Key Takeaways From House GOP Report on Biden Family Business

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Biden Family Peddling

Being related to Joe Biden pays well. The obvious follow up questions: What did Hunter and other family members do to earn these payments? Why were payments set up in such complex, secretive ways and distributed to family members who had no apparent connection to Hunter’s activities? What did Joe Biden know, and when did he know it?


1. No smoking gun showing Biden himself received payments from unsavory foreign actors.

2. Overwhelming evidence that Biden family members traded profitability off the Biden name. At least nine Biden family members have received foreign income from Chinese and other foreign interests, including Hunter, brother James, James’s wife Sara, Hallie, Hunter’s ex-wife (Kathleen Buhle), Hunter’s current wife (Melissa Cohen), and three children or grandchildren of Joe or James.

3. Biden family members and business associates created nearly 20 separate entities shortly before and during Joe Biden’s Vice Presidency.

4. Bank records show that more than $10 million was delivered to Biden family members, associates and companies from these foreign entities.

5. In some cases Biden associates would receive significant deposits from foreign sources, then transfer smaller, incremental payments to Biden bank accounts.

6. Some payments came from such Chinese national Ye Jianming, his as-sociates, and his company CEFC. Mr. Ye had a background in Chinese military intelligence and used CEFC to promote President Xi Jinping’s agenda globally. One of Mr. Ye’s deputies, Patrick Ho, was convicted in the U.S. in 2018 on international bribery and money laundering.

7. Mr. Ye’s emissary to the U.S., Gongwen Dong, in 2017 established a corporate entity with Hunter—each with 50% ownership. Over 14 months the entity dispersed more than $4 million to Hunter-related companies and another $75,000 to companies related to the President’s brother, James Biden.

8. In 2017 another Ye-related company—State Energy HK—paid some $3 million to Hunter’s business associates. At least $1 million was then funneled in 16 separate payments over three months to five different bank accounts, all related to the Biden name. They included companies associated with Hunter and James Biden, an unknown bank account identified simply as “Biden” and a payment to Hallie Biden—the widow of Hunter’s deceased brother Beau and later Hunter’s girlfriend.

9. The report lays out a similarly complex web of payments to Hunter and associates from an entity that appears to be connected to a Romanian businessman who has been convicted of bribery.
 
Biden Family Peddling

Being related to Joe Biden pays well. The obvious follow up questions: What did Hunter and other family members do to earn these payments? Why were payments set up in such complex, secretive ways and distributed to family members who had no apparent connection to Hunter’s activities? What did Joe Biden know, and when did he know it?


1. No smoking gun showing Biden himself received payments from unsavory foreign actors.

2. Overwhelming evidence that Biden family members traded profitability off the Biden name. At least nine Biden family members have received foreign income from Chinese and other foreign interests, including Hunter, brother James, James’s wife Sara, Hallie, Hunter’s ex-wife (Kathleen Buhle), Hunter’s current wife (Melissa Cohen), and three children or grandchildren of Joe or James.

3. Biden family members and business associates created nearly 20 separate entities shortly before and during Joe Biden’s Vice Presidency.

4. Bank records show that more than $10 million was delivered to Biden family members, associates and companies from these foreign entities.

5. In some cases Biden associates would receive significant deposits from foreign sources, then transfer smaller, incremental payments to Biden bank accounts.

6. Some payments came from such Chinese national Ye Jianming, his as-sociates, and his company CEFC. Mr. Ye had a background in Chinese military intelligence and used CEFC to promote President Xi Jinping’s agenda globally. One of Mr. Ye’s deputies, Patrick Ho, was convicted in the U.S. in 2018 on international bribery and money laundering.

7. Mr. Ye’s emissary to the U.S., Gongwen Dong, in 2017 established a corporate entity with Hunter—each with 50% ownership. Over 14 months the entity dispersed more than $4 million to Hunter-related companies and another $75,000 to companies related to the President’s brother, James Biden.

8. In 2017 another Ye-related company—State Energy HK—paid some $3 million to Hunter’s business associates. At least $1 million was then funneled in 16 separate payments over three months to five different bank accounts, all related to the Biden name. They included companies associated with Hunter and James Biden, an unknown bank account identified simply as “Biden” and a payment to Hallie Biden—the widow of Hunter’s deceased brother Beau and later Hunter’s girlfriend.

9. The report lays out a similarly complex web of payments to Hunter and associates from an entity that appears to be connected to a Romanian businessman who has been convicted of bribery.
What used to be said about 45 is when you are surrounded by crooks, it's fairly obvious why. I never liked that line.....but here we are with a similar situation for 46.

You'd think that such a huge racket would've led to a smoking gun of a policy change that could easily be identified as a result, though that appears to be missing here.

If they find that any change to policy was attempted by the President or his staff that was contrary or suspicious, with sufficient "we shouldn't do that" emails from administration officials or similar, I'd change my tune about this investigation.

Until then, I will continue to advocate that family members' activities need a tighter monitoring and ethics codes need to be updated with possible new legislation. It does seem like the registration as a foreign agent process is a sham and needs to be changed.
 
Are they going to investigate Jared's 2 billion from the Saudi's next? Or Ivana's Chinese trademarks?
 
BabyBoobs- aka - “McNothingburger” fails……….. again.

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Are they going to investigate Jared's 2 billion from the Saudi's next? Or Ivana's Chinese trademarks?
I have no problem with that, but that question should be directed at Democrats who controlled the House for two years after Trump left office and who still control the Senate. If you want to foster a discussion on prior administrations, perhaps you should start a thread on that topic since this one is about the House Committee revelations.
 
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