Posted on 02/21/2020 6:14:17 PM PST by bitt
A consultant for Burisma Holdings and associate of Hunter Biden reached out to the State Department to meet about "troubling events" in Ukraine.
Emails released by the State Department show communications between Sally Painter, a consulting representative for the Ukrainian gas company, and William Russo, the top aide of former Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken in 2016.
In one email in June, Painter requested a meeting with Blinker to discuss events in Ukraine.
“Per my conversation with Tony at the Truman event, Karen Tramontano and I would like to have a brief coffee with Tony at his earliest convenience regarding some troubling events we are seeing n [sic] Ukraine. (He said yes)," Painter wrote to Russo, who currently works as an adviser to the Joe Biden presidential campaign, in an email. "Karen was President Clinton's Deputy Chief of Staff and we are just back from Kiev. Many thanks for your help."
The email exchange between Painter and Russo does not mention Burisma by name, raising questions about what specifically they discussed.
The Daily Caller reports Tramontano, who was mentioned in the email as Painter's partner at Blue Star Strategies, previously reached out to the State Department to specifically discuss the Burisma, according to federal records. She argued the company was not corrupt, contrary to what the United States suspected. “According to Tramontano there is no evidence of corruption, has been no hearing or process, and evidence to the contrary has not been considered,” a State Department official wrote in an email.
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