Posted on 09/30/2019 5:34:50 AM PDT by tired&retired
From a different article..
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/sep/28/hunter-biden-china-business-drawing-new-scrutiny/
The ease with which the 2015 transaction was approved by the Obama administration alarmed Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, who is looking into whether the Obama-Biden White House intervened in the process.
One of the companies in the 2015 deal was Bohai Harvest RST (BHR), a billion-dollar investment fund backed by China that was formed by Hunter Biden and Chris Heinz, the stepson of then-Secretary of State John Kerry.
The state government’s Aviation Industry Corporation of China teamed with BHR to buy Henniges Automotive, a producer of high-tech, anti-vibration components for automobiles.
“The direct involvement of Mr. Hunter Biden and Mr. Heinz in the acquisition of Henniges by the Chinese government creates a potential conflict of interest,” Mr. Grassley wrote in an Aug. 15 letter to Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin.
Mr. Grassley, Iowa Republican, requested Mr. Mnuchin provide committee investigators with documents from the approval process, including a copy of the National Threat Assessment required for the deal.
So, technically, Hunter Biden did receive cabinet approval. Interesting that Soetoro’s involvement is left out of the equation.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/blimps-retake-the-sky
Friday 11 January 2013
The Californian company (Aeros) received $50 million (£38 million) from the US Department of Defense to build the prototype. Kouckak says the finished craft could be used to transport cargo to military bases, help out in natural-disaster-hit areas or assist in firefighting.
The web of corruption is corrosive and is eroding the foundations of the American nation. Trump may very well be prophetic. There no longer exists a common consensus of values in America as evidenced by the control of the government by the vile deep state. This is a prelude to civil war.
According to WIKI
BHR Partners is a private investment fund founded in 2013 by Chinese and American partners to make investments outside of China.
History
BHR was founded in 2013[1] by Chinese asset managers Bohai Industrial Investment Fund Management Co. and Harvest Fund Management Co. and U.S. investment and advisory firms Rosemont Seneca Partners, co-founded by Hunter Biden, Christopher Heinz and Devon Archer,[2] and Thornton Group LLC.[3]
The company website in 2016 reported that Bohai Capital managed the RMB20 Billion and Harvest ranks among China’s largest mutual fund management companies. The website said the company has “the support of Bank of China, China Development Bank Capital, and other major Chinese financial institutions.[1] Bohai Harvest has also partnered with a subsidiary of China’s conglomerate HNA Group.[4]
The firm set out in 2014 to raise $1.5 billion for investments, some in dollars and some in yuan. The yuan investments were to be converted to U.S. dollars through Shanghai Free-Trade Zone, facilitating offshore investment for Chinese investors. Rosemont Seneca is a Washington, D.C.-based investment and advisory firm run by Hunter Biden, the son of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.[4]
Hunter Biden partnered with James Bulger, son of former Massachusetts state Senate President William Bulger. According to The Intercept, business registration filings in China list Hunter Biden and James Bulger as key officials at Bohai Harvest.[4]
Thornton Group is a Boston-based cross-border investment advisory firm. The U.S. partners as a pair and the two Chinese partners each own a 30% stake in the joint management firm.[3]
Transactions
2014 - Approximately RMB4 billion in the Chinese pilot State-Owned Enterprises reform deal “involving the segregation and capitalization of Sinopec Group’s non-oil business into Sinopec Marketing Corporation”;
2015 - Henniges Automotive[5] with strategic partner, AVIC Auto;[6] total transaction valued at around US$600 million;
Investments in China General Nuclear (CGN), 3Bio Inc., and Didi Taxi.[7] In 2016, the U.S. Justice Department charged CGN with stealing nuclear secrets from the United States.[8][9][10]
In November, 2016, BHR agreed to purchase Lundin Mining Corp’s minority stake in African copper mine Tenke Fungurume Mining S.A. for $1.14 billion in cash.
Lundin held a 30% interest in TF Holdings, a holding company, and an effective 24% stake in the mining operation. Freeport-McMoRan Inc. currently owns the remaining 70% stake in TF Holdings (an effective 56% of the mine), but is in the process of selling its stake to China Molybdenum Co. for a reported $2.65 billion.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the Tenke mine is located, owns the remaining 20% of the mine.[11] According to Oxfam, “the Government of DRC knew nothing about [transaction] until after it happened.”[12]
In 2017, BHR invested in a Chinese technology company Megvii.[13][4]
Interesting the two countries Barak put in charge were Ukraine and China.
“BHR was founded in 2013[1] by Chinese asset managers Bohai Industrial Investment Fund Management Co. and Harvest Fund Management Co. and U.S. investment and advisory firms Rosemont Seneca Partners, co-founded by Hunter Biden, Christopher Heinz and Devon Archer,[2] and Thornton Group LLC.[3] The company website in 2016 reported that Bohai Capital managed the RMB20 Billion and Harvest ranks among China’s largest mutual fund management companies. The website said the company has “the support of Bank of China, China Development Bank Capital, and other major Chinese financial institutions.[1] Bohai Harvest has also partnered with a subsidiary of China’s conglomerate HNA Group.[4] “
“The firm set out in 2014 to raise $1.5 billion for investments, some in dollars and some in yuan. The yuan investments were to be converted to U.S. dollars through Shanghai Free-Trade Zone, facilitating offshore investment for Chinese investors. Rosemont Seneca is a Washington, D.C.-based investment and advisory firm run by Hunter Biden, the son of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.[4] Hunter Biden partnered with James Bulger, son of former Massachusetts state Senate President William Bulger. “
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHR_Partners
Either that or renounce his US citizenship and re-enter the US as an illegal alien.
https://nypost.com/2019/05/11/the-troubling-reason-why-biden-is-so-soft-on-china/
The centerpiece of these deals is Rosemont Seneca Partners, an investment firm controlled by Hunter Biden and his associates: Chris Heinz, who is John Kerry’s stepson, and Heinz’s longtime associate Devon Archer. The trio founded Rosemont Seneca in 2009 and quickly began making deals through a series of overlapping entities under the Rosemont name.
To assist in their new venture, they partnered with a Massachusetts-based consultancy called the Thornton Group, headed by James Bulger, son of former Massachusetts state Sen. Billy Bulger. James Bulger has the dubious honor of being named after his uncle, the notorious mob hitman James “Whitey” Bulger.
The timing of this meeting was also notable. It occurred just hours before Hunter Biden’s father, the vice president, met with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Washington as part of the Nuclear Security Summit.
Twelve days after Hunter stepped off Air Force Two in Beijing, his company signed a historic deal with the Bank of China, the state-owned financial behemoth often used as a tool of the Chinese government. The Bank of China had created a first-of-its-kind investment fund called Bohai Harvest RST (BHR). According to BHR, one of its founding partners was none other than Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC.
It was an unprecedented arrangement: the government of one of America’s fiercest competitors going into business with the son of one of America’s most powerful decision makers.
Chris Heinz claims neither he nor Rosemont Seneca Partners, the firm he had part ownership of, had any role in the deal with Bohai Harvest. Nonetheless, Biden, Archer and the Rosemont name became increasingly involved with China. Archer became the vice chairman of Bohai Harvest, helping oversee some of the fund’s investments.
Troublingly, some of those investments had major implications for national security.
In December 2014, BHR became an “anchor investor” in the IPO of China General Nuclear Power Corp. (CGN), a state-owned energy company involved in the construction of nuclear reactors. In April 2016, the US Justice Department would charge CGN with stealing nuclear secrets from the United States — actions prosecutors said could cause “significant damage to our national security.”
Of particular interest to CGN were sensitive, American-made components that, according to experts, resembled components used by the US on its nuclear submarines.
That Hunter Biden had no experience in China, and little in private equity, didn’t dissuade the Chinese government from giving his company a business opportunity in place of established global financial brands like Morgan Stanley or Goldman Sachs. In fact, the Chinese government wasn’t done funding deals with Hunter Biden.
Also in December 2014, a Chinese state-backed conglomerate called Gemini Investments Limited was negotiating and sealing deals with Hunter Biden’s Rosemont on several fronts. That month, it made a $34 million investment into a fund managed by Rosemont.
The following August, Rosemont Realty, another sister company of Rosemont Seneca, announced that Gemini Investments was buying a 75 percent stake in the company. The terms of the deal included a $3 billion commitment from the Chinese, who were eager to purchase new US properties. Shortly after the sale, Rosemont Realty was rechristened Gemini Rosemont.
Chinese executives lauded the deal.
“Rosemont, with its comprehensive real-estate platform and superior performance history, was precisely the investment opportunity Gemini Investments was looking for in order to invest in the US real estate market,” declared Li Ming, Sino-Ocean Land Holdings Limited and Gemini Investments chairman. “We look forward to a strong and successful partnership.”
The plan was to use Chinese money to acquire more properties in the United States. “We see great opportunities to continue acquiring high-quality real estate in the US market,” one company executive said. “The possibilities for this venture are tremendous.”
Joe Biden's China policy is stuck in the last century Finally, in 2015, BHR joined forces with a subsidiary of Chinese state-owned military aviation contractor Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) to buy American precision-parts manufacturer Henniges. Because Henniges manufactured technology with possible military applications, the transaction required approval by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. CFIUS reviews are required for business transactions that have potential national security implications.
The Biden-Bank of China fact-pattern is arresting in its bravura and scale. Moreover, it turns out that the Biden dealings didn’t just take place in China, but in Ukraine, as well.
Consider the facts. On April 16, 2014, White House records show that Devon Archer, Hunter Biden’s business partner in the Rosemont Seneca deals, made a private visit to the White House for a meeting with Vice President Biden. Five days later, on April 21, Joe Biden landed in Kiev for a series of high-level meetings with Ukrainian officials. The vice president was bringing with him highly welcomed terms of a United States Agency for International Development program to assist the Ukrainian natural-gas industry and promises of more US financial assistance and loans. Soon the United States and the International Monetary Fund would be pumping more than $1 billion into the Ukrainian economy.
The next day, there was a public announcement that Archer had been asked to join the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian natural-gas company. Three weeks after that, on May 13, it was announced that Hunter Biden would join, too. Neither Biden nor Archer had any background or experience in the energy sector.
The younger Biden, for his part, tried to put the best possible face on the deal. He claimed that by joining the board of the natural-gas producer, he would “contribute to the economy and benefit the people of Ukraine.”
The choice of Hunter Biden to handle transparency and corporate governance for Burisma is curious, because Biden had little if any experience in Ukrainian law, or professional legal counsel, period. But that didn’t stop Burisma from paying the younger Biden what The New York Times has reported was as much as $50,000 a month while the company was under investigation by officials in both Ukraine and abroad.
Joe Biden’s trip to Kiev in March 2016, and his threats to withhold $1 billion in foreign aid if Ukrainian officials didn’t dismiss the country’s top prosecutor, Victor Shokin, take on added meaning when you consider that Shokin’s office had been leading an investigation into Burisma’s owner.
According to a recent New York Times report, Biden helped recruit an American consulting firm as well as former Deputy Attorney General John Buretta to help Burisma fight corruption charges. In an interview with the Kyiv Post, Buretta described his negotiations with Yuriy Lutsenko. Lutsenko became Ukraine’s general prosecutor after Joe Biden had lobbied for his predecessor’s removal. Apparently, the negotiations worked as the case was dismissed in the fall of 2016.
Joe Biden later bragged about his efforts to get Shokin removed, though he claims Shokin’s removal was needed due to his mishandling of a number of cases in Ukraine. Hunter Biden insists he never spoke to his father about the investigation into Burisma.
Will the Senate investigate Joe and Hunter Biden’s actions in China and Ukraine? We don’t know, but they should. If a two-year investigation of President Trump, Russia and the Trump family was justified to ensure the president isn’t compromised, an investigation into Joe Biden, China, Ukraine and the Biden family is imperative.
Peter Schweizer is the author of “Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends” (Harper). His newest project is The Drill Down, an investigative video project dedicated to exposing cronyism and corruption.
In fact, they have only contempt for honesty and truth. They equate honesty with stupidity, assuming that no one will succeed in politics without dishonesty and only the stupid would try it.
This is why they are so astounded by Trump and HATE him with such fury: He is an honest, extraordinarily intelligent man, whose very TRUTH exposes them and all the evil with which they have allowed themselves to become suffused.
This brings in and incriminates John Kerry, his stepfather.
Who was Secretary of State at the time.
Excellent find.... the corruption goes right to the top
The widespread, profound corruption of the US Federal Government, the politicians, bureaucrats, journalists, and much of the intelligentsia is crystal clear. There must be honest people somewhere in that power structure who witness the corruption and whose basic human thirst for TRUTH compels them to come forth and speak out against the corruption. Where are they? They cannot ALL be corrupt and cowardly or so confused that they cannot recognize TRUTH and righteousness.
I understand the power of the establishment, of its propaganda machine, and its ability to indoctrinate, but there must be some TRUTH seeker, somewhere within the establishment, who would say: "No. I cannot remain silent any longer." Where is he/she?
The only way I can understand this is to imagine someone, back in the days when slavery was legal and openly practiced, who recognized its evil but did not speak out against it. However, there were people who did. Where are their spiritual descendants today?
Another analogy is the days of Nazi Germany. There were people living under the Third Reich who recognized its evil but did not speak out. Clearly they were intimidated, but some did speak out, and there was a German Resistance, people willing to risk their lives and the lives of their family members for TRUTH and righteousness. Where are those people in the US establishment today?
I re-evaluate my own position constantly, wondering if perhaps I have misperceived the situation. But so much of the corruption is blatant, clear, and too obvious to dismiss.
Where are the TRUTH seekers?
The Obama administration will go down in history as the greatest deep state corruption ever.
Imagen where we would be if corrupt deep state Hillary had won the election... Thank God for His intervention.
I'm sad that the US Federal Government seems to have almost no truth seekers in 2019. But I can't say I'm surprised. This has all been a long time building.
https://news.yahoo.com/us-envoy-ukraine-must-reform-aid-160256665.html
February 7, 2014
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Washington is willing to consider financial aid to Ukraine as the country struggles through a polarizing political crisis, but only if it undertakes political and economic reforms, a top U.S. diplomat said Friday.
(snip)
Both Washington and Brussels are calling for peaceful resolution of the crisis. But an intercepted phone call between Nuland and US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt has drawn attention to American impatience with the EU. In the recording, leaked online, Nuland profanely dismisses the EU and its efforts in Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL_GShyGv3o
“F*ck the EU! - Exactly!” - Victoria Nuland & Geoffrey Pyatt
Feb 6, 2014
Cut-out of a phone call between two American fun guys talking about maidan’s puppets. The actors are:
Victoria Nuland: US-Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs
Geoffrey R. Pyatt: United States Ambassador to Ukraine
Jeff Feltman: head of the United Nations Department of Political Affairs
Robert Serry: Dutch diplomat serving as United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process
Ban Ki-Moon: Secretary-General of the United Nations
Jake Sullivan: national security advisor to Joe Biden
Joe Biden: Vice President USA
Viktor Yanukovych: President of Ukraine
Vitali Klitschko: Leader of the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform and Member of the Ukrainian Parliament.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL_GShyGv3o
“F*ck the EU! - Exactly!” - Victoria Nuland & Geoffrey Pyatt
Feb 6, 2014
1:25 “Sullivan’s come back to me here for saying you need Biden and I said probably tomorrow for an atta boy and then get the deets to stick. -Okay - so Biden is willing. Okay, great, thanks!”
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