According to an exclusive Daily Caller report, in May of 2014, Hunter Biden and his business associates started communicating with Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky about getting Zlochevsky a U.S. visa; this was shortly after Biden joined the board at Burisma.
Hunter Biden, along with associates Devon Archer, Eric Schwerin, and Heather Kin, participated in activity that experts say is dangerously close to “lobbying activity.”
Zlochevsky is the “foreign national” involved in an alleged Biden family bribery scheme —and Hunter and Co. were trying to get him into the U.S. after his visa was revoked by the State Department in early 2014.
They communicated with Zlochevsky via Burisma board member Vadim Pozharskyi.
Here’s an email Archer wrote to Biden after Biden checked in to see how Zlochevsky’s U.S. visa was coming along.
“I have spoken to the individual who is the contact on the DHS side. Can you forward me Nicoli’s bio and a short summary of the status of when and where he was granted his US visa. I will cross reference with Heather for any information I can use from State without crossing any boundary’s [sic] and forward the compiled case to DHS contact and have a phone call to insure we will not have an issue there,” Archer replied.
FARA expert Craig Engle says that in this exchange, Archer or “maybe the company he works for could be engaging in registrable lobbying activity.”
“Here’s why: If you go outside of normal regulatory channels and try to influence other parts of government to influence the regulatory process then you lose your exemption from registration,” Engle said. “Second, this lobbying may not be a FARA event because the intended beneficiary is an individual. Not a foreign government or political party. If so, then any lobbying activity should be recorded under the LDA — our domestic lobbying reporting system and not FARA — which is generally used for foreign entities.”
Biden and his associates also tried to get Zlochevsky into Mexico using a connection by the name of Miguel Aleman Magnani, a Mexican businessman and grandson of a former Mexican president. At this point, another Biden business associate, Jeff Cooper, enters the picture.
After Aleman falls off the radar, Cooper suggests contacting the Big Guy.
“Soooooo, we have to go with the theory that Miguel has been cut out, at least temporarily. Maybe a call from your [sic] or your dad to his dad? Maybe that shakes things loose? Whaddya think? I really don’t want to give up on it because I truly believe in this s–t,” Cooper said in an email.
Shortly after, then-Vice President Joe Biden met Aleman’s father, Miguel Aleman Velasco, at the Vice President’s residence —the Naval Observatory —in November 2015.
Biden never directly secured a visa for Zlochevsky —but his actions are now part of the larger investigation being conducted by the House Oversight Committee.
“We’re investigating all of that, and we’re not finished with our investigation,” committee member Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said. “It’s a link to Burisma and the business deals and the use of power that Hunter Biden was selling and Joe Biden himself was involved in selling… getting people visas into the United States would certainly play a part.”