Hunter Biden wrote a letter in 2016 to a Ukrainian prosecutor expressing concerns about the investigation into Burisma.
Hunter Biden was a signatory to a 2016 letter from Burisma demanding Ukraine’s top prosecutor back off from making “allegations of criminal activity” in his investigation into the Ukrainian energy company, documents made public by the House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday revealed.
The letter was addressed to then-General Prosecutor of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko, who succeeded Viktor Shokin, the chief prosecutor ousted due to pressure from former Vice President Joe Biden.
“As members of the Board of Directors, we respectfully request that allegations of criminal activity made by you and/or officials in your office cease and that any investigation be conducted consistent with the standards of fairness and the rule of law,” Burisma leadership wrote. “Moreover, it is imperative that allegations of criminal activity made to the media about Burisma and/or Nikolay Zlochevskyi come to an end.”
The letter dated July 9, 2016, was sent just more than three months after Shokin’s removal. In January 2018, Joe Biden bragged about pressuring the Ukrainian government to fire Lutsenko’s predecessor, who had been investigating Burisma. While Hunter Biden raked in excessive compensation serving on the company’s board of directors, then-Vice President Joe Biden was the Obama administration’s point man on Ukraine.
The letter surfaced in a trove of documents related to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) investigation of Hunter Biden that was released by the House Ways and Means Committee Wednesday.
This summer, veteran IRS agents Joseph Ziegler and Gary Shapley publicly blew the whistle on widespread interference in their tax investigation of Hunter Biden from the Department of Justice (DOJ). What originated as a probe into a foreign pornography ring in 2018 quickly expanded to a sprawling investigation regarding Hunter Biden’s finances. Whistleblowers testified that officials at the Justice Department stonewalled the operation and left tax agents in the dark about a document alleging a criminal bribery scheme between the Bidens and Burisma’s founder.
In June, the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office struck a sweetheart plea deal with Hunter Biden that limited his offenses to two misdemeanor tax crimes plus a felony firearm charge that would be forgiven after 24 months of sobriety. Shapley complained to lawmakers that the most serious charges were left off the table while federal prosecutors waited out the statute of limitations.
The deal was derailed in July when the judge presiding over the agreement began to ask questions that revealed Hunter Biden’s attorneys had understood the deal to include full immunity from any future charges.
Despite these serious issues with Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss’s handling of the Hunter Biden investigation, Attorney General Merrick Garland elevated him to special counsel status in August.
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Earlier this month, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy launched an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden over the family’s overseas influence-peddling operations. The first hearing will be held Thursday morning and will feature George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, former DOJ Assistant Attorney General Eileen O’Connor, and Bruce Dubinsky, a forensic accountant.
On Tuesday, the House Oversight Committee revealed Hunter Biden received wire transfers from Chinese business partners that listed his father’s Delaware address in Wilmington.
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Counts of tax evasion. However, this plea deal has raised questions and concerns about potential political interference and unequal treatment under the law. In light of these revelations, here are three related questions regarding Hunter Biden’s involvement in Burisma and the subsequent investigations:
Hunter Biden’s involvement in the Ukrainian energy company Burisma has been a topic of controversy and scrutiny. Recently, documents made public by the House Ways and Means Committee have shed new light on Hunter Biden’s actions while serving on the board of directors at Burisma.
One of these documents is a letter sent by Burisma’s leadership to then-General Prosecutor of Ukraine, Yuriy Lutsenko, in July 2016. In the letter, Hunter Biden and other members of the board request that allegations of criminal activity made by Lutsenko and his office be ceased, and that any investigation be conducted fairly and in accordance with the rule of law. The letter also emphasizes the importance of ending media allegations regarding Burisma and its founder, Nikolay Zlochevskyi.
This letter becomes significant when we consider the timeline of events surrounding the investigation into Burisma. It was sent just over three months after the removal of Viktor Shokin, the chief prosecutor at the time. It is worth noting that former Vice President Joe Biden played a role in pressuring the Ukrainian government to remove Shokin, who had been investigating Burisma. During this time, Hunter Biden was earning excessive compensation serving on Burisma’s board of directors.
The emergence of this letter is part of a larger release of documents related to the Internal Revenue Service’s investigation into Hunter Biden. Earlier this year, IRS agents Joseph Ziegler and Gary Shapley blew the whistle on interference in their investigation from the Department of Justice. What initially started as a probe into a foreign pornography ring quickly expanded to include a wide-ranging investigation into Hunter Biden’s finances. Whistleblowers testified that officials at the Justice Department obstructed their operation and failed to disclose a document alleging a criminal bribery scheme between the Bidens and Burisma’s founder.
In June, the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office reached a lenient plea deal with Hunter Biden, reducing his offenses to two
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