Also in 2014, Elena Baturina attended a dinner with Hunter Biden and Joe Biden in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC. Notably, Elana Baturina, one of Russia’s wealthiest individuals, has not been included in the Treasury Department sanctions against many of Russia’s other wealthiest people. (5) Additionally, the Biden family received improper payments from Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Hunter Biden received millions of dollars in payments from Burisma from serving on its board. These payments were made entirely based on Hunter Biden’s connections to Joe Biden and promised access to Joe Biden. (6) In 2015, then Vice President Joe Biden attended a dinner in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC, with Burisma executives and Hunter Biden. At the time, Hunter was receiving over $80,000 a month from Burisma based on no other reason than access to his father. (7) Several officials in the Obama Administration specifically flagged these payments from Burisma to Hunter Biden as corrupt. In early 2015, the former Acting Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, George Kent, raised concerns to officials in Vice President Joe Biden’s office about the perception of a conflict of interest with respect to Hunter Biden’s role on Burisma’s board. In October 2015, senior State Department official Amos Hochstein raised concerns with Vice President Biden, as well as with Hunter Biden, that Hunter Biden’s position on Burisma’s board enabled Russian disinformation efforts and risked undermining U.S. policy in Ukraine. (8) In an August 2023 interview, Devon Archer, a business partner of Hunter Biden, said claims that Joe Biden was not involved in Hunter’s business deals with foreign partners were false. (9) In testimony before Congress, Devon Archer admitted that Burisma would have likely gone out of business had it not been for the Biden brand being attached to it. He also testified that Biden was routinely put on conference calls with Hunter Biden’s foreign associates to “sell the brand”.