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Hunter Biden received one payment of $3 million which was laundered through Latvia and Cyprus to the U.S..  When the prosecutor, [[Viktor Shokin]], 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.

Hunter Biden received one payment of $3 million which was laundered through Latvia and Cyprus to the U.S..  When the prosecutor, [[Viktor Shokin]], 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-float|"'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>}}

Yuriy Lutsenko, who replaced Shokin as the prosecutor looking into Burisma, said the evidence in the Burisma case he'd like to present to William Barr, particularly the vice president's intervention.<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48268762</ref>

Yuriy Lutsenko, who replaced Shokin as the prosecutor looking into Burisma, said the evidence in the Burisma case he'd like to present to William Barr, particularly the vice president's intervention.<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48268762</ref>