From Marco Polo
II. BUSINESS-RELATED CRIMES
The following three sections of this Report are in order of their relative importance to the American citizenry. Naturally, the Biden family’s business crimes came first, as what the family sold—influence over the direction of public policy and access to the people who directed it (whether overtly or, as in many cases, covertly)—affects every American citizen, regardless of how he or she feels about, say, marijuana laws or judicial philosophy. Said differently, the family’s numerous sex and drug-related crimes are critical to understanding them, particularly their egregious hypocrisy and double standards; however, an impartial view of the situation clearly showed how their entanglements in international business and politics were the paramount national security threat on the laptop. In fact, the Bidens’ dealings changed the course of history, particularly America’s relationship with its most formidable opponent: the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Do not take Marco Polo’s word for it; in this section, the exhibits themselves—many taken directly from the Biden Laptop—will confirm our statement.
Joe’s longtime confidant and “wise man” who replaced him in the Senate when he became vice president, Ted Kaufman, described the environment which produced these business crimes (both large and small) as the “Delaware Way.” In fact, Kaufman credited Joe as “kind of the person who helped create the Delaware Way.” And while many commentators posit that Beau was the 308, 309 spitting image of his father, Hunter edged out Beau at Joe’s corruption tango. Indeed, Hunter’s entire life, not just his professional career, was a kaleidoscope of shell companies, large round-dollar wire 310 transfers, and corrupt foreign (and domestic) oligarchs. American history is replete with white and 311 blue collar crime families, and the Bidens are a unique mix of both. The family was involved in both petty and elaborate financial corruption schemes, eastern European energy companies, and 312 multimillion dollar “consulting” contracts with firms run by CCP-linked operatives. Said differently, shell companies are as common with the Bidens as shellfish off the coast of Nantucket, where the Bidens spend every Thanksgiving. This section was written with the goal of cracking open these numerous 313 shells. The media—and the U.S. Congress—bathe in Bucket #1 below. Many so-called conservative writers typically reveal findings from Bucket #2, but Marco Polo strove to write a comprehensive Report about Bucket #3—the bucket that really matters to the American people and their future.
Sketchy or, in legalese, “raises the potential for a conflict of interest”
Bucket #1
“Smell smoke from a fire”
Unethical and nepotistic, but not enough information to prove illegality
Bucket #2
“See smoke from a fire”
Definitively illegal, with perhaps both civil and criminal penalties
Bucket #3
“The fire is visible”
What did Bucket #3 contain after a comprehensive review of the Biden Laptop? Only a table with four columns adequately conveyed the contents. The business crimes listed below are in the order in 314 which they appear in the Report. Unless stated otherwise, Hunter was involved in the criminal act and those listed in the third column are his accomplices (or, in some cases, Hunter’s co-conspirator(s)).
When Where(Venue) Who (Accomplice(s)) What
01/08/2011 D.D.C. Devon Archer & Eric Schwerin 18 USC § 371 [ see pages 56-57, 58,59 for tables at link below ]
The vehicles through which the aforementioned crimes were committed are numerous. Nearly half of the entities listed in the table below are shell companies, which obfuscated true ownership. They 315 are listed as they appear in the formation documents in the jurisdiction in which they were registered. [above tables]
The nonprofit industrial complex served Hunter well as a resume booster and networking conduit: 316[above tables]
The business model for Hunter and Joe’s siblings was simple but required walking a high and delicate tightrope: sell Joe’s influence over the American government as its pResident (and previously as its vice president and the senior Senator from Delaware) and execute the “Delaware Way” while attracting as little law enforcement attention as possible. This tightrope required scant knowledge in the nitty-gritty of business operations; after meticulously reviewing 128,000+ emails on the Biden Laptop, Marco Polo is confident in confirming that Hunter did almost nothing in the way of day-to-day business management. Instead, he served in puff positions as a figurehead for an array of vanilla 317 organizations—such as the Center for National Policy—all the way down to the gutter of American politics: lobbying on behalf of online gambling companies. One of Hunter’s few public speaking 318 engagements was on 11/04/2015—he accepted an award on behalf of his deceased brother, Beau.319 [p59@pdf]
FIXERS
So, who actually made all of this work? An operation of this size cannot be managed by one family alone. The Bidens’ band of loyal fixers is extremely large. We explored the key ones:
KEVIN MORRIS
The husband of “one of the most powerful women in the entertainment industry” paid off a nearly $3M bill for back taxes that Hunter owed to the IRS. 320 Kevin Morris—the husband of Gaby Morgerman, an agent for Miley Cyrus and other former A-list celebrities—has been a legal fixer for the upper brass in Hollywood for decades. When not gallivanting around the globe with his client, Matthew McConaughey, Morris negotiates on behalf of South park’s creators, 321 whose show has made the Pennsylvania native wealthy. On the side of those moneymaking endeavors, Morris threatens those who he sees as Hunter’s 322 opponents and cooks up ridiculous PR and media strategies for his defense.323,324 [p60pdf]
One of the strategies that Morris employed—with the help of filmmakers, Jason Kohn and Robb Bindler—involved infiltrating the set of the aforementioned biopic, My Son Hunter. Morris took advantage of the kind but gullible producer of the biopic, an immigrant named Phelim McALEER.325 [p61 pdf]]
Based on the obviously deceptive tactics that Morris and his co-schemers perpetrated, McALEER 326 filed a complaint with the State Bar of California—Morris broke three codified rules, at the very least.[p62pdf]
ARCHERS: DEVON AND KRISTA
A convicted felon who was sentenced to a year in federal 327 prison, Devon Archer has been by Hunter’s side for decades, as they overlapped at Yale in the late 1990s. A former Abercrombie & Fitch model from Long Island, Archer was described by Hunter as his “best friend in business.” Archer was the vice chairman of finance for John Kerry’s failed 2004 presidential campaign, where he teamed up with his college pal Chris Heinz, Kerry’s stepson. Hunter and Archer traversed the globe together with Secret Service protection and secured state-backed financing from communist and post-Soviet regimes. No business risk was off the table for the two, which eventually scared away Heinz (and others). In fact, Archer even used his son’s grade school assignment as a pretext to meet with Joe at the White 328 House. In Hunter’s mind, Devon was a part of the family: “That’s the way Biden 329 are different and you are a Biden. It’s the price of power and the people questioning you truly have none where as you do through perseverance and poise"[p63@pdf]
ERIC SCHWERIN
Hunter also met Democrat political and business operative, Eric Schwerin, in the late 1990s when they were both at the Commerce Department, where Hunter was the “Executive Director of E-Commerce Policy Coordination” (even though he had zero experience in e-commerce). The partnership they forged 330 in government bled into the so-called “private sector,” although their work after their stint in the executive branch was almost completely untethered to free markets. Functionally, Eric was a well-paid babysitter for Hunter: he maintained and curated guest lists for White House functions, shared a joint bank account with Joe and paid his bills, and negotiated the settlement and alimony 331 agreement with Hunter’s first wife, Kathleen.
Schwerin was deeply embedded in Hunter’s personal life and the Biden political machinery for nearly twenty years, even sitting next to Joe in public at campaign events. For his handler services, Schwerin was 332 rewarded with a patronage gig: membership on the Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad. However, by January 2019, Hunter was threatening Schwerin (and their aide 333 Joan Mayer) with a lawsuit and nondisclosure agreement if Schwerin touched “one dime” of their Q4 Distribution from Eudora Global, LLC lest Schwerin lose his stake in their broker- dealer firm RSPI 334[p64pdf]
Jeff Cooper
A two-time failed congressional candidate from Illinois, Jeff Cooper made a 335 small fortune from the asbestos litigation gravy train with his old law firm, SimmonsCooper. He finagled his way into the inner Biden orbit by sending legal work to Beau Biden in the aughts; at that time, Joe was—conveniently, for Cooper and his partners—blocking asbestos litigation reform in the Senate.336 Joe made sure to pay back Beau’s benefactor in more ways than one by hosting Cooper and his soon-to-be ex-wife for a state dinner at the White 337 House with the South Korean president. Cooper was instrumental to Hunter’s 338 businesses and appeared to provide the acumen required to manage them.339 Along with frequently sending wire transfers to Hunter, Cooper rode on Air Force Two when the pair tried to broker a deal with Carlos SLIM, the world’s then-richest man.340[p65pdf]
WALKERS: ROB AND BETSY
The husband-and-wife duo of Rob and Betsy Walker has been in the shadows of American public life for three decades. They have, in their own way, been loyal foot soldiers for both the Clinton and Biden political syndicates. Hailing from Arkansas, Rob worked on the Clinton campaign and in Bill’s administration in the 1990s, and Betsy worked as the personal assistant to Jill Biden (Jill) through 2014. The most accurate portrait of Rob’s role was described by Rob himself: “I’ve generally been acting as a surrogate for Hunter around the country and abroad pursuing opportunities and…. I see myself continuing to do that.” Aside from being Hunter’s globetrotting stand-in, Walker has traversed 341 Latin America with Bill Clinton. Pilot Growth Equity, a firm owned, in part, by Walker, also invested heavily in a pandemic tracking company called Metabiota, the value of which has appreciated significantly since COVID surfaced. After her time working for Jill, Betsy ran a design business.342[p66pdf]
Hunter used Rob for facilitating payments, including and especially illegal ones, that Hunter did not want to be tied to directly. Rob’s shell company received $6 million from a CCP-linked firm, State 344 Energy HK Limited, one month after Joe left the vice presidency. A U.S. Senate report described it as such: “On February 23, 2017, and March 1, 2017, a Shanghai-based company called State Energy HK Limited sent two wires, each in the amount of $3,000,000, to a bank account for Robinson 345 Walker LLC.” A Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) noted that it “was unclear what the true 346, 347 purpose is behind these transactions and who the ultimate beneficiary is.” In short, Hunter 348 laundered money through Walker’s bank account and emailed Walker days before a $3 million wire from YE’s company hit Walker’s account: “Can you do another $20k to my account please? ”[p67pdf]
MEL MONZACK
For over five decades, Mel Monzack has been behind the scenes of the Biden political operation. Based on the contents of the Biden Laptop, Mel was the 349 most discreet mover and shaker, with a digital trail that Hunter should have envied. Monzack and Joe co-founded a law firm in Wilmington in the early 350 1970s and he has been, since 1987, Joe’s power of attorney. He also served 351 as the treasurer for Joe’s failed 2008 presidential campaign, which ended with multiple guilty pleas, hefty fines, and Monzack’s admission of fraud to the Federal Election Commission. Monzack also served as treasurer for Beau 352,353 Biden’s Attorney General campaign, along with other campaign slush funds.354 The back scratching has gone both ways: Monzack received a shoutout during Joe’s Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony. He—along with his wife, Ann, who is a fundraiser for Jewish 355,356 groups—also attended a state dinner at the White House in 2011 for the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. Monzack’s daughter, Nina, worked at the Delaware Department of 357, 358 Justice when Beau Biden was the Attorney General of Delaware. His son, Juddson, is an overt 359 supporter of a Marxist organization called Black Lives Matter. Mel’s niece, Elyssa Monzack, 360,361 happens to be the current chief of staff in a division at the National Institutes of Health(NIH) 362
Monzack’s law firm was the registered agent for both Joe and Jill’s S-corps and Ashley Biden’s 363,364 sweatshirt grift, “Livelihood.” The Bidens’ S-corps, which Monzack organized, shielded them 365,366,367 from hundreds of thousands of dollars in income taxes. Monzack’s firm is also the registered agent 368 for the Robinson Walker LLC which, as previously noted, received $6M from a CCP-linked entity 369 less than one month after Joe ended his term as vice president. The point is this: From the most sensitive and important matters (power of attorney and campaign treasurer) for the Bidens to the mundane (insurance bookkeeper), Monzack was always there. Mel was hardly mentioned—until now. [p68-69pdf]
The laptop confirmed the close relationship that Monzack shared with the entire clan, from wiring money to Hunter on Joe’s behalf (Hunter responded, “Thx love you”) to legal issues with the family’s so-called charity, the Beau Biden Foundation for the Protection of Children. Monzack also 370 managed trusts based in the Cook Islands with David Walsh I, another former Biden law partner.371,372[p69pdf]
GEORGE MESIRES
The Biden brothers and George Mesires go back decades, as Mesires 373 attended the Syracuse University College of Law in the early 1990s at the same time as Beau. A graduate of the tony Deerfield Academy prep school in Massachusetts, George is also a former assistant attorney general of New York. Mesires is from a family of lawyers whose love, according to George 374 himself in an iMessage to Hunter, “was conditioned.” George’s sister, Christina Mesires Fournaris, is a highfalutin lawyer in Philadelphia at Morgan Lewis.375 Mesires was often deputized to publicly and privately lie on Hunter’s behalf 376 on a wide range of issues—from Ukrainian oligarchs and Chinese private equity fund remunerations to Archer’s shell corporations and excuses to Kathleen for why Hunter’s alimony payments to her were repeatedly late. Hunter and Mesires had an extremely 377 unconventional relationship and often talked about the latest rap songs and Hunter’s many operating agreement disputes with Schwerin during the same conversation. For example, on 01/02/2019, Hunter told Mesires, his $845/hour lawyer (and surfing partner), that a song entitled, “break da 378 law,” was in an album that described Hunter’s “life without exaggeration for the past 3 years.” 379[p71pdf]
To demonstrate just how unconventional this particular lawyer-client relationship was between the two men, consider that Hunter took after his father by using an extremely pejorative term for Blacks 380 four different times on two separate occasions. In the morning on 12/13/2018, Hunter complained 381 to George about his fees: “Because nigga you better not be charging me Hennessy rates,” to which Mesires jovially shot back: “That made me snarf my coffee.” This sordid exchange between the pResident’s son and his attorney already has an entry on the tongue-in-cheek site, Urban Dictionary.
A few weeks later, on 01/01/2019, Hunter used the term in a statement describing his atheism: “nigga did you just use a fictional character [God] from the imagination of the collective frightened and my dead brother’s unconditional love is what I should rely on and my kids aren’t children George .”382[p72pdf]
JIMMY BULGER
In the preceding section, we compared the Biden political syndicate to a mafia—that comparison was certainly not hyperbole. From the legendary white-collar crime boss John Galanis to Boston’s Winter Hill Gang, Hunter’s direct and indirect connections with mobsters runs 383,384 the gamut. In fact, the nephew of the infamous leader of the Winter Hill Gang, “Whitey” Bulger, was one of Hunter’s key business partners. James Bulger, known as “Jimmy,” was actually named after his serial killer uncle, who was convicted of murdering at least eleven people. 385 Jimmy Bulger sat on the board of BHR with Hunter. BHR 386 was the state-backed Chinese investment fund that was registered just twelve days after Hunter joined his father on Air Force Two for a visit to China in December 2013. Jimmy’s firm, Thornton Group LLC, is deeply embedded with CCP cells in the United States and abroad. Bulger and Hunter can 387,388 be seen below relaxing with XIE Guoliang, who called Hunter a “close friend.”
Incredibly, in spite of the serial killing, Jimmy declared that Whitey was “not the monster they made him out to be.” One writer did not mince words 389 about Jimmy’s father, the longtime Democrat leader of the Massachusetts Senate who refused to cooperate with federal authorities: “The Ted Kaczynski brother decided it was more important that his brother be captured and not kill any more than to stay loyal to him… Bill Bulger [Whitey’s brother], in the face of a God-awful amount of horror, has made a dIfferent choice" 390 [p73pdf]
KEY CONFIDANTES
Steve Ricchetti
Ron Klain
Mike and Tom Donilon
Catherine Russell
The preeminent foot soldiers of the Biden political syndicate—those who have served on the inside of government—have a combined 130 years of service to Joe. The day-to-day operations of the American executive branch are being handled by these extremely guarded operators, all of whom have stuck with Joe through his multiple plagiarism scandals in the 80s, campaign finance violations in the aughts, and his (basement) campaign in 2020. The chairman of that campaign was Steve Ricchetti, a fixture in influential circles on the left since the early days of the Clinton White House, where he was hip-to-hip with John Podesta. Ricchetti has relished his new position in the Biden 391 administration, where he has secured employment for three of his children under the 392 watchful eye of Ron Klain, the chief of staff at the White House. The “chief strategist” 393 for the aforementioned campaign was Mike Donilon, who has been described as Joe’s “conscience.” Mike’s brother, Tom Donilon, was Obama’s national security advisor.394,395 Tom’s wife, Catherine Russell, was the longtime chief of staff to Jill and was Joe’s director of the White House personnel office for the first year of his pResidency; Russell became the executive director of UNICEF in February 2022.
However, Ted Kaufman 396 is in a league of his own, having served on Joe’s first Senate campaign in the 70s 397 and was both his successor in the U.S. Senate and chairman of the Biden Foundation 397[p74pdf]
CORE OF THE CRIMES
Several small volumes have been written about the Biden Laptop and the scandals therein, and 399 rightfully so. However, most of those volumes have been primarily dedicated to the aforementioned Buckets #1 & #2, along with the family’s moral depravity, while paying special attention to Hunter and Hallie. What these exposés omitted were the hundreds of documented crimes (both felonies and misdemeanors) and the necessary information to thoroughly expose and prosecute them. The Bidens’ nepotism, although egregious, was not easily actionable under U.S. law. These omissions have served as a classic limited hangout for the family, who benefitted from the milquetoast research put forward by most of the press. Nearly everyone who has written about these matters has buried the lede by missing—like ships passing in the dead of night—a statute that was written with Hunter and his ilk in mind: the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). The FARA requires those acting as 400 an agent for a “foreign principal” to register with the DOJ. FARA does not prevent any otherwise legal relationship or transaction between the parties; it merely requires the agent to register and declare for which foreign principal he is acting as an agent. Because the bar to comply with the FARA is so low, the penalties for violating the statute are relatively steep, including fines and up to five years in prison.
Hunter and his business partners flagrantly violated this law for nearly a decade. Do not take Marco Polo’s word for it; the exhibits in this section will clearly illustrate the aforementioned “5 Ws.” Even with the FARA’s low bar of mere disclosure, the DOJ OIG in the Obama-Biden regime released a report detailing how the DOJ lacked “a comprehensive FARA enforcement strategy.” The OIG 401,402 explicitly stated that many FBI agents do not even understand the law and are frustrated with the lack of guidance and overall communication between the FBI and the National Security Division in the DOJ. Nevertheless, this lack of “a comprehensive FARA enforcement strategy” did not stop the DOJ from using this exact law to prosecute Paul Manafort. In a sickeningly ironic twist, Joe’s feds 403, 404 used the FARA to “investigate” Rudy Giuliani’s quest to expose the Bidens’ crimes in the Ukraine.405[p75pdf]
Although repeatedly misattributed to Saul Alinsky, Joe’s apparatchiks in the FBI were actually 406 following Hunter’s modus operandi taken from Joseph GOEBBELS: accuse others of what you are, 407 in fact, guilty of doing or covering up. The Bidens have blamed their laptop debacle on the 408,409 Russians, Giuliani, and other actors supposedly working at the behest of foreign principals, for which they have no evidence. At the very same time, the Biden clan and their partners were actually 410, 411 unregistered agents for a plethora of foreign principals. The irony was not lost on Schwerin after he 412 read an article about Obama’s chief of staff: “I wonder why we stress about this [FARA] so much.” 413[p76pdf]
SUBPOENA—MAY 2019
The Bidens and those in their orbit had good reasons to worry—more than a million of them, in fact, as their financial statements and wire transfers revealed. During the course of writing this Report, a whistleblower—after realizing a purposeful delay from the DOJ was afoot—approached Marco Polo with a copy of a grand jury subpoena (an “external referral” in financial compliance industry 414 parlance) issued by the aforementioned U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, David Weiss. The whistleblower was a party to the subpoena, dated 05/15/2019, which sought Hunter and his partners’ financial transactions and other business records. The cover letter to the subpoena—which was signed by Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) Jamie McCall—bore the name of Lesley Wolf, who, because of her husband’s employment at Penn, should have recused herself per 28 CFR § 45.2. 415, 416[p77pdf]
Wolf issued the wide-ranging subpoena in case 19-3-LFWS-V-32, seeking records from Joe’s son 417 and brother, Jimmy. Fifteen companies, mostly shells used for money laundering, were included on the document. Predictably, most of the companies listed below will be on exhibits in this Report. The order demanded all transfers emanating to and from Account # 453365557784 at the Bank of China 418 (BKCHCNBJ), presumably alluding to Foreign Bank Account Registration violations (31 USC § 5314) that Hunter and his partners committed. In fact, the DOJ used this exact statute to indict Paul Manafort two years earlier: “United States citizens who have authority over certain foreign bank accounts -- whether or not the accounts are set up in the names of nominees who act for their principals -- have reporting obligations to the United States.” If the respondent from JP Morgan 419 Chase had questions about the subpoena, they were to contact IRS Special Agent Joe Ziegler. JP 420 Morgan was directed to send the responsive documents to Stefania Roca, a registered Democrat. 421
With this subpoena, we have definitive proof of a miscarriage of justice—because Marco Polo possessed a copy of the Biden Laptop, we can be certain that the bank, when it responded to the subpoena, would have produced evidence of multiple felonies. Regardless of whether it was Barr or Weiss who made the call to blatantly slow-walk the investigation, someone must be held accountable.[p78pdf]
The lack of accountability can be explained, in part, by the makeup and presumed biases of the law enforcement investigative team and their associates. For example, Ziegler’s partner is connected—at least socially—with Joe’s Monkeypox spokesman, Demetre Daskalakis, likely from Demetre’s stint at the CDC in Atlanta, where Ziegler and his partner are based. The wife of Jamie McCall is also an 422, 423 ardent supporter of the Marxist-inspired Black Lives Matter riots, which Joe heavily promoted in 2020.[p79pdf]
SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY REPORTS
Marco Polo was also provided two SARs which had been submitted to the U.S. Department of Treasury as a supplement to JP Morgan Chase’s response to the aforementioned subpoena. The 424 SARs revealed the international business networks and human trafficking rings that Hunter and his associates facilitated and patronized. More detail will be provided later in the Report, particularly in the SEX-RELATED CRIMES section, but, in the interest of complete transparency, the SARs are pasted below as-is. Footnotes and highlights were added for reference and clarification purposes:
SAR #1
JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. (“JPMC”) and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (“JPS”) is filing this Suspicious Activity Report (“SAR”) to report transactions involving current, former and non-customers of JPMC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC; ROBERT HUNTER BIDEN (“ROBERT”), DEVON D. ARCHER 425 (“DEVON”), and THORSDALE FIDUCIARY AND GUARANTY COMPANY LTD (“THORSDALE”), 426 ERIC D SCHWERIN (“ERIC”), ROSEMONT SENECA BOHAI LLC, ROSEMONT SENECA 427,428 ADVISORS, OWASCO P.C (“OWASCO”), BURISMA HOLDINGS LIMITED (“BURISMA”), and BOHAI HARVEST RST (SHANGHAI) EQUITY INVESTMENT FUND MANAGEMENT CO LTD (“BOHAI 429 HARVEST”) for 93 wires between 02/03/2014 and 08/02/2019 totaling $2,461,962.60. The SAR is being filed to report wire activity involving parties linked to a Politically Exposed Person (“PEP”) 430 with negative media for possible political corruption; as well as, alleged business conflicts involving related companies and individuals.
After receipt of an external referral, JPMC conducted a review of focal subjects ROBERT, DEVON, 431 ERIC, OWASCO, ROSEMONT SENECA ADVISORS, ROSEMONT SENECA BOHAI LLC, and BOHAI HARVEST. No counterparties will be listed as subjects in the filing because the transaction activity for the counterparties is expected activity, with the exception of THORSDALE, who was listed as a subject in a prior SAR with DEVON.
Internal records revealed ROBERT is a former JPMC customer. Research revealed he is an American lawyer and PEP, as he is the second son of former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden. Negative media was found on Robert for alleged business conflicts. For example, ROBERT worked for a U.S.-based company which received monthly transfers exceeding $166,000 per month from BURISMA (a natural gas company in the Ukrainian oil and gas market) while the vice president was leading the U.S. policy with the Ukrainian government. (ijr.com/biden-questioned-after-forcing-out-ukrainian-official- investigating-his-son).432
Internal records revealed DEVON is a former JPMC and JPS Customer. Research revealed Devon is Robert’s business associate and has been convicted of conspiracy and securities fraud. According to the SDNY press release, Devon and two other defendants were convicted of orchestrating a scheme to defraud investors and a Native American tribal entity of tens of millions of dollars. However, in 2018 a federal judge overturned the conviction.
(justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/three-convicted-manhattan
federal-court-fraudulent-issuance-and-sale-more-60-million; reuters.com/article/us-usa-crime-433
tribal bonds/judge-overturns-montana-mans-conviction-in-tribal-bond-scheme-idUSKCN1NK341)434
Third party web presence revealed OWASCO is a law firm associated with ROBERT. However, 435 very little information could be found on the law firm.
ROBERT, along with DEVON and ERIC, founded several companies using the name Rosemont Seneca. ROSEMONT SENECA ADVISORS and ROSEMONT SENECA BOHAI LLC appear to be related companies in the investment field.
There are allegations that ROBERT received funds from the Chinese government that coincided with the former vice president negotiating issues with China.
(thefederalist.com/2019/05/02/bidens-
alleged-financial-ties-u-s-enemy-china-overshadow-2020-bid)436
Although ERIC is not directly listed in any of the wires included in the SAR filing, internal records revealed ERIC is listed as the only signer for ROSEMONT SENECA ADVISORS. As it is unknown if ERIC is the signer of the external account for ROSEMONT SENECA ADVISORS, no account will be associated to him in this SAR filing.
Per web presence, BURISMA is a natural gas firm that appointed ROBERT to its board of directors in 2014.437
Per web presence, BOHAI HARVEST is ROBERT’S investment company in China that has pooled money, largely from state-owned venture capital, to buy or invest in a range of industries in the U.S. and China. BOHAI HARVEST allegedly operates and works with a number of funds and the structure brought ROBERT into close proximity to influential Chinese government and business figures. 438
(theintercept.com/2019/05/03/biden-son-china-business)439
Internal records indicate that THORSDALE is in the personal and testamentary trust field. THORSDALE’s signers will not be named as subjects in the SAR, as it is unclear if they are involved in the actual transactions.
DEVON is associated with the following prior SARS; -SAR_NA_26386812-(filed-02/19/2016)- Initial Report- Devon was listed as a subject and the SAR was filed to report transactions consistent with a penny stock fraud scheme.
-SAR_NA_28011744-(filed-03/17/2016)- Correct/Amend Prior Report SAR_NA _26386812 to include additional subject record information and to correct the owning institution of a subject’s credit card.
-SAR_NA_55865328-(filed-07/26/2017)- Devon was listed as a subject and the SAR was filed to report suspicious wire credits and debits with an unknown purpose.
-SAR #1479025 (filed-10/28/2015)- Devon was listed as a subject and the SAR reported wires with an unknown purpose and relationship.
OWASCO is associated with the following prior SAR;
-SAR_NA_114256858-(filed- 04/19/2019)-reported that OWASCO sent funds to an individual for an unknown purpose.
BURISMA is associated with the following prior SAR;
-SAR #1226764 (filed- 08/15/2014)-The SAR was filed to report wires with an unknown economic purpose.
THORSDALE is associated with the following prior SARs;
SAR_NA_55865328-(filed- 07/26/2017);
SAR #1333066-(filed- 01/05/2015);
SAR #1510720-(filed-12/24/2015);
SAR #1465166 (filed- 09/02/2015);
SAR # 1402524- (filed- 05/05/2015)-
The SARs were filed to report rapid movement of funds, unknown relationships, and unknown economic purpose.
-SAR #1479025-(filed- 10/28/2015)-Correct/Amend prior report SAR #1465166 to omit a possible association, include additional activity, update the cumulative amount of the filing, and update suspects listed.
The transactions below were chosen via a risk-based review of the wire activity based on various factors, such as, subject involved, amount, and frequency. The transactions highlighted in this narrative are only a portion of the activity being reported in this SAR.
ROBERT (US) sent 3 wires totaling $2,920.00 between 05/22/2014 and 06/17/2014 from account #0164385452 and account #0168390876 at USAA FEDERAL SAVINGS BANK (US) for the benefit of a counterparty.
DEVON (US) received 1 wire in the amount of $100,000 on 06/27/2014 into account #47833683 at CITIBANK N.A. (US) from JPMC account #908323181 in the name of THORSDALE (US).
OWASCO (US) sent 10 wires totaling $84,400.16 between 08/14/2017 and 10/02/2018 from account #000009084065142 and account #52611208 at WELLS FARGO BANK (US) to various counterparties.
ROSEMONT SENECA BOHAI LLC (LOCATION NOT PROVIDED ON WIRE) received 1 wire in the amount of $600,513.00 on 11/10/2014 into account #40611172 at CITIBANK N.A. (US) from JPMC 440 account #908323181 in the name of THORSDALE (US). Payments details state “FOR FURTHER TO CREDIT TO ACCOUNT TO 876018483 ROSEMONT SENECA BOHAI LLC.”
ROSEMONT SENECA ADVISORS (US) received 30 totaling $382,497.00 between 02/03/2014 and 09/11/2015 into account #65761664 at FIRST CLEARING LLC (US) from counterparties. The funds flowed through WELLS FARGO NA (US). 441
BURISMA (CYPRUS) sent 4 wires totaling $222,566.97 between 07/05/2016 and 08/02/2019 from account #101010012769010 at THE CYPRUS DEVELOPMENT BANK PUBLIC COMPANY LTD 442 (CYPRUS) for the benefit of [the] counterparties.
BOHAI HARVEST (CHINA) sent 16 wires totaling $119,095.31 between 07/11/2017 and 03/11/2019 from account #453365557784 at BANK OF CHINA (CHINA) to BANK OF CHINA LIMITED - NEW 443 YORK (US) for the benefit of [the] counterparties.444
SAR #2
JPMorgan Chase Bank (JPMC) is filing this Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) which originated from an external referral for transactions involving non-JPMC accounts held by a Politically Exposed Person (PEP) who remitted funds to various JPMC and non-JPMC customers, some of the recipients have ties to the adult entertainment industry, while others were unknown, or were listed in prior SAR filings related to human trafficking (HT). Additionally, the source of funds for the transactions is unknown and inconsistent with the known line of business. This activity was transacted by non-JPMC customers ROBERT HUNTER BIDEN (“HUNTER”) and his law firm OWASCO PC. Activity being reported totals $149,843.00 (rounded up) between the dates of 10/24/2016 and 05/10/2019.
OWASCO PC was identified to be a sole proprietorship law firm owned by HUNTER and established in 2006. Per internet research, the law firm specializes in intellectual property and international law. HUNTER is a former JPMC customer who previously held a home mortgage that was paid off in 2017, as well as a credit card that was closed by JPMC due to non-payment in 2016.
OWASCO PC (WELLS FARGO #9084065142) and HUNTER (using unknown account, as well as WELLS FARGO #729109035738578) sent electronic fund transfers (EFT) and checks totaling $149,842.44 to 13 JPMC customers and non-customers between 10/24/2016 and 05/10/2019. Two of the JPMC customers were listed in prior SAR filings by JPMC reporting transactions consistent with possible Human Trafficking which are detailed below. Also, three of the JPMC Customers have KYC and/or public media and social media ties to the adult entertainment industry. The other recipients have no identifiable relationship with either HUNTER or OWASCO PC which would explain the activity being reported.
ANNA DEKHTIAR (JPMC 356067030 (closed 06/14/2019)) is a Miami FL non-resident alien and 445 Ukrainian citizen. KYC reflects student born in 1995. She received a wire for $5,100 on 12/10/2018 from OWASCO PC which was reported in SAR_NA_114256858 filed on 04/19/2019. On the same day, 12/10/2018 HUNTER also sent $1,300 to ANNA DEKHTIAR via three (3) EFTs. The funds ANNA DEKHTIAR received from OWASCO PC and HUNTER were subsequently remitted to Oksana Naratovska located in the Ukraine via a $7,000 wire on 12/13/2018. The wire to Oksana 446 Naratovska and Oksana Naratovska were reported under the prior SAR filing and are only being discussed here to show the full flow of funds.
OLESIA KUDASHKINA (JPMC 270297812, closed on 04/30/2019) is a Russian citizen and [a] non-447 resident alien residing in Manhattan, NY. She [was] born in 1984 and listed “Zara” as her employer. 448 She received an EFT from HUNTER for $1200.00 on 03/11/2019. Those funds were subsequently included in a wire to an individual in Russia. This activity was reported under SAR_NA_124521834 filed on 07/16/2019, but is also being included in this filing to show the full source and use of funds.449
PAOLA A MARTINEZ (JPMC 266779283), ZOE G KESTAN (JPMC 755098626) and LEHUA M 450,451 ALAMA-JORDAN (JPMC 290390167) each appear to be in the adult entertainment industry and 452 are receiving payments from HUNTER and OWASCO PC. It is unclear what relationship HUNTER or OWASCO PC have with these individuals, and based on public media it appears possible the payments may be associated to prostitution or adult entertainment services.
PAOLA A MARTINEZ is a NY resident, and employed at Scores NY a high end gentleman’s club. 453 She received three (3) quick pays for $3500.00 from Hunter between 12/28/2017 and 03/26/2018.
ZOE G KESTAN is a NY resident, and employed as “freelance.” Per internet research, she is a social media influencer and adult entertainer. She received six (6) quick pays for $6250.00 from HUNTER between 03/29/2018 and 11/20/2018.
LEHUA M ALMA-JORDAN is a CA resident, and is employed with “Cali Girls,” a gentleman’s 454 club. She received two (2) wires totaling $6,000.08 from OWASCO PC between 07/24/2018 and 455 08/27/2018, and three (3) quick pays for $2500.00 from HUNTER between 08/27/2018 and 10/05/2018.
Erin N Straughter is a CA resident currently employed with “FSS Management.” Between June 456 2018 and October 2018, Erin N Straughter was employed by OWASCO PC as evidenced by her receipt of bi-weekly payroll remittances from OWASCO PC. However, during this same period of time Erin N Straughter also received large round dollar wires from OWASCO PC which referenced “new 457 hire,” “8k wage,” “10k golf member,” and “Pay.” Erin N Straughter received five (5) wires totaling $44,500.08 in a 4 month period between 06/12/2018 and 10/02/2018.
ANNA DEKHTIAR, OLESIA KUDASHKINA, PAOLA A MARTINEZ, ZOE G KESTAN, and LEHUA 458,459 M ALMA-JORDAN will be listed as subjects because they were either: (1) listed as subjects in prior SAR filings for transactions consistent with possible human trafficking; or (2) for their association to 460 the adult entertainment industry and potential association with prostitution. … 461
…linked to negative media that alleged potential corruption, which included subjects HUNTER and OWASCO PC. The reported activity occurred between 02/03/2014 and 08/02/2019 totaling $2,461,962.60.
SAR_NA_114256858 filed on 04/19/2019 for possible structuring, foreign wires and funding derived from an individual tied to the escort industry transacted by ANNA DEKHTIAR occurring between 11/14/2018 and 03/01/2019 totaling $274,873.00. OWASCO PC was also a subject in this SAR.
SAR_NA_102479763 filed on 11/30/2018 ($267,887.00 between 04/24/2018 and 10/09/2018), SAR_NA_111820881 filed on 03/20/2019 ($134,810.00 between 01/10/2019 and 03/01/2019) and SAR_NA_124521834 filed on 07/16/2019 ($503,420.00 between 03/19/2016 and 07/03/2019) reported structuring and possible human trafficking activity transacted by OLESIA KUDASHKINA. OWASCO PC was also listed as a subject in SAR_NA_124521834 on 07/16/2019.
Please note, effective 05/18/2019, Chase Bank USA (“Chase Bank”) merged with JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA (“JPMC”). Some transactions reported herein may have been conducted through Chase 462 Bank prior to the merger.
Supporting documentation associated with this report (SAR#: SAR_NA_133738921) includes, but may not be limited to, documents maintained or identified in case file # CASE_AML_NA_132000483 and can be retrieved upon request. … 463
SAR CORROBORATION: A SMALL SAMPLE
Because Marco Polo did not have access to the attached CSV files alluded to in the SARs, corroborating every transaction listed on the SARs with the Biden Laptop’s contents was not feasible. However, we were able to corroborate many of the transactions. Below are a just couple of them:
Confirmed by a request sent to Hunter via Zelle in his emails, a female featured in SAR #2 464 requested a commensurate amount around the front end of the time period listed in the SAR. Additionally, a .numbers document on the laptop entitled, “Checking 2RHB,” featured a transaction indicating that Hunter paid the female $1,400 on 11/21/2017. Verification of the transaction is below: [SEE PAGE 87 ON PDF LINK]
The relationship between Hunter and the female shown below was an egregious ethical lapse, as 465 iMessages between the two revealed that Hunter would make up for the female’s “back pay” if—and only if—she performed sexual acts in person or via FaceTime. The Wells Fargo transactions featured below (from Hunter’s business brokerage account) were initiated only after the female traveled from Los Angeles to D.C., where Hunter and the female engaged in a multi-day (photographed) sex binge.[PAGES 88-89 for next paragraph]
In the Nation’s capital, Hunter solicited—and took explicit photos of—a female who was described in SAR #2, which was, as a reminder, submitted to the U.S. Department of Treasury. This particular solicitation will also appear in the NON-CONSENSUAL PORNOGRAPHY subsection of this Report.
Hunter clearly violated the federal statute in question and he paid for the female’s airfare to D.C.466,467[ page 90]
CHINA
Hunter viewed himself as an unfulfilled artist, and he said as much in his semi-fictional memoir, Beautiful Things. In fact, art was the “only thing” to have “kept [Hunter] sane.” It was no surprise, then, for Marco Polo to discover that—when analyzing over 128,000 emails on the Biden Laptop—almost none of Hunter’s free time or private conversations were about business strategy or private equity market entry ideation. You will recall that Hunter graduated with a bachelor’s degree in history, wrote a poem, of all things, for his application to Yale Law School, and did not even attempt to enter high finance until his dad was preparing to be vetted for the V.P. slot by Obama (after Obama’s folks told Joe’s son to drop his shameless registered lobbying grift). When Hunter was gifted a portion of a hedge fund in 2006 called Paradigm by a trusty donor to Joe (the aforementioned Jeff Cooper), former executives at Paradigm testified in a lawsuit that Hunter and his uncle, Jimmy, had absolutely no clue what they were doing. The vignettes offered in Lotito v. Biden were a perfect illustration 468,469 of the chasm that existed between Hunter’s actual business acumen and the coveted positions he held for decades. In fact, after Hunter and Jimmy conducted a takeover of Paradigm and fired the incumbent leader, Joe’s brother assured the rest of the employees with the following pep talk: “Don’t worry about investors. We’ve got people all around the world who want to invest in Joe Biden. We’ve got investors lined up in a line of [Boeing] 747s filled with cash ready to invest in this company.”470
With that verified principle in mind—Hunter’s employment was untethered to his natural or cultivated abilities—we explored the Bidens’ financial entanglements with the communist Chinese. You can think about those entanglements in two tranches, or deals, with a plethora of interjecting people splattering the periphery. Other writers have done a tremendous job of explaining the obvious conflicts of 471 interest emanating from these two deals; Marco Polo was focused on the verifiable crimes 472 committed in the course of facilitating and leveraging these deals. Immediately after Hunter, Archer, and Kerry’s stepson (Chris Heinz) established their influence peddling firms with variations of the name Rosemont Seneca, they were courted by the financial elite in China who—according to China’s own laws—serve at the direction of the CCP.
With zero discernible quantitative skills, Hunter 473 secured multi million dollar carve outs with the Chinese state-backed entity, BHR, and the CCP’s crown jewel overseeing their One Belt One Road (OBOR) project, an energy conglomerate called CEFC.
A debate over whether Hunter and his business partners violated the FARA (and/or conspired to do so) was made simpler when one of them—Archer, in this particular case—used the precise wording in an email to the other partners: “He [ZONG Qinghou] came to NYS [New York State] looking for powdered milk and we’ve done an initial pitch with him in NYC on Real Estate.
China’s richest man, literally. We’re going to do a follow-on real estate pitch and just general ‘we can be your agent in 474 US’ convo.” The last line confirmed the group had the unregistered agent of a foreign principal game down to a science, as Archer did not need to elaborate on what his “agent in US convo” with ZONG would entail. Before flying to the middle kingdom, Archer snagged three copies of Joe’s book, Promises to Keep,to hand out to ZONG and other big wigs at two state-backed entities: China 475 International Trust and Investment Corporation (CITIC) and China Investment Corporation (CIC).476,477
As noted, Hunter’s lobbying did not stop when Joe became vice president—he merely (and illegally) stopped registering. He violated lobbying laws by assuring Randy Russell of his (unregistered, and 478 therefore illegal) back channels to the CCP: “I just had dinner with the Chinese DCM [Deputy Chief of Mission, DENG Hongbo] here in DC and we’ve developed a little bit of a relationship- so once the visa is issued I can contact him directly.” But before Hunter pulled out the big guns, he offered to 479 advocate on Russell’s behalf to John Kerry’s aide-de-camp, David Wade, and/or someone in Joe’s entourage: “Should I have someone from jrb’s office weigh in or is that overkill. And/or should I send email or call personally. … I am willing ready able to do all of the above or none of the above at your direction. How about David Wade on Kerry’s staff?” Hunter also spoke with YANG Jiechi, the 480 CCP’s top foreign minister and Politburo member, the CCP’s most powerful decision-making body.481[see pages 92-93 on pdf]
A flamboyant online and Indian gambling industry huckster named Gary Fears finagled Hunter and Archer to join him as an unregistered agent for the China Entrepreneur Club (CEC). The CEC had the reputation of being “a second foreign ministry” for the CCP, and the group brought nearly thirty 482 billionaires to the White House on 11/14/2011. Eager to claim plausible deniability, Hunter tasked Archer with facilitating a meeting between Joe and the group, which it later bragged about in a 483 report. In fact, quite a few members of this “private sector” junta would be Hunter’s future partners.484[ page 94]
BOHAI HARVEST RST (BHR)
BHR, a Chinese state-backed fund that Hunter helped form, was the biggest payoff for the Biden family—that is, if Hunter actually divested from the fund. Through his fixer and lawyer, Chris Clark, Hunter has repeatedly assured the press that he does not either “directly or indirectly” own a 485,486 portion of BHR, although he has provided zero evidence to support that claim. There are, however, multiple sources—governmental and private—showing that a shell company he controls, 487,488,489 namely Skaneateles LLC, still owns 10% of the fund. BHR, not by mere conjecture or presumption but as a matter of public record and governmental financial data, is an organ of the Chinese state.
More than a controlling portion of its shares are owned by entities under the purview of the CCP’s Ministry of Finance and, in its most critical deals, BHR has partnered with state-owned enterprises (SOEs). In fact, the fund’s head honcho explicitly stated as much and bragged about it: “LI Xiangsheng, CEO of BHR, told local media that the fund’s strong government background would allow it to make super-big investments, saying the fund could take loans from its shareholders such as China Development Bank and Bank of China to complete transactions.”
In U.S. media, the 490 ostensible mission of BHR is to facilitate “cross border” transactions, but this vanilla description was purposely obscure. Rather, BHR has repeatedly acquired sensitive technologies that the CCP sought. Again, BHR does not hide this fact and a revelatory interview with LI and WANG Xin on BHR’s own website testified to this imperialistic economic mission.
LIN Junliang “Michael” and Hunter have 491,492 been partners for over a decade under the watchful eye of the aforementioned Bulger, and LIN 493 helped facilitate BHR. Before getting on the bad side of XI Jinping and disappearing in June 2015, CHE Feng, known to Hunter as the “Super Chairman,” served as the ring leader who promised funding and facilitated introductions to state-supported financial firms who eventually backed BHR.494[page 95 pdf]
Hunter’s emails confirmed that he has lied to numerous media outlets about the timeline and chain of events surrounding BHR—from the date he was introduced to the CCP-supported proxies to when crucial agreements were signed. Hunter was so enthusiastic about working with LI Jonathan that in 495 April 2011, more than two years before BHR was put in Shanghai’s business registry, he gushed to LI: “You are the best … Just give me my marching orders.” When Hunter tagged along with Joe to China in December 2013 on Air Force Two, he orchestrated a meeting between Joe and LI in Joe’s hotel. [page 96 on pdf]
To Archer, who would become the vice chairman of the fund, BHR was “a serious opportunity. Not only on it’s [sic] own merits from an economics standpoint but from the leverage in access it provides with the big boys here in the west who all need China; from Tiger to Blackstone to Carlyle etc.”
Hunter agreed and, after seeing CHE’s proposed term sheet, he elatedly wrote to Archer: “Bottom line is if I/ you and me get around 7% of this fund it could be in many ways the end all be all. I don't believe in lottery tickets anymore, but I do believe in the super chairman. … if we were 20% owners of a CIC [China Investment Corporation] super chairman backed fund I think the sky’s the limit.” Hunter continued gushing to Archer and compared him to a Third Reich model: “Your question- ‘why does Super Chairman love me so much?’ is easily answered. It has nothing to do with me and everything to do with my last name (and I bring along very handsome Aryan godlike men wherever I go).” [page 97 pdf]
CHE, the son-in-law of former People’s Bank of China governor DAI Xianglong, had shamelessly 496,497 wined-and-dined Hunter, an alcoholic, and Hunter’s colleagues at the Four Seasons in Hong Kong. Remember: According to Hunter himself, CHE’s courtship and generosity had “everything to do with” the Biden surname. LIN—who had been ingratiating himself with sinophilic American officials and 498 political operatives alongside Bulger for a decade—nonchalantly told Hunter: “When secret service wish [sic] to call to check things as they always do, please make them call LI Jonathan or me.”
Whitey Bulger’s nephew wanted to keep the fund hush-hush until a formal agreement was signed: “Please remember that I have not informed anyone in my office about the reason for my trip to Hong Kong last week. … I want to keep this effort quiet until we have a contract.” Hunter lied about not 499 owning equity in BHR until Joe was done with the vice presidency; additionally, Bulger and Hunter’s “effort” required zero money down from Hunter! His attorney, Ken Levinson, explained it in an email from April 2016: “$361,168 (payoff/down of Devon’s loan to fund Hunter’s investment in BHR).”500 [pages 98-99 @ pdf on last two paragraphs]
A schematic in a BHR pitch deck touted its global connections—from the former Lord Mayor of London to George Soros’s money changer, Paul Sohn. Jason Sugarman, who would be charged 501 by the SEC in relation to the Indian bond fraud that brought down Archer and others, was also intimately involved. BHR enjoyed Ambassador-level access made possible by Joe’s relationship in 502 the Senate with Max Baucus.
With seemingly endless liquidity from the Bank of China and other 503,504 SOE's, BHR was a billion dollar fund whose returns were not merely financial, but also political.505[page 100 @pdf]
As noted previously, the grooming process by LIN and other handlers started before 2010 and 506 culminated in December 2013. The Chinese rolled out the red carpet for not only Hunter but also the CEO of Rosemont Realty (RR), on whose advisory board Hunter sat. Dan Burrell, for his connections to American princelings, was given special treatment and flowery photo ops. Another 2004 Kerry 507 presidential campaign alumnus and Yale graduate, Burrell facilitated the large commercial real estate firm’s pump-and-dump sale to the Chinese SOE-linked Gemini.
Burrell worked closely with 508,509 Archer to court foreign cash—in fact, over $200M poured in from the wife of the former mayor of Moscow. RR’s sale to Gemini provided hundreds of thousands of dollars to Hunter and millions to 510 Burrell, who is also a divorcé and is said to have repeatedly indulged in cocaine and prostitute binges. [page 101]
BHR’s portfolio includes companies who owned critical dual-use technologies that have been 511 harnessed by the CCP for OBOR’s imperialistic economic mission. A sample of these companies, 512 shown in the table below, included Face++ which—according to the U.S. government—has “been implicated in human rights violations and abuses in China’s campaign targeting Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR).” Put 513,514 bluntly, the son of the sitting pResident was invested in a sanctioned company that profiled ethnic minorities.
BHR was also invested in a Chinese nuclear energy company whose engineer (HO 515,516 Szuhsiung “Allen,” who lived just five minutes from Joe in Delaware) was convicted—and subsequently deported—for stealing nuclear technology and conspired to act as an agent for the CCP. Hunter’s firm bragged about being the “cornerstone investor in CGN’s Hong Kong IPO.”517,518
Until Hunter and Schwerin had a falling out, the latter held a 2.5% stake in BHR and was a corporate “supervisor” for the fund. Schwerin sent Hunter a note about how BHR’s sale of Didi stock was 519 going to put over $300,000 in their pocket. Another “significant distribution” was BHR’s application 520 in 2019 to sell their shares of the Chinese lithium-ion battery manufacturer, CATL. Correlation does 521 not imply causation, but it was certainly an advantageous development for CATL when their stock price appreciated more than 50% after Joe announced a U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan, where 522 lithium deposits are plentiful and Chinese extractors are ready to feast upon the natural resource.523 [pages 102-03 @pdf]
In truth, what we know about BHR’s vast portfolio was limited by the secrecy of the Cayman Islands and other tax havens. In a document marked “Confidential” that was distributed to board members 524 before the quarterly meeting (for which Hunter sent Whitey Bulger’s nephew as his proxy), the list of BHR’s offshore subsidiaries looked like an invoice from Gene Hackman’s character in The Firm.525
Given the secret code name of “Project Hanson,” BHR’s takeover of Henniges Automotive—an American manufacturer of critical dual-use, anti-vibration technologies—was enabled by Hunter and his business partners’ repeated violations of the FARA. The sale required interagency approval by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and for BHR—along with the 526 Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), BHR’s partner—to prove they did not pose grave national security threats. The question of whether Hunter used his father’s influence to grease the 527 wheels of CFIUS was not ascertainable from the laptop; however, it was abundantly clear that Hunter’s representation of BHR—for months—was illegal given that he did not register with the DOJ.[104-05 pdf]
“Project Hanson” was mentioned in 25 separate emails on the Biden Laptop; accordingly, Hunter was intimately involved in the transaction beginning, at least, in February of 2015. He inquired about which law firm in the U.S. BHR had hired. Just seven months later, WANG apparently had advance notice that BHR’s deal was going to be approved by CFIUS—in her words, the approval was “expected by Tuesday NY time.” WANG even used acquisitive language to describe the purchase: “On BHR’s side, Xinzhong and the key deal team members … will be in Detroit to celebrate this milestone together with AVIC Auto officials and the Target company [Henniges].” Not even a year later, WANG bragged about the deal in a somewhat candid interview with LI: “Henniges is our typical business model. 528 We set up a joint venture with AVIC - they own 51% and we own 49% - and did the acquisition 529 together. AVIC has industry experience, operations in China, and it knew Henniges well.” Firstly, 530 who would have given BHR advance notice to “expect” CFIUS to approve the deal and, secondly, how would WANG have known a specific time for the approval? A contact card on the laptop for a Michael Goodwin from the “CFIUS Office” at the U.S. Commerce Department could provide answers. [page 106 @pdf]
Hunter’s divorce proceedings with Kathleen referenced his ownership share in Henniges and other extended arms of the CCP, which ultimately controlled AVIC, BHR’s majority partner in their 531 Henniges joint venture. Despite these and other generous handouts and state-backed investments, 532 the potential consequences for Hunter’s tax evasion and money laundering crimes were at the top of his mind. In fact, Hunter recounted Schwerin’s statement to his attorney: “I believe you [Hunter] can do better but if it is a question of going to jail or not I [Schwerin] think $750,000 is the right number.”[page 108]
Hunter, Archer, and Bulger violated the FARA when they acted on BHR’s behalf in an ill-fated effort to secure Bill Clinton as a speaker for an event, which required registration with the DOJ. Indeed, the 533 FARA guidelines could not be more clear about this scenario: one must register as a foreign agent when one “acts within the United States as a public relations counsel, publicity agent, information service employee, or political consultant” for a “foreign principal.”
In this case, the foreign principal 534 sought—through Hunter and his business partners—access to a former U.S. president. Perhaps the Chinese side knew that former president Clinton had intervened for Hunter in the past, going so far as to (unsuccessfully) plead from the Oval Office to the dean of Yale Law School to admit Hunter.535
The General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, XI Jinping, was planning to visit Los Angeles in September 2015. BHR would receive a “one-time advisory fee” if Hunter and Archer “orchestrated a stop by” for XI to a Chinese-controlled electric vehicle facility, Faraday Future. This planned quid 536 pro quo violated the FARA and was merely another attempt by BHR to ingratiate itself with American politicos—as they had done with their partner GUO George—to achieve their corporate (and state) 537 objectives. In summary, Hunter depended on CCP-backed firms for his planned BHR exit.538,539[pages 108-09]
Hunter’s uncle Jack, Joe’s brother-in-law, also had a soft spot for the CCP. Kathy Chung, Joe’s aide, invited the family to a luncheon hosted by Joe at the State Department during the aforementioned 540 visit by XI in September 2015. Jack, Joe’s classmate at Syracuse, responded with glee: “Yes, Kathy, I would like to attend this one. I know I have passed up everything else, but this is a bit different.”
CEFC China Energy Company Limited (CEFC Energy)
Starting in early 2015, Hunter and his partners were setting up a deal with CEFC Energy whose founder, YE Jianming, was the former deputy secretary-general of a branch of a CCP-funded 541,542 organization known as the China Association for International Friendly Contact (CAIFC). According 543 to a U.S. government commission report, CAIFC is a “front organization” that “performs dual roles of intelligence collection and conducting propaganda and perception management campaigns.” CEFC 544 Energy was a behemoth, spanning the globe and acting as China’s “private” sector arm of OBOR. 545
The aforementioned partnership—according to correspondence on the Biden Laptop and audio messages from Hunter himself—involved players from at least four countries. Prospective meetings between YE and Joe were to be approved by XI Jinping himself, who they called the “No. 1,” and the daily operations were overseen by ZANG Jianjun. The core players in the partnership are below: 546,547 [pages 110-11 @pdf]
Instrumental to the partnership was a bald and elusive Englishman named James GILLIAR, who 548 explained to Tony Bobulinski on Christmas Eve 2015 that there was going to be “a deal between 549 one of the most prominent families from” the U.S. and CEFC Energy. The deal was going to be “constructed by” GILLIAR, who called the planned Biden/CCP-linked slush fund a “no brainer.” Rob 550 Walker, Hunter’s aforementioned business partner, had been working with GILLIAR since at least March of that year and was introduced to Bobulinski by GILLIAR, who joked that Rob had his address “for commissions.” A longtime consigliere to some of Joe’s friends (the ruling family of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)), GILLIAR had also facilitated CEFC Energy’s buying spree in the Czech 551 Republic, where he was based. In fact, YE became an “economic advisor” to the President of the 552 Czech Republic, MiloÅ¡ ZEMAN.
By May 2017, Joe’s term as vice president had ended, and “optics” were ripe for the Bidens to cash in. Bobulinski and GILLIAR drew up a joint venture called Sinohawk Holdings LLC * (SinoHawk), which was owned 50/50 by 1) Hudson West IV LLC (Hudson West 553,554 IV), which was controlled by YE and DONG Gongwen “Kevin,” and 2) Oneida Holdings LLC 555 (Oneida), the shell company through which Joe’s son and brother would hold 20% of SinoHawk.
Back to 2015: the earliest appearance of the keyword “CEFC” on the Biden Laptop was a lengthy email on 10/04 from globalhawk7777@gmail.com, which referred to Hunter as “Chairman.” The note promised “invitations for the Bidens to speak in China, etc” and that “all expenses will be covered as well as speaking engagements.” OH Suk “Scott” bragged about CEFC’s prowess as it was “tagged to be part of the delegation [that] Chinese President Xi Jinping brought with him recently to the U.S.” [pages 112-13]
True to form, Hunter responded to OH’s honey-pot email within a day: “Scott-when is a good time for a call today [?]” Other than being a seemingly wealthy “consultant” of Korean extraction who has 556 given exclusively to Democrats, OH’s business relationships and background are a mystery. OH is 557 affiliated with over a dozen shell companies in various jurisdictions. When asked by Marco Polo if he had met YE in South Korea—where YE attended college—OH offered to introduce us to his attorney. When we asked for his attorney’s contact information, OH hung up. This ghost-like character facilitated a meeting between YE and Hunter on 12/07/2015, yet very little is known about him. 558
After hosting OH and ZANG Jianjun (YE couldn’t make it) for a meeting, Hunter spent the next 18 months in a blur of prostitutes, strip clubs, crack cocaine, and pornography while he waited for Joe’s vice presidency to end so he could overtly cash out with the Chinese (instead of attempting to be discreet, as he had done in the case of BHR). While HO “Patrick”—another key underling for YE and CEFC—was delivering glowing speeches about the greatness of OBOR and the “China Dream,” 559 Hunter browsed CEFC Energy’s website and shopped for luxury slippers while a pornographic video raged in the background (see screenshot below).
The kaleidoscope of people and entities that 560 were courting Hunter and the Biden family were all imbedded at the United Nations (UN) and other seemingly benign organizations with flowery mission statements. Indeed, the former President of the UN General Assembly (GA), a Serbian named Vuk JEREMIĆ, was a key plank on the road that connected the Bidens to their Chinese payout. JEREMIĆ was called as a witness in HO’s trial.561,562[pages 114-15 @pdf]
These internationalists explicitly leveraged and showcased Joe’s time in public office—and his relationships as a result of that office—to attempt to drum up business for their planned joint venture. GILLIAR, who came from a family of leftists and advocated for CEFC Energy to take over the 563,564,565 legendary American company Westinghouse, utilized Joe’s liberal public positions such as his support for so-called “green energy” policies to forge partnerships with foreign oligarchs.For those readers 566 who still believe the lie that Joe was not involved with this planned joint venture with CCP proxies, why would it be relevant that Joe and the Colombian president got along well when he was the V.P.? GILLIAR deemed it so important that he put a picture of them in his “Proposal for Investment Vehicle.”
Hunter’s uncle, Jimmy Biden, acted as an unregistered agent for a foreign principal, CEFC Energy. Jimmy was hoping to meet with the disgraced former Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo (who previously gave Naomi Biden, Hunter’s daughter, an internship). Jimmy also wrote the wrong month in the memo to Cuomo’s aide (the month should have been May). The Bidens hoped to bring the 567
key players to the meeting including YE, CEFC Energy executive ZANG, and Prince Felix of Luxembourg. GILLIAR—an ever-present force in the background—organized the meeting request. 568 [p.116-17@pdf]
A screenshot from CEFC Energy’s website around the time Jimmy prepared the memo displayed a headline of YE bragging about his recent meeting with the chairman of the Russian SOE oil 569 conglomerate, Rosneft. Although CEFC Energy’s ownership structure was purposely opaque, 570,571 their news headlines—and their logo—pointed to the (oftentimes unspoken) truth that the company was ultimately controlled by the Chinese state.
It made sense why CEFC Energy and its NGO did 572 not advertise their true owners and partners—they were aligned with the CCP’s People’s Liberation Army, specifically its propaganda organ: “PLA Unit 61716, also known as the ‘Public Opinion Warfare, Psychological Warfare and Legal Warfare Base,’ or Base 311, was connected with CEFC.”573
A week after Bobulinski met with Joe before the latter’s speech at the Milken Conference on 574,575,576 05/03/2017, CEFC Energy partnered with the Rothschild family. The company also sent a personal 577 invitation to Bobulinski in order for him to secure a business visa (which, like the joint venture, would fall through; however, the Bidens moved on without him, as will be explained later in this section).[p.118-19 pdf]
Just two days after YE’s meeting with the Rothschilds, GILLIAR—who was a key spoke in the CCP’s wheel of “elite capture” in the Czech Republic—sent an email to Bobulinski (with Walker and 578 Hunter ccd) about the group’s expected “remuneration [sic] packages.” Hunter was to receive an $850,000 salary and 10% of the holding company’s shares for Joe, who GILLIAR called “the big guy.” In response, Hunter said that he “needed a hell of a lot more” than $850k. Importantly, there were other references to Joe as “the big guy” on the Biden Laptop, along with Bobulinski’s confirmation.579
Perhaps more incredible than Joe’s involvement in the planned joint venture was XI Jinping’s 580 covert oversight of the deal. On two separate occasions, both GILLIAR and Hunter alluded to XI’s role in both approving meetings and ownership shares. GILLIAR told Bobulinski: “As I know chairman [YE] will come to meet VP [Joe] if he gets approval from no 1 [XI], [but] I think otherwise he wouldn't.” The following day, Bobulinski expressed concerns about the Bidens’ ability to overrule him on corporate decisions, to which Hunter shot back with fervor: “TONY that is what Zhang [sic] implied - they are 581 both ZANG and YE coming to be MY partner,to be partners with the Bidens. He [ZANG] has implied that the #1 [XI] has made that clear and available to him.” Along with a party to the messages confirming to Marco Polo that the multiple allusions were to XI himself, other direct references (such as Hunter referring to Joe as “my Chairman” and GILLIAR warning Bobulinski to “not mention Joe being involved” except when “face to face” because the Bidens were “paranoid”) are more than enough to refute GILLIAR’s bald-faced lies to the Wall Street Journal that Joe was not involved.582 [page 120-21@pdf]
As it turned out, when the papers were signed, Jimmy held Joe’s shares through a shell 583,584 company aptly named Sino Atlantic Solutions. GILLIAR, like a good English subject, held his 20% 585 of Oneida through the opaque “8 International Holdings Limited” based in the British Virgin Islands.586
The first agreement by SinoHawk was for the Chinese side to wire $10M to Bobulinski so he, as the CEO, could make the first tranche of OBOR “investments.” However, nearly a month passed and they were slow-walking the wire transfer, offering random excuses. Plus, according to Bobulinski, Hunter’s “manic and bipolar” personality was on full display. Exasperated, Bobulinski convinced Hunter to send a letter to YE in which Hunter called him “a very close friend of the Biden family” and pleaded with YE to expedite the transfer and receive the “best wishes from the entire Biden family.”
What Bobulinski 587 did not realize is that—in response to his logical concerns about Hunter’s antics—Jimmy and Hunter had been back-channeling with YE’s lieutenants so they could cut out Bobulinski, GILLIAR, and the others to more easily receive YE’s cash but via another channel—namely, Hudson West III LLC. [p122-23 pdf]
The contrived excuses from the Chinese side ran the gamut from “the risk management department of CEFC is showing concerns” to “we do not have a review and approval mechanism for projects.” Bobulinski was not buying these lame attempts at stonewalling, and for good reason: Behind the scenes, ZHAO Runlong’s associate, YAN Mervyn, was drawing up an ownership share schematic for another entity, Hudson West III LLC, which would be funded by YE through Hudson West V LLC 588(although YAN initially planned on funneling the cash through his shell company, Monochrome Capital Partners LLC) and would partner with Hunter’s single member law firm, Owasco P.C. The final 589 result actually split the baby: Even though the joint venture which was “so much more interesting to the Biden family,” they still received millions of dollars from the Chinese for “introductions alone” by using Hudson West III (EIN: 82-1599897) as a 50/50 joint LLC. The objective for the business entity gymnastics was clear: obfuscate true beneficial ownership to evade law enforcement authorities.590,591
Wire transfers and bank statements on the Biden Laptop were featured in a U.S. Senate report:592 “Starting on August 8, the same day the $5 million was received, and continuing through September 25, 2018, Hudson West III sent frequent payments to Owasco, Hunter Biden’s firm. These 593 payments, which were described as consulting fees, reached $4,790,375.25 in just over a year.”594[p 124-25@pdf]
The FARA violations shown below were a good representation of who went behind Bobulinski’s back to work with CEFC on a range of issues. ZANG and his family were in need of visas, so Sara Biden enlisted former Obama appointee and GILLIAR associate, John Sandweg, to advocate on ZANG’s behalf to the U.S. government. Even though all of ZANG’s visas were denied, Sandweg did have 595 experience illegally representing criminals before the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as Sandweg was involved in the NXIVM sex cult scandal and represented heiress Clare Bronfman.596
Under the penalty of perjury, Hunter lied on an official bank document to receive a credit card collateralized by companies financed by YE. Hunter testified to Mandy Wong at Cathay Bank that 597 he was not subject to backup withholding from the IRS, a blatant lie. In fact, Owasco P.C. owed thousands of dollars due to undeclared income from Burisma. YAN was happy to accommodate the “$30,000 limit” credit cards for not only Hunter, but also Jimmy and Sara Biden. A U.S. Senate report, based on SARs, stated they went on a “global spending spree” and quickly liquidated the cards.598 [p126-27@pdf]
One week after receiving the credit card backed by YE’s proxies, Hunter instructed Cecelia BROWNING, his office’s building manager at the House of Sweden, to get keys cut for Joe. In fact, 599 Joe’s new grift—called the Biden Foundation—and YE’s espionage outfit were going to be “office 600 mates.” Hunter then pasted an internet biography of YE, who Hunter admiringly called “his partner.” 601 YE had just bought a luxury condo and apartment in Manhattan via DONG (“Chairman Ye[’s] CEFC emissary”) and Hunter thought it was relevant to include an article describing the purchases.602
The only deal which the Bidens seriously attempted to consummate in return for their $5.7M+ payout from YE’s entities would have given those entities “preferential access” to American liquified natural gas (LNG). Greg Michaels from Monkey Island LNG and attorney Britt Singletary tried to help 603,604 Hunter secure those American LNG exports for CEFC. Fortunately, for the U.S., the deal fell through. [p128-29@pdf]
HO CHI PING “PATRICK” REPRESENTATION
Although he told Bobulinski he signed an attorney engagement letter with YE, Hunter illegally 605 represented HO for $1M while not registering per the FARA. The timing of the agreement was 606 curious, as HO was arrested upon landing at JFK International Airport exactly two months after Hunter signed the “Attorney Engagement Letter.” HO, who Hunter called “the fucking spy chief of 607 China,” would be convicted of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) for bribing and 608,609 laundering money to African officials in exchange for oil rights. Along with LIU Yadong, HO also ran YE’s sham charity, the UN-affiliated China Energy Fund Committee (CEFC NGO) slush fund.610,611
Unsurprisingly, HO’s first call from the Metropolitan Detention Center after being arrested by federal agents on 11/18/2017 was to the pResident’s brother, Jimmy, in order to track down his attorney, Hunter.HO was under FISA surveillance, 612,613 so HO’s calls to Jimmy and Hunter were recorded, which 614 would certainly make for some very interesting listening—and it made the FBI slow-walk of the Biden Laptop that much more egregious.
According to evidence presented at 615,616 HO’s trial, the FISA surveillance revealed the CEFC NGO’s modus operandi in detail: ensnare so-called developing 617 countries in situations that eventually force them to give up ownership of their natural resources to CEFC Energy. In other words, HO, and his benefactor, YE, were loan sharks to African despots—and the African countries were left holding the bag because the despots would get paid off. Judge 618 Preska, at HO’s sentencing hearing, repeated lines from a UN Convention: “Corruption is an insidious plague” that is “found in all countries—big and small, rich and poor—but it is in the developing world that its effects are most destructive.”[p130-31@pdf]
Hunter did not spend a single day in court on behalf of the globe-trotting Chinese loan shark. 619,620 Instead, Hunter farmed that work out to attorneys at the white-shoe firm Krieger Kim & Lewin LLP (whose founding partner, Ed Kim, departed the S.D.N.Y. just two months before HO was arrested). 621 However, Hunter did arrange to get the $1M from HO wired to his shell company, Owasco LLC.622,623
One of the feds who was likely involved in the FISA surveillance of HO was Charlie McGonigal, the then-SAC for Counterintelligence in the New York Field Office (NYFO). (McGonigal’s wife was on 624 the Biden Laptop, as the couple’s daughter and one of Hunter’s daughters played lacrosse together.) McGonigal is the subject of a federal grand jury probe for possible FARA violations and other 625 dealings with Russian oligarchs. Based on an email from Kim, determining if McGonigal was one of the agents Hunter “spoke with” on HO’s behalf ought to be the focus of a Congressional subpoena. [p132-33@pdf]
One month after XI detained YE, an email from Wells Fargo’s Cindy Duncan confirmed that a 626,627 $1,000,032 wire transfer hit Hunter’s account after he requested his retainer from HO via DONG. 628 Within an hour, Hunter asked Duncan how to access the illegally acquired funds (per the FARA) and send it to other shell companies, such as Skaneateles. These paper trails exposed Joe’s ridiculous 629 lie: “My son has not made money in terms of this thing about—what are you talking about—China.”630
Jimmy and his wife, Sara, benefited from Hunter’s illegal (unregistered) representation of a foreign principal. Later that spring, Jimmy’s firm sent multiple fraudulent invoices for $82,500 as his “Monthly Retainer for International Business Development” to Hunter’s shell company. In truth, the funds Jimmy sought originated from Hunter’s faux legal counsel for HO and the original slush fund set up 631 by YE. As you will read in the INFLUENCE PEDDLING section, Jimmy alluded to these transactions as his “monthly draw,” confirming that there was no active “business development” occurring. YE had, in every sense of the phrase, set up a piggy bank for Hunter and Jimmy. In a bold and hilariously ironic move, Jimmy sent a reminder—“Invoice 1180”—to let Hunter know that Hunter owed $14,001.[p134-35@pdf]
Jimmy was not the only one to refer to the payments as their “monthly draws.” A few months later, their Chinese piggy bank was almost empty and Hunter tied up loose ends with YAN: “Please wire to my Owasco PC account the remaining two monthly draws minus the $35K advance I took last week. So $295,000.00 today. Then please give me detailed bank statements of what is left in the account after you’ve taken your final two draws. We then need to discuss what we owe and to whom and determine what if any money is left for disbursement.” U.S. Senate investigators created a crude diagram (shown below) which featured the money flow from YE’s piggy bank through Hunter’s shell law firm to Jimmy and Sara. Investigators also noted that, based on SARs, Sara refused to cooperate with her bank when employees inquired about the large and frequent round-dollar wire transfers, giving the bank no other choice but to close their account.632
Exactly three months after Hunter told YAN to wire the last of the “monthly draws” from YE’s piggy bank, Hunter sent another $95k to his uncle Jimmy. YE’s largesse did not win YE any favors with 633 XI, however, as Hunter complained about his benefactor’s fate to his “idiot” assistant, Katie Dodge: 634 “If you haven’t noticed, Katie, my business partner[YE] is now a prisoner on death row in China.” [p136-37@pdf]
HO’s arrest not only impacted the destiny of YE, whose cover—and the influence operation he 635,636 was conducting—was blown when HO was detained. Hunter’s business colleagues were hounded 637 with press inquiries for the latter half of 2018 and, according to Hunter, CIA operatives in China were detained in retaliation. Jimmy and others have not cooperated with inquiries from U.S. senators.638
In summary, the Bidens committed over two dozen federal felonies in connection with China. Hunter and his business partners (including his family members) committed egregious crimes, specifically money laundering, that have put many others—less connected saps—in prison for decades. Three of Hunter’s Chinese benefactors have either vanished 639,640,641 or been deported. The family’s crimes 642 span over a decade and, as we will note in the final section of the Report, the statute of limitations have not passed on many of them. We want to tip our hat to an anonymous Twitter user who ascertained the CEFC Energy/NGO laundering scheme and the players. Aside from the crude layout and one small mistake (HO called Jimmy after being detained at JFK International Airport), the graphic above was a clear presentation of a complex swindle and multiple FARA violations. The Bidens’ business 643 dealings with the CCP are still being probed by two Senators, albeit through milquetoast letters. 644,645 [p138-39@pdf]
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