Hunter Biden received $3.5 million from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow, in 2014 after his father left office as vice president, according to a new report..
The payment was made through a company owned by Rosemont Seneca Thornton, a private equity firm co-founded by Hunter Biden in 2009. Baturina is a Russian oligarch who made her fortune in the construction industry. She is married to Yuri Luzhkov, who served as mayor of Moscow from 1992 to 2010..
The payment was first reported by the New York Times, which cited unnamed sources familiar with the matter. The Times reported that the payment was made in connection with a .
