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2015-10-19 18:52 GMT+03:00 Toohey, Ryan <Ryan.Toohey@fticonsulting.com>:

> Thanks Vadim. Yes. That was from one of the journal pieces when the
> original board changes were announced. We shouldn't get bogged down in
> these answers but I think we are well served to work to see the best piece
> possible come out of this.
>
> On his points - a few things: 1) I think we should go through the Kroll
> report and see what it can answer on its face. I have that and can go
> through it, 2) I'd suggest a background quote that can be delivered by Eric
> and attributed to a business partner of Hunter's, 3) is a ridiculous
> question and he knows we won't answer that. I think we just redirect him to
> the statement on the ambassador, 4) we really answered this on the phone so
> I don't feel like we owe him much more on this and 5) I can give him a
> statement in line with what Eric said on the phone last week.
>
> Ryan F. Toohey
>
> 917.280.2198
>
> On Oct 19, 2015, at 9:14 AM, Vadim Pozharskyi <
> v.pozharskyi.ukraine@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Gents,
>
> Just to start with, please, see a link to one of the publications written
> by our good old Paul not long ago:
> https://www.popularresistance.org/joe-bidens-son-appointed-to-board-of-largest-gas-company-in-ukraine/,
> and especially to this chunk of "well-written" press:
>
>
> Hunter Biden’s business activities have attracted attention before.
>
> [image: Obama, Biden and Hunter Biden]
> <http://www.popularresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Obama-Biden-and-Hunter-Biden-e1400445292428.jpg>His
> work as a lobbyist when his father was in the U.S. Senate came under
> scrutiny. Shortly after his father became Barack Obama’s running mate in
> 2008, he gave up his lobbying career and resigned his partnership at a
> Washington lobbying firm.
>
> When he had been senator, Mr. Obama sought more than $3.4 million in
> earmarks for clients of Hunter Biden, and succeeded in getting $192,000 for
> St. Xavier University near Chicago, according to public disclosure records.
>
> At the time, a spokesman for Mr. Obama said Hunter Biden hadn’t met with
> the senator himself but rather with office staff. The spokesman also said
> it wasn’t surprising to see Mr. Obama was fighting for interests and
> institutions in his home state of Illinois.
>
> In early 2009, The Wall Street Journal reported that Hunter Biden and his
> uncle had run a fund of funds that was being marketed exclusively by Texas
> financier R. Allen Stanford’s companies. Mr. Stanford later was sentenced
> to 110 years in prison for masterminding a $7 billion Ponzi scheme.
>
> At the time of the Journal article, a lawyer for the Bidens said the fund
> terminated the relationship and offered to return $2.7 million in
> investment that companies controlled by Mr. Stanford had given the fund. He
> said the Bidens had never met Mr. Stanford.
>
> As to the follow-up questions that he submitted, I leave it up to you to
> decide what kind of additional information we should give to him. However,
> as I understand, in our written answers and during our conference call,
> we've talked about these matters quite extensively.
>
> Best,
>
> Vadym
>
> 2015-10-17 4:17 GMT+03:00 Devon Archer <darcher@rosemontcapital.com>:
>
>> Wow this guy's a real Sherlock Holmes. We should counter by asking how
>> much the Kremlin is paying him to run this article.
>>
>> Devon D. Archer
>> (+1) 646 436 3745
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>> On Oct 16, 2015, at 8:20 PM, Toohey, Ryan <Ryan.Toohey@fticonsulting.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Team – see below. Let’s think about some of the best ways to answer this
>> and perhaps regroup on Monday. In the meantime we should look through the
>> various investigative reports we have to determine the wisdom of
>> sharing/what to share etc.
>>
>>
>>
>> *Ryan F. Toohey*
>>
>> +1.212.850.5678 T | +1.917.280.2198 M
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>>
>> *From:* Sonne, Paul [mailto:Paul.Sonne@wsj.com <Paul.Sonne@wsj.com>]
>> *Sent:* Friday, October 16, 2015 11:06 AM
>> *To:* Toohey, Ryan
>> *Cc:* Laura Mills
>> *Subject:* Follow-Up
>>
>>
>>
>> Ryan,
>>
>>
>> Thanks for setting up the call and for your cooperation. We appreciate
>> it. Here is a rundown of things outstanding:
>>
>>
>>
>> 1. Any more info on the licenses, including possibly the Kroll Report
>> on them. I imagine this would be very helpful and go a long way toward
>> answering questions 9-12.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2. This question (number 16) went unanswered for some reason, I think
>> it was maybe lost in the shuffle: Geoffrey Pyatt, the U.S. Ambassador to
>> Ukraine, recently mentioned the U.K. proceedings during a speech in Odessa.
>> He said the following: “In the case of former Ecology Minister Mykola
>> Zlochevsky, the U.K. authorities had seized 23 million dollars in illicit
>> assets that belonged to the Ukrainian people. Officials at the [Ukrainian
>> Prosecutor General’s] office were asked by the U.K to send documents
>> supporting the seizure. Instead they sent letters to Zlochevsky’s attorneys
>> attesting that there was no case against him. As a result the money was
>> freed by the U.K. court and shortly thereafter the money was moved to
>> Cyprus.” Do you have any response to this comment?
>>
>>
>>
>> 3. Here’s that question for Eric to be passed on to Hunter: Joe Biden
>> has become the leading face of US foreign policy toward Ukraine, repeatedly
>> coming to Kiev to drive home the message that the country must root out
>> corruption to succeed. Many people in Ukraine, including apparently the US
>> ambassador, see Mr. Zlochevsky’s dealings—namely, the receipt of lucrative
>> oil and gas exploration licenses for his own companies while in top
>> government posts—as indicative of the very sort of behavior the Vice
>> President is demanding the country eradicate. Does Hunter feel that his
>> involvement with Mr. Zlochevsky’s firm undermines his father’s message? Why
>> be involved with the company at all? Is it a question of needing money?
>>
>>
>>
>> 4. If you can clear up what Hunter transitioning to the Burisma
>> Geothermal board from the main board means, that’d be helpful. Not sure why
>> that is happening or if it’s actually significant in any informal sense.
>>
>>
>>
>> 5. Lastly, perhaps we can discuss the issue of what we’re going to
>> say about Hunter’s compensation over the phone?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks again for all your professionalism in dealing with this. We are
>> grateful. Talk soon.
>>
>>
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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