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Hunter Biden lawyer shoots down records request from House Republicans

The Truth News — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 21:50:46 +0000

Hunter Biden lawyer shoots down records request from House Republicans

Hunter Biden’s legal counsel on Thursday rejected a request from House Republicans for records and information related to his business dealings.

In a letter to House Oversight Committee James Comer, R-Ky., the lawyer, Abbe Lowell, said the committee “lacks a legitimate legislative purpose and oversight basis for requesting such records from Mr. Biden, who is a private citizen.” Lowell said they would not comply with the Republicans’ request but offered to meet with committee members “to see whether Mr. Biden has information that may inform some legitimate legislative purpose.”

Comer late Wednesday sent a letter to the president’s son asking for information and records about his business dealings, specifically targeting his work in China and Ukraine. The panel is also seeking records from James Biden, the younger brother of President Joe Biden, and Hunter’s business partner, Eric Schwerin. The committee had given the trio until Feb. 22 to respond before they decide whether to issue a subpoena.

In a statement on Thursday, Comer said the panel was investigating whether the president was involved in his family’s business dealings and whether he has “compromised national security.”

A spokesperson for the committee responded to Lowell’s letter later Thursday, accusing the Bidens of “trying to stonewall Congress’ oversight and hide information about Joe Biden’s involvement in his family’s suspicious business practices.”

“The American people demand transparency and oversight, not political coverups,” the spokesperson said. “The Oversight Committee will continue its oversight and use all tools at its disposal to gather information critical to our investigation and to inform legislative solutions.”

LISTEN TO THE UNEDUCATED, BARTENDER TURNED POLITICIAN SPEAK

WAIT DID SHE JUST SAY WASTE OF TIME HALF FAKE LAPTOP?
YOU MEAN COMPLETELY LEGIT 100% REAL LAPTOP FROM A 100% CORRUPTED DRUG ADDICTED CRACKHEAD WHO ALSO PAYS FOR PROSTITUES AND DID BUSINESS WITH OUR COUNTRY’S ENEMIES ?
HOW ABOUT JAN 6 WHERE TAX PAYING CITIZENS WERE LET INTO THE CAPTIOL BUILDING AND EVEN TOLD “THIS IS A SACRED PLACE PLEASE JUST RESPECT IT” BY OFFICERS PROTECTING THE BUILDING AND ALLOWING PROTESTORS IN!
BY THE WAY DURING BUSINESS HOURS WHY ARE WE NOT ALLOWED IN ? AND WHY IS GOVERNMENT PROPERTY NOT OURS ?
BARTENDERS WITHOUT EDUCATION BELONG IN A BAR TEDNING TO ALCHOLIC MEN AND WOMEN! MAYBE THAT IS WHY SHE HAS SUCH A LOW VIEW OF MEN TOO, SHE SERVED DRUNKS AT A BAR (NOT REAL MEN)

Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez falsely claimed on Wednesday that Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop is “half-fake” — as she smeared The Post’s bombshell reporting that first exposed the device and its contents.

“We’re talking about Hunter Biden’s half-fake laptop story. I mean, this is an embarrassment,” the 33-year-old raged, suggesting the House Oversight Committee hearing should have been focused on issues like abortion and civil rights.

The Bronx and Queens lawmaker made the remarks as lawmakers grilled Twitter executives over the social media giant’s suppression of The Post’s October 2020 stories on the so-called “laptop from hell.”

AOC’s rant got off to a bad start when she confused New York’s favorite tabloid with the reliably liberal Washington Post — “I think that the story here with the New York, with the Washington Post reporting” — and went downhill from there.

Disregarding both journalistic practices and the principle of free speech, Ocasio-Cortez suggested The Post’s ban from Twitter was its own fault because it did not loop competing outlets in on the laptop’s contents.

She referenced a Washington Post article that claimed left-leaning sources — who later belatedly admitted the laptop was, in fact, legit — had faced a “roadblock” in trying to corroborate the trove of emails discovered on the scandal-scarred son’s device.

“The New York Post had this alleged information and was trying to publish it without any corroboration, without any backup information, they were trying to publish it to Twitter, Twitter would not let them — and now they are upset,” Ocasio-Cortez claimed.

“I believe that political operatives who sought to inject explosive disinformation with the Washington Post couldn’t get away with it,” she continued.

“And now they’re livid and they want the ability to do it again. They want the ability to inject this again. They are weaponizing the use of this committee.”

House Republicans are probing the extraordinary censorship measures the platform took against The Post when it prohibited users from sharing articles that linked then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden to his son Hunter and brother James Biden’s foreign business deals.

Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, have targeted Hunter Biden for years, but they have ramped up scrutiny after taking control of the House this year.

Among other records, the committee asked Hunter Biden to turn over any classified documents he may have in his possession. House Republicans — as well as the Justice Department — are looking into the president’s handling of classified documents from his time as vice president.

The committee is also seeking records of any communications Hunter Biden may have had with his father, his uncle James Biden or his aunt Sara Jones Biden, between Jan. 20, 2009, and Jan. 20. 2021, related to various business matters.

The White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Republicans have long accused the president’s son of using his father’s political connections for personal gain. Hunter Biden’s involvement with the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma led to Trump’s first impeachment after he asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to investigate the Bidens. Multiple investigations into the matter, including one led by Senate Republicans, found no evidence of wrongdoing.

“We want the bank records and that’s our focus,” Comer said during a press conference in November. “We’re trying to stay focused on: Was Joe Biden directly involved with Hunter Biden’s business deals and is he compromised? That’s our investigation.”

In addition to Burisma, Republicans have also zeroed in on Hunter Biden’s business dealings in China. During his father’s vice presidency, Hunter Biden was involved with an investment firm that sought to raise money in China. In 2019, Trump urged China to investigate the Bidens and falsely accused Hunter of using a 2013 trip he took with his father to China for financial gain.

Federal prosecutors have been investigating Hunter Biden’s taxes since 2018, years before his father was elected president. He has denied any wrongdoing, saying, “I handled my affairs legally and appropriately.”

The Oversight Committee also held a hearing on Wednesday to investigate Twitter’s role in suppressing a story from the New York Post on Hunter Biden’s laptop. Comer accused the company of participating in a “coordinated campaign by social media companies, mainstream news, and the intelligence community to suppress and delegitimize the existence of Hunter Biden’s laptop.”

Yoel Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, said the company had concerns because the story “at first glance bore a lot of similarities to the 2016 Russian hack and leak operation targeting the DNC. We had to decide what to do. And in that moment, with limited information, we made a mistake.”

by Alana Satlin

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Twitter’s suppression of Hunter Biden’s laptop isn’t a conspiracy theory — it’s a conspiracy

The Truth News — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 06:43:46 +0000

Twitter’s suppression of Hunter Biden’s laptop isn’t a conspiracy theory — it’s a conspiracy

Hunter Biden attended the 2022 Kennedy Center Honorees reception at the White House.
CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

“Conspiracy theorist” is one of the great insults of our day. It was thrown at me onstage the other night by the popular pseudo-guru and full-time intellectual fraud Malcolm Gladwell.

Debating in front of 3,000 people about the trustworthiness (or otherwise) of the mainstream media I brought up the Hunter Biden laptop story as an example of how much of the media cannot be trusted. “Oh my God,” wailed Gladwell, like an Upper East Side teenager, flailing his arms around in horror. His colleague — New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg — almost fell off her chair. Both rocked back and forth with laughter and forced histrionics. Fancy my bringing up such a nothing-burger of a story as that, they hooted. What a lot of “conspiracy theory” I appeared to have fallen into.

Well, the shoe is very much on the other foot now, as it always should have been.

Because, as it happened, my colleague that night was the journalist Matt Taibbi. The day after our debate, Matt started to drop information from Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, which once again showed that it is those who refused to focus on the laptop stories who were actually involved in a conspiracy. A conspiracy that is now completely transparent.

I don’t need to remind readers of the Post of what happened in this story. Of the way in which this paper — America’s oldest — was subjected to an unprecedented campaign of silencing during October 2020. This paper dared to print information that was of public interest. It was information that exposed corruption on an extraordinary scale in what is now the first family. Not just the president’s son being paid to sit on the board of a Ukrainian energy company when he had no knowledge of energy or Ukraine. But things like the almost $5 million that Hunter and his Uncle James raked in over 14 months from just one Chinese energy conglomerate.

The New York Post printed information about the conspiracy around Hunter Biden’s laptop story.

Nobody needs to be reminded of how the situation would have been otherwise if the laptop of Don Trump, Jr., had been released and it had included this kind of information. The New York Times — which wasted everyone´s time for years with false “Russiagate” stories would not have found a “Don Jr. laptop” such a vast, unfathomable yawneroo.

But they found the Hunter laptop just that. For a very good reason. They had their aims, and they had their man. They wanted Biden in the White House at all costs and so they suppressed the Post’s story and tried to make sure that the American public was not able to vote with all the information that could have been at their disposal.

Week after week the story gets even worse. And this week perhaps the most damning revelation of all just dropped. First, there was the revelation — which we all knew — that the Biden campaign had been telling Twitter to expect a Hunter story and to quash it. That is the sort of corruption we might almost be used to. But now we have also learned the news that a former lawyer at the FBI — James Baker — was actually working inside Twitter. And that when Elon Musk took over Twitter Baker was still working there. Indeed he was working there until Sunday of this week when Musk found out and fired him.

And what had Baker been able to do? He had actually been able to insert himself between Musk and my debating partner Matt Taibbi in order to redact the communications which Musk wanted Taibbi to release. So even as the true story was coming out this former — or present — FBI man was working inside Twitter in order to stop the story from getting out.

What was he busying himself with during those crucial days? Was he editing out anything that might point to involvement by the FBI and other security agencies? Was he editing out or redacting information that might show the first family in an even worse light than the facts already do? We don’t know — but we should. Because this is not a conspiracy theory. It is an out-and-out conspiracy. One which American voters deserve to learn about.

Back in the day, it was well known that intelligence agencies in America, Britain, and other countries, used to insert agents — often declared — inside large corporations: energy giants, international oil companies, and the like. It appears that in our age certain agencies have inserted their people in the Big Tech companies and they have been performing a role we are only just starting to become aware of.

So as I say, people will laugh and scoff. The NYT will continue running distraction pieces trying to pretend that “hate” has been on the rise on Twitter since Musk bought it. They may keep ignoring and scoffing at this scandal. But in fact, something else is happening. Their game is up. The story is becoming fully exposed before the eyes of the world.

Randi Weingarten’s priorities

The news came yesterday that the President has managed to secure the release of Brittney Griner, the WNBA star imprisoned in Russia on drug charges. Curiously, no one was more elated than Randi Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers.

Congratulating POTUS on social media Weingarten trilled: “What a great relief!!! Extraordinary news, a basketball star, but also a gay, black woman is released.” I’ve heard of a two-fer offer, but for Weingarten, this was clearly a three or four-fer offer. Not only a basketball star but also a gay, black woman. What relief. What double, triple, and quadruple relief!

I wonder how muted Weingarten’s reaction would have been had Griner not had the good fortune to be black, female, and gay? Or if she had been, say, a pupil at any school across America. After all, it is American students who Weingarten is meant to somehow support. But it is them who by the millions she managed to get locked up in their homes, away from school, for months at a time during COVID.

No wonder Weingarten is celebrating a success she had no involvement in. Just imagine if she had to take responsibility for the millions of individual educational disasters she presided over.

sources https://nypost.com/2022/12/08/twitters-suppression-of-hunter-bidens-laptop-isnt-a-conspiracy-theory-its-a-conspiracy/

NPR quiet on Twitter Files after calling Hunter Biden laptop story a waste of time

The Truth News — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 01:17:28 +0000

NPR quiet on Twitter Files after calling Hunter Biden laptop story a waste of time

Story by Nikolas Lanum

On Friday night, Elon Musk and Substack journalist Matt Taibbi released the “Twitter Files,” providing new details on how the social media company attempted to censor the story about then-presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son in the weeks leading up to the 2020 election.

While the story generated massive interest online, NPR has not covered the new developments on its website, and has not responded to Fox News Digital’s request to see whether the outlet plans to cover the story in the future. It is unclear if it’s mentioned the story on the air, although NPR posts many of its major radio segments on the website.

NPR’s blackout on the Hunter Biden story appears to fall in line with previous comments on the topic, when it made the unusual move of baldly announcing why it wouldn’t cover the story.

In October 2020, NPR public editor Kelly McBride responded to a listener who asked why NPR had not reported on scandals surrounding Hunter Biden, including business connections he made overseas. That same month, the New York Post had dropped its reporting on Biden’s laptop, which was then suppressed by Big Tech giants Facebook and Twitter, and dismissed as Russian disinformation by numerous outlets.

McBride claimed there are “many, many red flags in that New York Post investigation” and Intelligence officials have warned “that Russia has been working overtime” to keep the story in the news.

She also included a quote from NPR managing editor Terence Samuel, who took the outlet’s position on the story even further.

“We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions. And quite frankly, that’s where we ended up, this was… a politically driven event, and we decided to treat it that way,” Samuel said.

Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi revealed the “Twitter Files” on Friday, a thread revealing the inner communications of Twitter employees and U.S. lawmakers surrounding the censorship of NY Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story. Fox News© Fox News

NPR’s position on the story came around the time that Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said that Hunter Biden’s laptop “is not part of some Russian disinformation campaign.”

Just six months later, NPR issued a correction after initially reporting that the laptop was “discredited by U.S. intelligence and independent investigations by news organizations.” The updated version of the NPR story said, “Numerous news organizations cast doubt on the credibility of the laptop story.”

However, the laptop has since been verified by several high-profile news networks, including Politico, The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC News and CNN.

Many of the same outlets did cover the Twitter Files over the weekend, although often dismissively.

Rolling Stone writer Adam Rawnsley yawned at Taibbi’s Twitter thread findings, calling it “anticlimactic” and a “snoozefest.” He argued Musk had bored readers with old information.

The Washington Post waited until Saturday evening to cover the Twitter Files, which an article knocked as a “dud” that was “billed as a bombshell.”

Hunter Biden’s laptop was at the center of a Big Tech censorship campaign in 2020. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters© Kevin Lamarque

Left-wing NBC reporter Ben Collin said Taibbi’s work was “unbelievable hack stuff” on Friday evening. On Sunday, he shared an opinion piece declaring it “the opposite” of a scandal.

The major Sunday shows on ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN devoted a total of seven seconds to the story, prompting Musk to sound off on the overwhelming silence.

While NPR has written numerous pieces about Musk’s management of Twitter in the last week, none of the stories centered on the Twitter Files or Hunter Biden.

When the New York Post story on Hunter Biden broke in October 2020, many of the major media companies, including CNN, MSNBC, and NPR, dismissed the story as “Russian disinformation,” and unworthy of coverage.

In April, NPR investigative correspondent Laura Sullivan tweeted “Add @NPR to the list” of media who need to repent for their dismissal of the story. “Newsroom editors called it ‘not a real story.’ The ‘Hunter Biden laptop’ investigation may end up being a tax case, a hill of beans, or something else. But what it’s always been is a story,” she said.

Fox News’ Kristine Parks and Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.

Elon Musk Grows Paranoid Over Potential ‘Twitter Files’ Retaliation Warns Followers He Has No Plans To Take His Life

The Truth News — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 04:24:33 +0000

Elon Musk Grows Paranoid Over Potential ‘Twitter Files’ Retaliation

Warns Followers He Has No Plans To Take His Life

Elon Musk NO PLANS FOR SUICIDE. NO PLANS TO TAKE HIS OWN LIFE

Things are getting weird at Twitter HQ. CEO Elon Musk has grown increasingly paranoid over the fear of retaliation from his “Twitter files” drop. Elon warned his followers that he had no plans of taking his own life

The bizarre announcement came during a Q&A session — also known as Twitter Spaces — which was held a day after the Tesla founder released internal documents from his social media site regarding the platform’s decision to censor the infamous Hunter Biden laptop fiasco, which would have change up to 80% of the Biden voters opinions. That’s 4 out of 5 taken https://nypost.com/2022/08/26/2020-election-outcome-would-differ-with-hunter-biden-laptop-coverage-poll/

Even if those 4 out of 5 would have voted for everyone else BUT BIDEN & TRUMP…. Then Trump would be still our President, FACTS! The fact that no won proved election BALLOT FRAUD, in a physical or computer or computational error, does not mean that Trump would not have won. That means 80% of Bidens voters would and could have voted for other candidates. Trump would have had the same amount of votes or more making him for sure our president. THEY DID COMMIT ELECTION FRAUD, BUT A DIFFERENT WAY!

A top tech personality, Kim Dotcom, asked the 51-year-old Twitter CEO if he had “suicidal thoughts” in light of the Hunter leaks. “I do not have any suicidal thoughts. If I committed suicide, it’s not real,” Musk replied, prompting eyebrows to raise. The response seemed to hint that should something happen to Musk, it was not by his own doing. While he was still on the topic of releasing Hunter-related internal documents, he alluded to “more smoking guns” regarding his company’s previous censorship policies under former leadership. The odd exchange was not the first time Musk made a cryptic message on his platform about being harmed.

After he assumed control of the major social platform in October for a measly purchase price of $44 billion, Musk said that he was in a greater position of “risk” to his “personal safety” as the new CEO. Following a clash with a Russian official over providing Starlink satellite internet to Ukraine amid the ongoing Russia/Ukraine conflict,, which is he right as a US citizen to operate a FREE ENTERPRISES. Musk tweeted about his death. “If I die under mysterious circumstances, it’s been nice knowin ya,“ the CEO wrote in a tweet. The majority of Musk’s recent issues from taking over the platform stem from rash decisions brought in by THE OLD leadership, which officially LOST POWER at the beginning of November.

As he continued with his overhauls, which included the vow to keep free speech alive on the platform, Musk reinstated several previously banned accounts — which included President Donald Trump, although the former president refused to rejoin.

Shortly after giving Kanye access to the social platform, the one of a kind rapper used his account to spew his free speech rhetoric to followers which is totally up to him. No one said free speech is free, it might cost a free contracts, but speaking his mind is his right as a fellow US Citizen.

Following backlash from ongoing tweets that were blown way up by the liberal left, Musk suspended Kanye from the social site, which caused an uproar among critics who felt the move was hypocritical after he cited the former leader’s alleged position of anti-free speech, but lefty losers are nuts so who cares what they think, they are allowed to spatter nonsense at the mouth about the worlds richest man which they are insanely jealous over not being able to control this MASTER SIGMA MALE!

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

The Truth News — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 10:03:24 +0000

The Big Guy and The Big Lie

The Famous Hunter Biden, Most Famous Narcissist Liar, Presidential Status

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

Originally By Emma-Jo Morris and Gabrielle Fonrouge October 14, 2020 5:00am

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 computer was dropped off at a repair shop in Biden’s home state of Delaware in April 2019, according to the store’s owner.

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.

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.

Vadym Pozharskyi and Hunter Biden
Yalta European Strategy / Getty 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.

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.

Here is the email:

From: Vadim Pozharskyi v.pozharskyi.ukraine@gmail.com
Subject: urgent issue
Date: May 12, 2014 at 8:29 AM
To: Devon Archer darcher@rosemontcapital.com, Hunter Biden hbiden@rosemontseneca.com

Dear Hunter and Devon,

Following our talks during the visit to the Como Lake and our further discussions,
I would like to bring the following situation to your attention.

As previously pointed out on a number of occasions, the representatives of new
authorities in power tend to quite aggressively approach N. Z. unofficially with
the aim to obtain cash from him. Initially, it was done by the representatives of
Svoboda party and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. These so called unofficial
“communications” would entail blackmailing: in case we don’t cooperate i.e.
provide money in cash the gaz production business of N.Z. would be stopped,
destroyed etc…

It’s important to note that Svoboda party is represented in the government by the
General Prosecutor and by Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Of
Ukraine. The last organ together with the State Geological and Subsurface Survey
of Ukraine, which is directly subordinated to the Ministry of Ecology and Natural
Resources of Ukraine, are principal regulators in the area of issuing licenses for
natural resources and control.

After unsuccessful attempts to receive funds from our side, they proceeded with
concrete actions.

So far we got information (through unofficial channels) that one or more pretrial
proceedings were initiated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs with regrad to
Burima Holdings companies that are heavily engaged in gas production and
happen to be our Holdings’ key companies.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs contacted the Ministry of Ecology and Natural
Resources and the State Geological and Subsurface Survey of Ukraine to obtain
all documents concerning licenses issued since 2006 until now to the companies
of our Holding.

Apart from that, they would unofficially approach our partnres, clients, suppliers
trying to intimidate them to stop working with our companies.
These are typical instruments to destabilize business.

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
bearing in mind the following:

Burisma holdings is a leader among private gas producers;
Our primary client is Accelor Mital- Ukraine’s biggest metal steel plant. We cover
more thet 60% of its gas needs.
Our clients and their production are largely dependant on our work and our ability
to perfom our contractual obligations;
We employ hundreds of employees etc. and etc.;
Negative influence on our companies may result in multy-level negative social,
econimical and political consequnces.

Please advice, looking forward for your reply,

Vadym Pozharskyi

download the email pdf

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.”

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.

“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 of Giuliani.

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

Additional reporting by Ebony Bowden

https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/