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 Bi𒐪den 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 i⛄nviting 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 P💫ozharskyi, 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 dealℱings” — 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 20🎀19, according to the store’s owner.
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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 actꦺ with an unidentified woman, as well as numerous other se𒊎xually 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 th𒁏e 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 g🌟iven 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 mad💜e aꦰ copy of the hard drive and later gave it to former Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer, Robert Costello.
Steve Banno𝄹n, former adviser to President Trump, told The Post about the existence of the hard drive in late September a🌸nd Giuliani provided The Post with a copy of it on Sunday.
Less than eight months after Pozharskyi thanked Hunter B♈iden for the introduction to his dဣad, 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 Fore𝔉ign Relations in 2018.
“Well, son of a bitch. He got fired.”
Shokin has said that at the time of his firing, 𓆏in March 2016, he’d made “specific plans” to investigate Burisma that “included interrogations and other crime-investigation procedures into all members of the executiveꦑ board, including Hunter Biden.”
Joe Biden has insisted that the US wanted Shokin removed over corruption concerns, which were shared by the Eu༺ropean 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 l⭕everage 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 boardꦐ at the time.
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Pozharskyi said that “the 🐷representatives of new authorities in power tend to quite aggressively approachꦕ 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 Ukrai🍌nian version of “Nicholas.”
When the alleged shakedown failed, “they proceeded with concrete ac♑tions” in the form of “one or more pretrial procee🐽dings,” 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 sꩲaying 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 com🦩pany? 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 Hun🍬ter Biden, who was put in charge of its “legal unit and will provide support for the Company among international organizations,” accordi🙈ng to a news release that’s since been scrubbed from Burisma’s website.
Hunter Biden actually joined the board in April 2014, according to multip🎶le reports.
His lawyer said last year that Hunte🥂r 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, Archer𒀰 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.
“If enacted, this law would kill the entire private gas production sector in the bud൲,” Pozharskyi wrote.
In the Sept. 24, 2014, email, Pozha﷽rskyi also said he was “going to share this information with the US e꧑mbassy 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 appoin๊ted special envoy and coordin🎐ator for international energy affairs.
In December 2017, the Naftogaz Group, Ukraine’s state-owned energy company, announced that Hochstein had jo♛ined 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 que🌳stionable 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 conflictও of interest or wrongdoing by either of them involving Burisma.
Last February, he got testy during an appearance o♔n 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 wan༺ted access to you.”
“Well, that’s not true. You’re saying things yo꧅u 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 Ukrain🦋e “to get a job and work for a gas company, he had no experꦍience 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 t💧hat,” Biden fumed.
Bid💞en 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 push🍌ing widely discredited conspiracy theories𒐪 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 cꩵomment. Hochstein could not be reached.
Additional reporting by Ebony Bowden
