This is a chapter from RealClearInvestigations' Hunter Biden Reader, a collection of news reports on Joe Biden's errant son and other family members. (Above, the compound near Kyiv of Mykola Zlochevsky, owner of the gas firm Burisma, which hired Hunter Biden in 2014.)
Selected Articles on Hunter Biden’s Ukraine Dealings
(In Reverse Chronological Order)
Biden-Linked Burisma Lobbyists May Have Misled DoJ
Chuck Ross, Washington Free Beacon, May 25, 2022
Blue Star Strategies disclosed this month that its founders, Karen Tramontano and Sally Painter, had two meetings in 2016 with State Department officials regarding Ukraine's Burisma Holdings. But according to Sens. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R., Wis.), Blue Star's founders failed to disclose nine other meetings with government officials, including two American ambassadors to Ukraine.
Hunter Biden-Tied Burisma Lobbyists Cleared in Justice Probe
Chuck Ross, Washington Free Beacon, May 18, 2022
The Biden administration this week closed a foreign lobbying investigation into a Hunter Biden-linked consulting firm without charges, delivering a much-needed win to the president's embattled son. Beltway PR firm Blue Star Strategies had been under investigation for its work for Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian gas company that had Hunter Biden on its board of directors. Blue Star Strategies resolved the case in part by retroactively registering as a foreign agent of Burisma.
'14 Ukraine War, Hunter Biden's Play for Profit
Seamus Bruner, John Solomon, Just the News, April 6
In the shadows of Russia's first invasion of Ukraine in 2014, Hunter Biden and his business partners embarked on an aggressive campaign to score millions of dollars in "life changing" business with oligarchs in both countries who had an interest in his father's policymaking business, according to emails and court records obtained by Just the News.
Hunter Biden Helped Finance Ukraine Biotech Research
Josh Boswell, Daily Mail, March 28
Emails from Hunter's abandoned laptop show he helped secure millions of dollars of funding for Metabiota, a Department of Defense contractor specializing in research on pandemic-causing diseases that could be used as bioweapons. He also introduced Metabiota to an allegedly corrupt Ukrainian gas firm, Burisma, for a 'science project' involving high biosecurity level labs in Ukraine. Emails and defense contract data reviewed by DailyMail.com suggest that Hunter had a prominent role in making sure Metabiota was able to conduct its pathogen research just a few hundred miles from the border with Russia.
Hunter Biden-Tied Law Firm Dodged Disclosures
Chuck Ross, Washington Free Beacon, June 29, 2021
The prominent law firm where Biden served as counsel took steps to avoid disclosing to Congress its work with Ukrainian energy giant Burisma Holdings, emails from Biden's laptop show.
DoJ Pick, Hunter Biden Worked at Firm Repping Burisma
Chuck Ross, Washington Free Beacon, June 21
Joe Biden’s nominee for a top Justice Department position worked alongside Hunter at a prominent law firm that represented Ukrainian energy giant Burisma Holdings, emails from Hunter’s laptop show.
'16 Subpoena Stirred Hunter-Ukraine Fear
John Solomon, Just the News, June 11
Lawyers and accountants prepared a "proffer" to federal authorities and scrambled to devise a narrative on unpaid taxes in emails that undercut president's longtime claim his son did nothing wrong.
Hunter Biden Worked Deal for Firm Now Under Scrutiny
Chuck Ross, Washington Free Beacon, June 9
Emails from his laptop show Hunter was instrumental in setting up a consulting deal between a Ukrainian energy company and two Democratic consultants under investigation for violating foreign lobbying laws.
Democratic Burisma Lobbyist Pitched Ukrainian a Clinton Entrée
Rob Crilly, Daily Mail, June 4
Former Ukrainian prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko said he had been pitched by a lobbying firm linked to Hunter Biden, offering him access to the Clinton campaign, according to newly released emails.
Burisma Probe of Dem Lobbyists
Betsy Woodruff Swan & Daniel Lippman, Politico, June 3
The Department of Justice is looking at whether Blue Star Strategies illegally lobbied on behalf of a Ukrainian company that counted Hunter Biden as a board member.
VP Biden Met Son's Russian, Ukrainian Associates
Miranda Devine, New York Post, May 26
Joe Biden met with Ukrainian, Russian and Kazakhstani business associates of his son’s at a dinner in Washington, D.C., while he was vice president, records on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop show.
Hunter Biden's Shady Ukraine Dealings
Seamus Bruner & John Solomon, Just the News, April 6
Memos show a dizzying array of firms, a $275,000 cash payment, and a flagged transaction following interaction with an indicted oligarch's team in 2015.
Memos: Hunter Biden Effort to Assist Oligarch
John Solomon, Just the News, March 30
Hunter Biden and his business partner tried to assist a fugitive Ukrainian oligarch indicted by his father's administration, an effort that briefly captured the FBI's attention and led one of the lawyers in the case to express concern that using the then-vice president's son might backfire, according to emails, text messages and interviews.
Atlantic Council Partnered with Burisma Despite Warnings
Chuck Ross, Daily Caller, March 11
A top foreign policy think tank in Washington rejected warnings from a Ukrainian anti-corruption activist against forming a partnership with Burisma Holdings, the energy firm linked to Hunter Biden that has faced allegations of corruption.
Email to Hunter Biden Raises New Questions About His Taxes
Tom Winter, NBC News, Dec. 11, 2020
Hunter Biden’s former business partner sent him an email in 2017 saying he did not disclose on his tax returns $400,000 in income from the Ukrainian natural gas company where he sat on the board.
Senate Panel Working to Verify Biden-Burisma Emails
Brooke Singman, Fox News, Oct. 15
According to the report, Joe Biden met with Burisma adviser Vadym Pozharskyi, in April 2015 in Washington D.C., at the request of his son.
Emails Tie Biden, Son to Burisma Exec
Emma-Jo Morris, New York Post, Oct. 14
Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company, according to emails obtained by The Post.
Burisma Allegedly Paid Bribe During Hunter Biden's Tenure
John Solomon, Just the News, Sept. 14
State, DOJ officials reported to FBI concerns Ukraine gas firm made bribe to local prosecutors while under corruption investigation.
Senate Panel OKs Subpoena in Hunter Biden-Burisma Probe
Nate Church, Breitbart, May 21
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted to authorize a subpoena related to the GOP investigation into Hunter Biden and Burisma Holdings on Wednesday.
' Marie Yovanovitch AP Photo/Susan Walsh '
'U.S. Envoy Knew More Than She Let On re: Biden-Tied BurismaJohn Solomon, Just the News, May 13Quote:During President Trump’s impeachment, former U.S. Ambassador testified to Congress that she knew little beyond an initial briefing and “press reports” about Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian natural gas firm that had hired Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter and was dogged by a corruption investigation. But newly unearthed State Department memos show Yovanovitch’s embassy in Kiev, including the ambassador herself, was engaged in several discussions and meetings about Burisma as the gas firm scrambled during the 2016 election and transition to settle a long-running corruption investigation and polish its image before President Trump took office.
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Ukraine Court: Probe Biden Role in Prosecutor Sack
David L. Stern & Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, Feb. 27
A court ruling in Ukraine has forced state investigators to open a probe into alleged pressure by then-vice president Joe Biden that led to the 2016 dismissal of Viktor Shokin as the country’s prosecutor general, officials said.
Biden Son Was on Trade Board Urging Obama-Era Ukraine Aid
Chuck Ross, Daily Caller, Feb. 18
Hunter Biden was on the board of a trade coalition that lobbied the Obama administration in 2014 on foreign assistance to Ukraine, and appears to have set up a State Department meeting for the group’s president.
Russians Hacked Hunter Biden Ukraine Firm
Nicole Perlroth, New York Times, Jan. 14
With President Trump facing an impeachment trial over his efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Biden and his son Hunter, Russian military hackers have been boring into the Ukrainian gas company at the center of the affair, according to security experts.
Latvia Flagged ‘Suspicious’ Hunter Biden Payments in 2016
John Solomon Reports, Dec. 18, 2019
As the U.S. presidential race began roaring to life in 2016, authorities in the former Soviet republic of Latvia flagged a series of “suspicious” financial transactions to Hunter Biden and other colleagues at a Ukrainian natural gas company and sought Kiev’s help investigating, according to documents and interviews.
Hunter Biden's Burisma Post Had a Troubling Conflict, Watchdog Says
Mark Hemingway, RealClearInvestigations, Nov. 19, 2019
Hunter Biden’s work at Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings included a little-noted conflict of interest that wouldn’t pass muster in the United States, an American investor watchdog group says: He served for pay on the company’s putatively independent governing board despite having also been paid as a consultant to company management. The group’s study of Burisma also found that the pay of former Vice President Joe Biden’s son was more than 12 times comparable board pay at similarly sized companies.