Rep. James Comer of Kentucky’s House Oversight Committee wrote to the National Archives on Wednesday requesting unredacted copies of emails regarding correspondence between Hunter Biden’s business colleagues and then-Vice President Joe Biden.
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) case file, titled “Records on Hunter Biden, James Biden, and Their Foreign Business Dealings,” was recently made public as a result of an ongoing Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by America First Legal. The committee is requesting unescorted special access to this file.
Fox News Digital has a copy of Comer’s letter, in which she asks for the unredacted emails from that file involving numerous Biden vice presidential staffers, associates of Hunter’s now-defunct Rosemont Seneca Partners company, and the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings.
According to the letter, “Complete versions of the records are relevant to the Committee’s investigation of the Biden family.” For instance, on December 4, 2015, at 10:45 a.m., Eric Schwerin (a longtime business associate of the Biden family) emailed Kate Bedingfield in the Vice President’s Office with quotes the White House should use in response to media outreach regarding Hunter Biden’s involvement with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Ms. Bedingfield replied to Mr. Schwerin later that day at 2:30 p.m. by saying, “VP signed off on this[.]”
The letter reads, “The timing of this email traffic is concerning to the Committee.” “According to Devon Archer (another seasoned business partner of the Biden family), following a Burisma board of directors meeting, in Dubai — on the evening of December 4, 2015 (midday in Washington, D.C.) — Hunter Biden ‘called D.C.’ to discuss pressure that Burisma asked him to.”
Three days later, Vice President Biden headed for Ukraine under threat of withholding $1 billion in aid from Ukraine if the country’s leaders would not oust then-prosecutor general Viktor Shokin for being too lax in prosecuting corruption.
Shokin was overseeing an inquiry into Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Burisma, and the business at the time; Hunter was a board member.