{"id":1993967,"date":"2023-08-08T05:47:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T09:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-business-associates-close-with-replacement-ukrainian-prosecutor\/"},"modified":"2023-08-08T09:24:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T13:24:37","slug":"hunter-biden-business-associates-close-with-replacement-ukrainian-prosecutor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-business-associates-close-with-replacement-ukrainian-prosecutor\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Biden&#8217;s business associates had a close relationship with the new Ukrainian prosecutor."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fhunter-biden-business-associates-close-with-replacement-ukrainian-prosecutor%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=1993967&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--><h2>Connections \u200cand Controversies: The \u200bBurisma Saga<\/h2>\n<h3>Introduction<\/h3>\n<p>After then-Vice President Joe \u2064Biden \u2064successfully pressured Ukraine to\u200d remove its prosecutor general\u200c Viktor Shokin, a new\u200b figure emerged in the role \u200bwith \u2062ties to Hunter Biden. This revelation adds a fresh \u200dlayer to the <a title=\"Brad Pitt Says \u201cIt\u2019s Exhausting\u201d to Have to Constantly Chase the \u201cClint Eastwood\u201d Image of Masculinity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brad-pitt-says-its-exhausting-to-have-to-constantly-chase-the-clint-eastwood-image-of-masculinity\/\">ongoing debate surrounding<\/a> the investigations into Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company. \u200dLet&#8217;s \u2064delve into the details.<\/p>\n<h3>The Lobbyists\u2063 and Hunter \u200bBiden<\/h3>\n<p>State Department emails suggest that Yuri Lutsenko, the prosecutor general who took over from Shokin, had relied on the same lobbyists representing Burisma and \u200dits chief \u200dexecutive for years. Interestingly, Hunter Biden personally brought these lobbyists into the Burisma deal in 2015 to shut down investigations into the company&#8217;s\u2064 chief executive, according to his own emails.<\/p>\n<h3>The Debate and Testimony<\/h3>\n<p>A recent debate has arisen \u200bregarding whether Shokin was actively investigating\u2062 Burisma at the time Joe \u2063Biden pushed for his removal. Devon Archer, Hunter Biden&#8217;s former business partner, testified that Burisma board members \u200dwere fed\u2064 a narrative suggesting that the \u2062Ukrainian \u200dprosecutor general did not pose a threat to the company.<\/p>\n<h3>The\u2064 Role of Blue Star Strategies<\/h3>\n<p>In 2015, Hunter Biden arranged for Sally Painter and Karen \u2063Tramontano of the lobbying firm \u200bBlue Star Strategies to work \u2062for Burisma and its chief executive. Emails reveal that the purpose\u200c of this arrangement was\u2062 to close \u2062down any cases against the chief executive \u2064in Ukraine. Internal State\u200c Department emails \u200blater \u200bindicated\u200d that Painter\u2062 was also representing Lutsenko, the replacement for Shokin.<\/p>\n<h3>Connections \u2063to Hillary Clinton&#8217;s Team<\/h3>\n<p>George Kent, a high-level State Department official, complained that \u200dPainter had bullied him in a phone\u2063 call regarding Lutsenko. Painter \u2064claimed to have represented Lutsenko&#8217;s \u200binterests in the US for five years. Additionally, Blue Star Strategies offered to connect Lutsenko with Hillary Clinton&#8217;s team, <a title=\"Hunter Biden's business associates had a close relationship with the new Ukrainian prosecutor.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-business-associates-close-with-replacement-ukrainian-prosecutor\/\">suggesting potential \u200dpolitical\u200c ties<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Investigations and Controversies<\/h3>\n<p>Blue Star Strategies faced\u2063 an investigation by the Justice\u2064 Department for allegations of <a title=\"\u2018Political Infection\u2019: Chuck Grassley Accuses FBI Of Partisan Double Standard In Hunter Biden Probe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/political-infection-chuck-grassley-accuses-fbi-of-partisan-double-standard-in-hunter-biden-probe\/\">unregistered foreign lobbying<\/a>. While they eventually registered their\u200b work for Burisma&#8217;s\u2063 chief executive, the investigation was \u200cclosed. An IRS whistleblower also \u2064revealed\u200d that efforts to <a title=\"Police: Louisiana State U. Prof Arrested for Child Porn, Sexual Abuse of Animal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-louisiana-state-u-prof-arrested-for-child-porn-sexual-abuse-of-animal\/\">obtain search warrants<\/a> for\u200b Blue Star Strategies&#8217; emails were shut down.<\/p>\n<h3>The Shokin Debate<\/h3>\n<p>The \u200dquestion of whether Shokin was investigating Burisma and its chief executive at the time of Joe Biden&#8217;s intervention has become a contentious issue. \u2062Archer\u200d admitted that Shokin was a threat to Burisma and his removal \u200cbenefited the company. However, he also mentioned that the board was provided with a different version of events.<\/p>\n<h3>The Bribery Allegations<\/h3>\n<p>State Department emails indicate that the Obama administration believed \u2064Burisma&#8217;s \u200bchief \u2063executive had paid a bribe \u2062to Shokin&#8217;s predecessor, Vitaly Yarema, in 2014. Shokin \u2063took over \u200bin 2015 and began investigating Burisma\u200c more aggressively. Under Lutsenko, the investigation into Burisma ended.<\/p>\n<h3>The Influence of Blue Star\u200b Strategies<\/h3>\n<p>Messages and testimony gathered by\u2062 the Senate Homeland Security Committee reveal that Blue Star \u2062Strategies succeeded in \u200bsecuring meetings with Lutsenko and a Burisma executive, which they struggled to do under Shokin. \u2064This suggests that the prosecutor who replaced Shokin was more receptive to\u2063 Burisma&#8217;s \u200blobbying efforts.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>The\u2063 connections and controversies surrounding Burisma continue to fuel \u200bthe partisan debate over the Biden family&#8217;s involvement. The role of lobbyists, the\u2062 actions\u200b of\u200d various prosecutors, and the\u200d influence of political ties all contribute to the complex narrative surrounding \u2063this ongoing saga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Joe Biden&#8217;s intervention, Ukraine&#8217;s prosecutor general Viktor Shokin was replaced by Yuri Lutsenko in 2016. Interestingly, Lutsenko had connections with Hunter Biden as he relied on the lobbyists representing Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1993968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Hunter Biden&#8217;s business associates had a close relationship with the new Ukrainian prosecutor.","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Hunter Biden&#8217;s business associates had a close relationship with the new Ukrainian prosecutor.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993967","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1993968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}