{"id":16847,"date":"2023-08-16T02:26:56","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T07:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=16847"},"modified":"2023-08-16T02:26:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T07:26:58","slug":"timeline-of-ukrainian-pay-to-play-scheme-confirms-bidens-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=16847","title":{"rendered":"Timeline of Ukrainian Pay-to-Play Scheme Confirms Bidens\u2019 Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/08\/09\/20m-counting-tally-foreign-money-biden-family-rises-release-new-bank-records\/\">Biden crime family\u2019s<\/a>&nbsp;multimillion-dollar bribery and money-laundering operation has more moving parts than an 80-year-old grandfather clock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">Even news-aholics find it tough to follow this scandal\u2019s interlocking meetings, phone calls, trade junkets, wire transfers, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/08\/09\/joe-biden-absolutely-benefited-from-hunters-foreign-business\/\">shady characters<\/a>&nbsp;with unpronounceable names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">As just-appointed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/ag-garland-appoints-hunter-biden-investigator-david-weiss-special-counsel\">special counsel David Weiss<\/a>&nbsp;soon will learn that, unlike \u201cWhite House Aides Break Into Democratic Headquarters,\u201d capturing the Bidens\u2019 shakedowns requires&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/08\/12\/a-sham-special-counsel\/\">more than one bumper sticker<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">Thankfully, the House Government Oversight and Accountability Committee has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/08\/11\/doj-names-sweetheart-deal-prosecutor-special-counsel-hunter-biden-probe\/\">ridden to the rescue<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/the-bidens-influence-peddling-timeline\/\">The Bidens\u2019 Influence Peddling Timeline<\/a>&nbsp;vividly illustrates the assorted crooks who paid&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/08\/14\/fbi-veteran-corroborates-irs-whistleblower-account-of-investigators-tipoff-to-hunter-biden\/\">Hunter Biden<\/a>, his associates, and eight of his relatives (including Joe Biden\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/20\/biden-biz-boosted-grandchildren-nieces-and-nephews-comer\/\">grandchild, niece, and nephew<\/a>)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/08\/09\/hunter-biden-linked-foreign-haul-at-20m-with-russia-ukraine-kazak-transfers-comer\/\">at least $21,342,300<\/a>&nbsp;for access to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\">the Big Guy<\/a>,\u201d the former VP and now POTUS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">Indeed, Fox News reports,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/joe-biden-met-14-hunters-business-associates-vice-president\">Joe met with at least 14<\/a>&nbsp;of Hunter\u2019s hoodlums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">This online timeline makes it easier to track specific favors purchased from the Bidens with cash from China, Kazakhstan, Romania, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/tag\/ukraine\/\">Ukraine<\/a>. It specifically demonstrates how tightly the gears and springs were connected as Hunter and Joe Biden defended their Ukrainian paymasters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">May 12, 2014:&nbsp;\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2014\/05\/13\/bidens-son-joins-ukraine-gas-companys-board-of-directors.html\">Burisma announces<\/a>&nbsp;Hunter Biden joined its board of directors,\u201d the timeline explains. This Ukrainian oil and gas company paid Hunter&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/release\/comer-releases-third-bank-memo-detailing-payments-to-the-bidens-from-russia-kazakhstan-and-ukraine%EF%BF%BC\/\">$1 million per year<\/a>. That far exceeded 2014\u2019s median total board-member compensation of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lodestoneglobal.com\/_files\/ugd\/c3325c_73d4316383aa4ec2afcb24779836f4c8.pdf\">$31,500<\/a>&nbsp;at the 235 companies in 35 nations and 31 industries that Lodestone Global surveyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">Hunter was a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/books\/2021\/03\/31\/hunter-biden-memoir-he-opens-up-hallie-biden-crack-addiction\/4826035001\/\">self-confessed crackhead<\/a>, with zero experience in energy, Eastern Europe in general or Ukraine in particular. He previously told his business partner, Devon Archer, that his added value \u201chas nothing to do with me, and everything to do with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/08\/06\/opinion-joe-bidens-doj-where-justice-goes-die-deroy-murdock\/\">my last name<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">Joe Biden spearheaded U.S. policy toward Ukraine. How convenient! That explains why Burisma Holdings placed a hard-drug addict on its board and paid him 3,174% of Lodestone Global\u2019s benchmark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">March 20, 2015:&nbsp;\u201cHunter Biden organizes a business dinner at Caf\u00e9 Milano in Washington, D.C., where he has his father to stop by the dinner to meet a high-level Burisma official, Vadym Pozharskyi.\u201d Whether these two discussed business or the weather, the message was clear: Hunter could summon the vice president of the United States for a meeting, had his full attention, and was worth every Ukrainian hryvnya that Burisma paid him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">Nov. 2:&nbsp;\u201cVadym Pozharskyi suggests high-level U.S. officials come to Ukraine and talk with Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin and President Petro Poroshenko about Mykola Zlochevsky\u2019s investigations,\u201d the timeline states. \u201cProsecutor General Shokin was investigating Burisma and Burisma\u2019s owner, Zlochevsky, for fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">This was precisely the heat from which Burisma wanted the Bidens\u2019 shield. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/08\/04\/viktor-shokin-was-threat-to-burisma-says-hunter-biden-partner-devon-archer\/\">He [Shokin] was a threat<\/a>\u201d to Burisma, Archer told former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">Nov. 6:&nbsp;\u201cAmos Hochstein, a high-level U.S. government official working in the Obama-Biden Administration, meets with Hunter Biden and discusses Burisma.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">Nov. 11:&nbsp;\u201cAmos Hochstein meets with Vice President Biden in the West Wing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">Nov. 12:&nbsp;\u201cAmos Hochstein calls Hunter Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">Nov. 13:&nbsp;\u201cVice President Biden announces trip to Ukraine to take place the first week of December 2015.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">Nov. 14:&nbsp;\u201cVadym Pozharskyi emails Hunter Biden confirmation that the Vice President will be traveling to Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">Dec. 7:&nbsp;\u201cVice President Biden arrives in Ukraine, where he demands Prosecutor General Shokin be fired if Ukraine wants $1 billion in International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">Dec. 9:&nbsp;\u201cVice President Biden departs Ukraine and gets a commitment from President Poroshenko that Prosecutor General Shokin will be fired.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">Dec. 17:&nbsp;\u201cVice President Biden hosts a holiday party at the Vice Presidential residence, which Amos Hochstein and Hunter Biden both attend.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">Jan. 20, 2016:&nbsp;\u201cVice President Biden meets with President Poroshenko in Switzerland at the World Economic Forum, where Biden reinforced the linkage between the loan guarantee and the necessary reforms.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">Feb. 4:&nbsp;\u201cMykola Zlochevsky gives Hunter Biden unspecified, extravagant birthday gifts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">Feb. 11:&nbsp;\u201cVice President Biden and President Poroshenko conduct a call.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">Feb. 16:&nbsp;\u201cPresident Poroshenko asks Prosecutor General Shokin to resign.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">Feb. 18:&nbsp;\u201cVice President Biden calls President Poroshenko to thank him for calling on Prosecutor General Shokin to resign.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">Feb. 19:&nbsp;\u201cPresident Poroshenko says he received Prosecutor General Shokin\u2019s letter of resignation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">March 29:&nbsp;\u201cUkranian Parliament approves President Poroshenko\u2019s firing of Prosecutor General Shokin.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">Jan. 23, 2018:&nbsp;\u201cI\u2019m telling you, you\u2019re not getting the billion dollars,\u201d Biden recalled telling President Petro Poroshenko and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/08\/04\/viktor-shokin-was-threat-to-burisma-says-hunter-biden-partner-devon-archer\/\">Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk<\/a>&nbsp;in Kyiv on December 9, 2015. As he bragged on camera at the Council on Foreign Relations: \u201cI looked at them and said: \u2018I\u2019m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you\u2019re not getting the money.\u2019 Well, son of a b\u2014-.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/event\/foreign-affairs-issue-launch-former-vice-president-joe-biden\">He got fired<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">\u201cI think Burisma would have gone out of business if it didn\u2019t have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/release\/comer-releases-devon-archers-transcribed-interview-transcript\/&amp;data=05|01|Peter.Parisi@heritage.org|1d04f222b91443eed90708db9c336d19|cbd93b4867ea46759ee84178b273204a|0|0|638275519002942468|Unknown|TWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0=|3000|||&amp;sdata=XJbZf2hF1qhtH7w1j7GRsJXEEZiEhjO+\/ZLsb\/fRL+0=&amp;reserved=0\">the brand<\/a>&nbsp;attached to it,\u201d Archer told House investigators on July 30.&nbsp;He elaborated that \u201cthe brand\u201d terminology arose \u201cin the context of the Biden family.\u201d Archer added that he meant \u201cNo one else in the Biden family. It was Hunter Biden and him\u201d\u2014Joe Biden.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\">As if pitching new business, Hunter once boasted that \u201cthe Bidens are the best\u201d at delivering results for their high-dollar clients. Who could disagree? Even the president\u2019s critics must admire the Bidens\u2019 world-class customer service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:23px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/08\/14\/timeline-ukrainian-pay-play-scheme-confirms-bidens-corruption\/\">dailysignal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Biden crime family\u2019s&nbsp;multimillion-dollar bribery and money-laundering operation has more moving parts than an 80-year-old grandfather clock. Even news-aholics find it tough to follow this scandal\u2019s interlocking meetings, phone calls, trade junkets, wire transfers, and&nbsp;shady characters&nbsp;with unpronounceable names. As just-appointed&nbsp;special counsel David Weiss&nbsp;soon will learn that, unlike \u201cWhite House Aides Break Into Democratic Headquarters,\u201d capturing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1169,2403,21688,1416],"class_list":["post-16847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-biden","tag-corruption","tag-pay-to-play","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16847"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16851,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16847\/revisions\/16851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}