Hunter Biden sought $5 million to try to quash indictment for Ukrainian oligarch, ex-partner says
Jason Galanis interview with Congress confirms Just the News reporting from 2021 on Hunter Biden's effort to help fugitive oligarch Dmitri Firtash.
By John Solomon
Published: March 3, 2024 10:49pm
Updated: March 4, 2024 9:15am
One of Hunter Biden's former business associates -- now in prison -- has told Congress that Biden sought roughly $5 million from fugitive Ukrainian oligarch Dmitri Firtash to help try to quash a U.S. indictment while his father was vice president and presiding over U.S.-Ukraine policy, according to an eyewitness to the testimony.
Jason Galanis’ jailhouse account of an effort to assist Firtash was recently provided to the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees in President Joe Biden’s impeachment inquiry, and it corroborates a story from Just the News in 2021 in which Firtash’s longtime righthand man Hares Youssef confirmed the future first son was engaged in 2015 to try to help solve Firtash’s legal woes in the United States.
Both Hares in 2021 and Galanis last month said Hunter Biden was unsuccessful – Firtash still faces charges and is fighting extradition to the United States from his safe harbor in Austria – but the efforts ultimately resulted in a $3 million investment in a tech fund called mBloom that Galanis and other Hunter Biden partners had formed.
Galanis said approximately $300,000 of that money eventually made its way into Rosemont Seneca Bohai, one of Hunter Biden's firms. That firm was also used for payments he received from a second Ukrainian oligarch, Mykola Zlochevsky and his Burisma Holdings energy firm.
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