Biden Family Cashed In On Joe Biden’s Vice Presidency, Says Senate Probe Report

Despite the Democrats and their propaganda machine in the news media totally ignoring overwhelming corruption revealed in a new Senate report, the American people are being warned by conservative and law enforcement organizations  about presidential candidate Joe Biden’s alleged corruption enriching his family with millions of dollars.

While the Democratic Party and the nation’s top news outlets spent three-plus years investigating President Donald Trump over a bogus relationship with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, they didn’t even mention the Biden family shenanigans.

U.S. Senators Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, released a report that revealed millions of dollars in questionable financial transactions between Hunter Biden and his associates and foreign individuals, including the wife of the former mayor of Moscow and individuals with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

Also, because Democrats have initiated a coordinated disinformation campaign and effort to personally attack Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley and Johnson for the purpose of marginalizing the findings of our investigations, Johnson said, “It is important for me to lay out the history, purpose and goals of our ongoing oversight.”

The Johnson/Grassley investigation attempted to answer a number questions, including:

1)     How could former Vice President Biden look any Ukrainian official (or any other world leader) in the face and demand action to fight corruption?

2)     Did this glaring conflict of interest affect the work and efforts of other U.S. officials who worked on anti-corruption measures?

3)     Did Burisma, its owner, or representatives receive special access to, or treatment from, U.S. agencies or officials because of Hunter Biden’s role on the board of directors?

4)     Was there anything corrupt or unethical about the financial transactions between Hunter Biden and Burisma?

5)     How did State Department officials responsible for promoting anti-corruption measures in Ukraine react to Hunter Biden joining Burisma’s board of directors?

6)     Exactly when, and for what reasons, did the U.S. government decide to condition a $1 billion loan guarantee for Ukraine on the termination of Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin?

7)     What was the reaction within the Obama administration when the replacement prosecutor general, Yuri Lutsenko, closed the case investigation of Burisma and its owner?  Did Vice President Biden and other U.S. government officials believe that justice had been served and their anti-corruption efforts were successful?

In addition, the appearance of the Biden family profiteering off of Vice President Joe Biden’s official responsibilities is not unique to the circumstances involving Ukraine and Burisma.   Public reporting has also shown Hunter Biden following his father into China and coincidentally landing lucrative business deals and investments there.

“The vice president’s brothers and sister-in-law, Frank, James and Sara Biden, also are reported to have benefited financially from his work as well.  We have not had the resources to devote investigatory time to these other allegations, but I point them out to underscore that Ukraine and Burisma seem more of a pattern of conduct than an aberration,” said Sen. Johnson in a statement

“Given all this public information, the press should be asking, and former Vice President Biden should be answering, a long list of questions,” he added.

Findings from the chairmen’s investigation include:

• In early 2015 former Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, George Kent raised concerns to officials in Vice President Joe Biden’s office about the perception of a conflict of interest with respect to Hunter Biden’s role on Burisma’s board.  Kent’s concerns went unaddressed and in September 2016, he emphasized in an email to his colleagues, “Furthermore, the presence of Hunter Biden on the Burisma board was very awkward for all U.S. officials pushing an anticorruption agenda in Ukraine.”
• In October 2015, senior State Department official Amos Hochstein raised concerns with Vice President Biden, as well as with Hunter Biden, that Hunter Biden’s position on Burisma’s board enabled Russian disinformation efforts and risked undermining U.S. policy in Ukraine.
• Hunter Biden was serving on Burisma’s board (supposedly consulting on corporate governance and transparency) when Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky allegedly paid a $7 million bribe to officials serving under Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Vitaly Yarema, to “shut the case against Zlochevsky.” George Kent testified that this bribe occurred in December 2014 (seven months after Hunter Biden joined Burisma’s board), and, after learning about it, he and the resident legal adviser reported this allegation to the FBI.
• In addition to the over four million dollars paid by Burisma to Hunter Biden and his business partner, Devon Archer, for membership on the board,Hunter, his family, and Archer received millions of dollars from foreign nationals with questionable backgrounds.
• Devon Archer received $142,300 from Kenges Rakishev of Kazakhstan, purportedly for a car, the same day Vice President Joe Biden appeared with Ukrainian Prime Minister Arsemy Yasenyukand addressed Ukrainian legislators in Kyiv regarding Russia’s actions in Crimea.
• Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina. Ms. Baturina is the wife (widow) of the former mayor of Moscow.
• Hunter Biden had business associations with Ye Jianming, Gongwen Dong, and other Chinese nationals linked to the Communist government and People’s Liberation Army. Those associations resulted in millions of dollars in questionable transactions.
• Hunter Biden opened a bank account with Gongwen Dong that financed a $100,000 global spending spree with James Biden and Sara Biden.
• Hunter Biden also moved millions of dollars from his law firm to James Biden’s and Sara Biden’s firm.  Upon being questioned about the transaction, Sara Biden refused to provide supporting documentation and information to more clearly explain the activity. The bank subsequently closed the account.
• Hunter Biden paid nonresident women who were nationals of Russia or other Eastern European countries and who appear to be linked to an “Eastern European prostitution or human trafficking ring.”

A copy of the full report is available here.

Copies of the investigation’s interview transcripts and exhibits are available here.