Posted on 11/06/2019 12:52:26 PM PST by karpov
It’s not clear whether the Ukrainian company Burisma got its money’s worth when it paid handsomely to add Hunter Biden to its board. But the company’s representatives used the family name in attempting to influence the U.S. Government while Joe Biden was Vice President.
If an American business made a similar effort with the son of a government official overseas, it would likely attract a U.S. Department of Justice investigation under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. So why shouldn’t the United States urge that other countries also examine such arrangements?
The Journal’s Jessica Donati reports that a consulting firm hired by Burisma mentioned that “Joe Biden’s son served on the Ukrainian gas company’s board so the firm could leverage a meeting with the State Department, according to documents and a former U.S. official.”
The documents were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the Southeastern Legal Foundation on behalf of its client John Solomon.
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Taxpayers being forced to fund an investigation focused on what President Donald Trump said about this Biden deal ought to know what other government officials said about it, too. Adam Entous of the New Yorker reported in July:
In December, 2015, as Joe Biden prepared to return to Ukraine, his aides braced for renewed scrutiny of Hunter’s relationship with Burisma. Amos Hochstein, the Obama Administration’s special envoy for energy policy, raised the matter with Biden, but did not go so far as to recommend that Hunter leave the board. He should have. Last month John Hudson, Rachael Bade and Matt Viser reported in the Washington Post:
A career State Department official overseeing Ukraine policy told congressional investigators this week that he had raised concerns in early 2015 about then-Vice President Joe Biden’s son serving on the board of a Ukrainian energy company
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That's also why he was able to walk away from the White House and not leave in a Box.
He didn’t apply his Clinton rules to Clinton.
Did Obama Apply His Clinton Rules to the Bidens?
YES, I’m sure he got a cut of the action
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