Posted on 04/11/2022 8:33:53 PM PDT by bitt
Patrick Ho hardly seemed the profile of a big-time international fixer. A short, pudgy man, affectionately known to friends as “Fat Ping,” Ho had been a Harvard-trained ophthalmologist and a Hong Kong government minister. Yet in the fall of 2017, after landing at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City, he was arrested by FBI agents and charged in an audacious plot to dole out millions of dollars in bribes to African leaders in exchange for major energy contracts that appeared to advance Chinese government interests.
What emerged in his indictment and later trial and conviction in federal court was a revealing portrait of Chinese influence peddling that included allegations that Ho arranged to broker arms deals — including the sale of rocket and grenade launchers — to countries in war zones in Africa and the Middle East.
There was one noteworthy detail, however, about Ho’s global wheeling and dealing that went unmentioned in federal court documents or Justice Department press releases at the time. During the same period that he was being pursued by the FBI for his role in the global bribery scheme, Ho and his boss, Ye Jianming, a billionaire oil tycoon with past ties to a front for the People’s Liberation Army, had entered into a business relationship with two members of the Biden family — President Biden’s son Hunter Biden and the president’s brother, James Biden.
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Michael Isikoff wrote this!
Ho didn’t heave himself!
Uh, oh.
That’s it. Biden’s lost everybody’s favorite cocktail guest, Michael Isikoff.
It may be only a matter of weeks now.
God D’d Biden Crime Syndicate! These people are disgusting, vile criminals, the entire nest of vipers.
If we had a free press and weren’t controlled by huge tech oligarchs, all this would have been given to the public in the summer of 2020 before and after Biden got the nomination. The press, DNC and tech collusion to cover up all this crime and sleaze is despicable. All the culpable parties should be hung.
Wow! When Isikoff folds you know TSHTF.
This is serious trouble for the Bidens since Isikoff wrote this and got it approved by his media masters.
This is the middle game after the beginning of the end. That means they’re allowing stuff through the net so that it takes its effect and then they will allow Biden to step in all those potholes they’ve been protecting him from.
Democraps know Biden has dementia, and so does he. They just need him to hang on for 10 more months so that Kameltoe can take over at 2 years +1 day, having a crack at 2 years as incumbent prez and 10 years total.
Yahoo/ AP discovering what we’ve known for 2 years and pretending it is new
yup!
If I’ve lost Isikoff, I’ve lost the presidency.”
It reminds me of a political mafia, all the schemes they come up with to uphold and tear down their marks using their connections in the media.
The Biden’s are grifters. As sleazy as they come
https://nypost.com/2022/04/09/hunter-benefited-from-joe-bidens-connections-his-whole-career/
Hunter Biden benefited from dad’s connections his entire career
By Jon Levine and Joshua Rhett Miller
April 9, 2022 4:03pm Updated
<><>Hunter Biden caught his first break in 1988 when he was busted for drug possession.
Suchat Pederson/The News Journal via USA TODAY NETWORK
<><>Hunter Biden used dad’s pull to lobby for friends to get federal jobs, emails from laptop show
<><>$54M in Chinese gifts donated to Ivy League school tied to Bidens
<><>Hunter Biden frequently covered family expenses, texts reveal
Hunter Biden has been living off his father’s influence and connections his entire life, a review of public information and data contained on his old laptop show.
<><>The future first son caught his first break back in 1988 when he was busted for drug possession. At a time when Sen. Joe Biden was pushing stiffer sentences for drug users to bolster his War on Drugs bonafides, Hunter Biden was treated with kid gloves.
“I was cited for possession of a controlled substance in Stone Harbor, NJ. There was a pre-trial intervention and the record was expunged,” he said in a disclosure after being nominated to serve on the Amtrak Reform Board in 2006.
<><>Biden family benefits continued for Hunter when he applied to Yale Law School. Dean Guido Calabresi got a call from the school’s most powerful alumnus, President Bill Clinton, who asked him to accept Hunter Biden, a recent Georgetown graduate, according to a 2019 report in Chronicle of Higher Education.
Calabresi, who had walled off the dean’s office from the admissions process at Yale Law to avoid just such pressure, told Clinton that he would not intercede. The admissions office then rejected Hunter. But Calabresi met with Hunter, encouraged him to go to a different law school and to then apply to Yale as a transfer student. Hunter Biden went to Georgetown University Law for a year, and was admitted to Yale in the summer of 1994.
Clinton nominated Calabresi to a federal judgeship that same year. At the time, Sen. Joe Biden was chairman of the Judiciary Committee, the person in charge of shepherding Calabresi’s nomination. Guido Calabresi told The Post he knew nothing of Hunter’s law school acceptance at the time.
REUTERS/Jim Young. “I had nothing to do with that acceptance and don’t recall knowing of it at the time,” Calabresi, now 89, told The Post.
<><>“The only qualification Hunter seems to have had was his last name,” GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik told The Post. The upstate Republican and House GOP Conference chairwoman has vowed to subpoena the first son if her party retakes the House in the 2022 midterms.
<><>The good news kept coming for Hunter, whose professional career took off with lightening speed. In 1996, fresh out of law school, Hunter snagged a job with giant Delaware-based bank MBNA — his father’s largest campaign donor. The $100,000-a-year gig came with an undisclosed signing bonus, according to the book Laptop From Hell by Post columnist Miranda Devine. Within a year, he was an executive vice president of the bank.
<><>When MBNA founder Charlie Cawley died in 2015, Hunter Biden was invited to the funeral by former Delaware Sen. Ted Kaufman, one of Joe Biden’s closest associates, emails from the laptop shop. In 1998, having tired of banking, Hunter Biden reached out to William Oldaker, a D.C. lawyer who worked on his father’s aborted 1988 presidential campaign, for help getting a job with the Clinton administration. Oldaker put out feelers to Commerce Secretary William Daley, another Biden campaign alum, who netted him a gig as a “policy director specializing in the burgeoning Internet economy,” according to the New Yorker.
<><>During this time, Hunter was still being paid as a lobbyist for the bank, taking a $100,000 annual retainer for five years, according to Laptop From Hell.
<><>When President George W. Bush and Republicans came to town after the 2000 election, Hunter Biden decamped with Oldaker to the lobbying shop Oldaker, Biden & Belair. Plum corporate board positions followed, including one with Eudora Global, an investment firm founded by another Joe Biden donor, Jeff Cooper.
<><>At a time when then-Sen. Joe Biden was pushing stiffer sentences for drug users to bolster his War on Drugs bonafides, Hunter was treated with kid gloves for his own drugs offense.
Scott Olson/Getty Images
<><>In January 2006, Joe Biden was once against thinking about the presidency and was looking for his son to knock off the lobbying and find a more low-profile private-sector job. Hunter Biden’s uncle James got in touch with New York financial advisor Anthony Lotito about the purchase of a hedge fund called Paradigm, according to legal filings from Lotito obtained by Politico.
Lotito did not respond to requests for comment from The Post.
The Bidens received a million bucks of financing for the purchase of the hedge fund in 2009 from the St. Louis law firm SimmonsCooper, whose managing partner was Jeff Cooper. The venture ended badly and the Bidens had to return the cash.
<><>In 2010 Hunter Biden became “of counsel” at the law firm Boies, Schiller and Flexner — headed by Democratic super lawyer David Boies. In a Jan. 16, 2017 email to Hunter Biden from Eric Schwerin. it is revealed that the Boies firm was paying Hunter $216,000 annually.
It was a “no-show” job that did not require Hunter Biden to keep regular office hours or attend meetings, according to Laptop From Hell.
Schwerin was the president of Hunter Biden’s investment firm Rosemont Seneca Partners, an investment firm mentioned throughout the hard drive in messages linking Hunter and his father to shady foreign deals.Reps for the Boies law firm did not respond to request for comment from The Post.
<><>“The allegations of corruption against the Bidens — as documented in Hunter’s laptop—are serious and real.Meanwhile, the Biden administration is desperately trying to cover up the evidence of corruption. There needs to be a Special Counsel that doesn’t answer to Joe Biden to fairly investigate the allegations of Biden family corruption,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) told The Post.
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Hunter Biden frequently covered family expenses, texts reveal
“Your hair smells wonderful, Hunter, my beloved son.”
Hunter Biden Got Daily Intel Briefs
Joe Biden’s Special Assistant Sending Hunter Biden Daily Intel Briefs also means Bidens entire tax paid staff using tax paid office equipment, phones, copiers, computers.......were at Hunters disposal. We need to see every voucher Biden submitted for reimbursement.
ITEM Biden’s Office of the Vice President, over a period of what appears to be years, sent a daily intelligence briefing prepared for Joe Biden......forwarded to Hunter and several other members of the Biden family. When this practice began is unclear. The documents reviewed so far appear to have been from the period after Joe left the White House. They were sent by a woman named Kathy Chung.
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Why Did Joe Biden’s Special Assistant Send Hunter Biden Daily Intel Briefs?
AND Magazine ^ | 26 Mar, 2022 | Sam Faddis
Posted on 3/29/2022, 8:15:36 AM by MtnClimber
If you have been following the saga of Hunter’s Laptop from Hell, you will know that we are now in Phase Two of the coverup. In Phase One you were told that the laptop was the creation of the Russians designed to sabotage Joe Biden’s campaign for President. That lie has now collapsed, so in Phase Two we are being told that whatever Hunter was up to, it has nothing to do with Joe. Hunter may have spent his time up to his eyeballs in hookers and blow and kept company with a lot of unsavory characters, but Joe knew nothing about any of it.
“I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings,” Biden insisted in 2019. Essentially saying “There is no family enterprise.”
It is funny then that the contents of Hunter’s laptop do not jive at all with that characterization. On the contrary, the laptop is filled with documents and emails which make perfectly clear that Hunter and Joe worked closely together, commingled funds, and operated largely as a team. As noted in the tweet above, a close Hunter Biden business associate Tony Bobulinski has gone on record stating “I have heard Joe Biden say that he’s never discussed business with Hunter. That is false.”
A case in point would be the intelligence briefings shared with Hunter by the Office of the Vice President. Over a period of what appears to be years, a daily intelligence briefing prepared for Joe Biden was forwarded to Hunter and several other members of the Biden family. When this practice began is unclear. The documents reviewed so far appear to have been from the period after Joe left the White House. They were sent by a woman named Kathy Chung.
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Never forget.
Fox News Corp. is instrumental in the coup of Trump and the betrayal of a nation in favor of Biden/Harris.
No matter what any one or all of the Biden's have done it will not affect the lives of anyone at Fox News Corp. They couldn't care less. That includes Levine, Hannity, Tucker, Watters, The Five (stooges) and all the rest of them.
Based on the Fox News Corp. vile hatred they accomplished their goal of betraying Trump, a sitting President.
The thing is, they see it as only Trump. The fact is, it's an attack on the United States Presidency. The President's name isn't the issue.
Their silence on everything 2020 election is proof enough.
They're getting away with it, they'll do it again.
Thanx for this info
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