Posted on 08/08/2024 7:29:06 AM PDT by bitt
Romanian businessman Gabriel Popoviciu expected to testify against Hunter Biden
Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors allege Hunter Biden was paid by a Romanian oligarch to "influence U.S. policy and public opinion," while his father, Joe Biden, was vice president, according to new documents.
The documents were filed by Special Counsel David Weiss in the Central District of California on Wednesday. The filings pertain to Hunter Biden's tax trial in California.
The allegations are the closest prosecutors have come to tying President Biden to his son's overseas business dealings.
Romanian businessman Gabriel Popoviciu is expected to testify against Hunter Biden in the trial, which begins on September 5 in Los Angeles. In the filings, Weiss notes that Hunter Biden had "entered into an oral agreement" in 2015 to help Popoviciu contest bribery charges in Romania.
At trial, prosecutors say they will "introduce the evidence described above, including that [Hunter Biden] and Business Associate 1 received compensation from a foreign principal who was attempting to influence U.S. policy and public opinion and cause the United States to investigate the Romanian investigation of [Popoviciu] in Romania."
In the documents, Weiss alleges that Hunter Biden and his business associate "were concerned that lobbying work might cause political ramifications for [Hunter Biden's] father [Joe Biden]."
Wednesday's filing is the first to go into greater detail about Hunter Biden's international business affairs.
"Business Associate 1 and [Popoviciu] signed a 'Management Services Agreement' where Business Associate 1’s legal entity would purportedly provide management services to real estate properties in Romania, but that was not actually what [Popoviciu] was paying for," the document states.
In the document, Weiss acknowledges that Hunter Biden's counsel had asked the court to dismiss allegations about Hunter Biden potentially violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act or FARA.
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Wow, another go-nowhere finding. Is there even a Republican party anymore, and does anyone actually do any work in furtherance of the party’s objectives?
Joe will need a small forest of paper to list all the pardons he has to issue.
Republican Party? When did they ever do anything,
FARA ???
Wasn’t there some President that said something about this?
Gosh… I swear there was…
I can only guess this is a shot across Biden’s bow - “stay gone, team Biden, and don’t say a word or cause any trouble for our new anointed one.”
There NEVER was a 'business'.
Hunter traded American taxpayer dollars for cash for his and'daddy's pocket. Ask yourself what 'influence' people wanted to buy and for what purpose. It's money for their lifestyle...
I can't figure why they are waiting until after the election. Biden is already DOA and issuing the pardons now would take this issue off the table.
A few days of bad press and then poof, everything down the memory hole.
When Trump returns and cleans a lot of the crap out of the DOJ we can get a fair trial and lock that POS away. And maybe his daddy.
This smells like the Democratic party trying to install Vice President Giggles so she can run as an incumbent.
Two surprises:
1) I thought it was Ukraine.
2) I’m surprised the DOJ let it leak out.
Why do you think he is being charged and tried now? So it can be covered under Biden's pardon.
They only come after you for that if you are deemed an enemy of the deep state.
This is the case that involves Louis Freeh
Biden Family Received Millions from Foreign Oligarchs Who Had Dinners with Then-VP Joe Biden
National Review ^ | August 9, 2023 9:01 AM | By BRITTANY BERNSTEIN
Posted on 8/9/2023, 10:37:18 AM by Red Badger
The Biden family and its business associates received millions of dollars from oligarchs in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine while Joe Biden was vice president, according to bank records obtained by the House Oversight Committee.
With the new payments included, the committee says it has now identified more than $20 million in payments from foreign sources to the Biden family and their business associates. Those foreign sources include not only the three aforementioned countries, but also China and Romania as well....
The Bidens were getting bribes from Kazakhs, Russians, Romanians, and Chinese, not just Ukranians (and the Ukes were the pro Russian kind.)
And who knows who else was bribing them.
How else would the Brandon clan get the impressive real estate portfolio that they have?
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Yeah, where are the charges?
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