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The Epoch Times is reporting that according to a 2016 State Department email, the US government received information from a source in Ukraine which said that Burisma, the Ukrainian-based energy firm that gave Hunter Biden a sweet position on its board, allegedly paid a $7 million bribe to the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office.
George Kent, an official within the State Department was called to testify at the 2020 impeachment trial of former President Trump, however never mentioned or disclosed the information from that 2016 email.
The email was mentioned in a Sept 18, 2020, Senate Homeland Security report, however, wasn’t publicly released until earlier this month. It states that Kent, then the deputy chief of mission in Kyiv, Ukraine, was advised by Ukraine’s deputy general prosecutor that Burisma paid a $7 million bribe to put an end to a 2014 corruption investigation into the company.
Kent’s email, the Times reported, was also addressed to Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Jorgan Andrews, and warned that Hunter Biden’s role at Bursima, which was during the time when Joe Biden was Obama’s vice president, was undermining US government endeavors to get a handle on corruption in the easter European nation.