# Hunter Biden artwork attracts ethics scrutiny

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-artwork-attracts-ethics-scrutiny/946031
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [July 8, 2021, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-artwork-attracts-ethics-scrutiny/946031 "2021-07-08T21:55:46Z")
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### Author: ![Wrenching\_Spanners](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecb155/32.png) [@Wrenching\_Spanners](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wrenching_Spanners)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2021, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hunter-biden-artwork-attracts-ethics-scrutiny/946031/26 "2021-07-09T12:40:51Z")

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> [@Gyrate](#):
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> Glad you approve of his art so much, because the Yale-educated lawyer with a long history of previous corporate board experience was eminently qualified for his role at Burisma. He was even Vice Chairman of Amtrak, to whose board he was appointed by GW Bush

Are we seriously doing this again? Hunter Biden:

- Had no experience in the energy sector
- Had no expertise in corporate governance
- Didn’t speak Ukrainian or Russian
- Had acquired many of his earlier jobs due to his father’s political connections
- Main source of experience was as a lobbyist
- Had issues of conflict of interest raised against him by one of his firm’s partners
- Had issues of conflict of interest raised against him by Joe Biden’s aides
- Had issues of conflict of interest raised against him by others in the Obama administration
- Produced no meaningful work product while he was working for Burisma
- Never actually visited the company he supposedly worked for
- Despite his lack of both effort and expertise was paid $50,000/month
- Admitted that the reason he was hired was his last name.

In other words, he was mildly qualified, except for one big qualification - his last name; he was an utter waste of money except for one thing he provided to Burisma - his last name; and his best defence that he didn’t do anything corrupt is that he didn’t do much of anything but sit in on a few meetings - most of them by phone and none at the company headquarters.

For his artwork to equal his tenure at Burisma, all he has to put on the canvas is a child’s crayon sketch - and his last name.

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