Investigators Zero In On Longtime Biden Aide With Links To Hunter In Docs Scandal

An aide long-term to the President Joe Biden With links to Hunter, his son As part of their investigations into the handling classified documents, Justice Department and Congress investigators are currently looking into it.

Kathy Chung, now a Pentagon official has been a key figure as she managed the transportation of materials. Penn Biden Center In Washington, D.C. after Biden quit the vice presidency in January 2017, Multiple reports said Chung has already been interviewed by federal investigators as part of the Justice Department’s probe. The House Oversight Committee I wrote a letter to her Over the weekend, a congressional inquiry headed by Chairman James Comer (R.KY) sought documents and information.

In early November, Biden’s attorneys found about 10 documents marked classified while clearing out Biden’s office at the center, according to his legal team, after which the FBI searched the think tank’s offices, per CBS News. Classified documents dating back to Biden’s time as vice president or even as a U.S. Senator were also discovered at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, leading Attorney General Merrick Garland to Robert Hur, a former U.S. attorney, is appointed special counsel Check to see if “any person or entity violated the law in connection with this matter.”

While Chung does not appear to have any involvement with the documents found at Biden’s residence, she reportedly did lead a small team at the end of the Obama administration who placed folders into boxes in the vice president’s White House office that made their way to a transition office, and then to another temporary location in Chinatown leased by the Penn Biden Center before they finally arrived at the think tank.

Federal agents interviewed Chung on January 4, according to reports. The Washington PostThe reliance on a “person familiar with her account,” Chung reported that she was shocked any classified records were left in her office. It had been standard practice to return such documents to a safe immediately following a briefing from intelligence or national security aides. A newspaper insider said that Chung, who was granted a top-secret security clearance, didn’t check the folders after packing them up.

Chung appears to have received her job — as an executive assistant to Biden while he was vice president — thanks to Hunter Biden. The Washington Post reported Chung worked with Hunter Biden in the 1990s at the Commerce Department. Chung was the scheduling director for Sen. Mark Udall in 2012 when Hunter Biden called her about a new opportunity. This is according to emails that were found on the laptop that had been abandoned and believed to belong to the younger Biden.

“Thanks for calling and thinking of me,” Chung stated this in an email to Hunter Biden dated May 14th, 2001. Fox News. “After the initial shock of taking in what you said … how could I pass up an opportunity to work for the Vice President of the United State [sic]!!!!”

Chung wrote Hunter Biden on June 13th, a month later to inform him that her father had offered her a job in his office as an assistant. “I cannot thank you enough for thinking about me and walking me thru this,” Chung said. “What an incredible opportunity! Thanks, Hunter!!”

Hunter Biden is under investigation Concerns over his tax affairs and questionable foreign business dealings. Hunter Biden said that he hopes to be cleared from wrongdoing. However, Republicans are concerned about influence peddling, especially in relation to his Chinese business dealings and access to classified areas.

Fox News has noted the following:Other emails found in the laptop’s storage show that Hunter Biden communicated with Chung in years past when Chung was hired to be his father’s employee. The emails include a message to Biden’s family about attending a State Department luncheon honoring Chinese President Xi Jinping. Also, Hunter Biden suggested to Chung that she visit him and his business partners in February 2017.

President Biden has He said that he was “surprised” He had government documents found in his private office. A reporter asked him Monday if he took responsibility for the mishandling. He said: “No.”