FBI Obtained Hunter Biden Computer, Data on Ukraine Dealings: Documents
FBI Obtained Hunter Biden Computer, Data on Ukraine Dealings: Documents
BY ZACHARY STIEBER
October 14, 2020 Updated: October 14, 2020
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The FBI obtained a laptop computer and a hard drive that had emails addressed to Hunter Biden and photographs of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s son, according to a subpoena and other documents published on Wednesday by the New York Post.
The subpoena from the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, dated Dec. 9, 2019, is for an Apple MacBook Pro and an external hard drive.
The subpoena was issued to the owner of an electronics store in Delaware, where the computer was dropped off in April 2019, the store’s owner, who was not named, told the Post.
The billing information given for the computer was Hunter Biden’s name and the computer bore a sticker from the Beau Biden Foundation, which was named after Hunter Biden’s late brother. The store’s owner said the computer and hard drive were seized by the FBI after he alerted authorities to them.
The Post said it obtained a copy of the hard drive from Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer.
Giuliani shared the story on Twitter on Wednesday, promising “much more to come.” During an appearance Wednesday morning on “War Room: Pandemic,” Giuliani said the document release “shows the motive” for Biden’s admission in 2018 regarding Ukraine.
Biden was the Obama administration’s point man on Ukraine, which he confirmed in detail during a talk in 2018.
Biden recounted how in 2015, during a trip to the country, he pressured Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk into getting rid of Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin by threatening not to give a $1 billion loan guarantee.
“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 said during a Council on Foreign Relations event. “Well, son of a [expletive]. He got fired.”
Vice President Joe Biden arrives for a meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko Kyiv on Jan. 16, 2017. (Genya Savilov/AFP/Getty Images)
“There’s so much evidence against Joe Biden that it is a national scandal that this wasn’t covered years ago,” Giuliani said on Wednesday.
A spokeswoman for Giuliani declined to give a hard drive copy to The Epoch Times.
Trump cited Biden’s comments when defending his 2019 request to Ukraine’s president to have what happened with the Bidens probed, a request that led to the House of Representatives impeaching him late last year because lawmakers argued it was improper.
Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh said the new documents show Biden lied when saying he never discussed Hunter Biden’s business deals.
An FBI spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement, “We have no comment, in keeping with our standard practice of neither confirming nor denying the existence of our investigations.”
A spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware told The Epoch Times via email, “Pursuant to DOJ policy, my office can neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation.”
Inquiries sent to Hunter Biden’s lawyer and Joe Biden’s campaign were not returned.
Biden’s campaign called a lid, or said the nominee wasn’t appearing in public for the day, a few hours after the story was published.
A spokesperson for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which has been probing Hunter and Joe Biden’s past actions, told the Post that it’s working to verify the documents published by the paper.
Emails published by the Post included messages from Vadym Pozharskyi, at the time an adviser to the board of Burisma Holdings, the Ukranian-based energy company that paid Hunter Biden to sit on its board while his father was vice president of the United States.
“Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent some together [sic],” a message purportedly from Pozharskyi read.
Pozharskyi didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Joe Biden has said he has never spoken to his son about his business dealings, though Hunter Biden has said he did speak to his father about Burisma.
Jan Jekielek contributed to this report.
Follow Zachary on Twitter: @zackstieber
FBI Obtained Hunter Biden Computer, Data on Ukraine Dealings: Documents
BY ZACHARY STIEBER
October 14, 2020 Updated: October 14, 2020
The FBI obtained a laptop computer and a hard drive that had emails addressed to Hunter Biden and photographs of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s son, according to a subpoena and other documents published on Wednesday by the New York Post.
The subpoena from the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, dated Dec. 9, 2019, is for an Apple MacBook Pro and an external hard drive.
The subpoena was issued to the owner of an electronics store in Delaware, where the computer was dropped off in April 2019, the store’s owner, who was not named, told the Post.
The billing information given for the computer was Hunter Biden’s name and the computer bore a sticker from the Beau Biden Foundation, which was named after Hunter Biden’s late brother. The store’s owner said the computer and hard drive were seized by the FBI after he alerted authorities to them.
The Post said it obtained a copy of the hard drive from Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer.
Giuliani shared the story on Twitter on Wednesday, promising “much more to come.” During an appearance Wednesday morning on “War Room: Pandemic,” Giuliani said the document release “shows the motive” for Biden’s admission in 2018 regarding Ukraine.
Biden was the Obama administration’s point man on Ukraine, which he confirmed in detail during a talk in 2018.
Biden recounted how in 2015, during a trip to the country, he pressured Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk into getting rid of Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin by threatening not to give a $1 billion loan guarantee.
“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 said during a Council on Foreign Relations event. “Well, son of a [expletive]. He got fired.”
Vice President Joe Biden arrives for a meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko Kyiv on Jan. 16, 2017. (Genya Savilov/AFP/Getty Images)
“There’s so much evidence against Joe Biden that it is a national scandal that this wasn’t covered years ago,” Giuliani said on Wednesday.
A spokeswoman for Giuliani declined to give a hard drive copy to The Epoch Times.
Trump cited Biden’s comments when defending his 2019 request to Ukraine’s president to have what happened with the Bidens probed, a request that led to the House of Representatives impeaching him late last year because lawmakers argued it was improper.
Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh said the new documents show Biden lied when saying he never discussed Hunter Biden’s business deals.
An FBI spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement, “We have no comment, in keeping with our standard practice of neither confirming nor denying the existence of our investigations.”
A spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware told The Epoch Times via email, “Pursuant to DOJ policy, my office can neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation.”
Inquiries sent to Hunter Biden’s lawyer and Joe Biden’s campaign were not returned.
Biden’s campaign called a lid, or said the nominee wasn’t appearing in public for the day, a few hours after the story was published.
A spokesperson for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which has been probing Hunter and Joe Biden’s past actions, told the Post that it’s working to verify the documents published by the paper.
Emails published by the Post included messages from Vadym Pozharskyi, at the time an adviser to the board of Burisma Holdings, the Ukranian-based energy company that paid Hunter Biden to sit on its board while his father was vice president of the United States.
“Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent some together [sic],” a message purportedly from Pozharskyi read.
Pozharskyi didn’t respond to a request for comment.
Joe Biden has said he has never spoken to his son about his business dealings, though Hunter Biden has said he did speak to his father about Burisma.
Jan Jekielek contributed to this report.
Follow Zachary on Twitter: @zackstieber
