All you need to know about the quid pro quo involving the Biden crime family is this–after Joe Biden was no longer vice president, Hunter Biden’s salary as a member of Burisma’s board was slashed in half. It probably has nothing to do with no longer having the power of the vice presidency at his beck and call.
According to charging documents lodged in a California federal court, where Hunter Biden was indicted on nine charges, The Epoch Times found that after January 2017, when Biden was relegated to his Delaware beach home, Hunter Biden’s salary at the Ukrainian gas company was slashed by half.
The federal indictment, where Hunter Biden was hit with three felonies and six misdemeanors, described Biden’s sources of income during the period he was charged, including his work on Burisma’s board of directors.
During Biden’s second term as vice president under Obama, Hunter Biden, who had precisely zero experience in the energy sector, was appointed to Burisma Energy Holding’s board. According to the indictment filed by Special Counsel David Weiss, Hunter Biden was receiving an annual salary of $1 million, which is more than previously reported.
That was until March 2017, two months after Mike Pence was sworn in as vice president under President Trump. That was when his annual compensation was slashed in half to $500,000.
Despite the cut in salary, Hunter Biden continued on Burisma’s board for two more years, leaving the company in April 2019. That same month, Joe Biden announced his campaign for president.
Over the past several years, Burisma has played a large part in presidential politics. It was Trump’s call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy where they discussed Joe Biden’s pressure on the Ukrainian government to remove prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who was then investigating Burisma. That call led to the Democrat-led witchhunt, leading to the first impeachment vote on Trump.
Biden’s involvement in Hunter Biden’s questionable foreign business dealings has long been a concern to Republicans and has led to an ongoing Republican-led impeachment inquiry.
An investigative file released earlier this year saw a confidential FBI source allege that Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky grew concerned about Shokin’s investigation into the company, believing it would harm the company. He allegedly discussed paying $5 million to “one Biden” and $5 million to “another Biden” to deal with Shokin. The source, who was unverified, also said that Zlochevsky admitted Hunter Biden was less intelligent than his dog; however, it was necessary to keep him on Burisma’s board “so everything will be okay.”
Joe Biden has repeatedly denied having any knowledge of his son’s business dealings, but Hunter Biden accompanied him on Air Force Two on a trip to China, where the younger Biden secured lucrative business deals with Chinese companies.
Republicans have alleged that Joe Biden has abused his power throughout his political career by leveraging his position in both the Senate and as vice president by allowing his family members to use that position to advance their business dealings and pad their wallets.
Both Biden and his sycophants in the Democratic Party and the media have insisted his involvement in the firing of Shokin was in line with his duties as vice president, as well as being consistent with the views of the Obama administration and Western allies, who believed Shokin wasn’t doing enough to fight corruption.
The federal indictment of Hunter Biden alleges he did not report his income from Burisma on his 2014 1040 tax form. Instead, prosecutors allege he laundered the money through a company anonymously identified in the charging document as “ABC.”
The indictment says that ABC was owned and controlled by one of Hunter Biden’s Burisma business partners, whom the charging document anonymized as Business Associate 5. The indictment alleges the account held through ABC transferred funds back to Hunter Biden and paid for other investments on his behalf. At the same time, Business Associate 5 handled all of the taxes linked to their shared bank account in his name, The Epoch Times reported.
The indictment also alleges Hunter Biden directed his Burisma salary through a separate company he owned, Owasco PC, starting in November 2015.
From 2016 on, Hunter Biden spent money financing his lavish lifestyle, spending the money on escorts, drugs, fancy hotels, and luxury vacations while failing to pay income tax.
“Between 2016 and October 15, 2020, the Defendant spent his money on drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing, and other items of a personal nature, in short, everything but his taxes,” the indictment alleges.
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