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2022-12-01 Government Corruption
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Democrat Sen. Jeanne Shaheen shuts down Cruz questions on Biden family corruption allegations
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[FoxNews] New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz got into a heated exchange Tuesday after Shaheen shut down Cruz's questions for an ambassador nominee concerning allegations that then Vice President Joe Biden pressured Ukrainian officials to fire the country's top prosecutor in 2016.
Cruz accused the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairwoman of "covering" for Biden after Shaheen prevented nominee George Kent from answering his questions during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. Kent, who is Biden's choice to be the next ambassador to Estonia, had previously testified as a witness during former President Trump's first impeachment inquiry and told lawmakers that he raised concerns about Hunter Biden's lucrative service on the board of a Ukrainian natural gas company – only to be rebuffed by the Biden administration.
The gas company, Burisma Holdings, was under investigation in 2016 by Ukraine's top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, who himself faced allegations of corruption. In 2018, Biden admitted that while he was vice president, he pushed Ukrainian officials to fire Shokin by threatening to cancel $1 billion of loan guarantees.
Cruz asked Kent, "Do you think Joe Biden holding a billion dollars hostage to force the Ukrainian government to fire the prosecutor that is investigating the corrupt oligarch who's paying his son a million dollars a year? Did getting that prosecutor fired benefit that oligarch?"
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