe Biden's son Hunter relentlessly pressured the Obama administration to drop corruption investigations.

"They keep trying through every channel they can," one State official said during the summer of 2016 regarding the intense lobbying campaign by Burisma Holdings, reported Just the News.

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JTN, which obtained the memos under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, said they "add new significance to a long-running Senate investigation into the Bidens' activities and perceived conflicts of interest in Ukraine."

Hunter Biden was paid $3.1 million to be on the board of Burisma, even though he had no experience in the industry, while his vice president father was in charge of U.S.-Ukraine policy for the Obama administration.

https://www.wnd.com/2020/08/memos-burisma-relentlessly-pressured-obama-administration/

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https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/new-memos-disclose-relentless-pressure-hunter-biden

New State memos disclose relentless pressure by Hunter Biden-connected Ukrainian firm

The memos, released to Just the News under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit assisted by the Southeastern Foundation, add new significance to a long-running Senate investigation into the Bidens' activities and perceived conflicts of interest in Ukraine.

For instance, they show far more contact between Burisma and the U.S. embassy in Kiev than was acknowledged by witnesses during President Trump's impeachment proceedings earlier this year. One issue in that trial was the more than $3 million Hunter Biden's firm collected from Burisma while his father supervised Ukraine policy for President Obama.

The memos obtained by Just the News also were withheld from Senate investigators, who learned of their existence from the FOIA lawsuit.
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Burisma representatives repeatedly pressed for meetings, at times invoking Hunter Biden's name, starting with a Blue Star conversation with then-Undersecretary of State Catherine Novelli in January 2016 before turning their attention to U.S. diplomats on the ground in Kiev, the memos show.

By summer 2016 — their mission to clear Burisma's name still incomplete — Blue Star officials pigeonholed the new U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, during her Senate confirmation hearing and then attended a private reception where she was honored, according to the memos.