By Steven Richards and John Solomon
From 2015 until present, several federal agencies were alerted to suspicious activity and potential criminal activities by Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son. Each time, the allegations did not result in any consequences for the first son.
The pattern – over eight years and three separate presidential administrations – has some in Congress now seeing a protection racket.
“Every time some agency — whether it be the IRS, whether it be the FBI — whomever started to investigate. I don’t know if it’s for fear of embarrassing Joe Biden or for fear that it would eventually lead to Joe Biden. But for whatever reason, some deep state actor steps in and says, ‘Stand down, call it off,’” House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer told Just the News last week.
“Well, there’s two things we’re investigating; the Biden crime, and the Biden crime cover-up. And the cover-up continues to grow and expand,” he added during an interview with the Just the News, No Noise television show. “..This cover-up has been going on for a long time.”
Here is a summary of the dates, players and agencies in that timeline:
May 2015: Morgan Stanley bankers flag transactions, reports concerns to regulators
Just the News revealed last week that two whistleblowers from Morgan Stanley flagged suspicious transactions involving Devon Archer and Rosemont Seneca—of which Hunter Biden was a partner—and brought their concerns to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Their presentation included photos and a dossier on Hunter Biden.
The internal report and subsequent report to the SEC is one of the earliest official warnings inside the banking industry and U.S. government
Morgan Stanley crafted a bank compliance presentation in the spring of 2015 after becoming aware of the suspicious activities surrounding Rosemont Seneca. Morgan Stanley sought to flag suspicious activity in a scheme that involved fraudulent Native American tribal bonds. The transaction structure described by Morgan Stanley contained numerous entities and individuals with ties to Hunter Biden, including Devon Archer, Rosemont Seneca, and Burnham Financial Group.
The presentation said the structure created by these individuals and groups “offered no clear economics, or purpose.” Additionally, “Due diligence on involved parties reveals less than clean records,” the presentation added.
You can view the presentation here.
The presentation addressed elements of Hunter Biden’s background, some of which was a cause for concern, including his expulsion from the Navy for drug use, his work with Devon Archer on the board of Burisma, and a past lawsuit from 2008 in which Hunter Biden and his uncle James Biden were accused of defrauding a former business partner.
Morgan Stanley eventually referred the matter to the SEC, which opened a probe with the FBI and IRS that led to the arrest and conviction of Archer and other Hunter Biden associates for securities fraud. But Hunter Biden – though he was subpoenaed – was hardly mentioned in the case and never charged.
Evidence in the case would portend of future political controversy, including the Biden family’s multimillion dollar relationship with executives in communist China.
For instance, Hunter Biden was crucial in securing a $5 million investment from a Chinese entity for a firm called Burnham Asset Management, which involved John and Jason Galanis—key associate charged alongside Archer in the tribal bonds scheme. In an affidavit written for the trial, John Galanis told the court that “To induce Chinese, [Hunter] Biden sends email to Henry Zhao,” owner of the Chinese entity and says the “investment would be important to his family.”
Nov. 1, 2016: Morgan Stanley vice president filed whistleblower complaint with SE
A week before Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, a vice president at Morgan Stanley who helped prepare the 2015 presentation filed a formal whistleblower complaint with the SEC. He attached the earlier presentation plus new information he had uncovered since that concerned him.
“In addition to seeking recovery in connection with his prior reporting [the whistleblower name redacted] makes this submission offering new information concerning additional securities frauds being perpetrated,” the complaint said.
You can read that complaint here:
There is no indication of how the SEC handled the whistleblower complaints. The SEC, Morgan Stanley and Abbe Lowell all declined comment.
October 2018: Delaware State Police investigate possible gun crime but bring no charges.
In late October of 2018, Hunter Biden purchased a firearm while he was struggling with addiction. The younger Biden lied on the background-check questionnaire, answering “no” to the question: “Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?” Hunter Biden later admitted that he lied on the form.
In what Politico described as “a bizarre incident,” Hallie Biden—Hunter’s significant other and widow of his brother Beau Biden—took the gun from him and threw it away outside a local store. Delaware Police began investigating the incident, since the firearm was found near a school. Texts from the Hunter Biden laptop, reported by the New York Post, show that Hallie was afraid Hunter Biden would “use” the gun and told him “I just want[ed] you safe. That was not safe.”
But the story became even more bizarre. According to Politico, sources told the outlet that “Secret Service agents approached the owner of the store where Hunter bought the gun and asked to take the paperwork involving the sale.” The gun owner refused to turn the paperwork over to the Secret Service, suspecting a coverup and afraid the weapon had been used in a crime. Instead, the owner later turned the paperwork over to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).
The Secret Service claimed that it has no record of any of its agents being involved. As a former Vice President, Joe Biden was not entitled to protection at the time and the Secret Service no longer protected his family.
The Delaware State Police investigated the incident, obtaining footage from the store where Hallie had dropped the gun. The agency questioned both Hallie and Hunter Biden about the incident and the FBI showed up on the scene, according to Politico.
Yet, the Delaware State Police declined to charge Hunter Biden with a crime, despite evidence that Hunter Biden possessed the firearm illegally. Years later, the gun charges would become part of a now-defunct plea deal between Hunter Biden and the Department of Justice. The DOJ now says that it plans to indict Biden on the charge later this month.
Fall 2018: Ex-federal prosecutor approaches New York U.S. Attorney with information about Hunter Biden from Ukraine prosecutor.
About the same time as the gun incident, a respected former federal prosecutor approached the U.S. Justice Department in fall 2018 on behalf of a foreign witness who claimed to have evidence that Joe Biden had “exercised influence to protect” his son’s employer in Ukraine in return for money to his family, according to interviews and documents obtained by Just the News.
The agency didn’t take up the ex-prosecutor on his offer but instead secretly obtained his phone records a year later in an apparent effort to identify his contacts.
Retired Little Rock, Ark., U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins wrote then-New York U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman on Oct. 4, 2018 that then-Ukraine Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko was willing to travel to the United States to present evidence about the Bidens and Burisma Holdings.
Lutsenko believes “VP Biden (and Sec State Kerry) exercised influence to protect Burisma Holdings in exchange for payments to Hunter Biden, (business partner) Devon Archer, and Joe Biden,” Cummins emailed Berman.
Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer were both hired to the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian natural gas firm, in spring 2014 while Joe Biden was vice president and in charge of U.S.-Ukraine policy.
The hiring raised eyebrows since the gas company was considered corrupt by the U.S. State Department and State officials have testified they believed the hiring of the VP’s son created the appearance of a conflict of interest.
