Hunter Biden

Robert Hunter Biden (born February 4, 1970 in Wilmington , Delaware ) is an American lawyer , business lobbyist and the second son of the Democratic candidate in the 2020 US presidential election, Joe Biden .

Career

He holds a Juris Doctor of Law from Yale Law School . Biden initially worked as an entrepreneur and later as a manager in the financial sector. Among other things, he had founded a hedge fund together with a relative and offshore banking expert Allen Stanford . By Bill Clinton Biden Board Member for is e-commerce policy matters in the United States Department of Commerce . In 2006, on the proposal of George W. Bush and confirmed by the US Senate , Biden was admitted to the board of directors of the rail company Amtrak , but resigned in 2009. In addition, Biden is an attorney with the New York law firm & Flexner Boies, Schiller busy.

In 2009 he founded the investment firm Rosemont Seneca Partners with Devon Archer and Christopher Heinz - the stepson of John Kerry . There Biden sits on the boards of several organizations such as the Truman National Security Project , which seeks leaders in the field of national security. He is also an assistant professor at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University , chairman of the US branch of the United Nations World Food Program and a member of various think tanks and non-governmental organizations .

Features and controversies

In May 2014, the largest private gas producer in Ukraine , Burisma Holdings , announced in a press release that it would add Biden to its board of directors . This appointment was criticized in the context of the simultaneously rampant crisis in Ukraine , in which the Russian leadership accused the US government and thus Biden's father of being the mastermind behind the political turmoil in Ukraine. A publication close to the Republicans suspected that the Ukrainian company could with the appeal of Biden Jr. try to get preferential treatment from the US government. In a blog post, Adam Taylor gathered a number of voices that the personnel endangered the diplomatic efforts of the US government to resolve the conflict in Ukraine. Sevim Dağdelen of the Left not only saw the process as a conflict of interest, but now also assessed the Ukraine conflict as "a tangible dispute [of the USA] over resources and capital".

The employment of Biden received renewed attention when President Donald Trump in the course of the primary campaign for the 2020 presidential election in summer 2019 derived signs of corruption from his possible democratic rival Joe Biden and pressured the Ukrainian government to initiate appropriate investigations into his burden (see also Ukraine affair ).

Private

Biden married Kathleen Buhle in 1993 and they have three daughters. The couple split in 2015 and divorced in 2017. In 2016 he began a relationship with Hallie Biden, his brother Beau Biden's widow . Following his relationship with stripper Lunden Alexis Roberts, he became the father of a son in August 2018. Married to Melissa Cohen since May 2019; The couple had a son in March 2020 and live in the Hollywood Hills , Los Angeles .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Hunter Biden joins the team of Burisma Holdings. ( Memento of July 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Message on the Burisma Holdings homepage of May 12, 2014 (English, accessed on May 15, 2014).
2. ↑ Michelle Malkin: The Biden family business. In: New York Post of July 28, 2012 (accessed May 16, 2014).
3. ↑ Ansgar Graw, Julia Szyndzielorz: Hunter Biden enters the Ukrainian gas business. In: Die Welt from May 16, 2014 (accessed on May 16, 2014).
4. ↑ ^{a b} Hunter Biden. ( Memento of the original from September 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Profile on the homepage of the World Food Program USA (accessed on May 16, 2014). 
5. ^ ^{A b} Benjamin Bidder, Michael Kröger: Son of the US Vice President works for Ukrainian gas company. In: Spiegel Online of May 14, 2014 (accessed May 15, 2014).
6. ↑ https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/02/joe-biden-investigation-hunter-brother-hedge-fund-money-2020-campaign-227407
7. ↑ R. Hunter Biden. ( Memento of May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Profile on the Rosemont Seneca Partners homepage (English, accessed on May 16, 2014).
8. ↑ Mollie Hemingway on the conservative webzine TheFederalist.com in the translation by Martin Suter: Son of US vice advises Ukrainian gas company. In: 20 Minuten from May 14, 2014 (accessed May 15, 2014).
9. ^ Adam Taylor: Hunter Biden's new job at a Ukrainian gas company is a problem for US soft power. on his blog hosted by the Washington Post on May 14, 2014 (accessed May 15, 2014).
10. ↑ Vice President's son Biden - US personnel threatens to exacerbate Ukraine crisis. In: Handelsblatt from May 14, 2014 (accessed on May 16, 2014).
11. ^ Lynda Waddington: All in the Family: Hunter Biden. ( Memento of September 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: The Iowa Independent of November 23, 2007 (English, accessed May 16, 2014).
12. ↑ https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/hunter-biden-baby-mama-lunden-roberts-paternity
13. ↑ https://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/arkansas/story/2020/jan/08/judge-signs-order-declaring-paternity-hunter-biden-case/811239/
14. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: New love for Beau Biden's widow: "You have my full support" - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Panorama. Retrieved April 24, 2017 . 
15. ↑ https://nypost.com/2020/04/04/joe-biden-has-a-new-grandson-he-cant-meet/
16. ↑ Emily Heil: Hunter Biden's messy personal life is back in the news. Will it cause political headaches for his dad? Retrieved September 23, 2019 .