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Hunter Biden’s Business Dealings Created ‘Counterintelligence And Extortion Concerns,’ Senate Report Says
dailycaller.com ^ | September 23, 2020 | Chuck Ross Investigative Reporter

Posted on 09/23/2020 8:30:40 AM PDT by Red Badger

Hunter Biden’s financial dealings with Ukrainian, Russian and Chinese businesses created potential “criminal financial, counterintelligence and extortion concerns,” according to a report by two Senate committees.

The report details a series of wire transfers between Biden and a businessman with extensive ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

The report, written by the Senate Homeland Security and Senate Finance committees, also states that State Department officials repeatedly raised concerns about Hunter Biden’s work for Burisma Holdings.

One official testified that he told Joe Biden in October 2015 that his son’s links to Burisma “enabled Russian disinformation efforts.”

U.S. banks flagged suspicious financial transactions between Hunter Biden’s firms and Russian and Chinese nationals, including a businessman with extensive ties to the Chinese Communist Party, according to a highly anticipated report released Wednesday by two Republican-controlled Senate committees.

The report asserts that the wire transfers, which total in the millions of dollars, raise concerns about potential conflicts of interest involving Biden, as well as “criminal financial, counterintelligence and extortion concerns.”

The report, which The Daily Caller News Foundation obtained ahead of its release, also states that State Department officials expressed reservations in 2015 and 2016 about Biden’s links to Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company that has been dogged by bribery allegations.

One official, Amos Hochstein, told the Senate Homeland Security and Senate Finance committees that he said to then-Vice President Joe Biden in October 2015 that Hunter Biden’s position on the board of Burisma “enabled Russian disinformation efforts and risked undermining U.S. policy in Ukraine.”

Hunter Biden, now 50, joined Burisma’s board of directors in April 2014, shortly after his father, Joe Biden, took over as the Obama administration’s chief liaison to Ukraine.

One of the administration’s goals was to help Ukraine fix its problems with corruption. But but State Department officials questioned whether the younger Biden’s work for Burisma posed a problem because the company’s owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, was under investigation for money laundering and extortion.

George Kent, who served as deputy chief of mission to Ukraine through 2018, testified that Zlochevsky was an “odious” oligarch who likely paid a $7 million bribe to a Ukrainian prosecutor general in December 2014, months after Hunter Biden joined Burisma’s board, according to the report.

Emails cited in the report show that Kent raised Burisma’s issues with corruption to other State Department officials. Kent also told the committees on July 24, 2020, that he said to Joe Biden’s national security staff in February 2015 that Hunter Biden’s role at Burisma “could create the perception of a conflict of interest.”

Kent told Joe Biden’s staff that “someone needed to talk to Hunter Biden, and he should [step] down from the board of Burisma,” according to the report.

Hochstein and Kent’s warnings went unheeded, the Senate report says. Joe Biden avoided publicly criticizing Burisma or Zlochevsky, and Hunter Biden remained on Burisma’s board until his father announced his presidential campaign in April 2019.

The report says that Burisma paid a consulting firm controlled by Hunter Biden and Devon Archer, his business partner and fellow Burisma director, more than $3.5 million from May 2014 to February 2016. Burisma sent nine wire transfers from January 2016 to November 2016 totaling $752,054 to Biden’s law firm, Owasco, according to the report.

The report does not produce any direct evidence of wrongdoing on Hunter Biden’s part. But Republicans say the documents paint a troubling picture of Biden receiving “millions of dollars from foreign sources as a result of business relationships that he built during the period when his father was vice president of the United States and after.”

The report says that several transactions involving Biden-controlled firms were flagged for “potential criminal financial activity,” including wire transfers that Biden sent to his uncle, James Biden, and payments that he received from a mysterious Chinese businessman believed to have ties to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

The report focuses on millions of dollars in wire payments that Hunter Biden’s firms received from Ye Jianming, the founder of CEFC China Energy Co., and Gongwen Dong, a U.S.-based associate of Ye’s.

According to Republicans, Ye has “extensive” connections to the Chinese government.

He reportedly served as deputy secretary for the China Association for International Friendly Contacts (CAIFC), a front group for the PLA. A report from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission in 2011 said that CAIFC has “dual roles of intelligence collection and conducting People’s Republic of China propaganda.”

The Senate report says that on Aug. 4, 2017, a subsidiary of Ye’s company called CEFC Infrastructure Investment (US) LLC, wired $100,000 to Owasco, the Biden law firm.

A month later, on Sept. 8, 2017, Hunter Biden and Gongwen Dong applied for a $100,000 line of credit under a shell company they formed called Hudson West III LLC, according to the Senate report.

Biden, his uncle James, and James’s wife, Sara Biden, accessed the account through credit cards, and spent $101,291 on what Republicans call “extravagant items,” including plane tickets, hotels, restaurants and items at Apple stores.

The wires were “identified for potential financial criminal activity,” the report says.

According to the report, CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to the bank account for Hudson West III on Aug. 8, 2017. Of that, nearly $4.8 million was wired to Biden’s law firm over the next year.

The committees relied on confidential Treasury Department records for details about the transactions. The records are not fully described in the report, but Republicans refer to committee requests for Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), which banks are required to file with the Treasury Department when they spot suspicious transactions.

The report also flags wire transfers that Biden received from Elena Baturina, a Russian billionaire who was married to Yuri Luzhkov. Luzhkov served as Moscow’s mayor until his death in 2010.

The report states that Baturina wired $3.5 million on Feb. 14, 2014, to a bank account for Rosemont Seneca Thornton LLC, which Hunter Biden co-founded with Archer, his business partner, the year before.

Baturina transferred another $241,797 to a bank account for Rosemont Seneca Thornton from May-December 2015, according to the report.

“These transactions were identified because of Baturina’s reported criminal activity,” the report states.

The report also refers to potential payments from Biden to women from Russia and Eastern Europe who may have had links to “prostitution or human trafficking ring[s]” in Eastern Europe.

“These foreign nationals have questionable backgrounds that have been identified as being consistent with a range of criminal activities, including but not limited to organized prostitution and/or human trafficking, money laundering, fraud, and embezzlement,” according to the Republicans.

The alleged payments are not detailed in the report.

Joe Biden’s presidential campaign did not respond to an email seeking comment.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: bidensenatereport; burisma; china; hunterbiden; russia
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1 posted on 09/23/2020 8:30:40 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

But it’s all OK because he’s a Democrat.


2 posted on 09/23/2020 8:32:58 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Red Badger

The Democrats have been selling us out to the ChiComs since at least Bill Clinton and this is new how?


3 posted on 09/23/2020 8:34:15 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Red Badger

C’mon Man!


4 posted on 09/23/2020 8:34:18 AM PDT by rhinohunter (FAUCI MUST GO!!!)
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To: Red Badger

Remember Papa Biden was asked a few months ago about his errant son and he got angry and said not one, not one time has there been anything brought up for prosecution of anything he’s done.

People had sympathy for Joe because he slipped in the wrong name and said the name of the other son who died tragically years ago instead of Hunter.

Now is Hunter finally going to be on the hotseat? Took them far too long. Maybe not enough time left for America now.
WE all told them so. Hunter and Joe are dirty in their millions of dollar dealings.

But the media says Trump is bad and Bidens are angels. “I seen it on TV. Yeah, me too.”


5 posted on 09/23/2020 8:36:05 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Red Badger
WHERE is HUNTER ? $$$$$$$$$$$$$
6 posted on 09/23/2020 8:36:08 AM PDT by timestax
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To: timestax

WHERE is HUNTER’S TAX RETURNS? $$$$$$$$$$$$$.......................


7 posted on 09/23/2020 8:37:05 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: timestax

Russia,Russia ,Russia


8 posted on 09/23/2020 8:38:03 AM PDT by magua (It's not racism, it's just that thisBecause itÂ’s being reported that a lot of this started in 2015.)
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To: Red Badger

Bagpipes is on it™


9 posted on 09/23/2020 8:38:23 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Red Badger

Does one have to pay taxes on bribes?


10 posted on 09/23/2020 8:39:06 AM PDT by KittyKares (Drain the Swamp)
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To: Red Badger

They need to lay off of Hunter. It’s possible that he’s been clean and sober for several days (maybe even a few in a row) at this point. We can’t have these stories jeopardizing his recovery!


11 posted on 09/23/2020 8:39:09 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Biden has dementia.)
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To: SpaceBar

that’s a depressing thing to say.


12 posted on 09/23/2020 8:39:27 AM PDT by magua (It's not racism, it's just that thisBecause itÂ’s being reported that a lot of this started in 2015.)
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To: magua

It’s a realistic thing to say.


13 posted on 09/23/2020 8:42:02 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Red Badger

One thing I have always wondered about. The Secret Service accompanied him everywhere as well as crooked presidents like Obama. Don’t they ever say to anyone that something bad for the country is going on?


14 posted on 09/23/2020 8:43:44 AM PDT by KittyKares (Drain the Swamp)
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To: KittyKares
16th Amendment to the Constitution:

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

All foreign income is taxable..................

15 posted on 09/23/2020 8:43:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: KittyKares

They may be excluded from ‘meetings’..................


16 posted on 09/23/2020 8:45:48 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: Red Badger

It IS fall ok because he is a democrat

The voters will rationalize This The way they do abortion


17 posted on 09/23/2020 8:45:52 AM PDT by stanne
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To: Red Badger

“Created concerns.” Sounds like pretty weak tea.


18 posted on 09/23/2020 8:51:39 AM PDT by Buttons12
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To: Buttons12

19 posted on 09/23/2020 8:52:37 AM PDT by Red Badger (Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
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To: KittyKares

The GOOD, DECENT ones QUIT, like Dan Bongino did!


20 posted on 09/23/2020 8:57:11 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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