John Solomon Reports:
Hunter Biden and his Ukrainian gas firm colleagues had multiple contacts with the Obama State Department during the 2016 election cycle, including one just a month before Vice President Joe Biden forced Ukraine to fire the prosecutor investigating his son’s company for corruption, newly released memos show.
During that February 2016 contact, a U.S. representative for Burisma Holdings sought a meeting with Undersecretary of State Catherine A. Novelli to discuss ending the corruption allegations against the Ukrainian firm where Hunter Biden worked as a board member, according to memos obtained under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. (I filed that suit this summer with the help of the public interest law firm the Southeastern Legal Foundation.)
Just three weeks before Burisma’s overture to State, Ukrainian authorities raided the home of the oligarch who owned the gas firm and employed Hunter Biden, a signal the long-running corruption probe was escalating in the middle of the U.S. presidential election.
Hunter Biden’s name, in fact, was specifically invoked by the Burisma representative as a reason the State Department should help, according to a series of email exchanges among U.S. officials trying to arrange the meeting. The subject line for the email exchanges read simply “Burisma.”
“Per our conversation, Karen Tramontano of Blue Star Strategies requested a meeting to discuss with U/S Novelli USG remarks alleging Burisma (Ukrainian energy company) of corruption,” a Feb. 24, 2016, email between State officials read. “She noted that two high profile U.S. citizens are affiliated with the company (including Hunter Biden as a board member).
“Tramontano would like to talk with U/S Novelli about getting a better understanding of how the U.S. came to the determination that the company is corrupt,” the email added. “According to Tramontano there is no evidence of corruption, has been no hearing or process, and evidence to the contrary has not been considered.”
At the time, Novelli was the most senior official overseeing international energy issues for State. The undersecretary position, of which there are several, is the third-highest-ranking job at State, behind the secretary and deputy secretary. And Tramontano was a lawyer working for Blue Star Strategies, a Washington firm that was hired by Burisma to help end a long-running corruption investigation against the gas firm in Ukraine. read more
Quid Pro Joe
‘We’re stopping the dough’
‘Cause the Prosecutor’s gotta go.
And Hunter’s gonna stay.
It’s called ‘Pay For Play’
‘Cause my boy’s got hookers to pay.
You can call me ‘Slow Joe’,
but there’s one thing I surely know,
’cause it takes a lot of cash to keep Hunter in the blow
Love the sniffing & groping of all the little girls.
Really turns me on to sniff their little curls.
‘Cause I just can’t stop myself from being a swine before the pearls
Me & my boy Hunter on Air Force Two
Going to China for a bribe or few
’cause that’s what it’s all about, getting mine & screwing you.
Quid Pro Joe
This is how D’Rat Foreign Policy goes,
‘Cause we really could care less about the taxpaying Prols.
(only took 4 drinks to make this crap up … ok, 5)
^ A Poet laureate, and didn’t know it!
Look in obama’s pocket: you’ll find a lot of ill-gotten money. For example: a 63 million dollar book deal, for a book no one will read. Laundered money.
Say it ain’t so, Joe…….