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FOIA News: State Dep't will release Hunter Biden emails to NYT next month

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The State Department said it'll hand over emails mentioning Hunter Biden to the New York Times

By Jacob Shamsian, Business Insider, Mar. 14, 2022

  • The State Department said it'll give the New York Times records regarding Hunter Biden.

  • The Times sued the agency in January after it allegedly slow-walked a records request.

  • A lawyer for the Times said the State Department will start handing over records in April.

The US Department of State said it'll hand over email records mentioning Hunter Biden to the New York Times after the publication sued the federal agency.

In a court filing Friday, David McCraw, a lawyer representing the New York Times, wrote that the State Department had begun identifying records the Times requested through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and agreed to give them to the Times starting in April.

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