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Dirty money, dirty politics, and Hunter Biden
Washington Examiner ^ | 10/15/22 | Jerry Dunleavy

Posted on 10/16/2022 5:52:29 AM PDT by Libloather

There might finally be enough pieces of the Hunter Biden puzzle for the authorities and Congress to put together the full picture of the legal case against the president's son. And the next few weeks will play a crucial role in how this convoluted and salacious story ends.

The federal agents who have been investigating Hunter Biden believe that they have unearthed enough evidence to charge him with crimes related to tax fraud and lying during his purchase of a handgun, according to numerous reports. Republicans in Congress, meanwhile, seek to recapture the majority in early November and turn the investigative committees' attention from the previous president to the current one. The midterm elections will determine whether Republicans get the chance to uncover wider Biden family corruption to go along with possible indictments against Hunter.

Although the Justice Department indicting the son of a sitting president would be a major development, the bigger questions remain whether the DOJ has been considering more significant charges tied to money laundering or foreign lobbying and whether investigators have been looking into the national security implications of Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings, especially his association with businessmen linked to Chinese intelligence.

Hunter controversially held a lucrative position on the board of Ukrainian energy giant Burisma while his father was vice president. He also pursued business deals in China and elsewhere during and after his father’s tenure, raking in millions thanks to these associations.

Hunter Biden’s lawyer, Chris Clark, declared in October that he wanted the Justice Department to conduct a leak investigation in response to stories about his client potentially being charged, arguing, “It is a federal felony for a federal agent to leak information about a grand jury investigation such as this one.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: biden; bidencrimefamily; brandon; corrupticrats; demagogicparty; dirty; hunter; hunterbiden; money
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Brandon took bribes and Hussein knew all about it. Now I wonder if the Kenyan had a piece of the action. The FIB is on the case.
1 posted on 10/16/2022 5:52:29 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

If the FEEBS are on the case, we will never find out anything.


2 posted on 10/16/2022 5:59:06 AM PDT by sima_yi ( Reporting live from the far North)
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To: Libloather

Sadly, the Elites will make sure nothing is done to either Hunter or President Dufus.


3 posted on 10/16/2022 6:00:32 AM PDT by econjack
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REQUEST ALL OF BIDENS MEMOS, NOTES, SNAIL MAIL, EMAIL, CALENDAR NOTES, OFFICIAL ORDERS WRT HUNTER’S ACTIVITIES, ETC.

REQUEST communications records between BIDENS office and RELEVANT PERSONS SUCH AS OBAMA, THE CLINTONS, PELOSI, in connection with HUNTERS ACTIVITIES.

The request should seek
all calendar entries,
phone messages,
text messages,
emails,
encrypted app chats,
letter correspondence
long-distance toll records
made from relevant dates.

Office of Information Policy (OIP)
U.S. Department of Justice
441 G St, NW, 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20530
E-mail: National.FOIAPortal@usdoj.gov


4 posted on 10/16/2022 6:08:39 AM PDT by Liz (MAN PROPOSES.......... GOD DISPOSES)
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To: Libloather
The Washington Examiner does a great job in highlighting some of the overt criminality of Hunter. Of course,
even with a Republican backed investigation, nothing will happen. Probably a Statute of Limitations defense will prevail.
5 posted on 10/16/2022 6:13:00 AM PDT by Thommas (The snout of the camel is already under the tent.)
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Hunter Joe Burisma

Smoking Gun: Newly Discovered Emails Confirm Joe Biden Obstructed Justice For His Son’s Foreign Business Deal, By James D. Agresti, August 2, 2022

Newly discovered emails prove beyond all doubt that the “true purpose” of Hunter Biden’s lucrative deal with a Ukrainian energy company was for Hunter to get “high-ranking US officials” to visit Ukraine and persuade the nation’s leaders to “close down” all criminal “cases/pursuits against” the firm’s primary owner, a notoriously corrupt oligarch with ties to Russia.

Documentation of this illegal scheme begins with a widely overlooked email on Hunter’s laptop in which a top executive of the Ukrainian firm describes the plan. Now, emails uncovered by Just Facts prove that Hunter and his partners:
explicitly agreed to this deal.
concealed the names of top U.S. officials to “be on the safe and cautious side.”
affirmed that only Hunter could credibly promise to get those officials to shield the oligarch from criminal charges.

Just one month later, then-Vice President Joe Biden did exactly what those emails specified by visiting Ukraine and threatening to withhold U.S. aid unless the prosecutor investigating Hunter’s cash cow was fired. Moreover, Biden did this by going after two “key targets” identified in the emails: the “President of Ukraine” and the “Prosecutor General.”

The Background

In April 2014, Vice President Biden traveled to Ukraine and gave a speech to its legislators in which he promised that the U.S. would help Ukraine increase its fossil fuel production to make it less dependent on Russian energy. In that very same month:

the largest private natural gas producer in Ukraine, a company named Burisma, appointed Joe Biden’s son Robert “Hunter” Biden and his business partner to the company’s board.
the primary owner of the natural gas company—a corrupt oligarch named Nikolai Zlochevskyi who had financial and political ties to Russia—personally approved Hunter’s hiring.

Burisma began making a series of payments totaling at least $3.3 million over the next 18 months to a Delaware corporation, which paid $708,312.40 directly to Hunter and $2.5 million to entities associated with Hunter.
the oligarch’s London bank accounts were seized by British officials in a money laundering investigation.

Nearly a year later in February 2015, the U.S. State Department and the FBI learned that Zlochevskyi allegedly bribed Ukrainian prosecutors to shut down criminal investigations of him. Thus, the government of Ukraine replaced the chief prosecutor with a new one who reopened investigations into the oligarch. At this time, Burisma was paying $166,666.66 per month to the Delaware company that was paying Hunter.

The “Ultimate Purpose”

In November 2015, a top executive of Burisma named Vadym Pozharskyi wrote an email to Hunter and his partners in which he:

criticized a proposal they sent to him because it was “lacking concrete tangible results that we set out to achieve in the first place” and did not “offer any names of top US officials” or “Ukrainian officials” to help the company’s owner (“Nikolay”) improve “his situation in Ukraine.”
stated that if they left these names out of their proposal “to be on the safe and cautious side, I can understand the rationale.”
instructed them to “proceed immediately” with enlisting “high-ranking US officials” to “visit” Ukraine and persuade “the highest level of decision makers” to “close down” all “cases/pursuits against” the owner.
identified the “President of Ukraine” and the “Prosecutor General” as two of the “key targets.”
repeatedly reminded them that closing down these cases was the “true purpose” and the “ultimate purpose” of their “engagement” with Burisma and “all our joint efforts.”
Despite the shocking nature of Burisma’s email, which was first revealed by Tucker Carlson of Fox News in October 2020, no other major news outlet has reported on it.

Just Facts, a research and educational institute, has now uncovered Hunter and his partners’ replies to that email among the 100,000+ emails on Hunter’s laptop. They show beyond all doubt that Hunter and his partners agreed to this deal, which Joe Biden followed to a tee.

“Hunter, You need to deliver that message.”

Immediately after the Burisma executive laid out what was expected of them, Hunter and his partners sent a flurry of emails stating that Hunter needed to tell Burisma that they understood the true purpose of the deal and “deliberately” concealed the names of the officials who would carry it out to “be on the safe and cautious side.” Hunter then emailed Burisma that they understood the job and could get it done.

Here are some of the key excerpts:

Eric Schwerin to Devon Archer and Hunter Biden (11/2/15): “I would tell Vadym that this is definitely done deliberately to the be on the safe and cautious side and that Sally and company understand the scope and deliverables.”
Devon Archer to Eric Schwerin and Hunter Biden (11/2/15): “Hunter, You need to deliver that message. I have walked this to the finish (aka starting) line but need some support to close.”
Eric Schwerin to Hunter Biden (11/2/15): “Do you want me to draft something for you to email to Vadym from you?”
Hunter Biden to Vadym Pozharskyi, Devon Archer, and Eric Schwerin (11/3/15): “Vadym– Let me have one final call with them and verify once more that they understand the scope so we can all feel that the retainer is in line with the work required.”
Vadym Pozharskyi to Hunter Biden, Devon Archer, and Eric Schwerin (11/3/15): “Thank you Hunter! And of course, if you and Devon feel comfortable that they will deliver what in real terms we are talking about, we should disregard the wording of the scope and move further with signing and starting actual work.”
Hunter Biden to Vadym Pozharskyi, Devon Archer, and Eric Schwerin (11/5/15): “Vadym, Devon and I do feel comfortable with BS and the ability of Sally & Karen to deliver. You should go ahead and sign. Looking forward to getting started on this.”
In combination with the email from Burisma, these emails leave no doubt that Hunter promised to get “top US officials” to “visit” Ukraine and persuade the nation’s leaders to “close down” all criminal “cases/pursuits against” Burisma’s owner. Furthermore, the emails prove that two of their “key targets” were the “President of Ukraine” and the “Prosecutor General.”

Joe Biden’s Actions

One month after the emails above were exchanged, Joe Biden did exactly what they specified.

In December 2015, Biden visited Ukraine and later recounted on video that he told Ukraine’s president and its prime minister on that trip that he would withhold a U.S. government “billion-dollar loan guarantee” unless they fired the “state prosecutor.” “If the prosecutor is not fired,” warned Biden, “you’re not getting the money.” Biden then added, “Well, son of a bitch, he got fired.”

However, that firing did not happen right away, and two months later on February 2, 2016, the chief prosecutor secured a court order to seize some properties of the oligarch who was paying Hunter, including his land, houses, and a Rolls-Royce Phantom.

Just two weeks after the court’s seizure order, the president of Ukraine forced the prosecutor to resign. White House phone logs show that Joe Biden talked to the president of Ukraine at least three times in the week surrounding the firing. The phone log for the last of these calls states, “The Vice President also commended President Poroshenko’s decision to replace Prosecutor General Shokin, which paves the way for needed reform of the prosecutorial service.”

Contrary to Biden’s claim that the prosecutor stood in the way of reform, the president of Ukraine complimented the prosecutor for implementing reforms that his predecessors had “been opposing for decades” and then listed the specific reforms. The president then said that he only asked the prosecutor to resign because he “failed to gain society’s trust.”

Two months later in May 2016, Ukraine’s parliament approved the president’s appointee for a new chief prosecutor, who Biden described as “solid.” This new prosecutor, named Yuriy Lutsenko, was:

the best man of Petro Poroshenko, the president who appointed him.
sentenced to prison in 2012 for embezzlement and abuse of office.
convicted in a separate 2012 case for illegal surveillance.
pardoned by the previous president and released from jail in 2013.
was forced to resign by Volodymyr Zelensky (the current president of Ukraine) for failing to prosecute anyone of note during his three-year tenure.

Six months after Biden’s “solid” prosecutor was appointed, he dropped all criminal charges against the oligarch. The prosecutor also applauded the settlement as a “success” because the oligarch paid $7.46 million in back taxes and penalties.

Far from being a prosecutorial victory, the oligarch praised these outcomes and stated that they would allow his corporation to increase production and “attract international companies to Ukraine.”

SNIP-——LONG READ


6 posted on 10/16/2022 6:14:31 AM PDT by Liz (MAN PROPOSES.......... GOD DISPOSES )
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To: Liz; JonPreston

The importance of this post #4 is that it is not allegation, it outlines a search for hard evidence. The evidence is necessary to prosecute the charges raised by the allegations.

The problem is that since the Hunter crimes were committed out of the USA, there may not be much or any hard evidence available. Absent evidence, the crimes are not prosecutable.

Oops! There’s that word with 5 syllables again. Sorry jon


7 posted on 10/16/2022 6:17:44 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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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.

CONTACT: Judicial Watch
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1-888-JW-Ethic (1-888-593-8442)
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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at andmagazine.substack.com ...


8 posted on 10/16/2022 6:21:38 AM PDT by Liz (MAN PROPOSES.......... GOD DISPOSES )
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To: Libloather

Hunter himself is irrelevant. He wasn’t the power behind things.

It was Joe.


9 posted on 10/16/2022 6:24:05 AM PDT by jdsteel (PA voters: it’s Oz or Fetterman. Deal with it and vote accordingly.)
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Hunter didn’t give a fig when he abandoned his small children, from wife one, to cavort with prostitutes, use drugs.....leaving his family penniless.

He’s carried on this lifestyle for years.

Now his firstborn is to wed.........so where is Hunter getting the money for her wedding?

From you.......the taxpayers....... for a lavish WH wedding for all the Bidung parasites.

When Hunters first wife hustled a book,she was curiously reticent.

Now we know why......she was warned there’d be no WH wedding ...if she squealed.

Some costs associated with the WH wedding ceremony — like security — will be picked up by taxpayers, but the Biden family “say” they’ll pay the tab for wedding activities.....snix.

The wedding comes at a time when Hunter the bride’s father has been marred with controversy concerning his foreign business deals and tax problem’s.......and child support for the child of the stripper he impregnated.

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10 posted on 10/16/2022 6:24:57 AM PDT by Liz (MAN PROPOSES.......... GOD DISPOSES )
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To: Liz

Btt


11 posted on 10/16/2022 6:25:16 AM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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WHAT DID THE BIDENS KNOW ABOUT THIS?

GEN FLYNN-—”Now, Americans learn the FBI offered $1 million tax DOLLARS to a foreign spymaster conspiring with the Clinton campaign and others, plotting against America and striking at the heart of democracy and the republic and to destroy America....a divided nation at grave risk of being lost to socialism and turned into a dictatorship by an anti-America cabal of elitists who have wrecked the rule of law and have been caught attempting to steal the future of our children and grandchildren…”


12 posted on 10/16/2022 6:40:10 AM PDT by Liz (MAN PROPOSES.......... GOD DISPOSES )
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To: GOPJ; poconopundit; Jane Long; Diana in Wisconsin; Grampa Dave; Godzilla; null and void; aragorn; ..

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13 posted on 10/16/2022 6:42:05 AM PDT by Liz (MAN PROPOSES.......... GOD DISPOSES )
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To: Libloather

This isn’t a story of the insurmountable, almost impossible task for charging and indicting him because he’s some kind of criminal mastermind like Raymond Reddington.

Quite simply, he’s nothing but a useless, untalented drug addict with some severe sexual proclivities PROTECTED by the power of his father’s political position, period.

He’s been allowed to run rampant, grift carouse his whole adult life - his only requirement? To kick back money to Joe Biden, IMO.

That said, I surely don’t believe there is any real contingent of this corrupt government that is really looking to charge, or indict him. That won’t happen unless Biden is defeated and the DOJ and FBI are beaten back into honesty - or just plain disbanded. My thought is there’s nothing the DOJ or FBI does that cannot be done by the states more effectively and honestly.


14 posted on 10/16/2022 6:46:25 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: bert

He’s being investigated for money laundering which could touch Biden himself. Your cry for leniency for Hunter speaks volumes.


15 posted on 10/16/2022 6:49:08 AM PDT by JonPreston
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Exclusive: Letter on Hunter Biden’s Laptop
Shows 2017 Deal with Qatar Undermining Trump Admin
Breitbart ^ | 7 Oct 2022 | EMMA-JO MORRIS
Posted on 10/7/2022, 8:52:47 PM by E. Pluribus Unum

A letter on Hunter Biden’s infamous abandoned laptop shows the Biden family pursuing a deal with Qatar, undermining the Trump Administration and appearing like an effort at a shadow foreign policy.

The letter — retrieved from the “Laptop from Hell” by Congressman Darrell Issa’s (R-CA) office after being in a previously unreadable format — shows James Biden, President Biden’s brother, making an overture to an associate of Qatari Sheikh Abdulla Bin Mohammed Al Thani.

They say, “my family could provide a wealth of introductions and business opportunities at the highest levels,” despite unfavorable policies of the “fractured” and “beleaguered” then-Trump administration for Qatar.

The letter, dated August 1, 2017, to be relayed to the Sheikh, criticizes the Trump administration as having a “fractured nature” and as being “beleaguered by major issues that are not soon to be resolved” — offering to help in “effectuating the vision” of the Sheikh.

“I would be honored to assist in effectuating the vision of His Excellency but would be remiss in not pointing out the fractured nature of our current administration,” the missive begins.

“This administration is beleaguered by major issues that are not soon to be resolved,” the now-president’s brother also says of the Trump White House.

Through his family’s “deep and wide” relationships, which he boasts have “lasted through many years and many administrations,” Biden proposes partnership for a “different vision” than the Trump government’s of American interest and U.S.-Qatari relations.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


16 posted on 10/16/2022 7:07:24 AM PDT by Liz (MAN PROPOSES.......... GOD DISPOSES )
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To: Libloather

A legal case against the president’s son brother sister would make it a family plan and much better.

Justice served is due


17 posted on 10/16/2022 7:11:03 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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Hunter tells his father he has a nine inch penis.

“You heard of sex hormone replacement therapy.....my sex hormones replaced with yours, my beloved son.” “My sex therapist said it will help my penis envy.”

18 posted on 10/16/2022 7:11:17 AM PDT by Liz (MAN PROPOSES.......... GOD DISPOSES )
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10712611/Hunter-emails-reveal-Joe-Biden-hating-Hillary-Clinton.html

EXCLUSIVE: Biden Hating on Hillary!

EXCERPT Joe Biden sent family scathing articles about Clinton’s declining popularity with black voters, impending investigation over her private email server and top aide’s private deals with the UAE, Hunter’s emails reveal.

Joe Biden sent family and aides a series of negative articles on Hillary Clinton during her 2016 presidential bid

The president has long had barely disguised animus toward Clinton, telling a hedge fund conference. ‘I never thought she was a great candidate. I thought I was a great candidate’

The first email, sent on October 2, 2015, had the subject line ‘Supporters’, and contained a link to the political news site Real Clear Politics

It republished a Washington Post story from the day before about a dramatic drop in Hillary’s polling among black democrat voters.
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‘Non-whites have consistently been more supportive of Hillary Clinton than whites,’ the story said
Two weeks later Joe sent another email, to Hunter, with the subject ‘Mills’

The email contained a link to a Wall Street Journal editorial on Hillary’s top aide Cheryl Mills, who was paid to negotiate a private deal with the United Arab Emirates

By JOSH BOSWELL FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 08:50 EDT, 15 April 2022


19 posted on 10/16/2022 7:17:11 AM PDT by Liz (MAN PROPOSES.......... GOD DISPOSES )
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To: Libloather
... held a lucrative position on the board of Ukrainian energy giant Burisma while his father was vice president. He also pursued business deals in China and elsewhere during and after his father’s tenure, raking in millions thanks to these associations.

Is Jerry Dunleavy implying drug addicted whore-mongers might NOT be worth $60,000 a month to Ukrainian 'gas companies' - or hundreds of millions to Chinese 'intelligence' CONNECTED businesses UNLESS THEY HAD 'CONNECTIONS'?

20 posted on 10/16/2022 7:36:14 AM PDT by GOPJ (Trump EARNED his money. Democrats steal theirs from taxpayers. It's why they hate Trump.)
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