1) According to the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland
Security and Governmental Affairs and the U.S. Senate Committee
on Finance, the Vice President's office and State Department
officials were aware but ignored concerns relating to Hunter
Biden's role on the board of a Ukrainian-based natural gas
company (hereafter, ``Burisma'').
(2) According to the same sources, Hunter Biden's and his
family's financial transactions with Ukrainian, Russian,
Kazakh, and Chinese nationals raise criminal concerns and
extortion threats.
(3) In early 2015 the former Acting 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.''.
(4) 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. Vice President Biden did
not resolve this conflict of interest. Instead, he enabled it.
(5) In addition to the over $4 million paid by Burisma for
Hunter Biden's board membership, Hunter Biden, and his family
received millions of dollars from foreign nationals with
questionable backgrounds. Specifically, the ongoing FBI
investigation into Hunter Biden's laptop revealed that Hunter
received a 2.8 carat diamond gift from a high-ranking Chinese
official in 2017. Hunter Biden told the New Yorker Magazine
that he ``felt uncomfortable receiving the diamond and gave it
to other associates''.