The often debated existence of a laptop said to belong to Hunter Biden but abandoned at a computer repair store was confirmed in an extensive report by the New York Times.
On Wednesday, The New York Times reported on Hunter Biden’s significant issues with tax filings and confirmed the existence of the “infamous laptop.”
In October 2020, The New York Post exclusively reported on email messages stored on that laptop, which reportedly show inappropriate lobbying work in Ukraine, and contradicts then Vice Presidential Joe Biden’s claim that he had “never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.”
The laptop was left at a computer repair shop in Delaware in 2019. The store’s owner reported the laptop to the FBI, which seized the device and its hard drive. According to the New York Post, the “hard drive contained a trove of emails, text messages, photos and financial documents between Hunter Biden, his family and business associates — detailing how the president’s son used his political leverage in his overseas business dealings.”
In the fall of 2020 The Post reported:
“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…
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.”
The New York Times report indicates that a Mr. Archer, who served with Hunter on Burisma’s board and was convicted and sentenced in an “unrelated securities fraud case,” has been helpful in the FBI’s investigation concerning Hunter.
The Times report notes:
“People familiar with the investigation said prosecutors had examined emails between Mr. Biden, Mr. Archer and others about Burisma and other foreign business activity.”
“Those emails were obtained by The New York Times from a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop. The email and others in the cache were authenticated by people familiar with them and with the investigation.”
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