• Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian busines

    From Ubiquitous@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 19 04:25:30 2020
    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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