<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Joe Biden’s 2016 threat to withhold $1 billion in aid money from Ukraine unless prosecutor Victor Shokin was fired came shortly after Burisma Holdings sought a meeting with the Obama State Department to end Shokin&#8217;s corruption investigation into Burisma and its founder, Mykola Zlochevsky.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">New documents obtained this week through a <em>Freedom of Information Act</em> lawsuit prove Burisma name-dropped employee Hunter Biden when seeking a meeting with the State Department. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">It is unclear whether the meeting took place, “but the records do indicate that Hunter Biden’s fellow American board member at Burisma &#8211; Devon Archer &#8211; secured a meeting on March 2, 2016 with Secretary of State John Kerry,” writes John Solomon, who filed the FOIA lawsuit. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">On March 16th, roughly one month after Burisma reached out to the White House, then-Vice President Joe Biden successfully pressured then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to fire Shokin, thus ending the corruption investigation into Burisma.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">“Biden has said he forced Shokin’s firing because he and Western allies believed the prosecutor wasn&#8217;t aggressive enough in fighting corruption,” writes Solomon.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">But Shokin claims he was fired because he would not halt the Burisma investigation. In fact, he was preparing to interview Hunter Biden when he was let go.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>This is a major conflict of interest for Joe Biden, who is currently running for president. </b></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Hunter Biden resigned from Burisma earlier this year and promised not to work for any foreign companies if his father is elected president. Last month, a source close to Zlochevsky said Hunter only got the job at Burisma to “protect” the company from foreign scrutiny. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Hunter and Archer were hired in 2014, around the same time British officials began investigating Burisma and Zlochevsky. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><em><span class="s1">We can expect to see more documentation emerge regarding the Biden/Ukraine controversy as Solomon presses forward with his FOIA lawsuit. </span></em></p>