shielding joe biden tonight, you may want to pay close attention to this timeline. i will try to read it slowly to you. it starts in 2010. the oligarch in the pro-russian government of victor jankovic she started granting his company valuable gas exploration, that is called paris holdings, let s flash forward, president obama named vice president sleepy, creepy uncle joe is the point man for ukraine. in the same month the president is ousted and he and the oligarch behind the issue, they flee to russia. in april of 2014, he places hunter biden and evan archer with his partner and the former aide to then john kerry on the board. either person had neither experience that we can find in oil, gas or energy. none of them have any experience
i will try to read it slowly to you. it startss in 2010. the oligarch in the pro-russian government of victor jankovic. she started granting his company valuable gas exploration, that is called the burisma holdings, let s flash forward, president obama named vice president sleepy, creepy uncle joe as the point man for ukraine. in the same month the president is ousted and he and the oligarch are behind the issue, they flee to russia. in april of 2014, he places hunter biden and evan archer with his partner and the former aide to then john kerry on the board. either person had neither experience that we can find in oil, gas or energy. none of them have any experience on ukraine. they were paid millions of dollars for their expertise on
board of directors of burisma, notoriously corrupt energy company. there are a lot of private equity firms that would report at the time that they would not deal with burisma because of its origins. we know that payday is huge, bret, because we have financial records that indicate that hunter biden and devin archer were each paid $83,000 a month for serving on that board. hunter biden joined the board in april of 2014. he read remained there until earlier this year. his take was more than $3 million. the problem is, bret, just like in china, and the case of ukraine, he has no background that would warrant him getting this position. he has no background in energy policy, and he certainly has no background and ukraine. bret: on the financial documents, it s listed, robert biden. yes, that s right. that s his legal name, robert h biden. what you see in that financial
so barisma was under investigation in 2014. the obama administration and the vice president were supporting that investigation. it was being conducted funds of this oligarch were frozen in england from bank account funds. it was the policy of the obama administration, joe biden, even though hunter was on the board starting in april of 2014, they were pushing the ukrainians to investigate barisma and this particular oligarch. what happened is in december of 2014 the prosecutor s office at the time, shulkin was not involved, he wasn t put to this position of prosecutor until later, they basically dismissed the case and the obama administrati administration, biden was part of it, was very angry and put a lot of pressure on the ukrainians. they dropped this case. they saw this as a violation of
happened as it relates to ukraine, vice-president biden when he was vice-president and his son. the ties between joe biden and his son and ukraine have come under renewed scrutiny. the concerns over a potential conflict of interest that was first brought up and investigated by a number of news organizations years ago. in april of 2014, joe biden led a u.s. delegation to kiev as vice-president. it was tasked with rooting out corruption and advocating for ukraine to be less reliant on russian oil. this is about the time that the russian invaded the eastern part of ukraine. in may of this year, still 2014, biden s son hunter became a board member for a group, one of the biggest private gas companies in ukraine. according to the new york times he was paid as much as $50,000 per month in some months for his work for the company. and that s new york times reporting. two years later, now we re in march of 2016, vice-president biden visited ukraine again and