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Eugene

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Tue May 17, 2022, 10:48 PM May 2022

Lobbying shop says DOJ probe into its work for Burisma has been closed

Source: Washington Post

Lobbying shop says DOJ probe into its work for Burisma has been closed

There was no finding of wrongdoing, said an attorney for Blue Star Strategies, whose work became a flashpoint in the debate over Hunter Biden’s role on Burisma’s board

By Isaac Stanley-Becker
May 17, 2022 at 4:09 p.m. EDT

A Justice Department probe into a Washington lobbying firm’s work for Burisma Holdings has been closed with no finding of wrongdoing, according to an attorney for the CEO of the firm, Blue Star Strategies.

The firm’s work for Burisma became a flashpoint in the debate over Hunter Biden’s role on the board of the Ukrainian oil and natural gas company, which has faced allegations of corruption domestically as well as in Britain and the United States.

The conclusion of the probe, which has not been previously reported, involved the firm submitting a new filing with the Justice Department detailing its lobbying activities on behalf of Burisma and its owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, in 2015 and 2016. A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment.

Blue Star Strategies, a bipartisan public affairs consultancy that touts its work for major corporations and foreign governments, took Burisma as a client in November 2015, according to testimony provided in 2020 by the firm’s CEO, Karen Tramontano, to Senate investigators.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/17/burisma-blue-star-strategies-doj-probe/

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