USA 2020 Elections: Thread

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Thu Apr 7 23:58:42 PDT 2022


Over 150 Suspicious Hunter Or James Biden Financial Transactions
Flagged By Banks

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hunter-biden-republican-probe-business-dealings-james-biden-chuck-grassley/
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/09/justice-department-interest-hunter-biden-taxes-444139
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/business/cefc-biden-china-washington-ye-jianming.html
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/08/will-hunter-biden-jeopardize-his-fathers-campaign

Newly obtained banking records reveal that more than 150 financial
transactions involving either Hunter or James Biden's global business
affairs were flagged by banks as 'concerning' and given further
review, some of which included large wire transfers, according to CBS
News.
FILE: Joe Biden, left, and his brother James Biden during the 2008
Democratic National Convention in Denver. Rick Friedman/Corbis via
Getty Images

    CBS News has learned that +150 transactions involving either
Hunter or James Biden’s global business affairs were flagged as
concerning by U.S. banks for further review. @ChuckGrassley spoke
exclusively @CBS_Herridge about newly public bank records.
pic.twitter.com/N31x5XtbZ5
    — Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) April 6, 2022

As we've noted several times throughout the past 18 months, Joe
Biden's brother James and Hunter Biden's international dealings have
raised concern over potential leverage over the Biden family by the
CCP and other foreign entities.

A few examples:

    Chinese Money Launderer Called James Biden After FBI Arrest, Was
Trying To Reach Hunter

    FBI Raids Business Tied To James Biden Influence-Peddling

    Is It Time For A Special Counsel On The Hunter Biden Scandal?

"We have people with the Biden name, dealing with Chinese business
people that have a relationship to the Communist Party," Sen. Chuck
Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, told CBS
News' Catherine Herridge. "I think James Biden was very much a part of
this."

    Based on primary source bank records, Republican Senator
@ChuckGrassley tells @CBSNews he believes the president’s brother
James was instrumental in Hunter Biden’s Chinese business ventures,
@CBS_Herridge reports. pic.twitter.com/Wde2xx1rFg
    — Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) April 7, 2022

    Bank records released by Republican senators this week indicate
James Biden's company, the Lion Hall Group, received payments from a
Chinese-financed consulting group in 2018, before his brother Joe
announced he was running for president. Grassley says that same year
James Biden and the president's son, Hunter, received monthly
retainers totaling $165,000 — $100,000 to Hunter and $65,000 to James.

    Grassley said his team obtained the records directly from the bank
where the consulting group did business. He has spent three years
investigating and described James and Hunter Biden's business dealings
as "very concerning." -CBS News

According to a September 2020 report from GOP Senators, Hunter, James
and James' wife Sara tapped into a credit line set up between Hunter
and a Chinese bank executive to purchase over $100,000 in airline
tickets, hotels and food.
Patrick Ho, Hunter Biden

Now, GOP investigators have released what appears to be the 2017
application for the credit line, which bears the signatures of both
Hunter and the Chinese exec.

"These records we got are the first records that have ever been made
public on this issue. Nobody else has them," said Grassley.

According to Robert Weissman, president of advocacy group Public
Citizen, told CBS: "I think Hunter and James Biden should not have
entered into those relationships, full stop," adding "To the extent
those occurred while Joe Biden was the vice president, there's a worry
that they hope to get something direct from the Obama administration."

Fortunately for Hunter and James, the White House won't rule out
pardons in the event their international dealings, or tax issues, or
FARA status, prove to be illegal.

In Dec. 2020, Politico reported that the Hunter Biden criminal
investigation covers potential money laundering, while CNN also
reported at the time that the feds had been looking into a 2017 gift
to Hunter from CEFC China Energy Co. founder Ye Jianming.

And to recap from our previous reporting on the matter - in November,
2017, James Biden received a surprise call on his cellphone from
Patrick Ho, Ye Jianming's lieutenant who was arrested by the FBI (and
is now serving a 36-month sentence for bribery and money laundering),
according to a December, 2018 report by the New York Times. According
to James, the call was meant for Hunter.

    James Biden, a financier and brother of the former vice president,
was in a hotel lobby in November 2017 when he got a surprise call on
his cellphone. The call was from Patrick Ho, Mr. Ye’s lieutenant. Mr.
Ho, 69, was in trouble.

    Federal agents who had monitored CEFC’s rise since at least the
summer of 2016 had sprung into action, arresting Mr. Ho in New York on
allegations that he had bribed African officials in Chad and Uganda.
Days later, federal agents showed up at Mr. Ye’s luxury apartment
building across from Central Park with a subpoena to interview Mr. Ye,
said people familiar with the matter.

    ...

    In a brief interview, James Biden said he had been surprised by
Mr. Ho’s call. He said he believed it had been meant for Hunter Biden,
the former vice president’s son. James Biden said he had passed on his
nephew’s contact information. -NYT

In July of 2019, Hunter confessed to the New Yorker that he had
accepted the 2.8 carat diamond worth at least ten thousand dollars,
which he insisted wasn't a bribe - before admitting that he and his
father Joe had in fact discussed his business dealings.

    Hunter offered to use his contacts to help identify investment
opportunities for Ye’s company, CEFC China Energy, in
liquefied-natural-gas projects in the United States. After the dinner,
Ye sent a 2.8-carat diamond to Hunter’s hotel room with a card
thanking him for their meeting. “I was, like, Oh, my God,” Hunter
said. (In Kathleen’s court motion, the diamond is estimated to be
worth eighty thousand dollars. Hunter said he believes the value is
closer to ten thousand.) When I asked him if he thought the diamond
was intended as a bribe, he said no: “What would they be bribing me
for? My dad wasn’t in office.”  -New Yorker

As Eric Trump recently said, "If I did 1/100 of what Hunter Biden did,
I’d be in jail for the rest of my life."


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