Biden-related corruption in Ukraine might stretch much farther than just Hunter Biden. The President has individuals in his cabinet who have previously held high-level positions in Ukrainian oil firms.
The Daily Caller reported, Amos Hochstein, who President Joe Biden appointed to be the State Department’s top adviser for energy security over the summer of 2021, was a member of the energy company Naftogaz’s supervisory board. Hochstein took the position in 2017 after he said government officials persuaded him to accept the offer.
“When fears abounded in late 2017 that Ukraine’s efforts to dismantle corruption were weakening, U.S. and foreign officials encouraged me to accept the (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s) request, and join the Naftogaz board to reinforce, and help protect, the progress that CEO Andriy Kobolyev and his team had made, and continue with additional critical reforms,” he said in a 2020 article published by the Kyiv Independent.
He alleged that within the firm he was attempting to fight corruption, but was “resisted at every step of the way,” topically this is how fighting corruption goes. It seems like Hochstein may have just been more willing to fulfill his aspirations in government.
“I can no longer stand by and be used to endorse this negative trend, and it’s why I must voluntarily leave the board,” he said about his departure from the Ukrainian government-owned company.
By August 2021, in quite the turnaround, President Joe Biden had appointed him to serve as the Department of State’s senior energy advisor.
When announced by Antony Blinken, he did not mention the previous position that the new cabinet member possessed but rather that he could ensure energy stability, “, especially in Central and Eastern Europe.”