For an 18-month period, beginning in 2014, Hunter Biden was paid over $83,000 a month by the Ukrainian gas company, Burisma Holdings. This money was in exchange for “consulting services”. He also was board member for the company although his role is being described as one of a largely “ceremonial figure”.

In his year and a half with the company, Biden never once visited the Ukraine for any type of business purpose with the company. Insiders say the position and the huge amounts of money were because of his “powerful name”. This all went on when Hunter’s father, Joe Biden, was Vice President of the United States.

These revelations all come as Hunter Biden has become a central figure in both his father’s presidential campaign and President Trump’s impeachment process. It was Hunter Biden’s corruption that President Trump asked the Ukrainian President to look into in a phone call that was eventually reported by an anonymous whistleblower who had second-hand knowledge of the call.

There are also reports coming out now that there were people concerned about the extent to which Hunter was using his father’s position to enrich himself as early as 2015. The Washington Post reported that diplomat George Kent warned the Vice President’s office that the Burisma job was problematic. The VP’s office responded that they would be ignoring the issue because Biden didn’t have the “‘bandwidth’ to deal with the issue” at the time.