Ukrainian Employer of Joe Biden’s Son Hires a D.C. Lobbyist

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[font size=2]Ukrainian Employer of Joe Biden’s Son Hires a D.C. Lobbyist[/font]
Time Magazine

[font size=3]An obscure private Ukrainian natural gas company
has been hiring friends and family of Secretary of State John Kerry and
Vice President Joe Biden, while seeking to influence Congress [/font]

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[font size=2]David Leiter, a former Senate chief of staff to Secretary of State John Kerry, signed on to work as a lobbyist for Burisma on May 20, 2014, about a week after Biden announced he was joining the company, according to lobbying disclosures filed this month.

Leiter’s involvement in the firm rounds out a power-packed team of politically-connected Americans that also includes a second new board member, Devon Archer, a Democratic bundler and former adviser to John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign. Both Archer and Hunter Biden have worked as business partners with Kerry’s son-in-law, Christopher Heinz, the founding partner of Rosemont Capital, a private-equity company.

Biden’s office referred questions to a Burisma spokesman, who says Biden has not been involved in contacting members of Congress or the Obama Administration about the company. “His role, like all board members, is to provide strategic guidance to Burisma,” said Lawrence Pacheco, who works in Washington D.C. for FTI Consulting, a communications firm that is also employed by Burisma.[/font]

Full article:
http://time.com/2964493/ukraine-joe-biden-son-hunter-burisma/

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1. kick

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2. Not Just Hunter Biden but also Kerry's staff. It is obvious that the primary

nature of these hires are due to influence. We should be calling them on this.