Corruption ala Biden, Hunter, FBI, China and Ukraine

[Delldude]

you still don't get it ,,, Hunter Biden wasn't employed by our government, Ever ... or he never represented the government, ever... or had anything to do with the government, ever ...... you can post all the bullshit about what a government agent is ... hunter biden wasn't in any way employed by the government as an agent ...... period !!! he didn't need to be registered as a foreign agent because he was never an agent ... are you really this stupid ??? wasting all your time about what an agent is... the fact remains the same ...he was a private citizen working for a foreign company ...they do not have to register with the United States as a foreign agent... no law was broken because he's not a foreign agent get it... how many times do I have to say this to get it through your thick skull ... he was working for Burisma as one of their employees .. doing business with whoever he wanted to do business with... that's what you do when you have that kind of job ... where you get this stuff from, he was employed by the government front is beyond me ...

LOL....you're the one who tried to define what FARA calls an agent and what their functions are. Yall done f**ked up.

Hunter Biden, FARA and Unequal Justice​

A bad law used against Trump associates now haunts President Biden’s son.​

Unequal justice has emerged as a theme in the Hunter Biden plea deal, and one example came last week when Judge Maryellen Noreika asked the prosecution and defense in court if their agreement meant the President’s son could still be prosecuted for violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Hunter’s lawyers said no, but the prosecutor said yes, and Hunter can thank Robert Mueller if he is prosecuted under that statute.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hunter-biden-foreign-agents-registration-act-robert-mueller-donald-trump-26596b5a

WASHINGTON — First son Hunter Biden was indicted Thursday on nine federal tax fraud charges, but critics of the long-running investigation into the political scion were quick to note that he still doesn’t face charges for allegedly violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) — which could implicate his father, President Biden.

Special counsel David Weiss said in a statement his investigation remains “ongoing,” leaving open possible additional charges, but Republican members of Congress slammed the omission.

“Unless US Attorney Weiss investigates everyone involved in the Bidens’ fraud schemes and influence peddling, it will be clear President Biden’s DOJ is protecting Hunter Biden and the big guy,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said in a statement late Thursday.

Hunter Biden once again dodges foreign agent charge in new indictment

Critics noted the first son still doesn’t face charges for allegedly violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) — which could implicate his father.

nypost.com

 

[Delldude]

Well, Hunter was on the Board of Directors of Burisma. All public knowledge. So there was no foreign agent status declaration needed for who he was working for....

Breaking the declaration of Foreign agent status is when a lobbyist is secretly pushing something, for a foreign nation or business....behind everyone's back....

Wrong.....dead wrong.

 

[Delldude]

no, you don't get it

They say in space nobody can hear you scream.

 

[billyerock123]

Talk about a dishonest liar. But that's you cultists MO.

You just don’t accept the truth … does it bother you that trump says how bad Obama as president is doing ??? Then at the same time you on the right make comment about Biden… what you have done here is show us all you have no moral sense… that it’s Republican and only Republican … you can call me a liar all you want … what you have shown here for all to see is you have no morals …

 

[billyerock123]

LOL....you're the one who tried to define what FARA calls an agent and what their functions are. Yall done f**ked up.

Hunter Biden, FARA and Unequal Justice​

A bad law used against Trump associates now haunts President Biden’s son.​

Unequal justice has emerged as a theme in the Hunter Biden plea deal, and one example came last week when Judge Maryellen Noreika asked the prosecution and defense in court if their agreement meant the President’s son could still be prosecuted for violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Hunter’s lawyers said no, but the prosecutor said yes, and Hunter can thank Robert Mueller if he is prosecuted under that statute.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hunter-biden-foreign-agents-registration-act-robert-mueller-donald-trump-26596b5a

WASHINGTON — First son Hunter Biden was indicted Thursday on nine federal tax fraud charges, but critics of the long-running investigation into the political scion were quick to note that he still doesn’t face charges for allegedly violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) — which could implicate his father, President Biden.

Special counsel David Weiss said in a statement his investigation remains “ongoing,” leaving open possible additional charges, but Republican members of Congress slammed the omission.

“Unless US Attorney Weiss investigates everyone involved in the Bidens’ fraud schemes and influence peddling, it will be clear President Biden’s DOJ is protecting Hunter Biden and the big guy,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said in a statement late Thursday.

Hunter Biden once again dodges foreign agent charge in new indictment

Critics noted the first son still doesn’t face charges for allegedly violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) — which could implicate his father.

nypost.com

There you go again posting shit that has no value

 

[billyerock123]

There you go again posting shit that has no value

They say in space nobody can hear you scream.

And stupid people like you haven’t a clue

 

[Delldude]

You just don’t accept the truth

You are the one trying to continually attempting to bend the truth to fit your Walt Disney narrative.......not very hard to see. Your posts have nothing to do with the truth at all.

There you go again posting shit that has no value

LOL...........look who now is displaying his skills using his s**t for brains methods.................

 

[billyerock123]

This is what I said:


This is what you claim:

those were all allegations never corroborated by anyone except you on the right wishing that you would have something on the Bidens... those turned out to be lies being told to the FBI by Alexander Smeronoff ... all of your accusations gone up in smoke ... have you heard anything on hunter after he went in and testified to the house closed-door meeting ... not a peep coming from Jim Jordon and the rest of your republican clowns ...
why his main witness is in jail for lying to the FBI and several other crimes against the United States... you're not going to hear anything about the Biden crime family again except only from the master of all liars, Donald J (Jerk) Trump ...

 

[billyerock123]

Well, Hunter was on the Board of Directors of Burisma. All public knowledge. So there was no foreign agent status declaration needed for who he was working for....

Breaking the declaration of Foreign agent status is when a lobbyist is secretly pushing something, for a foreign nation or business....behind everyone's back....

westwall doesn't get that ...he will start posting what an agent is with all these long paragraphs about nothing Hunter Biden did or was ... he keeps posting the same crap as if he had something ... he has nothing on Hunter Biden except the lies of Alexander Smirnoff nonsense ...

 

[billyerock123]

Talk about a dishonest liar. But that's you cultists MO.

this is how these people like westwall respond when he can't prove what I said was a lie ... attack the truth with more lies....

no, you're the one that follows cultists... it's all over every post you make ...you don't accept what is happening to your attempts to smear the Biden family... you don't like that you want all of your allegations about the Bidens to be true ... so bad that you keep trying to convince us that you are right... well, the facts show us you are delusional at best.... that you won't accept the truth no matter how many times it's shown to you ...

 

[billyerock123]

Give it up OP. The whole thing was exposed as a lie when the person who made it up was arrested for lying about it. Bwahahahahaha

that person is Alexander Smirnoff... he's in jail right now and the court has refused to post bond ... because of flight risk, they said, so these right-wing nut jobs are fucked and they can't stand it ... they hate it when they get exposed as liars ...

 

[AntonToo]

More here need to read this in its entirety.
Blows it all out of the water.

Dummy, where are the criminal referrals?

 

[westwall]

this is how these people like westwall respond when he can't prove what I said was a lie ... attack the truth with more lies....

no, you're the one that follows cultists... it's all over every post you make ...you don't accept what is happening to your attempts to smear the Biden family... you don't like that you want all of your allegations about the Bidens to be true ... so bad that you keep trying to convince us that you are right... well, the facts show us you are delusional at best.... that you won't accept the truth no matter how many times it's shown to you ...

We don't need to smear them.

They have 20 shell companies. What products do they provide?

 

[westwall]

Dummy, where are the criminal referrals?

Corruption you moron. Corruptocrats protect their own.

 

[billyerock123]

You are the one trying to continually attempting to bend the truth to fit your Walt Disney narrative.......not very hard to see. Your posts have nothing to do with the truth at all.

LOL...........look who now is displaying his skills using his s**t for brains methods.................

and you keep trying to use personal attacks to justify your lying ... I get it that's what you Republicans do ...you attack when you are proven to be a liar with childish remarks as you did here ... ... what next are you going to call me a poopie head ... grow up get a pair... when you're wrong the best thing you can do is learn from it...

 

[billyerock123]

We don't need to smear them.

They have 20 shell companies. What products do they provide?

name those 20 shell companies if you can ... i]ll wait ...in the meantime i'll post about the so-called Hunter crime family turning you into a bigger liar ... these are the house facts as we know it ...

If Your Time is short

• On May 10, House Republicans investigating the Biden family’s business dealings shared select bank records. The records show that Biden family members received more than $10 million from foreign companies during and after President Joe Biden’s earlier vice presidency.
• Claims that the findings prove the president himself was implicated in a bribery or corruption scandal are wrong and overstate what is supported by evidence.
• Hunter Biden’s business with a Chinese energy company and a Romanian businessman who was charged with corruption have been public knowledge for years. The bank records House Republicans shared provided some new details.

After House Republicans released bank records from their investigation into Biden family business dealings, the phrases "Biden crime family" and "Biden family corruption" dominated conservative banter online.
Conservative political commentator Tomi Lahren said she would be referring to the Bidens as "the Biden scamily" going forward. U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, wrote on Twitter that "Bank records trace $10 MILLION funneled to Biden Crime Family, their business associates and their companies."
Conservative radio show host Dan Bongino claimed on Twitter that the Republicans’ findings made it an indisputable fact that "Biden was running a shakedown operation."
The available information does not prove Biden himself knew about his family members’ business deals or benefited from the payments.
The released bank records show that businesses connected to the Biden family received more than $10 million from foreign companies, both during and after President Joe Biden’s vice presidency. Republicans have been investigating the Biden family’s business dealings for evidence of wrongdoing or conflicts of interest.
Discussing their findings with reporters, Republicans appeared to choose their words carefully — saying things like, "This could be the most corrupt scheme in American politics" and "We’re pretty confident that the president was very knowledgeable of what his family was doing" — that fell short of a smoking gun.
What’s confirmed and supported by facts, and what remains unsubstantiated? Here’s what we learned about the continuing investigation.
What are the Republicans investigating?
House Republicans launched multiple investigations after securing their narrow majority, including one examining the Biden family’s domestic and international business practices.
The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability says the investigation is meant to provide transparency and, if needed, could lead the committee to recommend new laws. Such changes might include requiring senior elected officials’ family members to publicly disclose foreign transactions. Another could call for quicker review of suspicious bank activity reports if they are linked to family members of a president or vice president. If the committee’s subpoenas face legal challenges, it must show in court that its investigation has legislative goals.
The Justice Department has separately been investigating Hunter Biden’s taxes and foreign business work since 2018. In April, Hunter Biden’s legal team met with Justice Department prosecutors to discuss the criminal investigation and potential charges, including tax evasion and a felony gun charge related to a firearm purchase, NBC News reported.
What did the Oversight Committee find?
On May 10, House Oversight Committee chair Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., told reporters that during Biden’s vice presidency, other Biden family members "capitalized on Joe Biden’s public office" and risked U.S. national security. The committee released a 36-page memo outlining its findings.
The committee subpoenaed four banks and received thousands of records, the memo said. Based on those records, the committee said Biden family members, associates and their companies received more than $10 million in payments from people or companies with foreign ties, during and after Biden’s vice presidency.
A selection of the released bank records show that, from 2015 to 2017, Biden family members received money from a foreign company connected to Gabriel Popoviciu, The New York Times reported. Popoviciu is a Romanian businessman who was convicted in Romania on criminal corruption charges.
Hunter Biden’s connection to Popoviciu has been public since before Biden was elected president. Government ethics experts in 2019 expressed concerns that Popoviciu tried to use Hunter Biden years earlier to avoid criminal prosecution — even as then-Vice President Joe Biden urged Romania to crack down on corruption. But no evidence has come to light showing Hunter Biden and Popoviciu’s business relationship violated laws.
The bank records also provided details about Biden family members’ business transactions with links to China. The transactions and Hunter Biden’s connection to a Chinese energy company, CEFC, have been known for some time. The memo provided new detail, including a copy of a bank transaction from Aug. 4, 2017, when CEFC wired $100,000 to Hunter Biden’s professional corporation.

A poster titled "China Payments to Bidens" is visible as House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman Rep. James Comer Jr., R-Ky., arrives for a news conference on their investigation into the Biden family on May 10, 2023. (AP)


In 2022, a Washington Post investigation into Hunter Biden’s connection with CEFC "did not find evidence that Joe Biden personally benefited from or knew details about the transactions with CEFC, which took place after he had left the vice presidency and before he announced his intentions to run for the White House in 2020."


Comer on May 14 told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that his office had lost touch with an informant in the investigation who had information into what Comer called "a quid pro quo with a foreign country in exchange for foreign aid."

A Comer spokesperson clarified the next day that the missing informant Comer had spoken of did not have information about a foreign bribery scheme but could talk about the "Biden family’s influence peddling schemes."


Ian Sams, White House spokesperson for oversight and investigations, told PolitiFact that Comer’s investigation lacks legitimacy.


"He has hidden information from the public to selectively leak and promote his own hand-picked narratives as part of his overall effort to lob personal attacks at the President and his family," Sams said.


Previously, Biden has falsely denied claims that his family members received money from China. A spokesperson said later that he’d been generally rebutting claims that his administration was corrupted by Chinese money, acco
to a New York Times report.


What’s still unproven?

Claims that the Oversight Committee implicated President Biden in a bribery or corruption scandal overstate what is supported by evidence.


When Comer was asked whether the committee could prove Biden’s direct involvement in the payments and business dealings, Comer said that he didn’t think anyone would believe that nine members of the Biden family receiving money was coincidental.

But the May 10 memo did not provide evidence that Biden took any official actions because of his family’s business decisions. None of the payments detailed in the memo were to the president himself. Additionally, the memo did not show that Biden knew about the payments at the time.


During the news conference, Comer was asked how he could discount the idea that Hunter Biden might have simply used his father’s name to get money without involvement from President Biden. He replied that it would be "hard for me to believe" that Hunter Biden’s charisma alone would convince people to wire millions of dollars to Biden family members.

We believe that there was a return on the investment," Comer said, without citing evidence. He said the committee will continue to look for evidence the president was involved with his family’s business practices. He provided no specific examples of Joe Biden’s policies or decisions the committee believed were influenced by his family’s business practices

Oversight Committee members repeatedly suggested that the existence of numerous Biden family-linked accounts and limited liability companies signaled wrongdoing.


The memo, however, did not provide evidence that Hunter Biden or other Biden family members violated the law.


Such payments and business practices could be subject to ethical scrutiny. Experts have told PolitiFact that it’s not uncommon for Chinese businesses with links to the Chinese government, for example, to court prominent Americans or their family members.


Comer pointed out that Biden’s family is not the first to face accusations of family members making money off of the family name. He mentioned President Jimmy Carter’s brother Billy Carter, who records showed received a loan of

If Your Time is short​

• On May 10, House Republicans investigating the Biden family’s business dealings shared select bank records. The records show that Biden family members received more than $10 million from foreign companies during and after President Joe Biden’s earlier vice presidency.
• Claims that the findings prove the president himself was implicated in a bribery or corruption scandal are wrong and overstate what is supported by evidence.
• Hunter Biden’s business with a Chinese energy company and a Romanian businessman who was charged with corruption have been public knowledge for years. The bank records House Republicans shared provided some new details.

After House Republicans released bank records from their investigation into Biden family business dealings, the phrases "Biden crime family" and "Biden family corruption" dominated conservative banter online.
Conservative political commentator Tomi Lahren said she would be referring to the Bidens as "the Biden scamily" going forward. U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, wrote on Twitter that "Bank records trace $10 MILLION funneled to Biden Crime Family, their business associates and their companies."
Conservative radio show host Dan Bongino claimed on Twitter that the Republicans’ findings made it an indisputable fact that "Biden was running a shakedown operation."
The available information does not prove Biden himself knew about his family members’ business deals or benefited from the payments.
The released bank records show that businesses connected to the Biden family received more than $10 million from foreign companies, both during and after President Joe Biden’s vice presidency. Republicans have been investigating the Biden family’s business dealings for evidence of wrongdoing or conflicts of interest.
Discussing their findings with reporters, Republicans appeared to choose their words carefully — saying things like, "This could be the most corrupt scheme in American politics" and "We’re pretty confident that the president was very knowledgeable of what his family was doing" — that fell short of a smoking gun.
What’s confirmed and supported by facts, and what remains unsubstantiated? Here’s what we learned about the continuing investigation.
What are the Republicans investigating?
House Republicans launched multiple investigations after securing their narrow majority, including one examining the Biden family’s domestic and international business practices.
The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability says the investigation is meant to provide transparency and, if needed, could lead the committee to recommend new laws. Such changes might include requiring senior elected officials’ family members to publicly disclose foreign transactions. Another could call for quicker review of suspicious bank activity reports if they are linked to family members of a president or vice president. If the committee’s subpoenas face legal challenges, it must show in court that its investigation has legislative goals.
The Justice Department has separately been investigating Hunter Biden’s taxes and foreign business work since 2018. In April, Hunter Biden’s legal team met with Justice Department prosecutors to discuss the criminal investigation and potential charges, including tax evasion and a felony gun charge related to a firearm purchase, NBC News reported.

What did the Oversight Committee find?
On May 10, House Oversight Committee chair Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., told reporters that during Biden’s vice presidency, other Biden family members "capitalized on Joe Biden’s public office" and risked U.S. national security. The committee released a 36-
page memo outlining its findings.
The committee subpoenaed four banks and received thousands of records, the memo said. Based on those records, the committee said Biden family members, associates and their companies received more than $10 million in payments from people or companies with foreign ties, during and after Biden’s vice presidency.
A selection of the released bank records show that, from 2015 to 2017, Biden family members received money from a foreign company connected to Gabriel Popoviciu, The New York Times reported. Popoviciu is a Romanian businessman who was convicted in Romania on criminal corruption charges.
Hunter Biden’s connection to Popoviciu has been public since before Biden was elected president. Government ethics experts in 2019 expressed concerns that Popoviciu tried to use Hunter Biden years earlier to avoid criminal prosecution — even as then-Vice President Joe Biden urged Romania to crack down on corruption. But no evidence has come to light showing Hunter Biden and Popoviciu’s business relationship violated laws.
The bank records also provided details about Biden family members’ business transactions with links to China. The transactions and Hunter Biden’s connection to a Chinese energy company, CEFC, have been known for some time. The memo provided new detail, including a copy of a bank transaction from Aug. 4, 2017, when CEFC wired $100,000 to Hunter Biden’s professional corporation.
A poster titled "China Payments to Bidens" is visible as House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman Rep. James Comer Jr., R-Ky., arrives for a news conference on their investigation into the Biden family on May 10, 2023. (AP)
In 2022, a Washington Post investigation into Hunter Biden’s connection with CEFC "did not find evidence that Joe Biden personally benefited from or knew details about the transactions with CEFC, which took place after he had left the vice presidency and before he announced his intentions to run for the White House in 2020."
Comer on May 14 told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that his office had lost touch with an informant in the investigation who had information into what Comer called "a quid pro quo with a foreign country in exchange for foreign aid."
A Comer spokesperson clarified the next day that the missing informant Comer had spoken of did not have information about a foreign bribery scheme but could talk about the "Biden family’s influence peddling schemes."
Ian Sams, White House spokesperson for oversight and investigations, told PolitiFact that Comer’s investigation lacks legitimacy.
"He has hidden information from the public to selectively leak and promote his own hand-picked narratives as part of his overall effort to lob personal attacks at the President and his family," Sams said.
Previously, Biden has falsely denied claims that his family members received money from China. A spokesperson said later that he’d been generally rebutting claims that his administration was corrupted by Chinese money, according to a New York Times report.
What’s still unproven?
Claims that the Oversight Committee implicated President Biden in a bribery or corruption scandal overstate what is supported by evidence.
When Comer was asked whether the committee could prove Biden’s direct involvement in the payments and business dealings, Comer said that he didn’t think anyone would believe that nine members of the Biden family receiving money was coincidental.
But the May 10 memo did not provide evidence that Biden took any official actions because of his family’s business decisions. None of the payments detailed in the memo were to the president himself. Additionally, the memo did not show that Biden knew about the payments at the time.
During the news conference, Comer was asked how he could discount the idea that Hunter Biden might have simply used his father’s name to get money without involvement from President Biden. He replied that it would be "hard for me to believe" that Hunter Biden’s charisma alone would convince people to wire millions of dollars to Biden family members.
"We believe that there was a return on the investment," Comer said, without citing evidence. He said the committee will continue to look for evidence the president was involved with his family’s business practices. He provided no specific examples of Joe Biden’s policies or decisions the committee believed were influenced by his family’s business practices.
Oversight Committee members repeatedly suggested that the existence of numerous Biden family-linked accounts and limited liability companies signaled wrongdoing.
The memo, however, did not provide evidence that Hunter Biden or other Biden family members violated the law.
Such payments and business practices could be subject to ethical scrutiny. Experts have told PolitiFact that it’s not uncommon for Chinese businesses with links to the Chinese government, for example, to court prominent Americans or their family members.
Comer pointed out that Biden’s family is not the first to face accusations of family members making money off of the family name. He mentioned President Jimmy Carter’s brother Billy Carter, who records showed received a loan of more than $200,000 from Libya before he registered as a foreign agent representing Libya. Comer also mentioned President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner’s business practices. Wealth funds linked to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar invested hundreds of millions in Kushner’s private equity firm after the Trump presidency, according to reporting by The New York Times. (Comer dropped a House committee investigation into Kushner’s dealings, the Times also reported.)
"This has been a pattern for a long time," Comer said. "Republicans and Democrats have both complained about presidents’ families receiving money."

 

[billyerock123]

did ya read it westwal ???l i doubt it ...

 

[Care4all]

This article is quite revealing, ties all kinds of lies that were previously told into fact. Long read but well worth it.

March 29, 2023

Ukraine and the FBI: Profiles in Corruption​

By John O'Connor

Two cases of corruption have recently come to the fore, both involving foreign countries. Significantly for U.S. citizens, both of these shed light on questionable activities of Hunter Biden regarding vital United States foreign interests. Whether they also provide inference to be drawn about President Biden’s document retention then becomes question for the jury of public opinion.

One of these cases involves the recent raid by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the home of Ukraine's most corrupt oligarchic Igor Kolomoisky for allegedly embezzling one billion dollars from Ukraine's two largest oil companies. This follows sanctions on Kolomoisky by the United States in 2021 in a ban on travel into the United States for him and his family. Zelensky knows he must punish corruption to continue to receive foreign aid for his war against Russia.

The second corruption case to come to light is the indictment of former high level FBI counterintelligence agent Charles McGonigal. While the head of the FBI's counterintelligence office in New York from 2016 to 2018 and thereafter, he had undisclosed corrupt relationships featuring large amounts of cash payments with both agents of corrupt Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, and agents of Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, whom Russiagate special counsel Robert Mueller has stated was closely aligned with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Both cases are quite clearly stomach-turning stories of a high-level FBI agent using his position to advance the adverse interest of foreign rivals. However, at first blush they appear to have little to do with any serious connection with the United States, so why should any of us care?

Let's first pick the low hanging fruit about which we've previously discussed regarding Igor Kolomoisky. Please recall that in April and May of 2014, Hunter Biden and his partner Devon Archer were hired as directors by Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, each for $1 million annually. Hunter Biden also received lucrative assignments for a law firm with which he was associated. The controlling owner of Burisma? Yes, you guessed it: Igor Kolomoisky, the majority silent partner behind the seeming number one official (but really number two), Burisma President Mycola Zlochevsky. The number three official was Vadym Pozharskiy.

After Hunter was hired, good things began to happen for Igor Kolomoisky. For instance, he was finally able to get a visa to travel into the United States for him and his family which required influence with the State Dept.

After our Ukrainian point man, then-Vice President Joe Biden, pushed through $3 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine, much was routed for Ukraine's biggest financial institution, PrivatBank, $1.7 billion of which went to loans of PrivatBank from its branch in Cyprus. The loans were to six companies secured by contracts for delivery of goods from overseas companies. The money flowed out to the vendors, but goods never floated in, and the owners of PrivatBank made $1.7 billion, all through these overseas shell companies. The chief owner of PrivatBank? Igor Kolomoisky, a client of Hunter Biden.

Eventually, PrivatBank went into the hole for $5.6 billion, all seemingly into the pockets of Kolomoisky and associates. Kolomoisky was not arrested or imprisoned and lived with impunity in Ukraine through 2016. However, as Vice President Joe Biden was leaving office, Kolomoisky fled Ukraine. Had he previously been protected, we ask?

When Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin investigated Burisma for corruption and raided the home of Mykola Zlochevsky, Hunter Biden became extremely active. The upshot was that Hunter’s father famously got Shokin fired by threatening to withhold $1 billion in financial aid unless he was terminated.

Corruption cases filed against Burisma were settled favorably to Burisma, after the cases were switched from Shokin’s prosecutorial office to a nongovernmental National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) influenced by an FBI agent placed by FBI Director James Comey.

Now to McGonigal. McGonigal took cash from Oleg Deripaska’s agent to help lift U.S. sanctions against him and investigate a rival oligarch, both tasked using American intelligence resources. He also took money from a former Albanian intelligence officer to convince corrupt Prime Minister Rama not to award oil drilling contracts to certain Russian front companies and steer them to companies with whom he was associated. What was one company? It appears to have been CEFC China Energy.

A key link noted in the McGonigal indictment to the Albanian prime minister was an unnamed person who in fact is one Dorian Ducka. Ducka was employed by the Chinese global energy firm CEFC; he was also so close to Prime Minister Rama that he held the title of Albania's “adviser of investments.” It appears that CEFC was corruptly influencing Rama to get drilling contracts.

Hunter Biden was also retained by CEFC, an official of which gave him a 3.16 carat diamond and a $100,000 shopping spree. Hunter and associates made an easy five million dollars arranging the purchase by CEFC of U.S. and Canadian Energy assets which had to be approved by U.S. government agencies.

Recall that Tony Bobulinski claimed, in reference to his and Hunter’s CEFC dealings, that 10% of the venture's ownership was for “the Big Guy,” who he claimed, quite reasonably, was Joe Biden.
In 2017, the United States indicted CEFC official Patrick Ho for trying to bribe officials in Chad and Uganda to obtain oil drilling contracts for CEFC. Ho’s first call after arrest? James Biden, Joe Biden's brother.

Quickly, Hunter represented Ho to hire Ho’s criminal defense lawyer, Ed Kim. Kim quickly asked Hunter for the names of certain FBI officials whom Hunter knew. We do not know their names but it's logical that one might be CEFC-influenced FBI agent, Charles McGonigal.
Recall that McGonigal’s conduit to Rama was the CEFC's Dorian Ducka. On Hunter’s laptop has an e-mail chain with his CEFC group about “taking care of” with “remuneration” Dorian Ducka for his help early on. It seems that a major activity of CEFC was corrupt procurement of energy assets for the energy hungry importer, China. Did the CEFC believe it was buying influence with United States government through Hunter? That certainly is a possible inference. CEFC has now declared itself bankrupt, sanctions that do not happen unless the Chinese government wants it to happen. The public heat on CEFC, especially after Hunter’s laptop was discovered was clearly too much even for China.

Now let’s return to Burisma. While Joe Biden has claimed to have no connection to Hunter’s business dealings, the laptop from hell shows Burisma #3 Pozharsky emailing Hunter for his unspecified help shortly after Hunter was hired. Then a year later, ss Shokin turned up the pressure on Burisma, Pozharsky met with Vice President Biden, as arranged by Hunter Biden for which Pozharsky thanked Hunter by e-mail. Months later, Shokin was fired.

When Hunter was auditioning to be hired by Burisma, he sent a lengthy e-mail about Ukrainian offshore drilling prospects as affected both by Russian actions and U.S. sanctions, sounding suspiciously like it had been lifted from a U.S. high level intelligence briefing. The purpose was not, it seems, to convince Hunter’s prospective client that he himself was a brilliant foreign policy adviser. Rather, it was to convince the recipient that he had access to confidential intelligence resources, as the intelligence jargon of his report proves.

We now know that the Penn-Biden Center for Global Engagement was started by Vice President Biden as he left office. It was financed by a reported $67 million in Chinese money. We know that the most valuable U.S. intelligence tools are presidential briefings. Presidential briefings from 2013 through 2016 were among the documents recently uncovered at the Penn Biden Center. There is a picture on Hunter’s laptop of the bankers box of documents with the word “important” scrawled on top with reference to the documents contained in the box.

A number of classified documents were found at Joe Biden's home purportedly rented by Hunter for $50,000 a month. That seems like a lot of money. In short, it may well be that these classified documents had been curated, selected and used for a specific purpose. Hunter is still receiving profits from his 10% ownership in the multi-billion-dollar Bohai Harvest fund financed by the bank of China.

Is there a connection here to the soft reboot of our China policy by the Biden Administration? That same administration is also going easy on the corrupt Albanian regime heavily connected to the main Mexican drug cartel, Sinaloa, along with Albania laundering cartel money and serving as the main European entry point for cocaine. Rama’s corrupt, drug enabling government has not been sanctioned recently by the Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. However, Roma’s conservative rival and former prime Minister Sali Berisha, out of office for eight years and not the seeming imminent problem that the current prime minister is, was sanctioned for corruption. But the man closest to Rama is also close to Hunter Biden, that is, Dorian Ducka.

A final note: oligarch Oleg Deripaska played a prime role in pushing the Russiagate canard against President Trump. Inspector General Michael Horowitz detailed how the Justice Department’s #4 official, Bruce Ohr, lobbied to help Deripaska, explaining to his associates that Deripaska was helping to get Donald Trump.

And, yes, Christopher Steele of Steele Dossier fame was working for the Clinton campaign, but his main years-long patron was – you guessed it – Oleg Deripaska. One of the first FBI reports on Christopher Steele came to the FBI via its London agent to the New York Field office for handling. The agent in charge: Charles McGonigal.

Do we remember Donald Trump was impeached for his call to new Ukrainian President Zelensky, seeking a corruption investigation of the Bidens. Who was Zelensky’s main supporter recently entering the country from his 2016 exile? Igor Kolomoisky.
Lastly, recall that a main witness in the impeachment proceedings against Trump was former Ukraine Ambassador Maria Yovanovich, who had been installed right before Trump took Office, at the behest of VP Joe Biden.

So, when Trump took office, his enemies were in place and they got him before he could get them. James Comey being one such prominent figure, Yovanonich another, and Putin’s friend Deripaska yet another.

When Biden Administration acolytes dismiss any suggestion of corrupt dealings centered around Hunter Biden, perhaps involving his father, and poo-pooing the seemingly problematic retention by his father of valuable classified documents, perhaps raised eyebrows are in order.

Dell, every bit of the article is spun fake news..... You would know that if you had kept up with the actual news instead of this propaganda crap.

 

[westwall]

name those 20 shell companies if you can ... i]ll wait ...in the meantime i'll post about the so-called Hunter crime family turning you into a bigger liar ... these are the house facts as we know it ...

If Your Time is short

• On May 10, House Republicans investigating the Biden family’s business dealings shared select bank records. The records show that Biden family members received more than $10 million from foreign companies during and after President Joe Biden’s earlier vice presidency.
• Claims that the findings prove the president himself was implicated in a bribery or corruption scandal are wrong and overstate what is supported by evidence.
• Hunter Biden’s business with a Chinese energy company and a Romanian businessman who was charged with corruption have been public knowledge for years. The bank records House Republicans shared provided some new details.

After House Republicans released bank records from their investigation into Biden family business dealings, the phrases "Biden crime family" and "Biden family corruption" dominated conservative banter online.
Conservative political commentator Tomi Lahren said she would be referring to the Bidens as "the Biden scamily" going forward. U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, wrote on Twitter that "Bank records trace $10 MILLION funneled to Biden Crime Family, their business associates and their companies."
Conservative radio show host Dan Bongino claimed on Twitter that the Republicans’ findings made it an indisputable fact that "Biden was running a shakedown operation."
The available information does not prove Biden himself knew about his family members’ business deals or benefited from the payments.
The released bank records show that businesses connected to the Biden family received more than $10 million from foreign companies, both during and after President Joe Biden’s vice presidency. Republicans have been investigating the Biden family’s business dealings for evidence of wrongdoing or conflicts of interest.
Discussing their findings with reporters, Republicans appeared to choose their words carefully — saying things like, "This could be the most corrupt scheme in American politics" and "We’re pretty confident that the president was very knowledgeable of what his family was doing" — that fell short of a smoking gun.
What’s confirmed and supported by facts, and what remains unsubstantiated? Here’s what we learned about the continuing investigation.
What are the Republicans investigating?
House Republicans launched multiple investigations after securing their narrow majority, including one examining the Biden family’s domestic and international business practices.
The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability says the investigation is meant to provide transparency and, if needed, could lead the committee to recommend new laws. Such changes might include requiring senior elected officials’ family members to publicly disclose foreign transactions. Another could call for quicker review of suspicious bank activity reports if they are linked to family members of a president or vice president. If the committee’s subpoenas face legal challenges, it must show in court that its investigation has legislative goals.
The Justice Department has separately been investigating Hunter Biden’s taxes and foreign business work since 2018. In April, Hunter Biden’s legal team met with Justice Department prosecutors to discuss the criminal investigation and potential charges, including tax evasion and a felony gun charge related to a firearm purchase, NBC News reported.
What did the Oversight Committee find?
On May 10, House Oversight Committee chair Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., told reporters that during Biden’s vice presidency, other Biden family members "capitalized on Joe Biden’s public office" and risked U.S. national security. The committee released a 36-page memo outlining its findings.
The committee subpoenaed four banks and received thousands of records, the memo said. Based on those records, the committee said Biden family members, associates and their companies received more than $10 million in payments from people or companies with foreign ties, during and after Biden’s vice presidency.
A selection of the released bank records show that, from 2015 to 2017, Biden family members received money from a foreign company connected to Gabriel Popoviciu, The New York Times reported. Popoviciu is a Romanian businessman who was convicted in Romania on criminal corruption charges.
Hunter Biden’s connection to Popoviciu has been public since before Biden was elected president. Government ethics experts in 2019 expressed concerns that Popoviciu tried to use Hunter Biden years earlier to avoid criminal prosecution — even as then-Vice President Joe Biden urged Romania to crack down on corruption. But no evidence has come to light showing Hunter Biden and Popoviciu’s business relationship violated laws.
The bank records also provided details about Biden family members’ business transactions with links to China. The transactions and Hunter Biden’s connection to a Chinese energy company, CEFC, have been known for some time. The memo provided new detail, including a copy of a bank transaction from Aug. 4, 2017, when CEFC wired $100,000 to Hunter Biden’s professional corporation.

A poster titled "China Payments to Bidens" is visible as House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman Rep. James Comer Jr., R-Ky., arrives for a news conference on their investigation into the Biden family on May 10, 2023. (AP)


In 2022, a Washington Post investigation into Hunter Biden’s connection with CEFC "did not find evidence that Joe Biden personally benefited from or knew details about the transactions with CEFC, which took place after he had left the vice presidency and before he announced his intentions to run for the White House in 2020."


Comer on May 14 told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that his office had lost touch with an informant in the investigation who had information into what Comer called "a quid pro quo with a foreign country in exchange for foreign aid."

A Comer spokesperson clarified the next day that the missing informant Comer had spoken of did not have information about a foreign bribery scheme but could talk about the "Biden family’s influence peddling schemes."


Ian Sams, White House spokesperson for oversight and investigations, told PolitiFact that Comer’s investigation lacks legitimacy.


"He has hidden information from the public to selectively leak and promote his own hand-picked narratives as part of his overall effort to lob personal attacks at the President and his family," Sams said.


Previously, Biden has falsely denied claims that his family members received money from China. A spokesperson said later that he’d been generally rebutting claims that his administration was corrupted by Chinese money, acco
to a New York Times report.


What’s still unproven?

Claims that the Oversight Committee implicated President Biden in a bribery or corruption scandal overstate what is supported by evidence.


When Comer was asked whether the committee could prove Biden’s direct involvement in the payments and business dealings, Comer said that he didn’t think anyone would believe that nine members of the Biden family receiving money was coincidental.

But the May 10 memo did not provide evidence that Biden took any official actions because of his family’s business decisions. None of the payments detailed in the memo were to the president himself. Additionally, the memo did not show that Biden knew about the payments at the time.


During the news conference, Comer was asked how he could discount the idea that Hunter Biden might have simply used his father’s name to get money without involvement from President Biden. He replied that it would be "hard for me to believe" that Hunter Biden’s charisma alone would convince people to wire millions of dollars to Biden family members.

We believe that there was a return on the investment," Comer said, without citing evidence. He said the committee will continue to look for evidence the president was involved with his family’s business practices. He provided no specific examples of Joe Biden’s policies or decisions the committee believed were influenced by his family’s business practices

Oversight Committee members repeatedly suggested that the existence of numerous Biden family-linked accounts and limited liability companies signaled wrongdoing.


The memo, however, did not provide evidence that Hunter Biden or other Biden family members violated the law.


Such payments and business practices could be subject to ethical scrutiny. Experts have told PolitiFact that it’s not uncommon for Chinese businesses with links to the Chinese government, for example, to court prominent Americans or their family members.


Comer pointed out that Biden’s family is not the first to face accusations of family members making money off of the family name. He mentioned President Jimmy Carter’s brother Billy Carter, who records showed received a loan of

If Your Time is short​

• On May 10, House Republicans investigating the Biden family’s business dealings shared select bank records. The records show that Biden family members received more than $10 million from foreign companies during and after President Joe Biden’s earlier vice presidency.
• Claims that the findings prove the president himself was implicated in a bribery or corruption scandal are wrong and overstate what is supported by evidence.
• Hunter Biden’s business with a Chinese energy company and a Romanian businessman who was charged with corruption have been public knowledge for years. The bank records House Republicans shared provided some new details.

After House Republicans released bank records from their investigation into Biden family business dealings, the phrases "Biden crime family" and "Biden family corruption" dominated conservative banter online.
Conservative political commentator Tomi Lahren said she would be referring to the Bidens as "the Biden scamily" going forward. U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, wrote on Twitter that "Bank records trace $10 MILLION funneled to Biden Crime Family, their business associates and their companies."
Conservative radio show host Dan Bongino claimed on Twitter that the Republicans’ findings made it an indisputable fact that "Biden was running a shakedown operation."
The available information does not prove Biden himself knew about his family members’ business deals or benefited from the payments.
The released bank records show that businesses connected to the Biden family received more than $10 million from foreign companies, both during and after President Joe Biden’s vice presidency. Republicans have been investigating the Biden family’s business dealings for evidence of wrongdoing or conflicts of interest.
Discussing their findings with reporters, Republicans appeared to choose their words carefully — saying things like, "This could be the most corrupt scheme in American politics" and "We’re pretty confident that the president was very knowledgeable of what his family was doing" — that fell short of a smoking gun.
What’s confirmed and supported by facts, and what remains unsubstantiated? Here’s what we learned about the continuing investigation.
What are the Republicans investigating?
House Republicans launched multiple investigations after securing their narrow majority, including one examining the Biden family’s domestic and international business practices.
The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability says the investigation is meant to provide transparency and, if needed, could lead the committee to recommend new laws. Such changes might include requiring senior elected officials’ family members to publicly disclose foreign transactions. Another could call for quicker review of suspicious bank activity reports if they are linked to family members of a president or vice president. If the committee’s subpoenas face legal challenges, it must show in court that its investigation has legislative goals.
The Justice Department has separately been investigating Hunter Biden’s taxes and foreign business work since 2018. In April, Hunter Biden’s legal team met with Justice Department prosecutors to discuss the criminal investigation and potential charges, including tax evasion and a felony gun charge related to a firearm purchase, NBC News reported.

What did the Oversight Committee find?
On May 10, House Oversight Committee chair Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., told reporters that during Biden’s vice presidency, other Biden family members "capitalized on Joe Biden’s public office" and risked U.S. national security. The committee released a 36-
page memo outlining its findings.
The committee subpoenaed four banks and received thousands of records, the memo said. Based on those records, the committee said Biden family members, associates and their companies received more than $10 million in payments from people or companies with foreign ties, during and after Biden’s vice presidency.
A selection of the released bank records show that, from 2015 to 2017, Biden family members received money from a foreign company connected to Gabriel Popoviciu, The New York Times reported. Popoviciu is a Romanian businessman who was convicted in Romania on criminal corruption charges.
Hunter Biden’s connection to Popoviciu has been public since before Biden was elected president. Government ethics experts in 2019 expressed concerns that Popoviciu tried to use Hunter Biden years earlier to avoid criminal prosecution — even as then-Vice President Joe Biden urged Romania to crack down on corruption. But no evidence has come to light showing Hunter Biden and Popoviciu’s business relationship violated laws.
The bank records also provided details about Biden family members’ business transactions with links to China. The transactions and Hunter Biden’s connection to a Chinese energy company, CEFC, have been known for some time. The memo provided new detail, including a copy of a bank transaction from Aug. 4, 2017, when CEFC wired $100,000 to Hunter Biden’s professional corporation.
A poster titled "China Payments to Bidens" is visible as House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman Rep. James Comer Jr., R-Ky., arrives for a news conference on their investigation into the Biden family on May 10, 2023. (AP)
In 2022, a Washington Post investigation into Hunter Biden’s connection with CEFC "did not find evidence that Joe Biden personally benefited from or knew details about the transactions with CEFC, which took place after he had left the vice presidency and before he announced his intentions to run for the White House in 2020."
Comer on May 14 told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that his office had lost touch with an informant in the investigation who had information into what Comer called "a quid pro quo with a foreign country in exchange for foreign aid."
A Comer spokesperson clarified the next day that the missing informant Comer had spoken of did not have information about a foreign bribery scheme but could talk about the "Biden family’s influence peddling schemes."
Ian Sams, White House spokesperson for oversight and investigations, told PolitiFact that Comer’s investigation lacks legitimacy.
"He has hidden information from the public to selectively leak and promote his own hand-picked narratives as part of his overall effort to lob personal attacks at the President and his family," Sams said.
Previously, Biden has falsely denied claims that his family members received money from China. A spokesperson said later that he’d been generally rebutting claims that his administration was corrupted by Chinese money, according to a New York Times report.
What’s still unproven?
Claims that the Oversight Committee implicated President Biden in a bribery or corruption scandal overstate what is supported by evidence.
When Comer was asked whether the committee could prove Biden’s direct involvement in the payments and business dealings, Comer said that he didn’t think anyone would believe that nine members of the Biden family receiving money was coincidental.
But the May 10 memo did not provide evidence that Biden took any official actions because of his family’s business decisions. None of the payments detailed in the memo were to the president himself. Additionally, the memo did not show that Biden knew about the payments at the time.
During the news conference, Comer was asked how he could discount the idea that Hunter Biden might have simply used his father’s name to get money without involvement from President Biden. He replied that it would be "hard for me to believe" that Hunter Biden’s charisma alone would convince people to wire millions of dollars to Biden family members.
"We believe that there was a return on the investment," Comer said, without citing evidence. He said the committee will continue to look for evidence the president was involved with his family’s business practices. He provided no specific examples of Joe Biden’s policies or decisions the committee believed were influenced by his family’s business practices.
Oversight Committee members repeatedly suggested that the existence of numerous Biden family-linked accounts and limited liability companies signaled wrongdoing.
The memo, however, did not provide evidence that Hunter Biden or other Biden family members violated the law.
Such payments and business practices could be subject to ethical scrutiny. Experts have told PolitiFact that it’s not uncommon for Chinese businesses with links to the Chinese government, for example, to court prominent Americans or their family members.
Comer pointed out that Biden’s family is not the first to face accusations of family members making money off of the family name. He mentioned President Jimmy Carter’s brother Billy Carter, who records showed received a loan of more than $200,000 from Libya before he registered as a foreign agent representing Libya. Comer also mentioned President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner’s business practices. Wealth funds linked to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar invested hundreds of millions in Kushner’s private equity firm after the Trump presidency, according to reporting by The New York Times. (Comer dropped a House committee investigation into Kushner’s dealings, the Times also reported.)
"This has been a pattern for a long time," Comer said. "Republicans and Democrats have both complained about presidents’ families receiving money."

Nice wall of text. The companies have been named.

What products do they sell?

Simple question.

Answer it.

 

[AntonToo]

Corruption you moron. Corruptocrats protect their own.

Oh I see, so Comer and Jim Jordan are in on a corrupt coverup for Joe Biden.

Amazing. Everyone knows you are cuckoo for cocoa puffs, but still, just amazing.