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Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman
to VP dad

Posted: 14 Oct 2020 11:15 AM PDT
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By Glenn Reynolds
Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top
executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder
Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor
who was investigating the company, according to e-mails obtained by The
Post.
The never-before-revealed meeting is mentioned in a message of
appreciation that Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to the board of Burisma,
allegedly sent Hunter Biden on April 17, 2015, about a year after Hunter
joined the Burisma board at a reported salary of up to $50,000 a month.
“Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to
meet your father and spent [sic] some time together. It’s realty [sic] an
honor and pleasure,” the e-mail reads. An earlier e-mail from May 2014 also
shows Pozharskyi, reportedly Burisma’s No. 3 exec, asking Hunter for
“advice on how you could use your influence” on the company’s behalf. The
blockbuster correspondence — which flies in the face of Joe Biden’s claim
that he’s “never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings” —
is contained in a massive trove of data recovered from a laptop computer.


The computer was dropped off at a repair shop in Biden’s home state of
Delaware in April 2019, according to the store’s owner. Other material
extracted from the computer includes a raunchy, 12-minute video that
appears to show Hunter, who’s admitted struggling with addiction problems,
smoking crack while engaged in a sex act with an unidentified woman, as
well as numerous other sexually explicit images. The customer who brought
in the water-damaged MacBook Pro for repair never paid for the service or
retrieved it or a hard drive on which its contents were stored, according
to the shop owner, who said he tried repeatedly to contact the client. The
shop owner couldn’t positively identify the customer as Hunter Biden, but
said the laptop bore a sticker from the Beau Biden Foundation, named after
Hunter’s late brother and former Delaware attorney general. Photos of a
Delaware federal subpoena given to The Post show that both the computer and
hard drive were seized by the FBI in December, after the shop’s owner says
he alerted the feds to their existence. A federal subpoena showing the
computer and hard drive were seized by the FBI But before turning over the
gear, the shop owner says, he made a copy of the hard drive and later gave
it to former Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer, Robert Costello. Steve Bannon,
former adviser to President Trump, told The Post about the existence of the
hard drive in late September and Giuliani provided The Post with a copy of
it on Sunday. Less than eight months after Pozharskyi thanked Hunter Biden
for the introduction to his dad, the then-vice president admittedly
pressured Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy
Yatsenyuk into getting rid of Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin by
threatening to withhold a $1 billion US loan guarantee during a December
2015 trip to Kiev. “I looked at them and said: I’m leaving in six hours. If
the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,” Biden
infamously bragged to the Council on Foreign Relations in 2018. “Well, son
of a bitch. He got fired.” Shokin has said that at the time of his firing,
in March 2016, he’d made “specific plans” to investigate Burisma that
“included interrogations and other crime-investigation procedures into all
members of the executive board, including Hunter Biden.” Joe Biden has
insisted that the US wanted Shokin removed over corruption concerns, which
were shared by the European Union. Meanwhile, an email dated May 12, 2014 —
shortly after Hunter Biden joined the Burisma board — shows Pozharskyi
attempting to get him to use his political leverage to help the company.
The message had the subject line “urgent issue” and was also sent to Hunter
Biden’s business partner, Devon Archer, who also sat on the Burisma board
at the time.Devon Archer - Patrick McMullan via Getty ImagePozharskyi said
that “the representatives of new authorities in power tend to quite
aggressively approach N. Z. unofficially with the aim to obtain cash from
him.” N.Z. isn’t identified in the email but appears to be a reference to
Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky, whose first name is a Ukrainian version
of “Nicholas.” When the alleged shakedown failed, “they proceeded with
concrete actions” in the form of “one or more pretrial proceedings,”
Pozharskyi wrote. “We urgently need your advice on how you could use your
influence to convey a message / signal, etc .to stop what we consider to be
politically motivated actions,” he added. Hunter Biden responded by saying
he was with Archer in Doha, Qatar, and asked for more information about
“the formal (if any) accusations being made against Burisma.” “Who is
ultimately behind these attacks on the company? Who in the current interim
government could put an end to such attacks?” he added. The exchange came
the same day that Burisma announced it had expanded its board of directors
by adding Hunter Biden, who was put in charge of its “legal unit and will
provide support for the Company among international organizations,”
according to a news release that’s since been scrubbed from Burisma’s
website. Hunter Biden actually joined the board in April 2014, according to
multiple reports. His lawyer said last year that Hunter was “not a member
of the management team,” adding, “At no time was Hunter in charge of the
company’s legal affairs.” About four months after Hunter Biden’s
correspondence with Pozharskyi, Archer forwarded Hunter Biden an email
chain with the subject line “tax raise impact on Burisma production,” which
included Pozharskyi saying that the Ukrainian cabinet had submitted new tax
legislation to the country’s parliament. Photos from Hunter Biden's hard
drive “If enacted, this law would kill the entire private gas production
sector in the bud,” Pozharskyi wrote. In the Sept. 24, 2014, email,
Pozharskyi also said he was “going to share this information with the US
embassy here in Kyiv, as well as the office of Mr Amos Hochstein in the
States.” At the time, Hochstein was the State Department’s newly appointed
special envoy and coordinator for international energy ­affairs. In
December 2017, the Naftogaz Group, Ukraine’s state-owned energy company,
announced that Hochstein had joined the company as an independent director,
but on Monday he announced his ­resignation. “The company has been forced
to spend endless amounts of time combating political pressure and efforts
by oligarchs to enrich themselves through questionable transactions,”
Hochstein wrote in an op-ed published by the Kyiv Post. In addition to
denying that’s he’s spoken to Hunter Biden about his overseas business
dealings, Joe Biden has repeatedly denied any conflict of interest or
wrongdoing by either of them involving ­Burisma. Last February, he got
testy during an appearance on NBC’s “Today” show when co-host Savannah
Guthrie questioned whether it was “wrong for [Hunter] to take that
position, knowing that it was really because that company wanted access to
you.” “Well, that’s not true. You’re saying things you do not know what
you’re talking about,” the elder Biden responded.
Photos from Hunter Biden's hard drive Last December, Joe Biden also lashed
out during a Democratic primary town hall event in Iowa, where a man
accused him of sending Hunter to Ukraine “to get a job and work for a gas
company, he had no experience with gas or nothing, in order to get access
to . . . the president.” “You’re a damn liar, man. That’s not true and no
one has ever said that,” Biden fumed. Biden then continued berating the man
as he stepped forward, called the man “fat” and challenged him to “do
push-ups together, man.” The FBI referred questions about its seizure of
the laptop and hard drive to the Delaware US Attorney’s Office, where a
spokesperson said, “My office can neither confirm nor deny the existence of
an investigation.” Hunter Biden’s lawyer refused to comment on the
specifics but instead attacked Giuliani. “He has been pushing widely
discredited conspiracy theories about the Biden family, openly relying on
actors tied to Russian intelligence,” the lawyer, George R. Mesires, said
of Giuliani. Pozharskyi and the Joe Biden campaign did not return requests
for comment. Hochstein could not be reached. Additional reporting by Ebony
Bowden
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Photo: Hunter Biden (left) and VP Joe Biden (right) - Getty ImageThe
correspondence is contained in a massive trove of data recovered from a
laptop Former VP's son emerges as an issue in the 2020 campaign, Mike
Emanuel reports. Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President
Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year
before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into
firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company, according to emails
obtained by The Post. The never-before-revealed meeting is mentioned in a
message of appreciation that Vadym Pozharskyi, an adviser to the board of
Burisma, allegedly sent Hunter Biden on April 17, 2015, about a year after
Hunter joined the Burisma board at a reported salary of up to $50,000 a
month. “Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an
opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together. It’s
realty [sic] an honor and pleasure,” the email reads. An earlier email from
May 2014 also shows Pozharskyi, reportedly Burisma’s No. 3 exec, asking
Hunter for “advice on how you could use your influence” on the company’s
behalf. The blockbuster correspondence — which flies in the face of Joe
Biden’s claim that he’s “never spoken to my son about his overseas business
dealings” — is contained in a massive trove of data recovered from a laptop
computer. The computer was dropped off at a repair shop in Biden’s home
state of Delaware in April 2019, according to the store’s owner. Other
material extracted from the computer includes a raunchy, 12-minute video
that appears to show Hunter, who’s admitted struggling with addiction
problems, smoking crack while engaged in a sex act with an unidentified
woman, as well as numerous other sexually explicit
images. The customer who brought in the
water-damaged MacBook Pro for repair never paid for the service or
retrieved it or a hard drive on which its contents were stored, according
to the shop owner, who said he tried repeatedly to contact the client. The
shop owner couldn’t positively identify the customer as Hunter Biden, but
said the laptop bore a sticker from the Beau Biden Foundation, named after
Hunter’s late brother and former Delaware attorney general. Photos of a
Delaware federal court subpoena given to The Post show that both the
computer and hard drive were seized by the FBI in December, after the
shop’s owner says he alerted the feds to their existence. But before
turning over the gear, the shop owner says he made a copy of the hard drive
and later gave it to former Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer, Robert Costello.
Steve Bannon, former adviser to President Trump, told The Post about the
existence of the hard drive in late September and Giuliani provided The
Post with a copy of it on Sunday. 'Son of a bitch. He got fired' Less than
eight months after Pozharskyi thanked Hunter Biden for the introduction to
his dad, the then-vice president admittedly pressured Ukrainian President
Petro Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk into getting rid of
Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin by threatening to withhold a $1 billion US
loan guarantee during a December 2015 trip to Kiev. “I looked at them and
said: I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not
getting the money,” Biden infamously bragged to the Council on Foreign
Relations in 2018. “Well, son of a bitch. He got fired.” Shokin has said
that at the time of his firing, in March 2016, he’d made “specific plans”
to investigate Burisma that “included interrogations and other
crime-investigation procedures into all members of the executive board,
including Hunter Biden.” Joe Biden has insisted that the US wanted Shokin
removed over corruption concerns, which were shared by the European Union.
Meanwhile, an email dated May 12, 2014 — shortly after Hunter Biden joined
the Burisma board — shows Pozharskyi attempting to get him to use his
political leverage to help the company. The message had the subject line
“urgent issue” and was also sent to Hunter Biden’s business partner, Devon
Archer, who also sat on the Burisma board at the time. Pozharskyi said that
“the representatives of new authorities in power tend to quite aggressively
approach N. Z. unofficially with the aim to obtain cash from him.” N.Z.
isn’t identified in the email but appears to be a reference to Burisma
founder Mykola Zlochevsky, whose first name is a Ukrainian version of
“Nicholas.” 'Concrete actions' When the alleged shakedown failed, “they
proceeded with concrete actions” in the form of “one or more pretrial
proceedings,” Pozharskyi wrote. “We urgently need your advice on how you
could use your influence to convey a message / signal, etc .to stop what we
consider to be politically motivated actions,” he added. Hunter Biden
responded by saying he was with Archer in Doha, Qatar, and asked for more
information about “the formal (if any) accusations being made against
Burisma.” “Who is ultimately behind these attacks on the company? Who in
the current interim government could put an end to such attacks?” he added.
The exchange came the same day that Burisma announced it had expanded its
board of directors by adding Hunter Biden, who was put in charge of its
“legal unit and will provide support for the Company among international
organizations,” according to a news release that’s since been scrubbed from
Burisma’s Web site.Hunter Biden actually joined the board in April 2014,
according to multiple reports.

His lawyer said last year that Hunter was “not a member of the management
team,” adding, “At no time was Hunter in charge of the company’s legal
affairs.”
About four months after Hunter Biden’s correspondence with Pozharskyi,
Archer forwarded Hunter Biden an email chain with the subject line “tax
raise impact on Burisma production,” that included Pozharskyi saying that
the Ukrainian Cabinet had submitted new tax legislation to the country’s
parliament.

“If enacted, this law would kill the entire private gas production sector
in the bud,” Pozharskyi wrote.

In the Sept. 24, 2014, email, Pozharskyi also said he was “going to share
this information with the US embassy here in Kyiv, as well as the office of
Mr Amos Hochstein in the States.”

At the time, Hochstein was the State Department’s newly appointed special
envoy and coordinator for international energy ­affairs.

In December 2017, the Naftogaz Group, Ukraine’s state-owned energy company,
announced that Hochstein had joined the company as an independent director,
but on Monday he announced his ­resignation.

“The company has been forced to spend endless amounts of time combating
political pressure and efforts by oligarchs to enrich themselves through
questionable transactions,” Hochstein wrote in an op-ed published by the
Kyiv Post.

In addition to denying that’s he’s spoken to Hunter Biden about his
overseas business dealings, Joe Biden has repeatedly denied any conflict of
interest or wrongdoing by either of them involving ­Burisma.

Last February, he got testy during an appearance on NBC’s “Today” show when
co-host Savannah Guthrie questioned whether it was “wrong for [Hunter] to
take that position, knowing that it was really because that company wanted
access to you.”

“Well, that’s not true. You’re saying things you do not know what you’re
talking about,” the elder Biden responded.

Last December, Joe Biden also lashed out during a Democratic primary town
hall event in Iowa, where a man accused him of sending Hunter to Ukraine
“to get a job and work for a gas company, he had no experience with gas or
nothing, in order to get access to ­ . . . the president.”

“You’re a damn liar, man. That’s not true and no one has ever said that,”
Biden fumed.

Biden then continued berating the man as he stepped forward, called the man
“fat” and challenged him to “do push-ups together, man.”

The FBI referred questions about its seizure of the laptop and hard drive
to the Delaware US Attorney’s Office, where a spokesperson said, “My office
can neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation.”

Hunter Biden’s lawyer refused to comment on the specifics but instead
attacked Giuliani.

“He has been pushing widely discredited conspiracy theories about the Biden
family, openly relying on actors tied to Russian intelligence,” the lawyer,
George R. Mesires, said about Giuliani.

Pozharskyi and the Joe Biden campaign did not return requests for comment.
Hochstein could not be reached.
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