(LifeSiteNews) – Emails from Hunter Biden’s now-verified laptop show that he worked to secure millions of dollars for a Department of Defense (DoD) contractor connected to research on dangerous pathogens in Ukraine.
The emails, initially reported last week by The Daily Mail, lend credence to recent claims by Russian officials that the first son helped finance Ukrainian biolabs.
The Daily Mail obtained the emails from Jack Maxey, former co-host of Steve Bannon’s “War Room” and a member of LifeSite’s “Faith and Reason” show.
The emails reveal that Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners (RSTP), an investment firm co-founded by Hunter Biden, raised millions of dollars for Metabiota, a U.S biotech company that specializes in research on infectious diseases that could be used for biowarfare.
Hunter was directly involved in RSTP’s dealings with Metabiota, which started weeks after the overthrow of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in 2014, and discussed the company’s “engagement in Ukraine” with top Metabiota executives. RSTP also appears to have introduced Metabiota to a corrupt Ukrainian energy firm that Biden worked with, according to the emails.
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RSTP was an offshoot of investment fund Rosemont Capital, which Hunter Biden founded in 2009 with Christopher Heinz, the stepson of former U.S Secretary of State John Kerry. The company is now known as Pilot Growth Equity.
RSTP invested at least $500,000 in Metabiota in 2014, according to emails published by The Daily Mail, and raised millions in additional funding for the biotech company from other investment groups, including Goldman Sachs.
Email to Hunter Biden and other RSTP executives detailing Metabiota investment. Source: The Daily MailDealings between RSTP and Metabiota began just weeks after the ousting of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who was pushed out of office in February 2014 after months of unrest actively supported by the U.S government. Russia annexed the Crimea region in southern Ukraine that March.
Days later, Metabiota vice president Mary Guttieri emailed Hunter Biden with a memo describing how her company could “assert Ukraine’s cultural and economic independence from Russia.”
Email from Mary Guttieri to Hunter Biden. Source: The Daily Mail“Thanks so much for taking time out of your intense schedule to meet with Kathy [Dimeo, a Metabiota executive] and I on Tuesday,” she told Hunter. “We very much enjoyed our discussion.”
“As promised, I’ve prepared the attached memo, which provides an overview of Metabiota, our engagement in Ukraine, and how we can potentially leverage our team, networks, and concepts to assert Ukraine’s cultural and economic independence from Russia and continued integration into Western society,” Guttieri said.