Biden Oil Envoy Advised Emirati Gas Firm and Owns Stock in Human Rights-Violating Companies

A financial disclosure reveals that Special Envoy for Energy Affairs Amos Hochstein operated a shadow consultancy with foreign fossil fuel clients.

Special envoy for energy affairs Amos Hochstein attends an energy conference in 2017 as an executive for gas company Tellurian.

This post was authored by Max Moran, senior fellow with the Revolving Door Project.

The Revolving Door Project requested and received Hochstein’s public financial disclosure forms, as we do for many Biden appointees. Hochstein’s 39-page disclosure reveals that he owns far more individual stocks than most other Biden appointees whose forms I’ve read, and that he was running a secretive consulting firm on the side up until days before his appointment.

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