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 InstitutePeter Schweizer talked about the questions that have been raised for years following his book,
Secret Empires.
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."
