GOP chairman plans first subpoena in Burisma, Biden probe

Source: The Hill | March 2, 2020 | Jordain Carney

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) is planning to force a vote on the first subpoena related to his probe involving Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings and former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden.

Johnson sent a letter to members of his committee on Sunday saying that it is his “intention to schedule a business meeting to consider a committee subpoena” of a former consultant for Blue Star Strategies, which Johnson noted worked as a U.S. representative for Burisma.

“As part of the committee’s ongoing investigation, it has received U.S. government records indicating that Blue Star sought to leverage Hunter Biden’s role as a board member of Burisma to gain access to, and potentially influence matters at, the State Department,” Johnson wrote in the letter to committee members.

Sen. Gary Peters (Mich.), the top Democrat on the committee, has notified Johnson that he objects to issuing the subpoena over concerns that it could bolster Russian disinformation efforts. Without Peters’s support, Johnson will need a simple majority of the GOP-controlled panel to vote to issue the subpoena.

If Johnson is successful, it would mark the first subpoena to come out of the months-long Republican investigation into Burisma and Hunter Biden, who previously served on the Ukrainian company’s board. It would also escalate what has been a probe that, so far, has largely been limited to letters and some document production.

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