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From: "Toohey, Ryan" <[email-masked]>
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Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 14:10:21 +0000

Hunter - See below. There are some qualitative mischaracterizations on there as well as factual misstatements.

Robert Hunter Biden (born February 4, 1970) is the second son of U.S. Vice President<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States> Joe Biden<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden> and stepson of Second Lady of the United States<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Lady_of_the_United_States> Jill Biden<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Biden>; and is a partner at Rosemont Seneca Partners, LLC and is Counsel to Boies, Schiller, Flexner, LLP, a New York based-law firm.[3]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden#cite_note-WFP-3>

Early life and family[edit<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hunter_Biden&action=edit&section=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro>]
Further information: Biden family<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biden_family>

Biden was born in Wilmington, Delaware, the youngest son of former U.S. Senator and current Vice President Joe Biden, and his first wife, Neilia Hunter. His mother and younger sister, Naomi Christina Biden, were killed in an automobile accident in 1972,[4]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden#cite_note-BBC_CONV-4>[5]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden#cite_note-NYT_CONV-5> in which he and his brother, Beau<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beau_Biden>, were seriously injured. He and his brother encouraged his father to marry again,[6]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden#cite_note-nyt082508-6> and Jill Jacobs<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Biden> became Beau's stepmother in 1977. His half-sister Ashley was born in 1981.

Education[edit<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hunter_Biden&action=edit&section=2&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro>]

Biden received a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_University>; and a Juris Doctor<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor> from Yale Law School<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_Law_School>.[7]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden#cite_note-Paradigm-7> After graduating from college Hunter Biden was a member of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesuit_Volunteer_Corps_Northwest>,[2]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden#cite_note-Lobbyist-2> where he met his wife.[1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden#cite_note-Family-1>

Career[edit<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hunter_Biden&action=edit&section=3&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro>]

Biden is a lawyer with insider connections to the financial industry and government. He was a founding partner of ″Oldaker, Biden, and Belair, LLP″, a national law firm based in New York,[1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden#cite_note-Family-1> and of the mergers and acquisitions<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mergers_and_acquisitions> firm "Eudora Global".[8]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden#cite_note-8> Biden was chief executive officer, and later chairman, of hedge fund<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_fund> "PARADIGM Global Advisors", which he co-founded with his uncle James Biden and disgraced financier Allen Stanford<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Stanford>, who was sentenced to 110 years jail for a multi-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme.[7]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden#cite_note-Paradigm-7> At MBNA<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBNA>, a major US bank, Biden was employed as a senior vice president.[7]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden#cite_note-Paradigm-7> Following that, Biden was appointed by Bill Clinton<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton> to serve in the United States Department of Commerce<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Commerce>[7]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden#cite_note-Paradigm-7> under Secretaries Norman Mineta<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Mineta> and William M. Daley<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_M._Daley>. He was director of ecommerce policy issues in the Department of Commerce.[7]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden#cite_note-Paradigm-7> On May 16, 2006, Biden was nominated by President George W. Bush<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush> to the board of directors of Amtrak<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtrak>.[1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden#cite_note-Family-1> He was confirmed unanimously on July 26, 2006 by the United States Senate<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate> for a term of five years, and was the vice-chair of the board until January 29, 2009.[9]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden#cite_note-9> Hunter Biden served as Honorary Co-Chair of the 2008 Obama-Biden Inaugural Committee.

In addition to holding directorship for the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition and the Center for National Policy<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_National_Policy>, he sits on the Chairman’s Advisory Board for the National Democratic Institute<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Democratic_Institute> (NDI). The NDI is a project of the National Endowment for Democracy<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Endowment_for_Democracy> (NED), the organization that does what the CIA did covertly 25 years ago.[10]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden#cite_note-10>

On April 18, 2014, Burisma Holdings announced Hunter Biden's appointment to the board of directors.[11]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden#cite_note-11> Burisma holds licenses covering the Dnieper<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnieper>-Donets Basin<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donets_Basin>, the Carpathian<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpathian> and Azov<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Azov>-Kuban<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuban_River> basins and has considerable reserves and production capability.[12]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden#cite_note-12>

Memberships[edit<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hunter_Biden&action=edit&section=4&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro>]

Biden is a member of the bar<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_(law)> in the state of Connecticut<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut>, the District of Columbia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia>, the U.S. Supreme Court<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Supreme_Court>, and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Court_of_Federal_Claims>. He is also a member of the boards of the World Food Program USA<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Food_Program_USA>,[3]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden#cite_note-WFP-3>[13]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden#cite_note-13>[14]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden#cite_note-14> and the Truman National Security Project<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truman_National_Security_Project>, a national organization based in Washington, D.C.[3]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden#cite_note-WFP-3> He further serves on the National Prostate Cancer Coalition.[1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden#cite_note-Family-1>

Personal philosophy[edit<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hunter_Biden&action=edit&section=5&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro>]

Biden maintains a personal philosophy that is rooted in service to others.

In speaking about his father, Joe Biden, and the importance of helping others, the younger Biden stated in a November 23, 2007 article by Linda Waddington the appeared in The Iowa Independent:
I think my dad has always had an idealism about what he does and he has passed that on to us. I think he feels more than anything if you can wade through the bad parts of politics, that what you really have an opportunity to do is help people. One thing I did learn is that you don’t have to be a United States Senator to help people. You don’t have to be an elected official to serve.[1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden#cite_note-Family-1>
Personal life[edit<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hunter_Biden&action=edit&section=6&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro>]

Biden is married to Kathleen,[1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden#cite_note-Family-1> and they have three daughters,[1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden#cite_note-Family-1> Naomi, Finnegan, and Maisy.[3]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden#cite_note-WFP-3>

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