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Hunter Biden's Ukraine firm landed deal with USAID program while under corruption investigation
justthenews.com ^ | 06/26/20 | By Daniel Payne and John Solomon

Posted on 06/26/2020 2:38:42 PM PDT by blueyon

Just a few months after Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian gas company landed a deal with an Obama administration renewable energy program that had been championed by one of his father's key vice presidential advisers, newly released State Department memos show.

The Memorandum of Understanding between Burisma and USAID's Municipal Energy Reform Project in Ukraine (MERP) was signed in October 2014, according to a copy of the agreement obtained by Just the News under the Freedom of Information Act.

At that time, Burisma was under very public investigations by both the British government and the Ukrainian prosecutor general's office and considered by the State Department to suffer from corruption issues.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; bidencorrupt; bidenscandal; corruption; hunterbiden; trump
I pray that after Biden gets his nomination this blows up in his face and sinks his Presidential bids. #Trump2020
1 posted on 06/26/2020 2:38:42 PM PDT by blueyon
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To: blueyon

For a lot of Democrat voters, the fact that Biden can scam the system is seen as a good thing.


2 posted on 06/26/2020 2:45:53 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: blueyon

Trump has soooooo much ammunition.

Some are MOABS.


3 posted on 06/26/2020 2:46:21 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: blueyon

Biden will claim all the upcoming Barr indictments are just politics.


4 posted on 06/26/2020 2:48:06 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: blueyon

It. doesn’t. matter.


5 posted on 06/26/2020 2:48:21 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: Wilhelm Tell

Ever since ol’ Joe bought his sons de bunk beds, they can say that all their slip ups, mistakes, and possible transgressions have been de-bunked.


6 posted on 06/26/2020 2:48:46 PM PDT by Richard Axtell (So, everything has gone to hell, what did I tell ya?)
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To: blueyon

Flimsey Grahamnesty has already been warned off looking into any of this.


7 posted on 06/26/2020 2:52:57 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: blueyon

So for anyone who was wondering how Obama, Who had no money, has never worked in a Private Industry job that paid big money, and owns no businesses or other property to make money, can afford a 15 million-dollar mansion on Martha’s Vineyard. Isn’t it amazing that the media finds no interest in this.


8 posted on 06/26/2020 3:08:50 PM PDT by Federal46 (federal 46)
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To: Federal46
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/12/obama_gave_commoncore_contract_to_publisher_got_65_million_book_deal_in_return.html
9 posted on 06/26/2020 3:11:36 PM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: palmer

Unbelievable how crooked and corrupt Obama is.


10 posted on 06/26/2020 3:14:45 PM PDT by Federal46 (federal 46)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“””””Flimsey Grahamnesty has already been warned off looking into any of this.””””””””””””

As if Linda would ever do anything to a fellow Swamp Rat.

Linda would be just fine having Hillary or Joe as president. Then the good ol’ boys network could get back to business as usual.


11 posted on 06/26/2020 3:24:28 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: blueyon

Hunter will vapor lock on a fentanyl/cocaine/heroin/alcohol/vicodin/
valium cocktail one of these days. He’s scum.


12 posted on 06/26/2020 3:40:11 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: blueyon
excerpt from the piece:

A senior State Department official, speaking only on condition of anonymity, said officials do not have much current documentation to show how Burisma landed the 2014 deal with USAID, the department's foreign aid arm, but they believe it wasn't fully vetted by the department. Instead, the official said, it appeared the MOU was approved by USAID's contractor managing the program.

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who is the USAID's contractor that has discretion to sign off on multi-million dollar deals with no vetting??

how much did this contractor cut out of the deal??

13 posted on 06/26/2020 3:55:21 PM PDT by thinden
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To: thinden

Brother in law cut


14 posted on 06/26/2020 3:57:53 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: thinden; bitt; little jeremiah; a little elbow grease; Liz; Steven W.; generally
here it is. wonder if there are any names behind these corp shells??? excerpt from piece follows:

The $17 million program ended in March 2018. The contract history indicates that the program was administered by what was then the Research Triangle Institute, now RTI International. The specific agreement between Burisma and MERP dates to October 2014 and was set to expire a year later.

The agreement was "implemented by" International Resources Group, a contractor that facilitates government programs across the world, the MOU states. That group was subsequently acquired by RTI International in 2017. Neither RTI nor the contractor who signed the MOU returned calls seeking comment about the Burisma deal.

any bets on soros showing up somewhere in this crooked deal?

15 posted on 06/26/2020 4:12:01 PM PDT by thinden
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To: shelterguy
Then the good ol’ boys network could get back to business as usual.

You got any evidence that they ever quit business as usual?

16 posted on 06/26/2020 4:26:17 PM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: itsahoot

Not much. Linda has to go on Hannity all the time to talk tough about having hearings. Not much else.


17 posted on 06/26/2020 4:33:16 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: thinden

WELL THIS IS INTERESTING............the head of the USAID in 2014 was Rajiv Shah...Jill Biden and him and 1 other person traveled to Africa together that year. Hunter Biden’s company got boat load of money (from hat I have been reading on the internet) that yer......I m sure it is all a coincidence right LOL “”Dr. Jill Biden, USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah, and U.S. Ambassador Catherine Russell to Travel to Africa”” https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/24/dr-jill-biden-usaid-administrator-rajiv-shah-and-us-ambassador-catherine


18 posted on 06/26/2020 5:24:35 PM PDT by blueyon (`nt to be a nothing burger)
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To: blueyon

This is interesting blueyon.

Keeping it all in the family


19 posted on 06/26/2020 5:47:43 PM PDT by thinden
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To: blueyon; bitt; little jeremiah; Liz; generally; Steven W.

Wonder what kinda gratuity dr biden received for her participation?

Also, iirc there was a big chunk of USAID that went disappearing in Ukraine.

Can’t remember exactly, but $500,000,000??. or $5 billion come to mind..

Poof... gone

Maybe someone following the biden boys ukraine adventure can halp fill in the blanks?


20 posted on 06/26/2020 5:57:25 PM PDT by thinden
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