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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/us/politics/biden-inquiry-republicans-johnson.html
An election-year investigation by Senate Republicans
into corruption allegations against Joseph R. Biden Jr.
and his son, Hunter, involving Ukraine found no evidence
of improper influence or wrongdoing by the former vice
president, closing out an inquiry its leaders had hoped
would tarnish the Democratic presidential nominee.
The investigation found that Hunter Biden had “cashed
in” on his father’s name to close lucrative business
deals around the world. It also concluded that his work
for Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company then
mired in a corruption scandal, while the former vice
president was directing American policy toward Kyiv had
given the appearance of a conflict of interest and
alarmed some State Department officials.
But an 87-page report summing up the findings, released
jointly on Wednesday by the Senate Homeland Security and
Finance Committees, contained no evidence that the elder
Mr. Biden improperly manipulated American policy toward
Ukraine or committed any other misdeed. In fact,
investigators heard witness testimony that rebutted those
charges.
The homeland security panel’s Republican chairman,
Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, had made little secret
of his political ambitions for his report, boasting
for weeks that his findings would demonstrate Mr. Biden’s
“unfitness for office.” Instead, the result delivered on
Wednesday appeared to be little more than a rehashing six
weeks before Election Day of unproven allegations that
echo an active Russian disinformation campaign and have
been pushed by Mr. Trump.
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