Amid Anti-Corruption Efforts, Burisma Pushed Hunter To Call Dad
Margot Cleveland
Two days before Burisma bigwigs pulled Hunter Biden aside to call his father, the Ukrainian energy executives received a memorandum detailing the U.S.’s plan to push Ukraine to implement recently passed anti-corruption reforms during then-Vice President Joe Biden’s trip to Kyiv the following week.
This Dec. 2, 2015, memorandum, which the House Ways and Means Committee released earlier this week, renews questions about Hunter Biden’s phone call to his father just days before the vice president demanded Ukraine fire its top prosecutor. It also raises new concerns about whether the Obama-Biden administration provided special access to Hunter Biden-connected companies.
In advance of Thursday’s first impeachment inquiry hearing, the House Ways and Means Committee released a trove of documents incriminating Joe Biden in his family’s pay-to-play scheme. Of particular significance, when read together with other details related to the Ukrainian scandal, is the aforementioned memorandum Blue Star Strategies penned to Burisma Holdings, Ltd., regarding “U.S. Vice President Biden’s Trip to Ukraine Next Week.”
Hunter Biden had “help[ed] set Burisma up with … Blue Star Group,” which lobbied for the Ukrainian energy giant, according to Hunter’s former business partner Devon Archer. The recently released Dec. 2, 2015, memo raises the further question of whether Hunter Biden also helped Blue Star “set up with” members of the Obama-Biden administration.
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