FLASHBACK 2015 : Joe Biden, His Son and the Case Against a Ukrainian Oligarch

New York Times ^ | Dec 9, 2015 Yes 2015 | James Risen

[NoLibZone]

WASHINGTON — When Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. traveled to Kiev , Ukraine, on Sunday for a series of meetings with the country’s leaders, one of the issues on his agenda was to encourage a more aggressive fight against Ukraine’s rampant corruption and stronger efforts to rein in the power of its oligarchs.

But the credibility of the vice president’s anticorruption message may have been undermined by the association of his son, Hunter Biden, with one of Ukraine’s largest natural gas companies, Burisma Holdings, and with its owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, who was Ukraine’s ecology minister under former President Viktor F. Yanukovych before he was forced into exile.

Mr. Pyatt went on to call for an investigation into “the misconduct” of the prosecutors who wrote the letters. In his speech, the ambassador did not mention Hunter Biden’s connection to Burisma.

But Edward C. Chow, who follows Ukrainian policy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the involvement of the vice president’s son with Mr. Zlochevsky’s firm undermined the Obama administration’s anticorruption message in Ukraine.

“Now you look at the Hunter Biden situation, and on the one hand you can credit the father for sending the anticorruption message,” Mr. Chow said. “But I think unfortunately it sends the message that a lot of foreign countries want to believe about America, that we are hypocritical about these issues.”

[NoLibZone]

VP Joe Biden pressed to get the frozen funds released.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Mr. Pyatt went on to call for an investigation into “the misconduct” of the prosecutors who wrote the letters."

This article must be edited or truncated, because there is no previous mention of who "Mr. Pyatt" is.

[TBP]

Joe Biden, who as Vice President was the point man on Ukraine policy, threatens to withhold money from Ukraine unless they drop a criminal investigation of his son Hunter.

Donald Trump, in a conversation with the new president of Ukraine, suggests and urges that the investigation should be reopened.

Biden’s cool; Trump must be impeached ASAP.

#MakeThemVote

[Thank You Rush]

Joe should have held out for this...Corruption in ANY government pays off big time, doesn’t it? I guess we can count ourselves lucky that our corrupt leaders aren’t this “in your face” about it. Some will settle for ocean front property for $15,000,000 a few years after leaving office and count on “the people” not finding out about it. Our former officials are pikers.

https://yomadic.com/president-mansion-ukraine/

[PBRCat]

I used to wonder if VP Biden’s teary announcement in the Rose Garden (with BHO looking on) about his not seeking the Presidency in the 2016 election was due to the certain knowledge that Hillary had the goods on Biden and his son and their activities in the Ukraine and China.