CRIME Hunter Biden Business Associate Flips From Prison, Releases Emails Detailing China Influence-Peddling Operation [main Hunter Biden]

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EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Biden Bio Firm Partnered With Ukrainian Researchers ‘Isolating Deadly Pathogens’ Using Funds From Obama’s Defense Department.

The U.S. President’s son was instrumental in funding a firm conducting pathogen and anthrax research in Ukrainian biolabs.

by Natalie WintersRaheem J. Kassam

March 24, 2022

n investment firm directed by President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden was a leading financial backer of a pandemic tracking and response firm that collaborated on identifying and isolating deadly pathogens in Ukrainian laboratories, receiving funds from the Obama administration’s Department of Defense in the process, The National Pulse can exclusively reveal.

Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners (RSTP) – a subsidiary of the Hunter Biden and Christopher Heinz-founded Rosemont Capital – counted both Biden and Heinz as managing directors. Heinz is the stepson of former U.S. Secretary of State and current Climate czar John Kerry.

Amongst the companies listed on archived versions of the RSTP’s portfolio is Metabiota – an ostensibly San Francisco-based company that purports to detect, track, and analyze emerging infectious diseases.

Financial reports reveal that RSTP led the company’s first round of funding in 2015, which amounted to $30 million. Former managing director and co-founder of RSTP Neil Callahan – a name that also appears many times on Hunter Biden’s hard drive – sits on Metabiota’s Board of Advisors alongside former Clinton official Rob Walker who discussed, in another unearthed Hunter Biden hard drive e-mail, reaching out to the Obama Department of Defense with regard to Metabiota.

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EXCLUSIVE: NEW E-MAILS CONFIRM THE METABIOTA/DOD/UKRAINELINKS.

In July 2021, The National Pulse exclusively revealed the connection between Metabiota, Hunter Biden, and the pandemic-linked EcoHealth Alliance which worked closely with Anthony Fauci’s National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) and the notorious Wuhan laboratory.

Today, we can exclusively reveal an official connection between the Biden-linked pandemic firm and biological laboratories based in Ukraine. In early March we revealed how these labs were handling “especially dangerous pathogens” through programs funded by the U.S. government. The potential for such entities to fall into the hands of invading Russian forces has come under hotly disputed scrutiny in recent weeks.

‘Zoonotic Diseases’
A feature in the Science and Technology Center in Ukraine’s (STCU) 2016 Annual Report recounts a “Trilateral Meeting with Ukraine, Poland, and the United States Regional Collaboration on Biological Security, Safety, and Surveillance.”

The article describes in particular an October 2016 meeting involving U.S. military officials and their Ukrainian counterparts discussing “cooperation in surveillance and prevention of especially dangerous infectious diseases, including zoonotic diseases in Ukraine and neighboring countries.”

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2016 MEETING.

In attendance were representatives from the Biden-linked Metabiota, roughly one year after Hunter’s investment funds put cash into the company. Attendees also included:
  • US Department of Defense [Defense Threat Reduction Agency] (DTRA) (K. Garrett, G. Braunstein, W. Sosnowski, and J. Wintrol);
  • Black & Veatch and Metabiota corporations (D. Mustra, Dr. M. Guttieri, S. Anderson, T. Borth and others);
  • Curtis “BJ” Bjelajac, Executive Director, and Vlada Pashynska, Senior Specialist represented the STCU.
“The meeting focused on existing frameworks, regulatory coordination, and ongoing cooperative projects in research, surveillance and diagnostics of a number of dangerous zoonotic diseases, such as avian influenza, leptospirosis, Crimea Congo hemorrhagic fever, and brucellosis,” explains the summary:

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STUC ANNUAL REPORT (P. 6)

A separate page from the STCU website details another meeting between Metabiota representatives, Ukrainian scientists, and U.S. Department of Defense officials aimed at increasing collaboration while attending a Swine Fever workshop just months later:

“In the framework of the workshop, special breakout meetings of Ukrainian scientists with their European and American counterparts were jointly organized by the STCU, DTRA and Metabiota Inc.. During those breakout meetings, specialists from each country worked to establish effective contacts in order to encourage future cooperation, as well as to identify future scientific projects with Ukrainian and western veterinary institutions in the area of ASF control and investigation.”

Government contracts also corroborate the working relationship between Metabiota, Ukrainian laboratories, and the U.S. Defense Department, with the firm receiving an $18.4 million grant from the U.S. agency in 2014. A total of $307,091, allocated to Metabiota on September 25th, was itemized for “Ukraine research projects.”

Several scientific papers – including those isolating strains of deadly pathogens like “virulent African Swine Fever Virus” – appear to have been published following the grant.

A 2019 paper titled “Complete Genome Sequence of a Virulent African Swine Fever Virus from a Domestic Pig in Ukraine” was authored by researchers from Metabiota and three Ukraine-based institutes.

The researchers, whose work is described as being “funded by the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) through the Biological Threat Reduction Program in Ukraine,” isolated the strain of the deadly virus using a pig from Ukraine:

“Tissue samples were collected from a domestic pig from ASF outbreak number 131 in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, in 2016. The samples were frozen, and total DNA was extracted in duplicate from spleen tissue using the PowerMicrobiome RNA isolation kit (Mo Bio) following the manufacturer’s protocol.”

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‘Anthrax’
Furthermore, a 2014 paper “Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Livestock Anthrax in Ukraine During the Past Century (1913-2012)” lists an author, Artem Skrypnyk, then affiliated with a Ukraine-based branch of the pandemic firm.

“Our primary objective was to examine the spatiotemporal dynamics of the disease and identify areas where anthrax may persist in the present day,” posits the paper.

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SKRYPNYK‘S UKRAINE ANTHRAX STUDY, FUNDED BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT.

“Examining the historical epizootiology of a disease can identify the geographic extent of environmental foci, define areas prone to repeat outbreaks, and lead to a better understanding of natural disease cycles.”

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PAGE 10 OF THE ANTHRAX STUDY REVEALS THE U.S. GOVERNMENT FUNDING.

Skrypnyk is also listed as a Metabiota scientist in other papers including “Dynamics of anthrax cases in Ukraine during 1970-2013,” “Anthrax in Dogs,” and “Serological Anthrax Surveillance in Wild Boar (Sus scrofa) in Ukraine.”

One paper aimed “to better understand anthrax epizootiology in Ukraine,” collecting samples from anthrax hotspots with funds from the U.S. DTRA’s Cooperative Biological Engagement Program in Ukraine.

“We tested wild boar serum samples collected across Ukraine for antibodies to B. anthracis and determined whether exposed boars were associated with livestock anthrax hotspots,” explains the paper.

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STUDYING ANTHRAX IN DOGS.

Skrypnyk, the Metabiota-affiliated researcher, worked as Veterinary Project Coordinator for the Biden-linked firm before moving on to serve in his current role of Technical Officer for Laboratories for the World Health Organization (WHO).

Additionally, two researchers – Nataliya Mykhaylovska and Bradford Raymond Brooks – are listed as Ukraine-based Metabiota researchers in a paper titled “Implementation of a Regional Training Program on African Swine Fever As Part of the Cooperative Biological Engagement Program across the Caucasus Region.”

The aforementioned paper even references a Metabiota office in Ukraine’s capital city of Kiev, whose existence appears to be corroborated by a summary of the company’s operational structure.

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“The company’s international footprint includes operations in 20 countries and offices in San Francisco, Washington, Ukraine, China, Canada, and Sierra Leone,” explains the summary.

Additionally, LinkedIn profiles of former Metabiota employees detail the work conducted by the company’s Kyiv outpost.

Former Country Science Manager for Eastern Europe David Mustra explains how he “manga[ed] Metabiota’s team of twelve Ukrainian-National personnel” and served as “the Biosurveillance and Research Manager for Metabiota’s work as a subcontractor, under the direction of prime contractor Black & Veatch (B&V), on the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s (DTRA) Cooperative Biological Engagement Program (CBEP) Biological Threat Reduction Integrating Contract (BTRIC) – Ukraine.”

He also explains how the company liaised with “Government of Ukraine officials” from agencies including the Ministry of Defense.

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Another Metabiota employee – Dr. Petro Mutovkin – who served as a Human Biosurveillance Specialist and Project Manager from 2015 to 2016 reveals his role in “facilitating activities within US Department of Defence Cooperative Biological Engagement Program (CBEP) in Ukraine” on his LinkedIn profile.

“Laboratory facility assessment, laboratory diagnostic and BS&S training, [and] biological risk assessment and mitigation” are among the other tasks he engaged in.

The revelation surrounding President Joe Biden’s son’s financial involvement with Ukrainian biological laboratories experimenting with pathogens, animals, and anthrax follows The National Pulse unearthing Metabiota’s ties to EcoHealth Alliance, a key entity in the origins of COVID-19 and cover-up efforts.
 

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Will The Hunter Biden Ever Be Held Accountable? 1:52 min
Will The Hunter Biden Ever Be Held Accountable?
Just the News - Not Noise Published March 25, 2022

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Mar 25, 2022 at 9:18pm​
Biden Laptop From Hell -- immediate update​
This came from Jack Maxey just now. Sending with Jack's permission:

"All good - grab a flight brother. Fireworks have just begun. In about forty minutes all the Metabiota emails go out to world w my name as a watermark."

I may fly to see Jack. Hard choice between border and going to see Jack. Both are crucial, but able men like Ben Bergquam, Oscar Blue, Todd Bensman, and Jaeson Jones are on it hard.

Will make my mind up soon.

Jack and team have recovered about 80,000 more images and videos that were hidden or deleted, and roughly 200,000 more texts, emails, documents, smoking guns.​
 

marsh

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Mar 26, 2022 at 6:03am​
Biden Laptop from Hell: New Document Dump​
26 March 2022

Just in:

About 80,000 images/videos/screenshots, and about 200,000 texts, emails, documents, were deleted or hidden on the drive. Those deleted or hidden files were recently recovered.

These documents were released hours ago.

Jack Maxey oversaw the recovery and just sent me this dump re Ukraine/Bidens.

You are free to share:

(This takes you to a site where you can download all the files)

 

Dobbin

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FBI Cyber Chief Says They Can't Find Hunter Biden's Laptop When Questioned by Rep. Matt Gaetz 7:00 min
FBI Cyber Chief Says They Can't Find Hunter Biden's Laptop When Questioned by Rep. Matt Gaetz
RΞDZ Published March 29, 2022

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Rep. Matt Gaetz requests to enter Hunter Biden’s laptop contents into the Congressional Record .15 min
Rep. Matt Gaetz requests to enter Hunter Biden’s laptop contents into the Congressional Record
SrikanthNews Published March 29, 2022

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Tipping Point - Benjamin Weingarten - The Corruption of The Bidens 10:38 min
Tipping Point - Benjamin Weingarten - The Corruption of The Bidens
One America News Network Published
 
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FBI Cyber Chief Says They Can't Find Hunter Biden's Laptop When Questioned by Rep. Matt Gaetz 7:00 min
FBI Cyber Chief Says They Can't Find Hunter Biden's Laptop When Questioned by Rep. Matt Gaetz
RΞDZ Published March 29, 2022

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Rep. Matt Gaetz requests to enter Hunter Biden’s laptop contents into the Congressional Record .15 min
Rep. Matt Gaetz requests to enter Hunter Biden’s laptop contents into the Congressional Record
SrikanthNews Published March 29, 2022

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Tipping Point - Benjamin Weingarten - The Corruption of The Bidens 10:38 min
Tipping Point - Benjamin Weingarten - The Corruption of The Bidens
One America News Network Published
THIS DESERVES A THREAD OF IT'S OWNNNN……. Folks here need to see the YouTube videos of this. Not promising anything, but if this doesn’t slap you clear in the face of what we are up against, not to mention what Trump went through, then you are brain dead… :shk:
Now for your viewing pleasure, watch the progressive left Democrats from several years back when SNL actually puts out some truth comedy. This is what the true believers are feeling for this fall…. :lkick:THEY WON'T CHEAT THEIR WAY OUT OF THIS ONE….
View: https://youtu.be/OdNNjCHGixE
 

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Jonathan Turley on the LAPTOP from HELL 1:58 min
Jonathan Turley on the LAPTOP from HELL
SrikanthNews Published March 29, 2022

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REAL AMERICA -- Dan Ball W/ Tristan Justice, More Hunter Biden Revelations, 3/29/22 8:46 min
REAL AMERICA -- Dan Ball W/ Tristan Justice, More Hunter Biden Revelations, 3/29/22
One America News Network Published March 29, 2022

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REAL AMERICA -- Dan Ball W/ Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis, Biden Is A National Security Risk, 3/29/22 17:09 min
REAL AMERICA -- Dan Ball W/ Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis, Biden Is A National Security Risk, 3/29/22
One America News Network Published March 29, 2022

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Growing evidence Joe Biden benefitted from Hunter's overseas 'business grift' 3-29-22 Sky News Austr 6:01 min
GROWING EVIDENCE JOE BIDEN BENEFITTED FROM HUNTER'S OVERSEAS 'BUSINESS GRIFT' 3-29-22 SKY NEWS AUSTR
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Leaked Emails Implicate Biden Family In Ukraine Biolab Scandal, Media Caught LYING To Cover It Up 32:34 min
LEAKED EMAILS IMPLICATE BIDEN FAMILY IN UKRAINE BIOLAB SCANDAL, MEDIA CAUGHT LYING TO COVER IT UP
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PRES TRUMP CALLS ON PUTIN TO RELEASE INFO ON HUNTER BIDEN’S DEALINGS WITH RUSSIAN OLIGARCHS
 

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I'm not certain but this could be a repeat of the information released by SKY Australia. This is from today's AND Magazine release:

FBI Cyber Expert Tells Congress He Does Not Know Where Hunter Biden's Laptop Is?


FBI Cyber Expert Tells Congress He Does Not Know Where Hunter Biden's Laptop Is?
Washington Post releases article on Hunter's laptop...
Twitter avatar for @RepMattGaetz Rep. Matt Gaetz @RepMattGaetz
BREAKING: FBI Cyber Chief can't find Hunter Biden's laptop...
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Shocking testimony from FBI Cyber expert…says he can’t speak to the laptop, doesn’t know who at FBI can answer Rep. Gaetz’s questions?
Gaetz asks “Is the first family compromised?
Rep. Matt Gaetz shows the receipt of the FBI signing for the laptop that was given to them by the computer shop owner. The computer shop owner turned Hunter Bidwn’s laptop over to the FBI in December 2019.
The Washington Post
released a story today titledInside Hunter Biden’s multimillion-dollar deals with a Chinese energy company.” It made the following comments:
“A Washington Post review confirms key details and offers new documentation of Biden family interactions with Chinese executives.”
“While many aspects of Hunter Biden’s financial arrangement with CEFC China Energy have been previously reported and were included in a Republican-led Senate report from 2020, a Washington Post review confirmed many of the key details and found additional documents showing Biden family interactions with Chinese executives.”
“Over the course of 14 months, the Chinese energy conglomerate and its executives paid $4.8 million to entities controlled by Hunter Biden and his uncle, according to government records, court documents and newly disclosed bank statements, as well as emails contained on a copy of a laptop hard drive that purportedly once belonged to Hunter Biden.”
The article qualified that it did not find evidence that Joe Biden personally benefitted, however it later stated that new documents “illustrate the ways in which his family profited from relationships built over Joe Biden’s decades in public service.”
AND Magazine will continue to report new developments on Hunter’s laptop.​
 

marsh

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Mar 30, 2022 at 12:56pm​
FBI tried to cover this up: And Now they Eat One Another​
Biden Crime Family and his FBI facilitators are being exposed. When will Sheriffs begin arresting Bidens, Clintons, and FBI?​


Inside Hunter Biden’s multimillion-dollar deals with a Chinese energy company
A Washington Post review confirms key details and offers new documentation of Biden family interactions with Chinese executives
By Matt Viser
,
Tom Hamburger
and
Craig Timberg

Today at 11:04 a.m. EDT
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Hunter Biden, center, walks to Marine One on the Ellipse outside the White House on May 22, 2021. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)

The deal was years in the making, the culmination of forging contacts, hosting dinners, of flights to and from China. But on Aug. 2, 2017, signatures were quickly affixed, one from Hunter Biden, the other from a Chinese executive named Gongwen Dong.

Within days, a new Cathay Bank account was created. Within a week, millions of dollars started to change hands.

Within a year, it would all begin to collapse.

While many aspects of Hunter Biden’s financial arrangement with CEFC China Energy have been previously reported and were included in a Republican-led Senate report from 2020, a Washington Post review confirmed many of the key details and found additional documents showing Biden family interactions with Chinese executives.

Over the course of 14 months, the Chinese energy conglomerate and its executives paid $4.8 million to entities controlled by Hunter Biden and his uncle, according to government records, court documents and newly disclosed bank statements, as well as emails contained on a copy of a laptop hard drive that purportedly once belonged to Hunter Biden.

The Post did not find evidence that Joe Biden personally benefited from or knew details about the transactions with CEFC, which took place after he had left the vice presidency and before he announced his intentions to run for the White House in 2020.

But the new documents — which include a signed copy of a $1 million legal retainer, emails related to the wire transfers, and $3.8 million in consulting fees that are confirmed in new bank records and agreements signed by Hunter Biden — illustrate the ways in which his family profited from relationships built over Joe Biden’s decades in public service.

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Hunter Biden signed an agreement for a $1 million retainer to represent Patrick Ho, a CEFC official who would later be charged in the United States in connection with a multimillion-dollar scheme to bribe leaders from Chad and Uganda. Verified emails, and new banking records, show that the money was transferred to an account linked to Hunter Biden. (Courtesy of Office of Sen. Charles Grassley)

Hunter Biden’s overseas work has been the subject of heightened scrutiny. He has been under federal investigation as part of an inquiry into his taxes, with witnesses called before a grand jury as recently as last month. Federal prosecutors had been attempting to determine if he failed to account for income from China-related deals, The Post has previously reported, although it is unclear whether that is still a focus. Republicans, meanwhile, have pointed to the Biden family’s business deals in China, along with Hunter Biden’s past membership on the board of the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma, as potential conflicts of interest.

The CEFC deal became one of the most lucrative, if short-lived, foreign ventures Hunter Biden is known to have pursued. The Post review draws in part on an analysis of a copy said to be of the hard drive of a laptop computer that Hunter Biden purportedly dropped off at a Delaware repair shop and never came to collect. The laptop was turned over to the FBI in December 2019, according to documents reviewed by The Post, and a copy of the drive was obtained by Rudy Giuliani and other advisers to then-President Donald Trump a few months before the 2020 election.

After the New York Post began publishing reports on the contents of the laptop in October 2020, The Washington Post repeatedly asked Giuliani and Republican strategist Stephen K. Bannon for a copy of the data to review before the election, but the requests were rebuffed or ignored.

In June 2021, a copy was provided to The Post by Jack Maxey, an activist who received a copy from Giuliani in 2020, at a time when Maxey was working with Bannon and his “War Room” podcast.

The Post has explored the chain of custody, as well as the findings of forensic analyses of the data, in a separate story.

Here’s how The Post analyzed Hunter Biden’s laptop

Biden aides and some former U.S. intelligence officials have voiced concern that the device may have been manipulated by Russia to interfere in the campaign. On Capitol Hill, Democrats have dismissed earlier reports about Hunter Biden’s work in China as lacking credibility or being part of a Russian disinformation campaign. The Post analysis included forensic work by two outside experts who assessed the authenticity of numerous emails related to the CEFC matter. In addition, The Post found that financial documents on the copy of Hunter Biden’s purported laptop match documents and information found in other records, including newly disclosed bank documents obtained by Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, a senior Republican on the Senate Finance and Judiciary committees.

2 experts used email headers to determine veracity

The potential energy projects Hunter Biden discussed with CEFC never came to fruition.
Nonetheless, accounts linked to Hunter Biden received $3.8 million in payments from CEFC through consulting contracts, according to bank records and joint agreements reviewed by The Post.

Biden received an additional $1 million retainer, issued as part of an agreement to represent Patrick Ho, a CEFC official who would later be charged in the United States in connection with a multimillion-dollar scheme to bribe leaders from Chad and Uganda. That retainer agreement, in a newly uncovered document, contains the signatures of both Hunter Biden and Ho, who was later convicted and sentenced to three years in prison.

Hunter Biden, who has a law degree, was not accused of wrongdoing in that scheme and appeared to have little role representing Ho in the federal case. Ho, through his attorney in that case, declined to comment.

Hunter Biden and his attorney did not respond to numerous messages left over the past week.

The White House declined to respond on the record but pointed to previous statements that Joe Biden “has never even considered being involved in business with his family, nor in any overseas business whatsoever.”

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Vice President Joe Biden arrives on Air Force Two in Beijing with his son Hunter Biden, right, and his granddaughter Finnegan Biden in December 2013. (Ng Han Guan/AP)

Years of seeking business in China
Hunter Biden’s relationship with CEFC took root during a time of financial strain and turmoil for his family, according to court filings and Hunter Biden’s accounts. The Bidens were reeling from the May 2015 death of Hunter’s older brother, Beau, and Hunter was struggling with drug use.

“I was in the throes of addiction,” Hunter wrote in a memoir published last year.

During divorce proceedings with his wife Kathleen, a court filing in the case described “outstanding debts [that] are shocking and overwhelming,” with the couple carrying maxed-out credit cards, double mortgages on both properties they owned and a tax debt of $313,970. Three checks to their housekeeper had bounced, and they owed money to medical providers and therapists, according to a February 2017 filing in D.C. Superior Court.

An intermediary from CEFC initially reached out to Hunter Biden in December 2015 to set up a meeting between the then-vice president’s son and Ye Jianming, the founder and chairman of the Chinese firm, according to verified emails from a purported copy of the laptop hard drive reviewed by the outside experts for The Post.

Vuk Jeremic, a Serbian politician who had recently served as president of the United Nations General Assembly, wrote an email to the younger Biden that he was hosting a small private dinner in Washington with Ye — whom he called “one of the 10 wealthiest Chinese businessmen” — and wanted Hunter to attend.

“He’s young and dynamic, with the top-level connections in his country,” Jeremic wrote in the Dec. 1, 2015, email.

Hunter Biden was unable to attend the dinner and Jeremic said in an email to The Post that while he knew both men, he was “not involved in their mutual introduction” and found out from media reports that the two had eventually connected.

CEFC, a massive oil and gas company founded in 2002, had financing from government development banks and ties to the Chinese Communist Party and the People’s Liberation Army, according to people who studied the firm. Ye’s official biography said he was once deputy secretary of the China Association for International Friendly Contact, an organization that a 2011 U.S. congressional report called “a front” for the People’s Liberation Army.

While CEFC was ostensibly private, experts in the Chinese economy say it is unlikely that it operated independently of the government.

The Chinese Embassy declined to comment on CEFC ties to the Chinese government or Hunter Biden’s involvement with the firm.

Shortly after Joe Biden left the vice presidency, Hunter Biden and Ye met over dinner in Miami.

The two discussed business opportunities for CEFC in the United States, including a $40 million joint venture to produce liquefied natural gas in Louisiana, according to a July 2019 New Yorker report based on extensive interviews with Hunter Biden.

That deal failed. But Ye Jianming was so pleased with his initial meeting with Hunter Biden that after dinner he sent a 2.8-carat diamond to Hunter Biden's hotel room with a card thanking him for the conversation, according to the New Yorker.

In divorce proceedings, Hunter’s wife would claim the diamond was worth $80,000. Hunter Biden told the New Yorker the value was closer to $10,000, that he gave the diamond to his associates, and that he doesn’t know what they did with it.

In the summer of 2017, Hunter Biden received a request from Ye that would foreshadow subsequent problems for CEFC. Ye said that a top CEFC associate, Patrick Ho, might be under investigation by U.S. law enforcement and he asked Hunter Biden for help. Hunter Biden told the New Yorker that he agreed to represent Ho and to try to figure out if he was under scrutiny by law enforcement.

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Hunter Biden in August 2017 signed an agreement with Gongwen Dong, an executive at a Chinese energy conglomerate, to jointly pursue investments. The agreement, included with bank records provided to Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), stated that Hunter Biden would get a one-time retainer of $500,000 and would then receive a monthly stipend of $100,000, with his uncle James Biden getting $65,000 a month. (Courtesy of Office of Sen. Charles Grassley)
 

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The execution of the bigger consulting deal between Hunter Biden and CEFC occurred rapidly in early August 2017.

The contract, signed on Aug. 2, 2017, stated that Hunter Biden would get a one-time retainer of $500,000 and would then receive a monthly stipend of $100,000, with his uncle James Biden getting $65,000 a month.

An unsigned copy of the agreement was found on the purported copy of Hunter Biden’s laptop hard drive. A signed copy was included with bank records provided to Grassley and reviewed by The Post. Under the 26-page agreement, they agreed to jointly pursue investments under a company named Hudson West III LLC.

The money began flowing almost immediately, with the first incoming wire of $5 million arriving on Aug. 8, 2017, according to documents found on the copy of Hunter Biden’s laptop and corroborated by identical bank statements that Grassley’s office obtained from Cathay Bank for an account jointly held by Hunter Biden and CEFC executives.

After expenses and personnel costs, the bulk of the money, about $4.8 million, was directed over a 14-month period, usually in increments of $165,000, to an account linked to Hunter Biden, the documents show. During that time period, about $1.4 million was transferred from Hunter’s account to Lion Hall Group, the consulting firm that James Biden ran, according to other government records reviewed by The Post.

“No comment,” James Biden said when reached on his cellphone and asked about the CEFC deal.

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The House of Sweden in D.C.'s Georgetown neighborhood, in 2018. (Calla Kessler/The Washington Post)

More red flags
A few weeks after he went into business with the CEFC executives in the fall of 2017, Hunter Biden requested changes to the fifth-floor office space he was renting at the House of Sweden, an airy building in Georgetown that is home to the Swedish Embassy and other offices.

On Sept. 21, 2017, Hunter Biden wrote to a building manager requesting new office signage to reflect a new family enterprise and a new business relationship: “The Biden Foundation and Hudson West (CEFC- US),” he wrote in emails to the property manager.

He also requested keys for his new office mates: his father, Joe; his mother, Jill; his uncle James; and the Chinese executive, Gongwen Dong.

As part of the request, he provided what he said was his father’s cellphone number, saying an office representative could use it to contact his new office mates.

Hunter Biden referred to Ye, the chairman of CEFC, as “my partner” and described Gongwen Dong as the “Chairman Ye CEFC emissary.”

The email exchanges that discuss Hunter Biden’s plan to open a Biden-CEFC office were included on the copy of his hard drive and were confirmed through public records released by the Swedish government to The Post. The contents of the records were first reported by the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.

“We are very excited and honored to welcome your new colleagues!” the manager wrote back to Hunter Biden.

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Hunter Biden in the fall of 2017 sought changes to office space he was renting at the House of Sweden, a building in Georgetown that is home to the Swedish Embassy and other offices.

According to emails included in a purported copy of his laptop, and in emails obtained from the Swedish government, Biden requested keys for his new officemates: his father, Joe; his mother, Jill; his uncle James; and the Chinese executive, Gongwen Dong. (Obtained by The Washington Post)

Jeffrey Peck, the Biden Foundation board member most involved in details like setting up the office, said there was never any consideration of that location.

“I recall discussions about other possible spaces and the so-called House of Sweden was never on any lists,” Peck said. “There was never any thought — like zero thought or consideration — given to that building.”

A spokeswoman for the Swedish authority that oversees the property said that the four keys were made available, as requested, but that Hunter Biden never picked them up. The signboard on the door wasn’t changed, she said.

Around the time Hunter Biden was asking for changes to his office space, email exchanges with the property manager grew tense — with a reminder to Hunter Biden to stop violating office policies by bringing visitors in through a side entrance rather than signing them in at the front desk, where they go through metal detectors.

Hunter Biden responded angrily, saying that one was a homeless woman he could vouch for — and accused the office managers of racism because that woman is Black. He wrote that another guest was Lunden Roberts, a woman he described as “my youngest daughter’s basketball mentor.”

Within a year, Roberts would have a baby that Hunter denied was his until she filed a paternity suit and DNA testing confirmed it was his. They settled the case in March 2020 and court documents show he is paying an undisclosed amount in child support.

Roberts’s lawyer, Clint Lancaster, said his client had worked for Biden at the time of the House of Sweden incident. He said Roberts was called to testify for several hours before a grand jury in Wilmington, Del., in mid-February, an indication that the federal investigation of Hunter Biden remains active. Lancaster declined to comment on the nature of her testimony. The Justice Department and the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office also declined to comment.

Hunter Biden confirms he is under federal investigation

During the time the CEFC was active, funds were being transferred from Hunter Biden to his uncle, records show. All told, nearly $1.4 million went from Hunter’s company to one controlled by James Biden, according to a 2020 report produced by Grassley and fellow Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. The transactions were identified as potential criminal activity, a designation meant to flag potential money laundering, political corruption or other financial crimes, according to a report from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network at the Treasury Department that was reviewed by The Post.


When James and Sara Biden’s bank contacted them about the transactions, they would not provide supporting documentation to explain the activity and closed the account, according to records reviewed by The Post.

James Biden did not respond to a detailed list of questions about the financial transactions.

Meanwhile, CEFC executives were concerned about Justice Department inquiries into officials tied to the company. As would become clear later in court records, federal investigators had obtained a foreign intelligence surveillance warrant on Ho and were monitoring his communications.

On Sept. 18, 2017, Hunter Biden signed a two-page attorney engagement letter to represent Ho, with a $1 million retainer. The agreement specified that Hunter Biden was to provide “counsel to matters related to US law and advice pertaining to the hiring and legal analysis of any US Law Firm or Lawyer.” Ho signed the document four days later, on Sept. 22, 2017.

A signed copy of the two-page agreement was contained on the purported copy of Hunter Biden’s laptop drive, stored as an attachment to an email that did not contain sufficient data to be verified by The Post’s outside experts. But the bank records obtained by Grassley show $1 million was eventually deposited into an account associated with Hunter Biden, with a note describing the payment as “representation” of Ho.

On Nov. 18, a few weeks after Hunter Biden signed the agreement to represent Ho, his client was arrested by two FBI agents at JFK Airport. He was read his Miranda rights at 2 p.m.; nine minutes later, he called James Biden, according to police records.

James Biden told the New York Times in 2018 that he assumed Ho was looking for Hunter Biden, and he passed along contact information for his nephew.

Almost immediately after Ho’s arrest, according to verified emails, Edward Y. Kim, an attorney at Krieger Kim, was enlisted to represent Ho. Kim and Ho declined requests for comment.

During the trial, prosecutors alleged that Ho had bribed leaders in Chad and Uganda, aiming to obtain oil permits for CEFC. They also said Ho had offered CEFC as a resource in helping Iran evade oil sanctions.

The crash
Things fell apart quickly. Ho was in jail awaiting trial. Ye, the head of CEFC, had been detained in China in mid-February 2018 and hadn’t been heard from since. The reasons for the arrest were unclear, although Reuters reported that it was related to suspected economic crimes.

Ye could not be reached for comment, and the Chinese Embassy declined to comment on Ye’s arrest.

By March 2018, Hunter Biden’s uncle was seeking access to the $1 million retainer that he was owed for the Ho representation. James Biden on March 21, 2018, wrote to CEFC officials with “wiring instructions,” providing the address and routing numbers for how to transfer to the account linked to Hunter Biden.

“Received and will take care of this ASAP,” Mervyn Yan, one of the CEFC officials, wrote back in a verified email.

At 9:43 the next morning, the wire went through and was deposited in the account just as James Biden had instructed, with the routing number in his email matching the routing number received by the bank, according to bank records.

Hunter Biden began exchanging hostile messages with remaining executives, including Dong and Mervyn Yan. The two had questioned several of Hunter Biden’s business expenses, asking for receipts to back up the charges. Yan, in a verified email, wrote Biden that some of the expenses for which he sought reimbursement did not appear related to the Chinese energy company’s business, including, he wrote, “house in Sweden.”

Biden threatened to sue both Yan and Dong for balking at paying, claiming they had no right to question his expenses — and explaining that the House of Sweden was his D.C.-based office.

“I will bring suit in the Chancery Court in Delaware — which as you know is my home state and I am privileged to have worked with and know every judge in the chancery court,” he wrote on March 14, 2018.

“You cannot sue us for not paying incorrect expenses,” Dong wrote in response, according to a verified email.

Dong and Yan did not respond to requests for comment.

JiaQi Bao, an assistant with whom Hunter Biden had worked closely on CEFC business, wrote in a March 26, 2018, email that the company was being dissolved and she would lose her job — but that Hunter Biden should “take whatever money you can take, as long as the money is available to claim.”

“Take as much as possible, or figure out a way to spend them for your own benefit,” she wrote.
Bao did not respond to numerous phone and email messages.

Over the next six months, nearly $1.4 million was transferred to Hunter Biden’s account, according to bank records.

But troubles also loomed. Hunter Biden continued to battle addiction issues that created strains within his family, and his father began paying some of his bills. The younger Biden’s problems loomed large over his father’s decision to run for president, a campaign Joe Biden would announce formally in April 2019.

Hunter Biden’s personal battles would continue. But the business saga of CEFC would soon come to a close.

Yan signed a document on Nov. 2, 2018, dissolving Hudson West III LLC, the company that linked the Bidens to CEFC. Yan filed it with an office based in Dover, Del., less than an hour’s drive from the Biden family home.

Josh Dawsey, Alice Crites and Devlin Barrett contributed to this report.
 

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Ron Johnson Castigates the Media's Efforts to Cover Up the Corruption of the Biden Family Syndicate 1:47 min
Ron Johnson Castigates the Media's Efforts to Cover Up the Corruption of the Biden Family Syndicate
Red Voice Media Published March 29, 2022

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Rep. Issa prepares for probe of 'collusion' surrounding Hunter Biden laptop 5:31 min
Rep. Issa prepares for probe of 'collusion' surrounding Hunter Biden laptop
One America News Network Published March 30, 2022

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Peter Schweizer on Hunter Biden laptop developments
One America News Network Published March 30, 2022

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The Biden Crime Family is being exposed more and more every day. 2:50 min
The Biden Crime Family is being exposed more and more every day.
RealAmericasVoice Published March 30, 2022

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The "Laptop from Hell" Won't Go Away Until We're Honest About It 1:06 min
The "Laptop from Hell" Won't Go Away Until We're Honest About It
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Sen. Johnson: Media coverup of Hunter's laptop 'biggest political dirty trick in U.S. history' 4:26 min
Sen. Johnson: Media coverup of Hunter's laptop 'biggest political dirty trick in U.S. history'
One America News Network Published March 28, 2022

Senator Johnson is in 'COVER MY ASS' mode! Jack Maxey CLEARLY states he had given copies of the Hunter Biden laptop to Johnson, Tom Cotton, Grassley, and John Kennedy on JULY 8, 2021 and NOT ONE OF THEM shined a light on it, had hearings on it, went to the media about it. NOTHING!! Maxey says there is not one Senator or Congressman that should retain power.

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BOMBSHELL INFO - Jack Maxey on Hunter Biden's Laptop

 

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20:31 min
Giuliani on the Biden Laptop: “They’re still lying about it.”
Bannons War Room Published March 31, 2022

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Sen. Johnson Drops A $1,000,000 Receipt On The Biden Crime Family Syndicate's Communist Ties 1:10 min
Sen. Johnson Drops A $1,000,000 Receipt On The Biden Crime Family Syndicate's Communist Ties
Red Voice Media Published March 30, 2022

"At the time of this transfer in November 2017, Hunter Biden was already invested in and providing management for Hudson West Three. So a company that was effectively an arm of the Chinese government transferred $1 million in November 2017 to a company that Hunter Biden is managing and is invested in."

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CBS News: Hunter Biden Investigation Tied To International Bribery & Money Laundering 2:10 min
CBS News: Hunter Biden Investigation Tied To International Bribery & Money Laundering
Red Voice Media Published March 31, 2022

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ABC Flips On Russian Disinformation, Now Reporting On The Biden Crime Family's Prodigal Son .41 min
ABC Flips On Russian Disinformation, Now Reporting On The Biden Crime Family's Prodigal Son
Red Voice Media Published March 31, 2022

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CNN Reverses Russian Disinformation, Now Reporting On The Biden Crime Family's Prodigal Son .44 min
CNN Reverses Russian Disinformation, Now Reporting On The Biden Crime Family's Prodigal Son
Red Voice Media Published March 31, 2022

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11:22 min
The Real Story - OAN Hunter Biden Laptop with Bruce LeVell
One America News Network Published March 30, 2022
 

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Miranda Devine: Media Ignored Other Biden Facts Independent of the Laptop Evidence 11:33 min
Miranda Devine: Media Ignored Other Biden Facts Independent of the Laptop Evidence
Bannons War Room Published April 1, 2022

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Rep. Jordan on Hunter Biden laptop: There was a conspiracy to keep information from American people 3:57 min
Rep. Jordan on Hunter Biden laptop: There was a conspiracy to keep information from American people
One America News Network Published April 1, 2022

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Rudy Giuliani: "Evidence Against Joe Biden In The hard Drive Is Stronger Than Against Hunter" 8:00 min
Rudy Giuliani: "Evidence Against Joe Biden In The hard Drive Is Stronger Than Against Hunter"
Red Voice Media Published April 1, 2022

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Hunter Biden TRAVELLED to China with his father in 2013 to SET UP a Chinese BUSINESS partnership .35 min
Hunter Biden TRAVELLED to China with his father in 2013 to SET UP a Chinese BUSINESS partnership
SrikanthNews Published April 1, 2022

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CNN's John J Harwood DESTROYS his Reputation Defending Hunter Biden Laptop & POTUS - Viva Clips 10:42 min
CNN's John J Harwood DESTROYS his Reputation Defending Hunter Biden Laptop & POTUS - Viva Clips
vivafrei Published April 1, 2022
 

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Is U.S. Foreign Policy Being Effected by Biden's Corruption?
Prime Time with Dr. Gina Published April 1, 2022

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Will Hunter Biden EVER Be Indicted? 1:22 min
Will Hunter Biden EVER Be Indicted?
Prime Time with Dr. Gina Published April 1, 2022

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A ‘3 Letter Agency’ Was Looking Into the Hunter’s Laptop Before Leadership Quashed It 1:43 min
A ‘3 Letter Agency’ Was Looking Into the Hunter’s Laptop Before Leadership Quashed It
Just the News - Not Noise Published April 1, 2022
 

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Susan Page: The impact on Biden is quite PERILOUS .59 min
Susan Page: The impact on Biden is quite PERILOUS
SrikanthNews Published April 3, 2022

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Sen. Ron Johnson Calls Out The Massive Media Cover Up For Hunter Biden 6:56 min
Sen. Ron Johnson Calls Out The Massive Media Cover Up For Hunter Biden
Red Voice Media Published April 3, 2022

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Russia Links Hunter's Investment Firm to Ukrainian Bio Labs
Red Voice Media Published April 3, 2022
 

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WOW: New Shocking Updates in Hunter Biden Corruption Story
Just the News - Not Noise Published April 4, 2022

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Levin: This is what the 'Biden crime family' did 4-4-22 Fox News 1:11 min
LEVIN: THIS IS WHAT THE 'BIDEN CRIME FAMILY' DID 4-4-22 FOX NEWS
 

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I like that the Hunter Biden laptop is finally getting some traction in the news - well, SOME of the news.

Someone should make a checklist of those news organizations who continue the charade - and those who take the red pill.

It would be nice to know going forward.

Yunno - for when you pass a news-stand - armed?

Kennedy quote: “Those who make peaceful revolution (of the ballot box) impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

Back up a step to a Dobbinesque corollary: "Those who suppress accurate information make peaceful revolution (of the ballot box) impossible."

One almost wonders if that was the plan - and they don't care.

That, my human friends, is hubris.


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New Revelations Coming: Hunter Becomes The Hunted, 'We Aren't Done With This Yet' - Follow The Money 3:14 min
New Revelations Coming: Hunter Becomes The Hunted, 'We Aren't Done With This Yet' - Follow The Money
Red Voice Media Published April 5, 2022

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Biden Regime Chief Of Staff Tried To Get In On Hunter's 'Unpleasant Business' On The 'Low Low' 4:43 min
Biden Regime Chief Of Staff Tried To Get In On Hunter's 'Unpleasant Business' On The 'Low Low'
Red Voice Media Published April 5, 2022

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Turley: Media Is Shifting Narratives Due to the Serious Risks of Indictments Coming From Delaware 3:28 min
Turley: Media Is Shifting Narratives Due to the Serious Risks of Indictments Coming From Delaware
Red Voice Media Published April 4, 2022
 

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Rep. Jordan Bashes President Biden For Covering Up Hunter Biden's Business Dealings 4:21 min
Rep. Jordan Bashes President Biden For Covering Up Hunter Biden's Business Dealings
The Daily Caller Published April 5, 2022

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Apr 6, 2022 at 1:56am​
Democrats Prepare Biden for Senocide​
The end will be cold. Up the mountain, set adrift upon an ice flow, or shuttled away in silence, geronticide of The Big Man draws nigh. His days may count less than one hundred.

Prepare to say goodbye. His pack of hyenas have turned their backs.

Hunter, the crack addict and traitor, will be sacrificed roughly, afforded less respect than a lonesome goat.

The Bidens hold no value for the party. The Bidens are white, and a liability.

As for "The Big Man," the Japanese call it ubasute. To carry an old woman up a mountain and leave her to die.​

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Hunter's Laptop: Whistleblower Reveals He Has 450 Gigabytes of DELETED Material 4:42 min
Hunter's Laptop: Whistleblower Reveals He Has 450 Gigabytes of DELETED Material
Red Voice Media Published April 6, 2022

The whistleblower who provided Hunter's laptop to congressmen and DailyMail has fled to Switzerland fearing retaliation from Biden Admin.

“If he meant to erase these pictures as I was feeling there could be a high likelihood that there was something that no man or woman with a soul would want to see.”

“I'm going to make it available to the world.”
 
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