Subject: Re: WSJ Follow-up
From: "Vadim Pozharskyi" <[email-masked]>
To: "Devon Archer" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Toohey, Ryan" <[email-masked]>, <[email-masked]>, "Saia, Justin" <[email-masked]>, "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 18:14:19 +0300

Gents,

Just to start with, please, see a link to one of the publications written
by our good old Paul not long ago:
https://www.popularresistance.org/joe-bidens-son-appointed-to-board-of-largest-gas-company-in-ukraine/,
and especially to this chunk of "well-written" press:

Hunter Biden’s business activities have attracted attention before.

<http://www.popularresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Obama-Biden-and-Hunter-Biden-e1400445292428.jpg>His
work as a lobbyist when his father was in the U.S. Senate came under
scrutiny. Shortly after his father became Barack Obama’s running mate in
2008, he gave up his lobbying career and resigned his partnership at a
Washington lobbying firm.

When he had been senator, Mr. Obama sought more than $3.4 million in
earmarks for clients of Hunter Biden, and succeeded in getting $192,000 for
St. Xavier University near Chicago, according to public disclosure records.

At the time, a spokesman for Mr. Obama said Hunter Biden hadn’t met with
the senator himself but rather with office staff. The spokesman also said
it wasn’t surprising to see Mr. Obama was fighting for interests and
institutions in his home state of Illinois.

In early 2009, The Wall Street Journal reported that Hunter Biden and his
uncle had run a fund of funds that was being marketed exclusively by Texas
financier R. Allen Stanford’s companies. Mr. Stanford later was sentenced
to 110 years in prison for masterminding a $7 billion Ponzi scheme.

At the time of the Journal article, a lawyer for the Bidens said the fund
terminated the relationship and offered to return $2.7 million in
investment that companies controlled by Mr. Stanford had given the fund. He
said the Bidens had never met Mr. Stanford.

As to the follow-up questions that he submitted, I leave it up to you to
decide what kind of additional information we should give to him. However,
as I understand, in our written answers and during our conference call,
we've talked about these matters quite extensively.

Best,

Vadym

2015-10-17 4:17 GMT+03:00 Devon Archer <[email-masked]>:

> Wow this guy's a real Sherlock Holmes.   We should counter by asking how
> much the Kremlin is paying him to run this article.
>
> Devon D. Archer
> (+1) 646 436 3745
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> On Oct 16, 2015, at 8:20 PM, Toohey, Ryan <[email-masked]>
> wrote:
>
> Team – see below. Let’s think about some of the best ways to answer this
> and perhaps regroup on Monday.  In the meantime we should look through the
> various investigative reports we have to determine the wisdom of
> sharing/what to share etc.
>
>
>
> *Ryan F. Toohey*
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> +1.212.850.5678 T | +1.917.280.2198 M
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> *From:* Sonne, Paul [mailto:[email-masked] <[email-masked]>]
> *Sent:* Friday, October 16, 2015 11:06 AM
> *To:* Toohey, Ryan
> *Cc:* Laura Mills
> *Subject:* Follow-Up
>
>
>
> Ryan,
>
>
> Thanks for setting up the call and for your cooperation. We appreciate it.
> Here is a rundown of things outstanding:
>
>
>
> 1.    Any more info on the licenses, including possibly the Kroll Report
> on them. I imagine this would be very helpful and go a long way toward
> answering questions 9-12.
>
>
>
> 2.    This question (number 16) went unanswered for some reason, I think
> it was maybe lost in the shuffle: Geoffrey Pyatt, the U.S. Ambassador to
> Ukraine, recently mentioned the U.K. proceedings during a speech in Odessa.
> He said the following: “In the case of former Ecology Minister Mykola
> Zlochevsky, the U.K. authorities had seized 23 million dollars in illicit
> assets that belonged to the Ukrainian people. Officials at the [Ukrainian
> Prosecutor General’s] office were asked by the U.K to send documents
> supporting the seizure. Instead they sent letters to Zlochevsky’s attorneys
> attesting that there was no case against him. As a result the money was
> freed by the U.K. court and shortly thereafter the money was moved to
> Cyprus.” Do you have any response to this comment?
>
>
>
> 3.    Here’s that question for Eric to be passed on to Hunter: Joe Biden
> has become the leading face of US foreign policy toward Ukraine, repeatedly
> coming to Kiev to drive home the message that the country must root out
> corruption to succeed. Many people in Ukraine, including apparently the US
> ambassador, see Mr. Zlochevsky’s dealings—namely, the receipt of lucrative
> oil and gas exploration licenses for his own companies while in top
> government posts—as indicative of the very sort of behavior the Vice
> President is demanding the country eradicate. Does Hunter feel that his
> involvement with Mr. Zlochevsky’s firm undermines his father’s message? Why
> be involved with the company at all? Is it a question of needing money?
>
>
>
> 4.    If you can clear up what Hunter transitioning to the Burisma
> Geothermal board from the main board means, that’d be helpful. Not sure why
> that is happening or if it’s actually significant in any informal sense.
>
>
>
> 5.    Lastly, perhaps we can discuss the issue of what we’re going to say
> about Hunter’s compensation over the phone?
>
>
>
> Thanks again for all your professionalism in dealing with this. We are
> grateful. Talk soon.
>
>
>
> All the best,
>
> Paul
>
>
>
>
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