by John Solomon and Steven Richards
House Republicans have amassed a mountain of undeniable evidence that Hunter Biden made millions while his father was vice president from business associates of inappropriate backgrounds, including a Ukrainian energy company deemed corrupt by the State Department, a Chinese executive convicted by the Justice Department corruption, a Russian oligarch can’t open a US bank account because of red flags, a Romanian oligarch accused of bribery in his country and two Americans convicted of securities fraud.
And now, an Associated Press/University of Chicago poll shows that two-thirds of Americans believe Joe Biden did something illegal or unethical.
However, a tangle of complicated transactions and foreign names can often complicate explanations of influence peddling.
The two chairmen leading the Joe Biden impeachment inquiry are focusing on a basic question that could change their case: With so many red flags surrounding Hunter Biden, did U.S. intelligence or the FBI tip off to then-Vice President Joe Biden or his boss, President Barack Obama? , briefings on the dangers of the Biden family business?
said House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer Only News this week he believes he can soon prove it happened.
“I think they happened,” Comer told Just the News, No Noise Wednesday night TV show. “We are still trying to prove my theory. We know from the communications on the laptop and the communications we received during the investigation that Joe Biden was well aware of the messages that were being sent, and which he was actively approving and disapproving of, and the communications that the Bidens were actually making about this , what the mainstream is doing. the media reported.”
“It would be hard to imagine that from what we heard from people in the Obama administration who testified that Hunter was a problem, that Joe had a soft spot for his corrupt son, that they were not given final briefings and FBI briefings and intelligence briefings on all suspicious things that Hunter Biden was doing,” he added.
Such a warning would change the narrative and raise troubling questions about why Joe Biden would call his son’s clients and join them for dinner at Cafe Milano if he had been warned.
And all the time Biden has said this repeatedly to the unchallenged media and the public that he never had anything to do with his son’s businesses.
In April, Comer and Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Director of National Intelligence Avril Hanes to find out whether then-Vice President Biden had received a defense briefing about any of his son’s overseas business dealings with foreign individuals.
“The committees seek to understand whether, because of Hunter Biden’s foreign interests and vulnerabilities, Joe Biden held ‘defensive’ briefings to discuss potential foreign interference either while he was vice president or while he was a presidential candidate.” – wrote the presidents.
On Thursday, Jordan said on the “John Solomon Reports” podcast that his committee had not heard back from the FBI, but he vowed to continue the search.
“Was then-Vice President Biden given a real defensive briefing about his son’s activities and his involvement with Burisma’s presence on the board?” – Jordan asked. Questions first arose as his committee learned about the defensive briefing process.
“And then when we had Devon Archer under oath in the deposition and he told us how Hunter Biden called DC and called DC after Zlochevsky, Burisma’s boss said, ‘Hey, we’re under pressure, can you facilitate?’ ‘ So it all fits into that time frame, the 2016 time frame, the 2015 time frame, where all this was happening,” Jordan said.
“So that’s what we want to know. We have nothing modern to say, we are delving deeper into this matter. “Like many of our investigations, we’ll just dig into it and see what we find,” he added.
The FBI reported Only News she did not comment on Jordan’s letter or the status of his response.
Evidence obtained by Only News The 2016 investigation of Hunter Biden and his partners by the FBI, SEC and IRS found that the government identified several red flags about the first son while investigating a suspicious bond transaction involving a Native American tribe, in one case pointing to Hunter’s role Biden on Burisma board politics with Devon Archer, his business partner at Rosemont Seneca, who was at the center of a securities fraud investigation.
Archer was later indicted along with other co-defendants, including Hunter Biden’s business partner Jason Galanis, in the tribal bond scheme. They both were ultimately convicted for their role in the program. Archer he appealed against his verdictand the conviction was there overturned and then restored. Archer ultimately appealed to the United States Supreme Court, which confirmed this belief.
Most recently a federal judge ordered Archer to feel offended after he was originally sentenced to one year and one day in prison. Archer argued that an error in the sentencing guideline calculations justified the judge’s retrial due to “ineffective assistance of counsel.”
In an internal briefing marked “confidential,” Morgan Stanley compliance officials identified Hunter Biden as an “unaffiliated third party” but noted his ties to Burisma Holdings and Rosemont Seneca, as well as a prior review as part of a “hedge fund fraud lawsuit.”
“Hunter is also on the Ukrainian board [sic] gas company Burisma Holdings Ltd (an entity unrelated to Wakpamni Bonds),” we read in the briefing.
The briefing is undated, but a separate internal Morgan Stanley compliance presentation on May 8, 2015 again highlighted Biden’s ties to Burisma Holdings, as well as his close business relationship with Archer. The presentation also raised questions about Biden’s “not-so-clean” record.
“No clearly illegal activity was alleged, but the authors of this presentation concluded that it was sufficiently suspicious to warrant escalation of review by the appropriate internal compliance officers,” the internal presentation said, referring to the suspected tribal bond program.
Later that summer, Morgan Stanley reported an escalation of the investigation and again cited Hunter Biden’s relationship with Archer. This time, officials mentioned that Archer had previously been under scrutiny in connection with a real estate deal with Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina.
Baturina is the second richest woman of Russian origin, and her fortune is estimated at approx Forbes up to $1.3 billion. Guardian reported that the US ambassador to Russia under Presidents Bush and Obama John Beyrlemade allegations that she and her husband, the overdue Moscow veteran Yuri Luzhkov, had links with major criminal groups.
“In addition, Archer, through the accounts of RSB and others in his household, engaged in suspicious behavior in connection with the purchase and attempted sale of shares of Wakpamni Indian Tribal Bonds, which are currently valued at $0 at the MS Office of Fixed Income. Archer had previously come to the attention of AML Bank in connection with a real estate transaction with Russian oligarch Elena Baturina and because of his close ties to Hunter Biden, the son of US Vice President Joe Biden and the son of current US Secretary of State John Kerry. financial crimes official wrote colleagues.
Hunter Biden was closely involved in the transaction with Baturina, who dined with her father at the upscale Cafe Milano restaurant in Georgetown just weeks after she deposited $3.5 million into a bank account linked to Hunter Biden’s businesses and also pledged to invest in New York Urban real estate project with him.
“Any news on this?” On April 13, 2014, Hunter Biden emailed his partner Devon Archer requesting an update on a real estate deal in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York. Only News previously reported.
Archer wrote back to the president’s future son that she was involved in the project: “The seller is peeling. I asked for 90 days. We made an offer of $41 million. “Yelena has confirmed the green light for deposit financing,” he replied.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) also communicated with Hunter Biden’s lawyers as the investigation unfolded. Hunter Biden’s Lawyers Asked for Secrecy to Protect His Politically Famous Father, Chairman Jordan and Comer Revealed letter on Tuesday.
The agency subpoenaed the future first son to produce all documents related to his work with Rosemont Seneca Bohai LLC, an entity he formed with Archer that purchased $15 million in bonds as part of the fraudulent scheme. Biden’s lawyers responded to the subpoena, producing more than 1,700 documents in response to the request. However, his lawyers also strongly insisted that his involvement remain confidential.
“The confidential nature of this investigation is very important to our client, and it would be unfair not only to our client but also to his father, the Vice President of the United States, if his involvement in the SEC investigation and a parallel criminal investigation were to receive media attention,” according to the release. on Tuesday, congressional letters that Biden’s lawyers wrote to the SEC.
“Mr. In response, Biden made baseless reference to his father’s position as vice president, which could be interpreted as an attempt to discourage further SEC scrutiny. And on May 11, 2016, the SEC issued a press release announcing charges against seven people, without mentioning or charging towards Hunter Biden,” the Presidents wrote in their letter.
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John Solomon is an award-winning investigative journalist, author and digital media entrepreneur who serves as CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Just the News. Steven Richards is a reporter for Just the News.
