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m: Barkoff, Kendra @ovp.eop.gov
Subject: FW: Joe Biden’s son joining the board of a Ukrainian natural gas company
Date: May 13, 2014 at 7:04 AM
To: Hunter Biden (hbiden@rosemontseneca.com) hbiden@rosemontseneca.com
—–Original Message—–
From: Max Seddon [mailto: @buzzfeed.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 9:10 AM
To: Lucas Magnuson, Laura
Subject: Joe Biden’s son joining the board of a Ukrainian natural gas company
Dear Laura,
Hope this finds you well. Russian state media is loving this press
release, supposedly from a Cypriot-held Ukrainian natural gas company,
claiming that the Vice President’s son has joined its board of
directors. The news seems rather odd on its face and, if true, would present a fairly glaring
conflict of interest given the VP’s role on Ukraine policy – particularly since the company is
controlled by Nikolai Zlochevsky, who was energy minister and deputy NSC chief under
Yanukovych.
Is this true? What exactly is going on here?
Thanks and best
Max
Max Seddon
Foreign affairs reporter, BuzzFeed
(Kiev)

twitter.com/maxseddon

Max Seddon
Foreign affairs reporter, BuzzFeed
(Kiev)
twitter.com/maxseddon

From: Vadim Pozharskyi v.pozharskyi.ukraine@gmail.com Subject: Re: Mexico trip, Nikolay Date: February 6, 2015 at 6:30 AM To: Hunter Biden hbiden@rosemontseneca.com, Robert Biden rhbdc@icloud.com, Devon Archer darcher@rosemontseneca.com Cc: Alex Kotlarsky @yahoo.com Dear colleagues, Hope, you are well. Just to inquire whether there’s any update on the Nikolay’s Mexico visa issue. Best, Vadym 2015-02-05 12:13 GMT+02:00 Vadim Pozharskyi : Dear Hunter, Following the communication with Devon below and his kind advice, please, find Nikolay’s passport and his revoked US visa copy attached. Hope, it will help. Thank you, Vadym 2015-02-05 4:49 GMT+03:00 Devon Archer : Vadim, Hunter is checking with Miguel Aleman to see if he can provide cover to Kola on the Visa. Considering we are having dinner with the Foreign Minister Thursday night we think we have a good shot of smoothing things out. As follow up please send Hunter an email with all Kola’s passport and visa documents and evidence and copy me. We’ll take it from there. I will also send some process instructions for getting diligence going. Best, Devon Archer > On Feb 5, 2015, at 12:55 AM, Vadim Pozharskyi wrote: > > Dear Devon and Alex, > Hope, you’re well. There’s one important issue that I need to get your advice on. The thing is when a Ukrainian citizen goes to Mexico he or she applies for a Mexican visa online and within a week get the visa in a form of an electronic voucher. When he or she flies to Mexico, the customs officers at the airport verify its validity and grant entry. However, today I was notified by our travel agent about the following situation: a person’s American visa has been revoked due to unknown reasons, she applied for a Mexican visa, received it without any problems, flew with her family all the way to Mexico to celebrate the New year and on the border to Mexico was denied entry on the grounds that she some issues with the American embassy and supposedly Mexico and the USA customs authorities share the same database. As a result, she got back to Kyiv on the plane. > > So my query is obvious, since Nikolay also had some issues and his visa was revoked and he hasn’t applied for a new one. With this in mind, I feel that there’s a risk that he will fly to Mexico and would be denied entry, and in bad mood would be forced to come back. Please advise here. Please advise here. > > And another thing: could you kindly update me as to what needs to be done prior to our meeting with PEMEX? > > Best, > Vadym

From: Heather King hking@BSFLLP.com Subject: Attorney Client Communication: Privileged and Confidential Date: May 14, 2014 at 4:05 PM To: Devon Archer darcher@rosemontseneca.com Cc: Hunter Biden hbiden@rosemontseneca.com Devon and Hunter – In addition to the PR firm, there are 2 other consultants I strongly believe Burisma should authorize us to engage for them. 1) The lobbyist I recommended to Vadim yesterday and which he responded that he would rather not. I would work hand in hand with the lobbyist but here is a quick version of why I think we need him, which I can explain more eloquently to Vadim in an email, if you’re okay with me pushing back on Vadim on this: 1) this lobbyist is substantively right for us, including that he can help address the ban list that Nikolai is on (though I now think it’s not the visa ban list, from what I’ve learned in the past 24 hours, though there is no way to be certain of that); 2) he is a registered lobbyist and I’m not, and we have to be registered to talk to the government about Burisma at any substantial level-I can be involved if David is there, but me going on my own means I’d have to register; and 3) it will definitely save Burisma money to get these other consultants on board (it sounds like a lot of money to Burisma but my rate is over $800/hour, and my colleagues are not cheap either, and having us do all this non-legal work is just not cost efficient). 2) In addition, all of us here at BSF strongly(!!!) believe we need Burisma to authorize hiring an investigative research firm right away. In order for us to get ahead of the press now and in the future, and in order for me/us to legitimately sell Burisma to the US Government, we need to know all the good, bad and the ugly about them so we can anticipate and prepare all angles of representing them. Heather King, Esq. Partner BOIES, SCHILLER & FLEXNER LLP 5301 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20015 @bsfllp.com —–Original Message—– From: Devon Archer [mailto:darcher@rosemontseneca.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 3:59 PM To: Heather King Cc: Hunter Biden Subject: Re: Email for Board call form Alan Great Devon Archer On May 14, 2014, at 3:55 PM, Heather King < @BSFLLP.com> wrote: Okay. I have a PR firm to recommend, so I will likely invite them to the call. I’ll email you and Vadim about them later today. I’m just waiting for a bit more info on them that I want to include in the email. Heather King, Esq. Partner BOIES, SCHILLER & FLEXNER LLP BOIES, SCHILLER & FLEXNER LLP 5301 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20015 @bsfllp.com —–Original Message—– From: Devon Archer [mailto:darcher@rosemontseneca.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 3:54 PM To: Heather King Cc: Hunter Biden Subject: Email for Board call form Alan Heather, Alan whose Chairman of the Board will be emailing you and the group to coordinate a call for tomorrow along with President Kwasniewski who announced his Board position today in Polish media and is scheduling a strong line up of interviews defending Burisma (from Russians, the Ukrainian candidates and the American media). 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From: Burisma vadym.pozharskyi@burisma.com Subject: Re: Visa Denial Date: November 3, 2015 at 3:22 PM To: Eric Schwerin @rosemontseneca.com Cc: Devon Archer darcher@rosemontcapital.com, Hunter Biden hbiden@rosemontseneca.com Eric, thank you for the communication below. It’s good to have John on board with us in our efforts for Kiev trip and issue. I am kindly expecting from HB and Devon to confirm as to our action plan with BS. As to the visas issue, I realize that we will have time to discuss the strategy to solve the matter as our crisis management action plan proceeds. Best Отправлено с iPhone 3 нояб. 2015, в 20:54, Eric Schwerin < @rosemontseneca.com> написал(а): VadymPlease the below email and attachments from John Sandweg. He is going to confirm that Nikolai’s wife and daughter are in the same situation. John recommends that Nikolai reapply for his visa but that we wait until his legal status in Ukraine has been resolved as the reapplication may require Nikolai to go to the Embassy in Kiev personally. He does feel that since the original cancelation occurred in March of 2014 it is solely related to the political issues associated with his service in the cabinet and not anything to do with him personally that the reapplication may not be a difficult process. In any event, we should discuss timing as part of the overall strategy regarding not only the visa but also the legal and PR issues that Blue Star will be handling. John also said that he’d be happy to go to Ukraine if the group feels it makes sense and his presence will be helpful. Let us know if you have any questions. Thanks, Eric Eric D. Schwerin Rosemont Seneca Advisors, LLC 1010 Wisconsin Ave., NW Suite 705 Washington, DC 20007 @rosemontseneca.com ! Consider the environment before printing this email. Begin forwarded message: From: John Sandweg < @frsdc.com> Date: November 2, 2015 at 6@36@56 PM EST To: Eric Schwerin < @rosemontseneca.com> Subject: Visa Denial EricAttached is a short report outlining why the visa was cancelled. I realize we previously told you that a search of Department of Homeland Security and Customs databases did not reveal any prohibitions on Mr. Zlochevskyi ability to enter the United States. Unfortunately, after receiving the initial report, I suspected that the individual I asked to run the search only queried DHS/Customs databases and not State Department databases. As such, I asked another individual to query both databases. This search revealed the cancellation of the visa and the legal basis for the cancellation. The good news is that there has been no application of an immigration bar – meaning the client is able to re-apply and is not currently subject to any legal prohibitions on obtaining a visa. That said, the reason State cancels visas in situations like this is to force the visa holder to come into the embassy/consulate and answer questions related to the issues that are concerning State. As we discussed I do not recommend that the client make any effort to obtain a new visa until the other matters are resolved. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns. JS John Sandweg @frsdc.com The information contained in this electronic mail transmission is intended by Frontier Solutions solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom/which it is addressed. This e-mail may also contain confidential and privileged information and/or attorney work product. This information is only for the intended recipient. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. If you are not the named addressee and intended recipient you may not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received it by mistake and delete it from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. <9 FAM 41.122 PN12.3 .pdf>

From: Heather King hking@BSFLLP.com Subject: RE: Burisma EL signed and media issues/ INVOICE Date: May 12, 2014 at 11:35 AM To: Vadim Pozharskyi v.pozharskyi.ukraine@ Cc: Devon Archer darcher@rosemontseneca.com, Hunter Biden hbiden@rosemontseneca.com Understood. Thank you. Heather King, Esq. Partner BOIES, SCHILLER & FLEXNER LLP 5301 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20015 @bsfllp.com From: Vadim Pozharskyi [mailto:v.pozharskyi.ukraine@ Sent: Monday, May 12, 2014 1:05 PM To: Heather King Cc: Devon Archer; Hunter Biden Subject: Re: Burisma EL signed and media issues/ INVOICE Dear Heather, I agree with what you suggested in points 1 and 2. Please kindly note that taking into account current state of affairs, for Burisma it’s of crucial importance that advices of yours and the plan that you will suggest, shall result in concrete actions by your side and those Washington, DC contacts of yours. And all of that will effectively stop those politically motivated attacks today and will create solid ground for preventing such actions in future. Looking forward for further information from your side, Best regards, vadym 2014-05-12 18:49 GMT+03:00 Heather King < @bsfllp.com>: Vadim – Per your email below, here is a summary of the work I suggest we start: 1) Immediately: Advise on how to use Washington, DC contacts to stop the politically motivated attacks on Burisma taking place right now in Ukraine. 2) In the near term: Research, analyze and summarize our recommended Plan as to the legal, political and public relations work that Burisma should consider in an effort to achieve its goal of developing a Western-looking strategy. Our Plan would focus on work to help create a “bullet-proof vest” for Burisma, including: 1) ensuring key government officials know who Burisma is and that they are on the right side of history, that you are a company that meets western standards for good governance and transparency, and otherwise developing important relationships for Burisma within the U.S. government; 2) examining ways we may be able to help Burisma diversify geographically and expand its work into the West (explorations, joint ventures, etc.); and 3) examining potential vulnerabilities Burisma may face legally, politically ventures, etc.); and 3) examining potential vulnerabilities Burisma may face legally, politically and public relations-wise and ways to address those vulnerabilities. Heather King, Esq. Partner BOIES, SCHILLER & FLEXNER LLP 5301 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20015 @bsfllp.com From: Vadim Pozharskyi [mailto:v.pozharskyi.ukraine@ ] Sent: Monday, May 12, 2014 11:25 AM To: Heather King Cc: Devon Archer; Hunter Biden Subject: Re: Burisma EL signed and media issues/ INVOICE Dear Heather, Before you start working, I would like kindly ask you to elaborate as to the strategic plan you mentioned. Thanks, best regards, Vadym 2014-05-09 18:21 GMT+03:00 Heather King < @bsfllp.com>: Thank you Vadim. We received your payment. We are now starting work on a strategic plan. Heather King, Esq. Partner BOIES, SCHILLER & FLEXNER LLP 5301 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20015 @bsfllp.com —–Original Message—– From: Vadim Pozharskyi [v.pozharskyi.ukraine@ ] Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 09:21 AM Eastern Standard Time To: Heather King To: Heather King Cc: Devon Archer; Hunter Biden Subject: Re: Burisma EL signed and media issues/ INVOICE Dear Heather, Please find below information as to the transaction done, Best regards, vadym ——————— Instance Type and Transmission ————– Notification (Transmission) of Original sent to SWIFT (ACK) Network Delivery Status : Network Ack Priority/Delivery : Normal Message Input Reference : ————————— Message Header ————————- Swift Input : FIN 103 Single Customer Credt Transfer Sender : AS ‘PRIVATBANK’ RIGA LV Receiver : DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS NEW YORK,NY US MUR : 117 ————————— Message Text ————————— 20: Sender’s Reference 23B: Bank Operation Code CRED 32A: Val Dte/Curr/Interbnk Settld Amt Date : 07 May 2014 Currency : USD (US DOLLAR) Amount : #250,000.00# 33B: Currency/Instructed Amount Currency : USD (US DOLLAR) Amount : #250,000.00# 50K: Ordering Customer-Name & Address BURISMA HOLDINGS LIMITED ARCHIEPISKOPOU MAKARIOU 111, PROTEA S HOUSE 155 5 ST FLOOR FLAT/OFF LIM ASSOL 3026 CY 57D: Account With Inst -Name & Addr WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. USA 59: Beneficiary Customer-Name & Addr 59: Beneficiary Customer-Name & Addr / BOIES, SCHILLER AND FLEXNER LLP 2200 CORPORATE BLVD.NW, SUITE-400, BOCA RATON, FLORIDA, 33431 70: Remittance Information FOR LEGAL AND CONSULTING SERVICES A CC INVOICE NO. 043014 DATE MAY 5, 2014 71A: Details of Charges OUR 2014-05-05 23:49 GMT+03:00 Heather King < @bsfllp.com>: Vadim – Please use the attached Invoice, rather than the one I sent you earlier. Sincerely, Heather Heather King, Esq. Partner BOIES, SCHILLER & FLEXNER LLP 5301 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20015 @bsfllp.com From: Heather King Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 4:26 PM To: ‘Vadim Pozharskyi’ Cc: ‘Devon Archer’; ‘Hunter Biden’ Subject: RE: Burisma EL signed and media issues/ INVOICE Vadim – Attached please find an invoice for the Engagement Fee, per your request. Sincerely, Heather Heather King, Esq. Partner BOIES, SCHILLER & FLEXNER LLP 5301 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20015 @bsfllp.com From: Vadim Pozharskyi [mailto:v.pozharskyi.ukraine@ Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 10:28 AM To: Heather King Cc: Devon Archer; Hunter Biden Subject: Re: Burisma EL signed and media issues/ INVOICE Thank you Heather, absolutely understood, thanks in approximately 1-2 weeks from the announcing oh HB joking the firm I will come back to you on this point. Meanwhile could you please send me an invoice so that we could proceed with transfer of funds following signing of an EL. Best regards, Vadym Отправлено с iPad 2 мая 2014, в 20:57, Heather King < @BSFLLP.com> написал(а): Vadim – Yes. We are happy to review a draft press release announcing our firm’s engagement with you. However, we think it is best for Burisma if such an announcement be made entirely separate from and a reasonable period of time after the announcement of Hunter having joined the Board. Heather King, Esq. Partner BOIES, SCHILLER & FLEXNER LLP 5301 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20015 @bsfllp.com From: Vadim Pozharskyi [mailto:v.pozharskyi.ukraine@ ] Sent: Friday, May 02, 2014 1:33 PM To: Heather King Cc: Devon Archer; Hunter Biden Subject: Re: Burisma EL signed and media issues Dear Heather, Have you any additional information as to the question below with regard to media? Thanks, Vadym Thanks, Vadym Отправлено с iPad 30 апр. 2014, в 00:50, Heather King < @BSFLLP.com> написал(а): Vadim – Thank you. I received the signed agreement. We are looking forward to working with you, the Board and Burisma generally! And I will inquire with my firm management as to whether we can agree to a press release announcing our engagement. I have not been part of such an arrangement in the past and do not know whether there are any guidelines or policies we must follow. I will return with an answer as soon as possible. Sincerely, Heather Heather King, Esq. Partner BOIES, SCHILLER & FLEXNER LLP 5301 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20015 @bsfllp.com From: Vadim Pozharskyi [mailto:v.pozharskyi.ukraine@ ] Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 9:18 AM To: Heather King; Devon Archer; Hunter Biden Subject: Burisma EL signed and media issues Dear Heather, Please find attached the EL signed. In relation to that please send me an invoice for the sum to be paid, and note that due to long holyday weekend we plan to make transfer next week. Following the start of cooperation between Burisma and Boies.. we are considering to publicize this even. Please advise as to the following: Burisma would like to put this news on our website, make press release and send it out to mass media. If it’s ok with you we can prepare a draft and send to you for your corrections or approval. Also we are considering to make an interview with one of the partners of the Boies, could be yourself and organize publishing it in Ukrainian general newspaper/magazine and maybe in it in Ukrainian general newspaper/magazine and maybe in professional legal one. What do you think about that? If it’s ok, again we could do draft and send to you for your inputs. You would correct it and send back with one or two photos of yours. Looking forward for your reply, Vadym Pozharskyi IRS Circular 230 disclosure: To ensure compliance with requirements imposed by the IRS, unless we expressly state otherwise, we inform you that any U.S. federal tax advice contained in this communication (including any attachments) is not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, for the purpose of (i) avoiding penalties under the Internal Revenue Code or (ii) promoting, marketing or recommending to another party any transaction or matter addressed herein. 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In April 2015, well before the advent of the #MeToo movement, a senior FBI official assured Congress the bureau had a handle on sexual misconduct In the workplace. “The FBI does not tolerate sexual harassment or sexual misconduct,” then-Associate Director Kevin L. Perkins told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Less than a year later, the bureau’s top Russia counterintelligence agent, Peter Strzok, was reportedly entangled in an affair with Lisa Page, the counsel for the FBI’s deputy director, as the two played key roles in the Russia collusion investigation. Strzok eventually would be fired, and Page would resign in a controversy over their text messages.

While the “FBI lovebirds” — as conservatives once panned them — made headlines with their politically charged insults about Donald Trump on their government-issued phones, their relationship was a harbinger of far more extensive problems between the men and women of the FBI workplace, which ranged from other illicit relationships to stunning cases of boorish sexual harassment by supervisors.

The challenges have burst into full view in recent months with the release of several explosive investigative reports by the Justice Department inspector general. The latest came last Thursday, revealing an FBI assistant director violated agency policy by failing to timely report a romantic relationship with a subordinate.

Inspector General Michael Horowitz noted the romance involved more than a rules infraction, it disrupted the workplace.

“The OIG investigation also found that the Assistant Director allowed the relationship to negatively affect an appropriate and professional superior-subordinate relationship and to disrupt the workplace by interfering with the ability of other FBI employees to complete their work,” Horowitz wrote in his report.

He also raised concerns about the appearance of a conflict. “The Assistant Director participated in a hiring or organizational decision involving the subordinate, all in violation of FBI policy,” he noted.

The case has been referred to the agency Office of Professional Responsibility. You can read the report here:File 21-098.pdf

Back in April, Horowitz released a stunning investigative report revealing that a senior FBI supervisor sexually harassed eight female subordinates in one of the bureau’s most egregious known cases of sexual misconduct. The supervisor was allowed to retire and was not further punished, despite findings that his colleagues found him to be a “skilled predator” who touched female employees inappropriately and solicited one for sex in a conference room.

The report described one female employee who told investigators she acquiesced to a sexual relationship with the boss for fear her career would be ruined if she didn’t. “He was in a powerful position, and she worried about what he would do if she did not respond to his advances,” the report noted.

The Associated Press late last year reported it had identified at least six cases of sexual assault or harassment by FBI supervisors, including an assistant FBI director who retired after he was accused of drunkenly groping a female subordinate in a stairwell, and a high-ranking FBI agent who was  accused of blackmailing a young employee into sexual encounters.

News of misconduct has kept piling up since that report. Last month, an FBI agent in Louisiana was arrested and charged with sexual misconduct against juveniles under the age of 13.

Also last month, a female FBI agent in Las Vegas filed a federal lawsuit alleging her office operated like a boozed up “frat house” where a male superior solicited her for sex while another texted her a photo of a rainbow-colored sex toy.

FBI Supervisory Special Agent Karen Veltri alleged in the suit she was sexually harassed by two supervisors — then retaliated against for reporting the abuse to several oversight bodies.

In March, the FBI agreed to pay a $1.2 million settlement to a current female FBI agent whose lawsuit alleged she was harassed and retaliated against by a squad of male colleagues.

And in January, Horowitz disclosed federal prosecutors declined charges against an FBI assistant special agent in charge after a probe confirmed he had engaged in “unwanted physical sexual contact with another FBI employee at an after-hours FBI social function” and previously made unwanted physical sexual contact with two other FBI employees.File 21-030.pdf

While the bureau’s own boorish behavior has come to light, its failure to fully investigate sexual misconduct in a high-profile case also was laid bare in recent weeks. 

Horowitz released a report July 14 that concluded the FBI made “fundamental” errors investigating sexual abuse allegations against former USA Gymnastics national team doctor Larry Nassar and did not treat the case with the “utmost seriousness.”

As a result of slow and sloppy investigation, as many as 40 women and girls were molested between the time the bureau learned of the Nasser allegations and finally took action, the report said.

The FBI has acknowledged its failures in the case were “inexcusable and a discredit” to America’s premier law enforcement agency.

The problems, retired FBI agent Jane Turner recently wrote, date back decades. Turner blew the whistle on earlier FBI failures to investigate sex abuse on Indian reservations two decades earlier

“During this time, I discovered serious FBI misconduct in its handling of child abuse cases and was retaliated against for sharing my findings with the FBI headquarters,” she wrote in an email on behalf of the National Whistleblower Center. “The issues I see with the FBI today are the same I fought back against then.”

By John Solomon

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