by Steven Richards
Hundreds of documents and records to be entered into evidence in Hunter Biden’s California tax trial are intended to prove he violated U.S. tax law, but also include significant evidence previously reported by Only News and others showing how the younger Biden received millions from foreign sources and which indicate Joe Biden’s involvement in these transactions.
The list submitted to the court by special counsel David Weiss includes several tax documents intended to underscore the point of his case, which is that Hunter Biden’s offenses center on tax violations.
However, some of the posts point to other ethical problems for the first son that went beyond tax crimes and that prompted Congress to launch an impeachment inquiry into his father. The documents Weiss will submit to the court show an alleged foreign influence peddling scheme and may even contain direct references to Joe Biden himself.
Many of the documents listed in the request relate to Hunter Biden’s intricate and problematic tax situation. Several records are included, including tax returns, filings, and expense reports. However, the list also includes references to emailed evidence previously identified by Only News and others that point to Hunter Biden’s broader plan to spread his family name and even directly benefit his father.
One such email was titled “Email from Tony Bobulina to Robert Biden CC Rob Walker re: Expectations”, concerns a proposed equity split in Hunter Biden’s first attempt to secure a venture with CEFC China Energy, the now-defunct Chinese energy conglomerate associated with the Communist Party of China.
This email was first published by New York Post Office in October 2020 after obtaining it from an alleged copy of Hunter Biden’s laptop. It commemorates a discussion between Hunter Biden and his business partners as details of a proposed joint venture with Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC China Energy were worked out. The proposal included a preliminary division of capital between the partners, and one of the entries was telling.
“10 held by H for the big guy?” says email. Although the email didn’t explain who the “big guy” was. Hunter Biden’s former business partners include: Tony Bobulinski AND Devon Archer both confirmed that the term was often used to refer to Joe Biden.
Now the email, which contains an alleged reference to President Biden himself, will become part of the official court records in his son’s trial.
The trial, while focusing mainly on the first son’s alleged tax violations, could also raise the profile of his lucrative financial relationships with questionable foreign figures. Several documents on the exhibit list refer to Hunter Biden’s now-defunct entity Hudson West III, which he founded in partnership with Ye Jianming, the multi-billionaire head of CEFC China Energy. Ye is gone and here he is An investigation is reportedly underway In his native China, according to CNN.
According to the listing, the exhibits will provide an understanding of how the company was founded – as a direct partnership between Chairman Ye Jianming and members of the Biden family, including Hunter Biden and his uncle James Biden.
One of the emails cited in the filing shows that Hunter Biden directed Hudson West III employee Mervyn Yan to send him a $295,000 wire transfer in September 2018 in connection with the company’s liquidation after Ye’s disappearance in China.
Other exhibits include the company’s corporate documents such as the “Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement” previously made publicly available by Senators Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley. The document shows that the Chinese chain made the full $5 million equity contribution to the company without any contribution from Hunter Biden.
CEFC China Energy – a now defunct company – was one of the main targets of the House of Representatives impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
Hunter Biden’s involvement with the company began when his father was still vice president, and IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler indicated that payments to the Biden family in 2017 may have involved services provided earlier in 2016, Joe Biden’s final year in office under the Obama administration. The House Oversight Committee also last year trace funds from the utility company directly into Joe Biden’s bank accounts.
From 2017 to 2019, Hunter Biden did this receive over $5 million from CEFC and CEFC-affiliated entities, pursuant to his settlement with the Department of Justice, which was rejected by the judge presiding over First Son’s firearms case in Delaware.
Some of that money, $1 million, was earmarked paid to Hunter Biden in exchange for him representing CEFC official Patrick Ho, who was subsequently arrested in the United States. Weiss’ exhibit list includes files from this court case.
Ho was convicted for violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act and money laundering, he was also charged at trial with conspiring to evade U.S. sanctions on Iran and helping broker illegal arms deals with Arab countries while financed by Ye’s energy company.
In the celebrated audio message found on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop, Hunter Biden called Ho “China’s f***ing spy chief.” While this shocking claim is not corroborated by any outside sources, it shows that Hunter Biden believed Ho was connected to Chinese intelligence in some significant way.
The exhibits may also reference Hunter Biden’s efforts on behalf of Burisma to influence official U.S. policy. These broader efforts are described By Only News and show that the younger Biden helped a Ukrainian energy company hire the Democratic-aligned public relations firm Blue Star Strategies to develop the fallout from the Ukrainian government’s investigation of the company and change official U.S. government policy.
The company held meetings with State Department and U.S. Embassy officials to try to “close” the investigation into the gas company and its founder Mykola Zlochevsky, Only News reported.
Weiss’ files show they were Blue Star executives Sally Painter and Karen Tramontano, who worked for Burisma during this period and held several meetings with State Department officials. The company retroactively registered as a foreign agent after being reviewed by the Department of Justice.
“Beginning in November 2015 and continuing through the relevant period in 2016, registrant Blue Star Strategies acted on behalf of Burisma Holdings Limited (Burisma), a Ukrainian energy company, in furtherance of its commercial interests,” Blue Star – FARA wrote in its report.
“Mr. Złoczewski was a director of Burisma at the time. In 2016, the registrant was asked to assist in scheduling meetings with U.S. government officials so that Mr. Złoczewski’s attorney could provide explanations regarding certain adverse proceedings conducted in the United Kingdom and Ukraine involving Mr. Złoczewski,” we read next.
Around the same time that Blue Star was organizing these meetings, Hunter Biden extended his hand to one of his father’s trusted advisers, Amos Hochstein, who was scheduled to join the trip to Kiev in December 2015. Emails show Hochstein met with Burisma in 2014, shortly after Hunter Biden joined to the company’s management board.
The campaign was a success, according to Blue Star Painter’s executive director, who wrote about it in a 2016 email to Hunter Biden associate Eric Schwerin.
“We won in less than a year. Yes!!!!” she wrote in an emailthat was leaked to Congress by IRS whistleblowers.
Information disclosed to Congress by IRS whistleblowers showed that their investigative team and U.S. Attorney Weiss’ office in Delaware We were investigating potential FARA violations by Hunter Biden. However, Weiss did not accuse Hunter Biden of any violations of this law.
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Steven Richards joined Just the News in August 2023 after previously working as a research analyst at the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) in Tallahassee, Florida. He is a two-time graduate of Florida State University, earning a master’s degree in political science and a bachelor’s degree in international affairs.
“Hunter Biden” photo by C-SPAN.
