Posted on 07/31/2023 7:36:47 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano
Hunter Biden’s statements in court about a $1 million payment sent to one of his companies from a Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked entity neglects key details that call the stated reason for the transaction into question, The Federalist first reported.
During Wednesday’s hearing on his plea deal, Judge Maryellen Noreika questioned Hunter Biden on a $1 million payment distributed to Owasco, LLC, attributed in the plea deal’s statement of facts to “legal fees for Patrick Ho”— an executive of the CCP-linked CEFC China Energy. Both Hunter Biden and the Department of Justice omit information that make the reason behind the payment a bit murkier, such as the fact that Owasco, LLC isn’t a law firm and the payment wasn’t initially made to Owasco, LLC, The Federalist first reported.
Ho’s $1 million payment was initially made on Nov. 2, 2017 to Hudson West III LLC, a shell company co-owned by Hunter Biden, according to a U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs report. It was then wired to Owasco LLC —not the law firm, Owasco PC — on March 22, 2018, according to the transaction.
Hunter Biden mixed up Owasco PC and Owasco LLC during the hearing, claiming the money went to the former, according to the transcript. He initially said Owasco PC operated as a “law firm entity” and then told the judge “I don’t know that for a fact.”
He also claimed it was his “own law firm” providing the services to Ho, not himself “as counsel,” according to the transcript. Yet a September 2017 Attorney Engagement Letter uncovered from Hunter Biden’s laptop included a $1 million retainer agreement for legal representation between Hunter Biden and Ho, according to the New York Post.
Ho was indicted in December 2017 on charges of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, international money laundering and conspiracy to commit both shortly after sending the $1 million to Hunter Biden’s company, according to court documents. He reportedly first called Joe Biden’s brother James Biden, per the Senate report.
Records in the Senate report tell other stories about the transaction, claiming it was for “the purpose of conducting a market investigation of [a] natural gas project” that was later deemed unnecessary and refunded. In email from April 2, 2018, Hunter Biden “stated that the incoming wire amounting to $1MM on 11/2/2017 from CEFC Limited foundation should have gone to Owasco LLC, however, he provided the wrong wire instructions, and due to the large amount the transactions was not corrected until 3/22/2018, which consisted of an outgoing wire for the same amount benefiting Owasco LLC,” according to the Senate report.
Patrick Ho is a Chinese Spy.
The Biggest Chinese Spy ever per Hunter’s own writings.
This is just the beginning.
Larger payments hidden, etc.
I can imagine a mix-up like that would send a Republican to jail for 5 years for perjury. For Hunter, I suppose it's a "whoopsie".
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Hunter Clearly LIED to the Judge.
Agreements on his own Laptop make that crystal clear.
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And you’d be right.
Papadopolous misremembered a date - and was charged with a Felony for it.
Hunter wanted the Judge to believe that his Law Firm and not he, himself, represented the Chinese Spy, but a Contract on his laptop and his writings betray him.
Folks need to keep in mind, that the biggest crooks in history
always had a story to justify their actions. They generally
don’t roll over. They expect the DOJ to. And that has
happened over and over and over again the last decade or so.
Biden with a Ho. Who’d a thunk it?
So, let’s add perjury to the list . . .
“Biden with a Ho. Who’d a thunk it?”
You win the Internet
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legal representation = access to daddy.
When the DOJ is also on your defense team, why worry?
Patrick Spy is a Chinese HO.
“Republicans pounce”
The whistle blower IRS investigators examined the accounts and were NOT FOOLED by Hunter.
The snallest number I hear kicked around is 17 million, but other reports are much higher.
And they bragged about how long it would take to trace the money.
The Bidens look more complicated than a Mafia operation.
He was with mostly agent Ho from China and Russia and a few just normal whores. I win the internet on this thread. LOL
Go take a cocaine addict and run a complicated fake company or two, with twenty key events per year, and see how the addict performs or remembers things.
Total waste of the court time...you can’t rely upon anything Hunter says.
Roger Stone didn’t remember if it was a phone call or an email with Assange and was convicted of perjury.
Connecticut Democrat Hines asserts “......there is zero evidence
that Joe Biden knew about what his 53 yr old son was doing.......”
In all fairness, Cong Himes could not have known that unless he was first briefed that
(a) they burned the hard copies, (b) bleached the hard disks, and, (c) assassinated the witnesses.
dailymail.com
Josh Carswell
7/31/23
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Hunter was promised $10 million by Chinese oil giant CEFC in an energy deal he struck with them in 2017. He and his partners received over $5 million, bank records show.
In a conversation recorded in an audio file on his laptop, Hunter described CEFC secretary general Patrick Ho as the ‘f***ing spy chief of China’, betraying his knowledge of the company’s close links with the Beijing government.
The feds knew too. A 2018 court filing following Ho’s November 2017 arrest revealed they had obtained a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to monitor his communications.
Hunter’s name even came up in emails used as evidence in Ho’s criminal case, but the Southern District of New York prosecutor asked to redact them because it ‘could introduce a political dimension to this case that we don’t think is worth dealing with,’ according to a 2018 court transcript.
July 2017 Whatsapp texts obtained by the IRS whistleblowers and published by the House Ways and Means Committee last month revealed Hunter told his Chinese oil giant business partners that he was sitting next to Joe when he demanded they follow through on his multi-million-dollar deal, and that his father was involved.
He also bragged about CEFC only taking the deal due to his father’s involvement, in texts with his business partners leaked in 2020.
The Times’ 2018 story pointed out CEFC’s chairman Ye Jianming had been arrested in China. His lieutenant Patrick Ho had been convicted in the US of bribery
pic-—CEFC’s chairman Ye Jianming (left) was arrested in China and his lieutenant Patrick Ho (right) had been convicted in the US of bribery. Hunter accidentally recorded himself referring to Ho as the ‘spy chief of China’
The president’s son was staying at the guest house of his dad’s Delaware home when he wrote to Communist Party official Henry Zhao on July 30, 2017, threatening Zhao if he didnt follow Hunter’s ‘orders.’
IRS whistleblower Shapley said there were potential FARA violations in Hunter’s work for CEFC, but that..... again ......investigators were blocked from digging.
Hunter was texting Chinese Communist Party official Henry Zhao. ‘We’re talking about a lot of things there. There’s FARA in play. And the FBI is considering a lot of national security type issues here. And we were precluded from doing anything,’ he told the House Ways and Means Committee lawyers during his interview.
Prosecutors from the Southern District of New York have already uncovered a CEFC plot to influence US policy, according to their 2017 indictment of Patrick Ho and November 2022 charges against CEFC advisor Dr. Gal Luft.
Israeli-American Luft is accused of violating FARA by plotting with Ho to ghost-write a series of newspaper articles for ex-CIA director James Woolsey promoting closer ties between the US and China.
His indictment also acknowledges that Luft met with prosecutors and FBI agents in Brussels, Belgium, in March 2019.
Luft claims he told the law enforcement officials at that meeting about Hunter’s lucrative partnership with CEFC – including allegedly funneling sensitive information to the Chinese company about a federal probe into its executives, leaked by a former top FBI official.
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Dailymail.com
7/31/23
Josh Boswell
EXCLUSIVE: Explosive emails, photos and documents lay bare Hunter Biden’s shady overseas business dealings that compromise the President and come dangerously close to violating foreign lobbying act
<><>Hunter Biden’s ‘sweetheart’ deal with prosecutors fell apart this week as it emerged he is still under investigation, potentially for illegal foreign lobbying
<><>DailyMail.com can reveal a trove of evidence that shows Hunter’s potential foreign influence violations that span China, Russia, Ukraine, Mexico and more
<><>The new legal peril for Hunter comes as his former partner Devon Archer testifies before the House
<><>Archer tells of alleged links between then VP Joe Biden and his son’s murky web of international business contacts
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Online Gambling in Latin America
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com last November, a whistleblower claimed he was on a 2012 phone call with then-Vice President Joe and Hunter discussing a Latin American online gambling business.
‘With the direct observations I had, it’s obvious Joe was participating in the business,’ the source said. ‘He wasn’t passive, he was talking about it. If I had to describe him, he was like a member of the Board of Directors’
DailyMail.com obtained business records, an archive of the gambling website, and emails from Hunter’s laptop referencing the South American web gambling operation.
Attorney Jeff Cooper, who was Hunter’s business partner in the gambling venture, a Biden family friend and a longtime major donor for the president, was allegedly on the call.
Cooper said the whistleblower’s claim was a ‘complete fabrication’.
But another of Hunter’s friends and business partners, Devon Archer, is set to testify to the House Oversight Committee on Monday with similar claims.
Sources close to Archer say he is preparing to tell Congress that on at least two dozen occasions, Hunter had Joe on speakerphone at his meetings with foreign potential business partners including from Ukraine and Romania, touting the then-VP’s alleged involvement in his son’s deals.
If the claims are true, Hunter’s payment by foreign companies to allegedly wield influence with his father while Joe was a government official, could land the First Son with FARA violation charges – among other potential crimes.
The whistleblower said he has not testified to a Delaware grand jury, but has given evidence to lawmakers investigating the Biden family.
Mexican Billionaires
Emails and photos from Hunter’s abandoned laptop obtained by DailyMail.com revealed that Hunter arranged for his Mexican billionaire business partners to visit the White House multiple times and even meet his father.
In one February 2016 email, Hunter spelled out a shocking apparent quid pro quo with Interjet airline owner Miguel Aleman Magnani, before flying to Mexico with his business partner Cooper and then-VP Joe on Air Force 2 for a meeting with him.
‘We have so many great things to do together and I want you at the plane when [the] VP lands with your Mom and Dad,’ Hunter wrote.
‘I haven’t heard from you since I got you a mtg for Carlos and your Dad,’ referring to Mexican oil baron Carlos Slim and Magnani’s billionaire media magnate father Miguel Alemán Velasco, who he brought to the White House for a meeting with the VP the year before.
‘We have been talking about business deals and partnerships for 7 years. And I really appreciate you letting me stay at your resort villa...but I have brought every single person you have ever asked me to bring to the F’ing WHite House and the Vice President’s house and the inauguration and then you go completely silent.’
Orchestrating the meeting between the Latin oligarchs and VP Joe without telling the DoJ could breach FARA rules – especially if Hunter was trying to lobby his father on his foreign partners’ behalf.
pic-—Emails and photos from Hunter’s abandoned laptop obtained by DailyMail.com revealed that Hunter arranged for his Mexican billionaire business partners Carlos Slim and Miguel Alemán Velasco to visit the White House multiple times and even meet his father
email pic-—In one February 2016 email, Hunter spelled out a shocking apparent quid pro quo with Interjet airline owner Miguel Aleman Magnani, before flying to Mexico with his business partner Cooper and then-VP Joe on Air Force 2 for a meeting with him
pic——Photos on Hunter’s laptop dated November 19, 2015, show the six men smiling at a meeting in Joe Biden’s DC residence. Emails show the men also met Joe at the White House
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