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Robert Hunter Biden
Robert Hunter Biden (born February 4, 1970) is an American lobbyist and lawyer who is the second son of the 46th President of the United States and former U.S. vice president Joe Biden. He co-foundedRosemont Seneca Partners, an international consulting firm.
Biden served on the board of Burisma Holdings, a major Ukrainian natural gas producer, from 2014 to 2019. In 2019, President Donald Trump claimed that Joe Biden had sought the dismissal of a Ukrainian prosecutor in order to protect Hunter Biden from investigation.[1][2][3] He and his father have been accused of corrupt business dealings and bribery in Ukraine and elsewhere.[4]
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Further information: Biden family
Biden was born on February 4, 1970,[5] in Wilmington, Delaware. He is the second son of Neilia Biden (née Hunter) and Joe Biden, the latter of whom represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009 and served as Vice President of the United States from 2009 to 2017.[2] Hunter Biden's mother and younger sister, Naomi, were killed in an automobile crash on December 18, 1972.[6][7] Biden and his older brother, Beau, were also seriously injured in that crash.[2] Hunter and Beau Biden later encouraged their father to marry again,[8] and Jill Jacobs became Hunter and Beau's stepmother in 1977.[2] Biden's half-sister, Ashley, was born in 1981.[9]
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Like his father and brother, Biden attended Archmere Academy, a Catholic high school in Claymont, Delaware. In 1992, he graduated from Georgetown University with a bachelor's degree in history. During the year after he graduated from college, he served as aJesuit volunteerat a church in Portland, Oregon, where he met and eventually married Kathleen Buhle. After attending Georgetown University Law Center for one year, he transferred to Yale Law School, graduating in 1996.[2]
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After his father was elected as vice president in 2008, Biden resigned from his position on the Amtrak board of directors and left his career as a lobbyist.[2] Along with ChristopherHeinz, stepson of JohnKerry, and DevonArcher, Biden founded the investment firm Rosemont Seneca.[11]
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In the aftermath of the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, Mykola Zlochevsky faced a money laundering investigation,[21][22] and his company Burisma Holdings, the largest natural gas producer in Ukraine,[2] assembled a "high-profile international board" in response.[23][22] Chris Heinz, John Kerry's stepson, opposed his partners Devon Archer and Hunter Biden joining the board in 2014 due to the reputational risk.[22] Among those who joined the board of directors in April 2014 were Biden, Archer and former Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski.[24] Biden served on the board of Burisma until his term expired in April 2019,[25] receiving compensation of up to $50,000 per month in some months.[11][26][27] Because Vice President Biden played a major role in U.S. policy towards Ukraine, some Ukrainian anti-corruption advocates[3][28] and Obama administration officials expressed concern that Hunter Biden's having joined the board could create the appearance of a conflict of interest and undermine Vice President Biden's anti-corruption work in Ukraine.[2][22] While serving as vice president, Joe Biden joined other Western leaders in encouraging the government of Ukraine to fire the country's top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin,[1][29] who was widely criticized for blocking corruption investigations.[30][31] The Ukrainian parliament voted to remove Shokin in March 2016.[32][33]
In 2019, President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, claimed that Vice President Biden had actually sought the dismissal of Shokin in order to protect his son and Burisma Holdings,[34][3] however, there is no evidence that this was what happened.[1] There has also been no evidence produced of wrongdoing done by Hunter Biden in Ukraine.[35] The Ukrainian anti-corruption investigation agency stated in September 2019 that their investigation of Burisma was restricted solely to the period of 2010 to 2012, before Hunter Biden joined Burisma in 2014.[36] Shokin in May 2019 claimed that he was fired because he was actively investigating Burisma,[37] but U.S. and Ukrainian officials have stated that the investigation into Burisma was dormant at the time of Shokin's dismissal.[22][37][38] Ukrainian sources have maintained that Shokin was fired for failing to address corruption, including within his office.[28][39]
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