by James Lynch
Hunter Biden began his business dealings with Chinese nationals and entities when his father, sitting President Joe Biden, was vice president, documents show.
The younger Biden’s business relationship with Chinese infrastructure firm CEFC started in October 2015 and translated into lucrative financial rewards immediately after his father left office in January 2017, according to bank records, emails, texts and testimony made public by House investigators in addition to legal documents produced by federal prosecutors.
“In the late fall of 2015, the Defendant, Business Associate 1, and Business Associate 2 began to investigate potential infrastructure projects with individuals associated with CEFC China Energy Co Ltd. (CEFC), a Chinese energy conglomerate,” reads a federal indictment against Hunter Biden in the Central District of California.
Then-Vice President Biden announced in October 2015 he would not run for president after months of speculation, Politico reported at the time. Democratic party operatives and then-President Obama himself encouraged Biden not to run for president against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic primary, according to multiple reports and Joe Biden’s 2017 book, “Promise Me Dad” written in the wake of his late son Beau Biden’s death in May 2015 from brain cancer.
“In or around December of that year, the Defendant met in Washington, D.C., with individuals associated with CEFC. During the next two years the Defendant, Business Associate 1, and Business Associate 2 continued to meet with individuals associated with CEFC, including in February 2017, with CEFC’s then-Chairman,” the indictment adds.
Hunter Biden is facing nine tax related charges in California that could land him in prison for up to 17 years. His attorney attributed the charges to Republican pressure in a statement shortly after the indictment was filed.
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In March 2017, Hunter Biden’s business associate Rob Walker received $3 million from State Energy HK, an entity affiliated with CEFC, and proceeded to wire roughly $1 million of the funds to Biden family companies, bank records released in March by the House Oversight Committee show.
The California indictment contains identical details about the State Energy HK transactions. Walker sent roughly $1 million of the CEFC money to James Gilliar, another business associate involved with the CEFC dealings, the bank records show. Gilliar infamously suggested in May 2017 giving Joe Biden a 10% ownership stake in a proposed business venture with CEFC associates.
“10 held by H for the big guy?” Gilliar emailed Walker, Hunter Biden and business associate Tony Bobulinski in May 2017, the New York Post first reported ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
Joe Biden’s vice presidency concluded in January 2017 upon the inauguration of former President Donald Trump, his likely opponent in the 2024 presidential election.
The FBI interviewed Walker in December 2020, and Walker recalled a meeting Joe Biden attended with CEFC associates after his vice presidency when Hunter Biden was trying to close out a deal. Walker told FBI agents Hunter Biden discussed a potential meeting with his father and CEFC when Joe Biden was vice president, a transcript of the FBI interview shows.
He confirmed to the FBI he received the CEFC funds through the State Energy HK account and told agents the money was a “finders fee” related to meetings they set up with individuals based in Oman.
“So the money that comes in from State Energy HK March of 2017, the timing of that is so significant, I think, looking back at everything that it makes sense that maybe there was some sort of agreement there that they weren’t going to pay it while — pay that money while the former Vice President was in office,” IRS whistleblower Joseph Ziegler testified to the House Ways and Means Committee on Dec. 5, a transcript of the closed-door session reads.
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“The significance of the March 2017 was that they withheld payment from that Chinese company until then-Vice President Biden was no longer in office,” Shapley said at the same closed-door hearing.
Both whistleblowers told lawmakers they were not allowed to pursue leads connected to Joe Biden as part of the ongoing criminal investigation into Hunter Biden by the Department of Justice (DOJ) centered around his taxes.
The CEFC meetings came about from a person connected to Sidwell Friends, the prestigious D.C. private school Hunter Biden’s three daughters with his first wife attended, Walker vaguely recalled.
Emails contained on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop archive appear to confirm a Sidwell Friends parent and Serbian diplomat Vuk Jeremic separately introduced Hunter Biden and his business associates to CEFC officials in late 2015.
An email on Biden’s laptop appears to show he first attempted to schedule a call with the acquaintance in October 2015, and another email appears to show the D.C. meeting mentioned in the indictment scheduled in December 2015 shortly after Jeremic’s correspondence.
Bobulinski told the FBI in October 2020 Hunter Biden and his uncle James Biden’s relationship with CEFC began when Joe Biden was vice president, but neither received compensation until afterwards, an FBI document shows. The proposed CEFC joint venture mentioned by Gilliar was known as “Sinohawk,” and the deal later fell through.
In late July 2017, Hunter Biden appeared to send Chinese business associate Raymond Zhao a threatening text where he appeared to invoke his father, IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley revealed when he first testified to the House Ways and Means Committee in May. Shapley told lawmakers Zhao was a CEFC business associate.
“I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight,” Hunter Biden apparently texted Zhao.
The White House said Joe Biden said was “not in business” with his son when the apparent text was released. Joe Biden falsely stated during a 2020 presidential debate that his son did not make money from China.
“And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father,” Biden added.
Images from Hunter Biden’s laptop archive show he was with his father on the day he sent the text message, the Washington Free Beacon first reported.
A few days later, Biden texted a CEFC business associate bragging about how the “Biden’s [sic] are the best” at what the CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming wants them to do, according to the House Oversight Committee.
Hunter Biden likened Jianming to CCP ruler Xi Jinping, according to a memo of an interview DOJ, FBI and IRS conducted with his uncle and business associate James Biden, who was involved with Hudson West III.
On Aug. 4, 2017, the day after his boastful text, he received a $100,000 payment from a CEFC account, according to the Oversight Committee.
Hunter Biden and CEFC officials created Hudson West III in August 2017, a joint venture that began with a $5 million cash influx from a Chinese firm on Aug. 8, 2017, bank records released in November by the Oversight Committee show. He proceeded to wire $400,000 to his Owasco P.C. account, and from that account Hunter Biden sent $150,000 to Lion Hall Group, James Biden and his wife Sara Biden’s business account.
James and Sara Biden wired $50,000 into their personal account and proceeded to write a $40,000 check to Joe Biden in September 2017, the bank records show. An email on Hunter Biden’s laptop archive sent in September 2017 lists Joe Biden and a CEFC associate as “office mates” alongside Hunter Biden.
The check sent by Sara Biden to Joe Biden is classified as a loan repayment, and the White House has repeatedly said the check was a loan repayment. The Biden administration did not respond to a request for comment.
Hunter Biden hauled in just under $1 million from Hudson West III in 2017, according to his failed guilty plea deal with DOJ prosecutors. He admitted to the arrangement in Delaware court when his guilty plea deal collapsed at a July court appearance in front of a federal judge.
The California indictment says Hunter Biden wired himself $1.445 million from Hudson West III in 2017 and sent $500,000 to an unnamed business associate who appears to be James Biden.
“Look at the time period of that. That is right around the same time that this Hudson West Three agreement was up and running, and then you have all this other indication that there was some sort of perceived involvement from the former Vice President Joe Biden. So when you put all of that together, it paints a pretty clear picture,” Ziegler testified in response to a question from Republican Texas Rep. Beth Van Duyne.
Bad news for joe.
Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden is in this up to his turkey neck. Imagine… just try to picture the reaction if Trump had carried Trump Jr. around on AF1 so he could meet with foreign business associates and make business deals and then, later, it was shown he was sending checks to Trump. The massive explosion in accusations, charges and attacks would be on a tsunami scale. But here, Democrats just want to cover their eyes and ears and say “We don’t see nuthin’.”
biden is guilty of bribery and treason. Impeach him but acquittal in the senate will keep him as the democrat nominee.