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Vice President Biden bragged to the [[Council on Foreign Relations]] to have caused the firing of a [[Ukraine]] prosecutor who was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into Burisma, a natural gas firm that employed Biden's younger son, [[Hunter Biden]], as a board member.<ref>https://burisma-group.com/eng/director/hunter-biden/</ref> In April 2014 Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma in April 2014 despite having no experience in the oil and gas industry.<ref>http://www.dw.com/en/who-are-hunter-bidens-ukrainian-bosses/a-17642254</ref> In December 2015 ''[[The New York Times]]'' reported on ''Joe Biden, His Son and the Case Against a Ukrainian Oligarch.'' The story focused on Hunter Biden, Burisma Holdings, and its owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, who was Ukraine's ecology minister under former President [[Victor Yanukovych]].<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/world/europe/corruption-ukraine-joe-biden-son-hunter-biden-ties.html</ref>  

Vice President Biden bragged to the [[Council on Foreign Relations]] to have caused the firing of a [[Ukraine]] prosecutor who was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into Burisma, a natural gas firm that employed Biden's younger son, [[Hunter Biden]], as a board member.<ref>https://burisma-group.com/eng/director/hunter-biden/</ref> In April 2014 Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma in April 2014 despite having no experience in the oil and gas industry.<ref>http://www.dw.com/en/who-are-hunter-bidens-ukrainian-bosses/a-17642254</ref> In December 2015 ''[[The New York Times]]'' reported on ''Joe Biden, His Son and the Case Against a Ukrainian Oligarch.'' The story focused on Hunter Biden, Burisma Holdings, and its owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, who was Ukraine's ecology minister under former President [[Victor Yanukovych]].<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/09/world/europe/corruption-ukraine-joe-biden-son-hunter-biden-ties.html</ref>  

Hunter Biden received one payment of $3 million which was laundered through Latvia and Cyprus to the U.S..  When the prosecutor asked Cyprus for the amount going to Biden's son, he was told the U.S. embassy instructed them not to provide the amount.  Hunter's boss, Mykola Zlochevsky, had stolen $5 Billion from Ukraine and was a fugitive at  the time. The prosecutor was tracking the money.  Hunter continued to received monthly kickbacks.

Hunter Biden received one payment of $3 million which was laundered through Latvia and Cyprus to the U.S..  When the prosecutor asked Cyprus for the amount going to Biden's son, he was told the U.S. embassy instructed them not to provide the amount.  Hunter's boss, Mykola Zlochevsky, had stolen $5 Billion from Ukraine and was a fugitive at  the time.<ref>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tanyakozyreva/ukraines-ousted-regime-made-40-billion-disappear-and-no</ref> The prosecutor was tracking the money.  Hunter continued to received monthly kickbacks.

Biden threatened Ukrainian President [[Petro Poroshenko]] that the [[Obama administration]] would pull $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees, sending Ukraine toward insolvency, if it didn't immediately fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin who was investigating his son, Hunter. Biden recounted, {{quotebox|"'You’re not getting the billion'. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money'...Well, [SOB], he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time."<ref>https://www.cfr.org/event/foreign-affairs-issue-launch-former-vice-president-joe-biden</ref><ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-2020-ukrainian-nightmare-a-closed-probe-is-revived</ref>}}

Biden threatened Ukrainian President [[Petro Poroshenko]] that the [[Obama administration]] would pull $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees, sending Ukraine toward insolvency, if it didn't immediately fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin who was investigating his son, Hunter. Biden recounted, {{quotebox|"'You’re not getting the billion'. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money'...Well, [SOB], he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time."<ref>https://www.cfr.org/event/foreign-affairs-issue-launch-former-vice-president-joe-biden</ref><ref>https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-2020-ukrainian-nightmare-a-closed-probe-is-revived</ref>}}