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Joe Biden was the Obama administration’s point-person on policy towards Ukraine. Biden traveled to Ukraine 17 times during his tenure as vice president. Biden steered $1.8 billion in aid to the Ukrainian government. Four months later while his son, [[Hunter Biden]] got a sweetheart deal with [[Burisma]], an energy company.  In a 14-month period Burisima paid $3.1 million into an account where Hunter Biden was getting paid. U.S. banking records show Hunter Biden's firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC, received regular transfers — usually more than $166,000 a month — from Burisma from spring 2014 through fall 2015, during a period when Joe Biden was the main U.S. official dealing with Ukraine. Biden used U.S. taxpayer government resources for the personal gain of his family.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/03/exclusive-peter-schweizer-joe-biden-steered-1-8-billion-to-ukraine-while-his-son-bagged-sweetheart-deal-from-their-government/#</ref>

Joe Biden was the Obama administration’s point-person on policy towards Ukraine. Biden traveled to Ukraine 17 times during his tenure as vice president. Biden steered $1.8 billion in aid to the Ukrainian government. Four months later while his son, [[Hunter Biden]] got a sweetheart deal with [[Burisma]], an energy company.  In a 14-month period Burisima paid $3.1 million into an account where Hunter Biden was getting paid. U.S. banking records show Hunter Biden's firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC, received regular transfers — usually more than $166,000 a month — from Burisma from spring 2014 through fall 2015, during a period when Joe Biden was the main U.S. official dealing with Ukraine. Biden used U.S. taxpayer government resources for the personal gain of his family.<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/03/exclusive-peter-schweizer-joe-biden-steered-1-8-billion-to-ukraine-while-his-son-bagged-sweetheart-deal-from-their-government/#</ref>

Ukraine prosecutors wanted to present evidence to [[Attorney General]] [[William Barr]] regarding [[Joe Biden]]'s interference and threats in a [[corruption]] probe involving his son, Hunter Biden.  

In early 2019 Ukraine prosecutors wanted to present evidence to [[Attorney General]] [[William Barr]] regarding [[Joe Biden]]'s interference and threats in a [[corruption]] probe involving his son, Hunter Biden.  

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.<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|"'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>}}