{"id":1399942,"date":"2022-03-25T08:01:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T12:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1399942"},"modified":"2022-03-25T08:01:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T12:01:59","slug":"biden-admins-ties-to-ukraine-far-deeper-than-hunter-and-burisma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admins-ties-to-ukraine-far-deeper-than-hunter-and-burisma\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin\u2019s Ties to Ukraine Far Deeper Than Hunter and Burisma"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admins-ties-to-ukraine-far-deeper-than-hunter-and-burisma%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1399942&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A senior Biden administration official handling global energy policy recently held a high-level position at a Ukrainian state-run natural gas firm but resigned citing corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Amos Hochstein, who President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2021\/09\/01\/background-press-call-by-senior-administration-officials-on-the-presidents-upcoming-meeting-with-president-zelenskyy-of-ukraine\/#:~:text=second%2C%20the%20state%20department%20has%20recently%20appointed%20amos%20hochstein%20as%20senior%20advisor%20for%20energy%20security.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appointed<\/a> to be the State Department\u2019s top adviser for energy security over the summer of 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/biden-nord-stream-russia-amos-hochstein-faff48ad-8d9d-4a35-a96a-b7e33a5e4d94.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was a member<\/a>\u00a0of the energy company Naftogaz\u2019s supervisory board. Hochstein took the position in 2017 after he said government officials persuaded him to accept the offer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen fears abounded in late 2017 that Ukraine\u2019s efforts to dismantle corruption were weakening, U.S. and foreign officials encouraged me to accept the (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development\u2019s) request, and join the Naftogaz board to reinforce, and help protect, the progress that CEO Andriy Kobolyev and his team had made, and continue with additional critical reforms,\u201d Hochstein wrote in an editorial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kyivpost.com\/article\/opinion\/op-ed\/amos-hochstein-why-im-leaving-the-supervisory-board-of-naftogaz.html\">published<\/a> by the Kyiv Post in October 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2014, the U.S. has led an effort to reduce corruption in Ukraine\u2019s government from within, he wrote. His role at Naftogaz was a part of this effort, Hochstein said. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/09\/23\/hunter-biden-senate-report-ukraine-china-burisma\/\">(RELATED: Hunter Biden\u2019s Business Dealings Created \u2018Counterintelligence And Extortion Concerns,\u2019 Senate Report Says)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But Hochstein eventually resigned from the board in 2020, writing in the Kyiv Post editorial that the attempt to fight corruption at the state-run energy giant \u201cwas resisted at every step of the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can no longer stand by and be used to endorse this negative trend, and it\u2019s why I must voluntarily leave the board,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI do so with regret but also with pride for what has been accomplished.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7397367\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7397367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Then-Vice President Joe Biden and Amos Hochstein talk before a global energy security event in 2015 in Washington, D.C. (Brendan Smialowski\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Then, in August 2021, Biden appointed Hochstein to serve as the Department of State\u2019s senior adviser for energy security.<\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/senior-advisor-for-energy-security\/\">statement<\/a> announcing the appointment, Secretary of State Antony Blinken didn\u2019t mention Hochstein\u2019s previous position at Naftogaz. Instead, Blinken noted that Hochstein\u2019s decades of experience in the U.S. government, academia and the private sector would help him fortify global energy security \u201cespecially in Central and Eastern Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since entering the Biden administration, Hochstein, who <a href=\"https:\/\/2009-2017.state.gov\/r\/pa\/ei\/biog\/230679.htm\">served<\/a> at the State Department under the Obama administration, has engaged in energy diplomacy around the world, making <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/senior-advisor-hochsteins-trip-to-israel\/\">several<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/12\/03\/statement-by-nsc-spokesperson-emily-horne-on-senior-administration-delegation-trip-to-the-middle-east\/\">trips<\/a> to the Middle East and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us-reassures-allies-over-nord-stream-2-says-its-reality-2021-09-11\/\">Eastern Europe<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/09\/21\/biden-discuss-hunter-biden-ukraine-deal\/\">(RELATED: Biden Says He Never Discussed Hunter Biden\u2019s Ukraine Deal. Hunter Says He Did)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In September 2021, a senior administration official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2021\/09\/01\/background-press-call-by-senior-administration-officials-on-the-presidents-upcoming-meeting-with-president-zelenskyy-of-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> Hochstein would \u201ccontinue working with the Ukrainians, as well as with the Germans and other regional partners, on the importance of maintaining Ukraine\u2019s transit role and the security of supply during this period of energy transition\u201d during a media briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, President Biden\u2019s son, Hunter Biden, has faced criticism in recent years for his involvement in a separate Ukrainian natural gas firm, Burisma. Hunter Biden was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/10\/17\/hunter-biden-burisma-ukraine-china\/\">appointed<\/a> to the company\u2019s board in 2014, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/09\/23\/hunter-biden-senate-report-ukraine-china-burisma\/\">according<\/a> to a report published in 2020 by two Senate committees.<\/p>\n<p>The report went on to cite Hochstein, who told the committee that he told then-Vice President Joe Biden in 2015 that his son\u2019s involvement with Burisma \u201cenabled Russian disinformation efforts and risked undermining U.S. policy in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An email originally <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/10\/14\/report-hunter-biden-introduced-joe-burisma-executive\/\">obtained<\/a> by the New York Post in October 2020 suggested that Joe Biden met with Hunter Biden and a top Burisma executive in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department and White House didn\u2019t immediately respond to requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior Biden administration official handling global energy policy recently held a high-level position at a Ukrainian state-run natural gas firm but resigned citing corruption.Amos Hochstein, who President Joe Biden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}