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Why did an energy firm with big assets in Ukraine hire Joe Biden’s son?

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The US butts into Ukrainian and Russian affairs and the VP's son has a job with a Ukrainian energy company, suspicious?


Why did an energy firm with big assets in Ukraine hire Joe Biden
In the span of a few weeks, an energy firm little-known inside the United States added two members to its board of directors — scoring connections to Secretary of State John Kerry and Vice President Joe Biden in the bargain.



On April 22, Cyprus-based Burisma announced that financier Devon Archer had joined its board. Archer, who shared a room in college with Kerry’s stepson, Christopher Heinz, served as national finance co-chair for the former senator’s 2004 presidential campaign.
Then, on Monday, the firm announced that Biden’s younger son, R. Hunter Biden, would join the board of directors.
Why would the company, which bills itself as Ukraine’s largest private gas producer, need such powerful friends in Washington?
The answer might be the company’s holdings in Ukraine. They include, according to the firm’s website, permits to explore in the Dnieper-Donets Basin in the country’s eastern regions, home to an armed pro-Russian separatist movement. They also include permits to explore in the Azov-Kuban Basin of the strategic Crimean peninsula, annexed earlier this year by Moscow.
It’s not clear what will happen to energy firms, like Burisma, that aim to explore and exploit potential deposits in those areas. Neither the Archer nor the Biden announcement explicitly mentions the unrest, and it’s not clear exactly when their discussions to join the board began. In an April 23 Q&A, the transcript of which appears on Burisma’s website, Archer said he had been approached “a few months ago” about the opportunity to consult for the oil company. The announcement of his directorship came less than a month after the disputed vote in Crimea to rejoin Russia.
The White House and the vice president’s office denied there was anything untoward about Biden’s appointment.
“Hunter Biden and other members of the Biden family are obviously private citizens and where they work does not reflect an endorsement by the administration or by the Vice President or President,” said President Barack Obama’s press secretary, Jay Carney. “But I would refer you to the Vice President’s office.”
 
Energy as in fossil fuel? :2rofll:
 
They hired Biden's son because they hope two shotgun blasts will scare Putin. :lol:
 
The US butts into Ukrainian and Russian affairs and the VP's son has a job with a Ukrainian energy company, suspicious?
No, it's not suspicious. They are both in finance and were hired to help the company reach out to American investors. I think it's called "capitalism".
 
That was funny....

As to why, but of course to get some of that billion in foreign aid being handed out.....what'd you expect feinsteins hubby (again)?


They hired Biden's son because they hope two shotgun blasts will scare Putin. :lol:
 
Wow and if it were chennys daughter you'd be begging for an investigation, charges and front page news of a scandal.


No, it's not suspicious. They are both in finance and were hired to help the company reach out to American investors. I think it's called "capitalism".
 
Nothing to see here, it's called corruption, but don't look at it...
 
Wow and if it were chennys daughter you'd be begging for an investigation, charges and front page news of a scandal.

If they're not breaking the law why should I care....better yet, why do you care what Biden and Kerry's sons do? They're adults and private citizens just like you. And their fathers aren't any more responsible for them than your father is for you.
 
If they're not breaking the law why should I care....better yet, why do you care what Biden and Kerry's sons do? They're adults and private citizens just like you. And their fathers aren't any more responsible for them than your father is for you.

Oh, now breaking the law, or not, makes a difference! :lamo
 
Well my folks didn't arrange billion dollar gifts of other people's money.


If they're not breaking the law why should I care....better yet, why do you care what Biden and Kerry's sons do? They're adults and private citizens just like you. And their fathers aren't any more responsible for them than your father is for you.
 
Well my folks didn't arrange billion dollar gifts of other people's money.

What does that have to do with anything? Oh, I see you're a building a strawman and you expect me to defend it, is that it?
 
Now straw. A billion dollars of other people's money granted in aid to a country where bidens boy finds a cushy gig on the nations leading nat.gas supplier....and resident leftist don't have a concern in the world.


What does that have to do with anything? Oh, I see you're a building a strawman and you expect me to defend it, is that it?
 
Now straw. A billion dollars of other people's money granted in aid to a country where bidens boy finds a cushy gig on the nations leading nat.gas supplier....and resident leftist don't have a concern in the world.

It doesn't matter that he is a corrupt entitled son of a corrupt mafioso of a politician, he is THEIR corrupt guy.
 
After decades in the senate they probably learned something from Feinstein and her hubby


It doesn't matter that he is a corrupt entitled son of a corrupt mafioso of a politician, he is THEIR corrupt guy.
 
No, it's not suspicious. They are both in finance and were hired to help the company reach out to American investors. I think it's called "capitalism".
Cronyism and nepotism don't ring a bell?
 
Now straw. A billion dollars of other people's money granted in aid to a country where bidens boy finds a cushy gig on the nations leading nat.gas supplier....and resident leftist don't have a concern in the world.

Did you actually look up what this "boy" has done with his life? He has founded law firms, been put by various presidents (Republican and Democrat) into leadership positions, sat as president of various NGOs, been a volunteer for religious organizations, graduated from Yale etc. Meanwhile, other people are just happy to simply post on internet forums and call this pretty accomplished young man "a boy".
 
Cronyism and nepotism don't ring a bell?

Now straw. A billion dollars of other people's money granted in aid to a country where bidens boy finds a cushy gig on the nations leading nat.gas supplier....and resident leftist don't have a concern in the world.



Really and since when did cronyism/nepotism become a dirty word for conservatives?

Was it before baby Bush got elected or after?
 
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Neither did Bush, nor Cheney, nor Rove, but I bet that matters not to you and your ilk.

I'm pretty sure they broke plenty of laws but unfortunately Eric Holder refused to hold them to account much to the chagrin of many who voted for Obama.
 
I'm pretty sure they broke plenty of laws but unfortunately Eric Holder refused to hold them to account much to the chagrin of many who voted for Obama.

Oh, I know you do! ;)
 
I'm pretty sure they broke plenty of laws but unfortunately Eric Holder refused to hold them to account much to the chagrin of many who voted for Obama.

Oh, I know you do! ;)

Well, strictly speaking, bush did not break the law... What he did was corrupt, but, he did apparently manage to stay within the grey area.
 
Well, strictly speaking, bush did not break the law... What he did was corrupt, but, he did apparently manage to stay within the grey area.

Not sure if what he did was even corrupt, but I guess, "corrupt", can be applied very broadly.
 
Not sure if what he did was even corrupt, but I guess, "corrupt", can be applied very broadly.

I know, my bias against bush shone through... But ultimately, things he did that WOULD be against the law, he just got a law passed to make it ok... I'd call that corrupt still.
 
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