Blue Star Strategies Emerges Again in Hunter Biden Email Story Discovered by NY Post
In this newest NY Post story connected to the Hunter Biden computer saga, the Post is reporting that the Obama Administration allowed a Democrat connected Washington PR firm to participate in a conference call regarding the planning of the details of an upcoming visit by Vice President Joe Biden to the Ukraine.
The company, Blue Star Strategies, was hired by Burisma in November 2015, after Hunter Biden joined the Burisma Board of Directors. Blue Star’s task was to improve the “image” of Burisma and it’s oligarch owner, Mykola Zlochevsky both in Ukraine and the United States.
The Obama administration let a Democratic p.r. company that worked for Ukrainian energy firm Burisma take part in a conference call about an upcoming visit to Ukraine by then-Vice President Joe Biden, emails obtained by The Post show.
An associate at Blue Star Strategies then emailed a memo with minutes of the conference call hosted by the White House to a top Burisma executive, Vadym Pozharskyi, as well as to Joe Biden’s son Hunter and Hunter’s business partner, Devon Archer, both of whom sat on Burisma’s board.
The trip, in December 2015, turned out to be the one during which Biden later bragged about forcing Ukrainian officials to fire a state prosecutor who was investigating Burisma by threatening to withhold a $1 billion US loan guarantee.
The memo, sent shortly after the Dec. 2, 2015, call, also “outlined the trip’s agenda and addressed several questions regarding US policy toward Ukraine.”
Blue Star has said it began working for Burisma and contacting Ukrainian officials on its behalf in November 2015, and an email shows that on Nov. 18, 2015, Pozharskyi sent the Blue Star contract to Hunter Biden, Archer and Eric Schwerin, president of the Rosemont Seneca Partners investment firm.
In April 2014, Hunter Biden joined the Board of Burisma.
At the end of 2014, Zlochevsky fled Ukraine amid allegations of unlawful self-enrichment during his tenure as Ecology and Natural Resources Minister. It was alleged that Burisma obtained certain leases of government land with huge natural gas reserves as a result of Zlochevsky’s position. In January 2015, Ukraine Prosecutor General Vitaly Yarema announced that Zlochevsky had been put on the wanted list for alleged financial corruption.
Blue Star Strategies was founded by Karen Tramotano and Sally Painter. From 1997 to 2001, Tramontano served in the White House as deputy chief of staff to President Clinton, and later led his transition team to his new offices in New York after the 2000 election. From 1993 to 1995, Painter was a senior advisor in the Clinton Administration where she managed the Office of Business Liaison’s outreach and advocacy program for the Commerce Department, providing strategic advice and advocacy for U.S companies bidding on overseas contracts.
In a State Department emailed dated Feb. 24, 2016 — during the Obama Administration — obtained pursuant to a FOIA request, a State Department official wrote:
“Karen Tramontano of Blue Star Strategies requested a meeting to discuss with [Under Secretary] Novelli [U.S. Government] remarks alleging Burisma (Ukrainian energy company) of corruption. She noted that two high profile U.S. citizens are affiliated with the company (including Hunter Biden as a board member). Tramontano would like to talk with U/S Novelli about getting a better understanding of how the U.S. came to the determination that the company is corrupt. According to Tramontano, there is no evidence of corruption, has been no hearing or process, and evidence to the contrary has not been considered.”
John Solomon reported in September of last year that Hunter Biden was serving on the Blue Star Strategies Board of Directors at the same time he was on the Burisma board — and at the same time, Burisma was paying large sums to Blue Star to help with its image in the United States. Solomon had obtained hundreds of pages of communications and emails involving the work done on its behalf Burisma by Blue Star — including communications between Burisman’s US lawyers, Blue Star, and the US Embassy in Kiev, Ukraine. Some of these communications were taking place in the time frame during which Joe Biden traveled to Ukraine, and later bragged about forcing the Ukraine government to fire the top prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who was seemingly conducting a corruption investigation of Burisma and its owner.
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