'BIG GUY' BIDEN'
Hunter Biden emails ‘name Joe Biden as “The Big Guy” who’d get 10% share in deal with Chinese energy firm’, report says
Hunter Biden emails ‘name Joe Biden as “The Big Guy” who’d get 10% share in deal with Chinese energy firm’, report says
Catherina Gioino
-17 Oct 2020
Updated: 20:47,
17 Oct 2020
JOE Biden is "the big guy" in for a 10 percent cut in a business deal with a Chinese energy firm discussed in his son Hunter's leaked emails, according to a person involved in the talks.
One of the people on an email thread dated May 13, 2017 and obtained by Fox News told the network about the "remuneration packages" for six people in a business deal with now-bankrupt CEFC China Energy Company.
A source on Hunter's emails say 'the big guy' refers to Joe BidenCredit: Getty - Contributor
The email identifies Hunter as "Chair / Vice Chair depending on agreement with CEFC" and includes a note saying "Hunter has some office expectations he will elaborate."
In the email, a proposed equity split details "20" for "H" and "10 held by H for the big guy?"
One of the people copied on the email spoke with Fox News and confirmed its validity, with the source identifying "the big guy" as Joe Biden.
The emails point to a larger look into the Bidens' relationship with Ukraine, which came under the public eye last year while Congress voted to impeach Donald Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress after Trump solicited foreign interference.
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The emails show 'remuneration packages' for six peopleCredit: Fox News
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A source on the leaked emails told Fox News the emails are authenticCredit: Fox News
Trump made a phone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25 to investigate Biden, who was among many U.S. experts who wanted Ukrainian prosecutor general Viktor Shokin fired as they believed he wasn't prosecuting corruption.
In another email from May 2014, Burisma board adviser Vadym Pozharskyi asks Hunter, who worked at Burisma, how to stop "politically motivated actions."
"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," read Pozharskyi's email to Hunter.
Another email from Pozharskyi sent less than a year later shows him thanking Hunter for an invitation to meet his father.
Joe Biden's campaign has denied wrongdoing and said Biden's schedule shows no meeting taking place, but didn't completely rule out Biden may have had an informal interaction with Pozharskyi.
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The Bidens' relationship into Ukraine came under the public eye after Trump was impeached by the House for asking the Ukrainian president to investigate their holdingsCredit: Reuters
Biden's campaign has since released his tax documents, showing no involvement in Chinese companiesCredit: Getty - Contributor
The campaign also released Biden's tax documents, which the president has yet to do, showing no involvement with Chinese investments.
Andrew Bates, a spokesperson for the Biden campaign, said, "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," he concluded.
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