Hunter Biden and two other Americans join Chinese partners in establishing a Shanghai-based investment company known as BHR. The firm helped to finance an Australian coal-mining company controlled by a Chinese state-owned firm and assisted a subsidiary of a Chinese defense conglomerate in buying a Michigan auto parts maker.
2014
Hunter Biden is discharged from the Navy Reserve after testing positive for cocaine use. He had been commissioned as an ensign on May 7, 2013, and was assigned to a public affairs reserve unit in Norfolk, Va.
APRIL 2014
Hunter Biden joins the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company that was under investigation for corruption as Joe Biden, then the vice president, was overseeing White House policy toward Ukraine. Hunter Biden made more than $800,000 in 2013 and more than $1.2 million in 2014.
