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Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad
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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.
https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Biden-
Pozharskyi-email.jpg?quality=90&strip=all
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.
https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Subpoena-
GrandJury-redacted.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=720
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Invoice-Hunter-Biden.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=720
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 e-mail 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 e-mail 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.
Vadym Pozharskyi and Hunter BidenYalta European Strategy / Getty Images
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 e-mail 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, e-mail, 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.
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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.
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.
https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Biden-
Pozharskyi-email.jpg?quality=90&strip=all
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.
https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Subpoena-
GrandJury-redacted.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=720
https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Subpoena-
GrandJury-computerequipment.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=720
https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/ComputerRepair-
Invoice-Hunter-Biden.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=720
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 e-mail 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 e-mail 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.
Vadym Pozharskyi and Hunter BidenYalta European Strategy / Getty Images
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 e-mail 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, e-mail, 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.
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hunter-biden-4
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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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