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© Paul Morigi/Getty Images for World Food Program USAHunter Biden got a pay cut from Burisma Holdings in March 2017.
The Ukrainian energy company that was paying President Biden's son Hunter $1 million a year cut his monthly compensation in half two months after his father ceased to be vice president.

From May 2014, Burisma Holdings Ltd. was paying Hunter $83,333 a month to sit on its board, invoices on his abandoned laptop show.

But in an email on March 19, 2017, Burisma executive Vadym Pozharskyi asked Hunter to sign a new director's agreement and informed him "the only thing that was amended is the compensation rate."

"We are very much interested in working closely together, and the remuneration is still the highest in the company and higher than the standard director's monthly fees. I am sure you will find it both fair and reasonable."

After the email, the amount listed on Hunter's monthly Burisma invoices was reduced to $41,500, effective from May 2017. The amount was paid in Euros, at the rate of between 35,000 Euros and 36,100 Euros per month, based on currency fluctuations at the time.
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This letter details Hunter Biden's Burisma pay cut.
No reason is given for the decrease in salary. The only change in circumstance appears to be that Hunter's father was no longer in office.

In 2016, Hunter's total income from Burisma was $999,996. In 2017 it dropped to $665,000, and then $498,000 in 2018.

Hunter resigned from the Burisma board in April 2019, according to his lawyer George Mesires, after his controversial business dealings dogged his father's presidential campaign.

The Burisma invoices and emails were among thousands of documents on the water-damaged Macbook Hunter left at a Delaware repair shop in April 2019 and then failed to pick up or pay the repair bill for.

Documents on the laptop also show that Hunter invited Pozharskyi to meet then-vice president Biden at a dinner in Washington DC in April, 2015.
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© Bella Bellini/WikimediaHunter Biden apparently invited Vadym Pozharskyi to meet his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, at a lavish dinner in Washington, DC, in 2015.
In December 2015, Biden flew to Kiev and strong-armed the Ukrainian government into firing its top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, who was investigating Burisma at the time, including seizing four large houses and a Rolls-Royce Phantom belonging to the company's owner Mykola Zlochevsky.

Three months later, Shokin was forced out of office, and nine months later, all legal proceedings against Burisma were dropped. Joe Biden has said in the past that Shokin wasn't doing enough to crack down on corruption and that the push had nothing to do with Hunter's position.

In a 2018 speech at the Council on Foreign Relations, VPBiden bragged that he had threatened to withhold $1 billion in US loan guarantees for Ukraine unless Shokin was sacked.

"I looked at them and said, 'I'm leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you're not getting the money.' Well, son of a bitch. He got fired," he said.