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Hunter Biden Offered $10 Million Annually by Chinese Energy Firm for ‘Introductions Alone,’ Email Shows
National Review ^ | October 15, 2020 | MAIREAD MCARDLE

Posted on 10/15/2020 7:45:36 AM PDT by SJackson

Hunter Biden entered into a consulting contract with China’s largest private energy company that initially earned him $10 million a year “for introductions alone,” according to leaked emails.

In an email chain from Aug. 2, 2017, Biden discussed a deal with the former chairman of CEFC China Energy, Ye Jianming, saying Ye agreed to change the terms of Biden’s three-year consulting contract with CEFC, which initially promised Biden $10 million per-year “for introductions alone,” to make it “much more lasting and more lucrative,” the New York Post reported.

The new deal included a 50 percent equity stake in a holding company created by Ye rather than the $10 million in annual cash that had been previously negotiated.

“The chairman changed that deal after we me[t] in MIAMI TO A MUCH MORE LASTING AND LUCRATIVE ARRANGEMENT to create a holding company 50% percent [sic] owned by ME and 50% owned by him,” Biden wrote in one email.

In the same email chain, Biden discussed deals with the CEFC that he said were “interesting to me and my family.”

Another email sent to Biden on May 13, 2017 had the subject line “Expectations” and identified Biden as “Chair / Vice Chair depending on agreement with CEFC.”

CEFC reportedly went bankrupt this year. Ye, who was connected to Chinese military and intelligence, has been missing since 2018, when he was arrested by Chinese authorities.

The leaked emails and other data were found on a MacBook Pro laptop that was dropped off at a Delaware computer repair shop in April of last year, according to the owner of the shop.

The FBI has seized the laptop. The shop owner made a copy of the data, which former New York City Mayor Rudy ­Giuliani provided to the Post.

Biden is also under scrutiny for his lucrative position on the board of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma. In leaked emails from 2014, Biden appears to try to leverage his influence with his father, then-vice president Joe Biden, who was heavily involved in U.S. policy on Ukraine, referring to the elder Biden as “my guy.”

“The announcement of my guys [sic] upcoming travels should be characterized as part of our advice and thinking- but what he will say and do is out of our hands,” Hunter Biden wrote in an email dated April 13, 2014.

Biden resigned from Burisma’s board last year.


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1 posted on 10/15/2020 7:45:36 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson

This is how politicians are bought - by entities that keep this kind of money in their petti cash drawer.


2 posted on 10/15/2020 7:47:35 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: SJackson

The FBI has seized the laptop.

**************

Prolly ‘missing’ now.


3 posted on 10/15/2020 7:48:42 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: SJackson

$10M a year from China.
$3M from the wife of a Russian mayor.
Millions from Ukraine.

This is the guy who can’t pay child support?

Maybe doing deals with drug addicts isn’t the best idea.
(Joe is going down hard.)


4 posted on 10/15/2020 7:49:30 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: SJackson

NR desperately trying to protect Biden. yeah they are giving a drug addict millions of dollars in the hopes he will put in a word to the VP.


5 posted on 10/15/2020 7:51:10 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Starboard
Prolly ‘missing’ now.

The guy from whom the laptop was seized kept a copy for himself, also gave a copy to Rudy Giuliani, and probably gave a copy to others. And he has publicly talked about feeling in danger and referenced how Epstein didn't kill himself.

That guy is no dummy.

6 posted on 10/15/2020 7:51:19 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: SJackson

Lib media doing a pretty good job of killing this story- Biden is actually up a point on Predictit betting markets today. How can we get this out when the whole media is determined to ignore it?


7 posted on 10/15/2020 7:52:23 AM PDT by TroutGuy
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To: SJackson
Hunter BidenDonald Trump Jr Offered $10 Million Annually by Chinese Energy Firm for ‘Introductions Alone,’ Email Shows

What would the reaction be by the press if the name was changed??
8 posted on 10/15/2020 7:53:39 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: SJackson

And half would go to “Pop”...


9 posted on 10/15/2020 7:54:58 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.for corruptiion)
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To: eyeamok

2017-Plugs was a nobody. What did Hunter have to offer?


10 posted on 10/15/2020 7:55:14 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: SJackson

A smart person would have destroyed the laptop. I guess these people aren’t smart.


11 posted on 10/15/2020 7:55:29 AM PDT by Parmy
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To: TroutGuy

Lib media doing a pretty good job of killing this story- Biden is actually up a point on Predictit betting markets today. How can we get this out when the whole media is determined to ignore it?


the way out is... shall i say.... uncomfortable... but it’s probably the only way out at this point.


12 posted on 10/15/2020 7:56:18 AM PDT by Levy78
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To: ClearCase_guy

Seriously. What an effing loser.


13 posted on 10/15/2020 7:56:27 AM PDT by sappy (criminaldems)
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Hunter Biden's Ukraine firm landed deal with USAID program ------
a renewable energy program championed by a key VP Biden adviser, newly released State Dept memos show.

The Memorandum of Understanding between Burisma and USAID's Municipal Energy Reform Project in Ukraine (MERP)
was signed in October 2014, according to a copy of the agreement obtained by Just the News under the Freedom of Information Act.

At that time, Burisma was under very public investigations by both the British government and the Ukrainian prosecutor general's office
and considered by the State Dept to suffer from corruption issues. (Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com …

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REFERENCE With a budget of over $27 billion, USAID is one of the largest official aid agencies in the world, and accounts for more than half of all U.S. foreign assistance—the highest in the world. USAID an official component of U.S. foreign policy, issuing grants subject to the guidance of the President, Secretary of State, and the National Security Council.[

USAID touts itself as "acting to protect the safety and security of Americans."

14 posted on 10/15/2020 7:58:41 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

You are absolutely right. The repair guy was smart enough to know full well what kinds of untimely things could happen to him and wisely took out an “insurance policy” of his own.


15 posted on 10/15/2020 7:59:15 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: SJackson
(from the article):" CEFC reportedly went bankrupt this year.
Ye, who was connected to Chinese military and intelligence, has been missing since 2018,
when he was arrested by Chinese authorities. "

His crime, which caused the arrest, was probably the fact that he got caught financing Biden and others.
Chances are, his kidneys and lungs are alive and well and living in someone else's body.

16 posted on 10/15/2020 7:59:38 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Parmy
A smart person would have destroyed the laptop. I guess these people aren’t smart.

Hunter took the laptop to a repair shop.
And he just LEFT it there.
Which means, after 90 days, it belonged to the owner of the repair shop. He knew what to do with it.

A smart person would have destroyed the laptop -- Hunter GAVE IT AWAY TO A STRANGER.

Hunter is not a smart person.

And yet foreign governments think it's a good idea to pay him millions of dollars a year. I wonder why.

17 posted on 10/15/2020 8:02:15 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: SJackson

National Revue, a Biden org, trying to get infor out there early.


18 posted on 10/15/2020 8:09:06 AM PDT by Democrats hate too much
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To: SJackson

Was Joe’s cut his standard 50%. We need to see some bank records.


19 posted on 10/15/2020 8:09:45 AM PDT by sanjuanbob (Still have my marbles)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Influence peddling. Oldest game in town.


20 posted on 10/15/2020 8:12:34 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Barbarism is the absence of standards to which an appeal can be made" Y Gasset)
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