According to a report by the Reuters news agency, Burisma is a "an obscure Ukrainian gas company" that hired Hunter Biden in 2013. Hunter Biden, who had recently been discharged from the navy for his cocaine use, described his role this way:
“As a new member of the board, I believe that my assistance in consulting the company on matters of transparency, corporate governance and responsibility, international expansion and other priorities will contribute to the economy and benefit the people of Ukraine.”
In 2014, the Ukrainian government was overturned after mass street protests. Also in 2014 a Ukrainian prosecutor began looking into suspected tax violations by Burisma.
In March 2016, Joe Biden got the prosecutor that was investigating Burisma fired after threatening to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid. According to Reuters "In 2016, a Kiev district court said it had found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing by Burisma president and owner Zlochevsky and ordered the Prosecutor General’s Office to remove him from the authorities’ wanted list." Despite this finding, "In 2017....the company paid an additional 180 million hryvnias ($7.44 million) in taxes."
Hunter Biden stayed with the company until April 2019 when his term expired. April 2019 is also when TheHill.com published the article "Joe Biden's 2020 Ukrainian nightmare: A closed probe is revived." Note that according to WikiPedia, The Hill is a "was founded in 1994 by Democratic power broker and New York businessman Jerry Finkelstein and Martin Tolchin, a former correspondent for The New York Times. The paper is owned by the founder's son James A. Finkelstein, who serves as its chairman."
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