Hunter Biden made a 'proper request' to State Department about Ukrainian company, lawyer says
Hunter Biden's lawyer is denying that his client acted improperly after a new report said the president's son sought assistance as a board member of the Ukrainian company Burisma from the State Department when Joe Biden was vice president.
Hunter Biden's lawyer is denying that his client acted improperly after a new report said the president's son sought assistance as a board member of the Ukrainian company Burisma from the State Department when Joe Biden was vice president.
Abbe Lowell, Hunter Biden's attorney, said in a statement that in 2016, his client and others asked various people including the then-ambassador to Italy, John R. Phillips, if they could help make an introduction to the president of Tuscany regarding a geothermal project Burisma wanted to do in the region.
"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.
Hunter Biden arrives at federal court in Wilmington, Del., on June 6. Matt Slocum / APLowell said that it was a "proper request" and that it was no different than "hundreds of similar requests for instructions that businesses make to ambassadors every year, would hardly have triggered any registration requirement, and if it ever had, the work clearly would fall into exceptions for commercial transactions."
He seemed to be referring to the requirement that people register when they lobby the U.S. government on behalf of foreign interests under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
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