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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Hunter Biden emails under investigation by Senate Homeland Security Committee after hard-drive report emerges

2020-10-14

[FoxNews] The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is investigating newly released emails that reveal that Hunter Biden introduced his father, former Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings in 2015 at Hunter's request.

Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told Fox News on Wednesday that the committee has been in touch with the person who provided the emails and was in the process of validating the information.

The emails in question were obtained by the New York Post and revealed that Biden’s son introduced the then-vice president to a top executive at Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings less than a year before he pressured government officials in Ukraine to fire prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who was investigating the company.

"We regularly speak with individuals who email the committee’s whistleblower account to determine whether we can validate their claims," Johnson told Fox News. "Although we consider those communications to be confidential, because the individual in this instance spoke with the media about his contact with the committee, we can confirm receipt of his email complaint, have been in contact with the whistleblower, and are in the process of validating the information he provided.”

The Post report revealed that Biden, at Hunter’s request, met with Vadym Pozharskyi in April 2015 in Washington, D.C.

The meeting was mentioned in an email of appreciation, according to the Post, that Pozharskyi sent to Hunter Biden on April 17, 2015 — a year after Hunter took on his lucrative position on the board of Burisma.

“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 read.

An earlier email from May 2014 also showed Pozharskyi, reportedly a top Burisma executive, asking Hunter for “advice on how you could use your influence” on the company’s behalf, the Post reported.

The meeting took place less than a year before the former vice president purportedly pressured government officials in Ukraine to fire prosecutor Viktor Shokin.

Biden once famously boasted on camera that when he was vice president and spearheading the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy, he successfully pressured Ukraine to fire Shokin, who was the top prosecutor at the time. He had been investigating the founder of Burisma.

Johnson's committee has been investigating Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings since 2019, and last month released an interim report on their monthslong probe into Hunter Biden’s role on the board of Burisma and his alleged “extensive and complex financial transactions.”

Johnson and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said their investigation has “faced many obstacles” from Democrats on their committees and that executive agencies “failed to comply with document requests.”

Meanwhile, the Post reported Wednesday the emails were part of a trove of data recovered from a laptop which was dropped off at a repair shop in Delaware in April 2019.

The Post reported that other material turned up on the laptop, including a video, which they described as showing Hunter smoking crack while engaged in a sexual act with an unidentified woman, as well as other sexually explicit images.

The FBI reportedly seized the computer and hard drive in December 2019. The shop owner, though, said he made a copy of the hard drive and later gave it to former Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer, Robert Costello.

The Post reported that the FBI referred questions about the hard drive and laptop to the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office, where a spokesperson told the outlet that the office “can neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation.”

Posted by:Skidmark

#6 I would not be surprised to see Plugs drop out of the race and throw everything into chaos.

Posted by: Besoeker 2020-10-14 21:41

#5 It's in the NYPost.com and Trump mentioned it today. Twitter and FB screwed the pooch. I understand Twitter also suspended Kayleigh McEnany's Twitter acct. Not smart. I suspect every comment out of the WH and Trump campaign will make this obvious partisan campaign suppression

Posted by: Frank G 2020-10-14 19:39

#4 Should be easy to get around. Just mask the identity of it ... refer to it is "(Tab) Hunter's 12-minutes of Delirium," or Plugs Son's Merry Pranks," or somesuch

Posted by: Butch Snatch8191 2020-10-14 18:16

#3 Both Facebook and Twitter are banning any mention or sharing of this. Can you say covering for Biden?

Posted by: Deacon Blues 2020-10-14 18:08

#2 Streisand effect will win. Block it and EVERYONE wants to see it. BTW Joe had a 9:41 AM lid on his day today. In hidin'

Posted by: Frank G 2020-10-14 17:40

#1 Just like he left that crack pipe in the rental car, now we find he leaves a laptop at a repair shop. When he gets stoned, he gets sloppy and now Giuliani has it all. Facebook and Twitter won't link to the original New York Post article but I see Skidmark's link is to Fox. Soon it'll be all over the place. How much longer can ABCCBSNBCCNN hide it?

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2020-10-14 16:32

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