Subject: Re: referral from Joe Scoby
From: "Evan Michael Schrum" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 09:03:07 -0500

Thanks Hunter

The State Department along with our staff are aware of the situation.  In
case they have not briefed the Vice President on all the details I will
print this out for the VP. We are in the air right now on the way to
Ireland.  I apologize that I did not respond sooner.  I did not have access
to my gmail account while in turkey due to unsecured wifi network at the
hotel.

Take care

On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Hunter Biden <[email-masked]>
wrote:

> See below. I don't know who on the trip you can pass this to but I need to
> respond in one way or another to the family.
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> RHB
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> *From:* [email-masked]
> *Date:* November 22, 2014 at 8:57:14 AM EST
> *To:* [email-masked]
> *Cc:* [email-masked]
> *Subject:* *referral from Joe Scoby*
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> Mr. Biden,
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> My name is Peter Ianello. Joe Scoby, who is copied on this email, and I
> have been close friends for many years. I will make this brief but I am
> available to go into greater detail on the matter at any time.
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> The person who I am writing about is Marty O'Connor. I have known Marty
> for almost 40 years. His dad, Ed O'Connor, was one of my business partners
> and a very close friend of my family. As background, Ed O'Connor, who is no
> longer with us, was one of the founders of the Chicago Board Options
> Exchange and a giant in the financial industry in the United States for
> some 50 years.
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> Marty was detained along with his wife, Maureen, at the Istanbul, Turkey
> airport on Thursday Nov. 20th as they were preparing to return to Chicago
> because they were found to have a decorative dagger that the authorities
> needed to have examined by a museum to determine if it was an antiquity. It
> is a crime to take an antiquity from Turkey. Marty, thinking that this was
> nothing more than just waiting for the dagger to be examined and he would
> be shortly on his way, told Maureen to take the flight home and he would
> get the next flight as soon as this was resolved. The authorities had a
> museum examine the dagger and they declared it an "historical antiquity."
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> On Tuesday of that week Marty and his wife went to the Grand Bazaar in
> Istanbul and while there he purchased the decorative dagger for $500. The
> merchant mentioned that he had other items that were not for sale because
> they could not be taken out of Turkey because they were considered
> antiquities indicating to Marty and Maureen that he was knowledgeable about
> the law and that the item they purchased was just an ordinary item.
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> On Friday, after the dagger was declared an antiquity, Marty was taken
> before a judge who said that he must stand trial for this offense. At that
> hearing, the merchant who sold the dagger to Marty appeared with a lawyer
> that he brought along for Marty. The merchant testified that the dagger was
> not an antiquity and he showed the judge a receipt for $500 implying that
> an antiquity would never be sold for that little amount of money.
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> The judge said that Marty had until Tuesday, Nov. 25th to file an appeal
> which if granted would allow Marty to stay in a residence in Istanbul
> rather than wait in jail for the trial. We have retained counsel in
> Istanbul recommended by the law firm of Baker & McKenzie.
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> I don't know how to not make this sound like a cliche but this is an
> innocent man who is sitting in a jail in Turkey wondering what just
> happened to him. His wife and children are living a nightmare and his
> friends, like myself, feel helpless. We would greatly appreciate it if you
> could inform the State Department of this situation so that they might be
> able to aid us in getting the authorities to understand what is the truth
> and/or at the very least insure Marty's safety while he is being held in
> Istanbul.
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> Thank you,
> Peter
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