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The investigation into Hunter Biden and his suspicious employment with Burisma Holdings is expanding.
Republican Senators have requested interviews and multiple records from former officials in the Obama administration.
Senators Chuck Grassley, Lindsey Graham, and Ron Johnson announced the update on Wednesday, as the House Democrats were preparing to impeach President Trump for the malfeasance of Hunter Biden’s overseas work.
The Senators chair the Senate Homeland Security, Finance, and Judiciary Committees, and are planning to look into whether Hunter Biden and the Ukrainian energy conglomerate benefitted from access to the Obama administration, exclusively.
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As part of the investigation, the senators now plan to interview former top aides to former Vice President Joe Biden and ex-Secretary of State John Kerry. Included on the list are former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, former international energy affairs envoy Amos Hochstein, ex-Under Secretary of State Catherine Novelli, former Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, and one-time Kerry chief of staff David Wade.
Documents revealed through a Freedom of Information Act request in November showed that officials like Blinken, Hochstein, and Novelli met with Burisma lobbyists in 2015 and 2016. The meetings were arranged after the lobbyists name-checked Hunter Biden when reaching out to the Obama-era officials.
Graham, in particular, has cited the timing of those meetings and the pressure campaign that followed — in which Joe Biden demanded Ukraine fire its top prosecutor, who at the time was looking into Burisma for corruption — as an impetus for further investigation.
