In newly obtained emails, it has been revealed an adviser of Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings, Vadym Pozharskyi, wrote to Hunter Biden on May 12, 2014, asking for “advise” on how he could use his “influence to convey a message” to “stop” what the company said was considered to be “politically motivated actions.”
Pozharskyi wrote in an email, “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.”
This email is part of a longer series of emails that appeared to be referencing the firm’s founder, Mykola Zlochevsky, who was under investigation.
In another email, it is revealed that then-Vice President Joe Biden acted on a request from his son, Hunter, and allegedly met with Pozharskyi in April 2015 in Washington, D.C. The meeting was referenced in an email of appreciation that Pozharskyi sent to Hunter Biden on April 17, 2015, just one year after he took the position on the board of Burisma, and one year before pushing to have the Ukrainian prosecutor removed from his post. The Obama administration, as well as several Western European governments, were pressuring Ukraine to remove the prosecutor over his failure to do away with corruption in the former Soviet republic.
“Dear Hunter,” the email read, “thank you for inviting me to DC and giving me the opportunity to meet your father and spend some time together. It’s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure.”
Andrew Bates, a Biden campaign spokesperson, pushed back against the New York Post story saying, “Investigations by the press, during impeachment, and even by two Republican-led Senate committees whose work was decried as ‘not legitimate’ and political by a GOP colleague have all reached the same conclusion: that Joe Biden carried out official U.S. policy toward Ukraine and engaged in no wrongdoing. Trump administration officials have attested to these facts under oath.”
