A former lawyer for Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings registered as a foreign agent Thursday as House Republicans continue their investigation into the Biden family's overseas dealings.

John Bretta, a partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, filed a Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) disclosure for work he did for Burisma and its founder Mykola Zlochevsky from 2016 to 2017. The information was submitted to the Department of Justice (DOJ).Farrah document show. (Related: Documents Show Hunter Biden Didn't Prepare Overdue Tax Returns Months After Sobriety)

FARA registration:

“In January 2016, Mr. Buretta was retained to represent Mr. Mykola Zlochevsky in connection with a possible investigation by U.S. government authorities. “The investigation expanded and continued into April 2017,” the FARA disclosure statement states.

“As part of this representation, Mr. Bretta met with three U.S. government officials in March 2016 and sent a letter to a U.S. government official in September 2016. During these communications: Mr. Buretta identified his clients and presented relevant facts to potential U.S. and U.S. government officials.The Ukraine investigation also includes information from British cases involving his clients. ”

Burisma and Zlochevsky paid Cravath more than $349,000 for professional services between January 2016 and April 2017, according to the law firm's filing. Cravath told the Daily Caller that after consulting with the Justice Department, he retroactively filed the FARA documents.

“After consulting with the Department of Justice regarding the scope of FARA, Cravath has filed a retrospective registration covering legal services provided to two former clients in March and September 2016, and will terminate the registration as of September 2016. I have submitted a supplementary statement,” Cravath said in a statement. .

Hunter Biden joined Burisma's board in spring 2014 and initially received a salary of more than $80,000 per month. bank records show. His father, Vice President Joe Biden, oversaw the Obama administration's Ukraine policy at the time.

House Republicans are investigating Joe Biden's role in his son's overseas business dealings as part of the ongoing impeachment inquiry into the president. The White House says Joe Biden has “no relationship” with his son. (Related: Hunter Biden's business relationship with Chinese companies began during Joe Biden's vice presidency, documentary show)

Devon Archer, a former Burisma board member and Hunter Biden business associate, told the House Oversight Committee in July that the Biden family's “brand” shielded Burisma from legal scrutiny. Hunter Biden previously warned Archer in 2014 not to violate FARA. However, Hunter has not registered as a foreign agent due to his work with Burisma.

Archer cited a dinner that Joe Biden attended with Burisma executive Vadim Pozharskiy in the spring of 2015, as well as about 20 other occasions where Joe Biden spoke with his son's business associates. I remembered. Pozharskiy sent the following to Hunter Biden: Email The next day, archives of Hunter Biden's discarded laptop revealed him expressing excitement at meeting Joe Biden.new york post first reported About dinner and the email afterwards.

According to reports, then-Vice President Biden exchanged more than 50 private emails with Hunter Biden's former business associate Eric Schwerin, most of them regarding a June 2014 trip to Ukraine. That's what it means. Email Data released by the House Ways and Means Committee on December 5th.

House Republicans have subpoenaed Schwerin, Hunter Biden's former business associate Rob Walker, and his uncle James Biden to appear before Congress.

Joe Biden denied on December 6th, after being pressed by New York Post reporter Steven Nelson, that he had ever had any contact with Hunter Biden's business associates.

In late 2015, Burisma hired lobbying firm Blue Star Strategies to help lobby the Obama administration; disclosed Found on the May 2022 FARA form.a memo Blue Star, sent to Burisma in December 2015, featured then-Vice President Biden's takeaways for his upcoming trip to Ukraine, where he pushed Ukraine to: Address corruption.

in March 2016, Ukraine dismissed Viktor Shokin, the top prosecutor who was believed to have been investigating Burisma at the time.Joe Biden is boasted upon multiple occasions For threatening to withhold $1 billion in funding to Ukraine unless Shokin is fired.

Archer told Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson in August that Shokin was seen as a “threat” to Burisma's business. According to one source, Shokin had Zlochevsky's property raided the month before he was fired. Ukrainian media coverage. Archer also reminded Carlson how Shokin had seized Zlochevsky's assets.

Later that year, Brewster and Schwerin discussed taking a “victory lap” after Zlochevsky appeared to be dropped to replace Shokin, another of Brewster's clients. In early 2017, the Ukrainian press interviewed Mr. Buretta and his lawyers said they joined Mr. Zlochevsky and Burisma's legal team after being recommended by their U.S. advisers.

US President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden walks through St. Joseph Cemetery at Brandywine Catholic Church in Wilmington, Delaware, on the anniversary of the death of the president's first wife and daughter, who died in a car accident in 1972. United States, December 18, 2023.Reuters/Nathan Howard

Burisma significantly reduced Hunter Biden's salary when the Obama administration ended in 2017, according to his federal taxes. indictment The California case comes as a result of Special Counsel David Weiss' ongoing criminal investigation centered on Biden's taxes.

IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler explained How the investigation uncovered potential FARA issues in Washington, D.C., during the 2014-2015 tax year because Hunter Biden worked for Burisma.

“There were also potential FARA issues related to 2014 and 2015. The intentional exclusion of 2014 and 2015 sanitized the most serious criminal acts and covered up important facts. ” Shapley said. testified In May.

Records reviewed by the Caller show that Weiss testified before the House Judiciary Committee in November and that between 2014 and 2015 after Biden-appointed D.C. U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves refused to cooperate with the case. Confirmed that the statute of limitations for the tax year has expired.

Email Documents released by the Ways and Means Committee in September show that Leslie Wolf, a former assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Delaware, included “Political Person 1” in a Blue Star Strategy search warrant related to the FARA investigation portion. It has been shown that this has prevented thedraft copy of warrant This shows that then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, as Wolf mentioned, was “Political Person 1.”

Weiss, the U.S. attorney for Delaware, defended the testimony of Wolf and his prosecution team. Wolf testified in December but refused to explain his decision to terminate a search warrant for Joe Biden, according to records reviewed by the Caller.

WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 13: Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, speaks with reporters outside the U.S. Capitol on December 13, 2023 in Washington, DC. Hunter Biden ignored a subpoena from Congress to testify behind closed doors ahead of the House vote on the impeachment inquiry against his father. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Hunter Biden faces nine charges in California related to his alleged failure to pay more than $1 million in taxes during the 2016 to 2019 tax years, despite having a gross gross income of more than $7 million. He was charged with tax-related crimes.

House Republicans said in a September memo that the Biden family and their business associates received more than $24 million from foreign sources over a roughly five-year period ending in 2019. Members of the Biden family collected $15 million of the proceeds.

Republican lawmakers have begun contempt of Congress proceedings against Hunter Biden for failing to appear for a private deposition and failing to comply with a subpoena. He held a press conference at the Capitol, choosing to defend his father and renewing his offer to testify publicly.

“Let me be as clear as possible: My father has no financial involvement in my business, nor was he involved as a lawyer or as a board member of Burisma. Partnership with a private Chinese businessman It's not an investment of mine, domestically or internationally, and certainly not as an artist,” Hunter Biden said at a press conference.

His arraignment in California is scheduled for January 11.