Posted on 01/28/2024 6:23:24 AM PST by Red Badger
Hunter Biden’s former business associate Rob Walker confirmed Chinese firm CEFC wired him $3 million as a “thank you” payment for work during Joe Biden’s vice presidency, according to House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer.
Walker, a key figure in the Biden family’s Chinese and Romanian business dealings, testified before Congress Friday about the relationship the Bidens had with both CEFC and Romanian oligarch Gabriel Popoviciu, Comer said Friday night.
“Today’s interview confirmed Hunter Biden and his associates’ work with the Chinese government-linked energy company began over a year before Joe Biden left the vice presidency, but the Bidens and their associates held off being paid by the Chinese while Joe Biden was in office,” Comer said in a press release.
“The Chinese company paid Hunter Biden and his associates $3 million shortly after Joe Biden left office as a ‘thank you’ for the work they did while Joe Biden was in office. Members of the Biden family received payments from the Chinese deal even though they did not work on it,” Comer added.
State Energy HK, a CEFC account, wired Walker roughly $3 million in March 2017 shortly after Joe Biden’s vice presidency concluded, according to bank records and Hunter Biden’s federal tax indictment in California. Walker wired approximately $1 million of the funds to Biden family accounts and $1 million to a firm tied to business associate James Gilliar.
Walker confirmed Joe Biden met with CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming and he confirmed the Biden family and its business associates worked for CEFC for over a year before Joe Biden left office, the Oversight Committee said.
Walker previously told the FBI that Joe Biden briefly met with CEFC associates following his vice presidency, according to a transcript of an interview Walker gave the FBI in December 2020.
The tax indictment states that the relationship with CEFC began in late 2015 and went from there. Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty to federal tax charges on Jan. 11.
Tony Bobulinski, another ex-business partner, told the FBI that Hunter and his uncle, James Biden, began their relationship with CEFC when Joe Biden was vice president, according to FBI notes.
CEFC did not pay the Bidens for their work until the State Energy HK wire. Later in 2017, Hunter and James Biden established a joint venture called Hudson West III with CEFC that hauled in around $3.5 million for both Biden family members, the indictment says.
Walker said in his opening statement Joe Biden had no involvement with the business enterprise when he was in office or as a private citizen, and said assertions otherwise are false. His testimony is part of the House GOP’s impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden’s alleged involvement in his son’s lucrative foreign business dealings.
Devon Archer, a former business associate, testified that Joe Biden spoke with his son’s business associates 20 or so times and met with them in person on multiple occasions. He specifically described how the Biden family “brand” protected Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings when Hunter Biden was a board member.
Hunter Biden’s business dealings with Popoviciu began during Joe Biden’s vice presidency and at one point, Hunter lobbied the U.S. Ambassador to Romania on his client’s behalf, Walker confirmed, according to Comer.
“Additionally, as Joe Biden was leading anti-corruption efforts in Romania, Hunter Biden and Rob Walker began an ill-defined business relationship with Romanian businessman Gabriel Popoviciu,” Comer stated.
“Mr. Walker also confirmed that he and Hunter Biden received payments from Popoviciu beginning in 2015 that continued throughout the rest of Joe Biden’s vice presidency. In exchange for lucrative payments, Hunter Biden traveled to Romania and engaged with the U.S. Ambassador to Romania to discuss Mr. Popoviciu’s foreign legal case,” Comer added.
Popoviciu’s Cyprus-based LLC wired Walker roughly $3 million over numerous payments from November 2015 to May 2017, bank records and the indictment show. Biden family accounts hauled in $1 million of the payments from Popoviciu.
Hunter Biden’s testimony is scheduled for Feb. 28.
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Is this chicom bribe different than the other chicom bribes?
“Walker said in his opening statement Joe Biden had no involvement with the business enterprise when he was in office or as a private citizen, and said assertions otherwise are false. ”
So the Chinese just gave it to him out of ur kindness of their hearts? This is a clumsy attempt to make it sound like less of a bribe. The “work” involved making sure it sailed through, and that his family used their name to support this company.
When is the FBI raid on this crime family?
This is more like a ‘Bribe after the fact’.................
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Now this is being called in by the chinese telling biden not to protect Taiwan.
“well son of a bitch”
Spot on they know how to play sap
Good catch.
Biden family associate Rob Walker denies prez wrongdoing in impeachment inquiry opening
FTA——Walker apparently distributed to Hunter, Joe’s brother James, and to Beau’s widow Hallie Biden, millions of dollars from China and Romania during and immediately after Joe Biden’s vice presidency.
“President Biden — while in office or as a private citizen — was never involved in any of the business activities we pursued. Any statement to the contrary is simply false,” Walker was to contend in his prepared remarks
“In business, the opportunities we pursued together were varied, valid, well-founded, and well within the bounds of legitimate business activities,” the statement added.
Walker may opt to be incommunicado, but other Biden family business partners have outlined an array of Joe Biden’s links to his family’s foreign business dealings.
Republicans were prepared to corner Walker.....asking what services were provided in exchange for the lucrative ventures.
These allegations follow statements from other former Biden family associates that Joe Biden was indeed in communication with his family’s associates and that the only visible business was Biden’s relatives trading on their association....and were effectively peddling access to Joe Biden.
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This is fine.
Shortly after hell freezes over.
That’s chicken feed.
That's hearsay, that's after the fact. The problem, the reason they're getting away with this, is because we don't have subpoena power over these CCP nationals.
Lure CEFC officials into the US, then rendition. When the Chinese complain, videotape the CEFC pertinant testimony and then send Xi the bill...or exchange them for Hunter, ie, the CCP agrees to take back dirty goddamn CEFConfucians, and take Hunter off our hands as well.
Would be the perfect test case for the establishment of Federal Exile.
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