New York Times Files Lawsuit Against State Department to Obtain Emails Mentioning Hunter Biden: Report

📰The New York Times filed a lawsuit against the State Department seeking information about emails mentioning Hunter Biden.

Politico reported the Times sued the department “to obtain emails from Romanian embassy officials sent between 2015 and 2019 mentioning a number of international business people, including the president’s son and his former business associate , who briefly became a political celebrity at the end of the 2020 election because of his Biden connections.”

Additionally, the outlet noted the “FOIA requests also seek information on former New York City Mayor , who was dispatched by to find dirt on 👤Hunter Biden’s business relationships in Ukraine.”

The newspaper accused the department of “dragging its feet on fulfilling multiple FOIA requests sent last year, beginning in June.”

According to Politico, the State Department told the Times they would fulfill the outlet’s FOIA requests by April 15, 2023.

The outlet explained one of the goals the Times has appears to be “finding out whether embassy officials did any favors on behalf of private businesses (including, presumably, that of the president’s son) that would raise questions about possible conflicts of interest and corruption.”

The report continued, saying the request seeks records about “(1) the possible improper use of federal government resources to assist and advance private business interests with connections to United States government officials and (2) the possible evasion of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) by those private business interests, and (3) the non-enforcement of FARA by the federal government in relation to those private business interests.”