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2020-12-23 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Hunter Biden's Family Name Aided Deals With Foreign Tycoons
[WSJ] Hunter Biden ramped up business activities with European and Chinese tycoons as his father exited the vice presidency four years ago. For him it was a potential path to income; for the tycoons, the Biden family name promised to burnish their reputations.

The dealings got the younger Mr. Biden a discounted stake in a private-equity firm in China and consulting arrangements with a Romanian property magnate and overall allowed him to maintain a globe-trotting lifestyle, according to interviews, documents and communications reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. A Chinese energy tycoon gave Mr. Biden a 2.8-carat diamond, and entities linked to him wired nearly $5 million to Mr. Biden’s law firm, according to an investigation by Senate Republicans.

These arrangements now loom over President-elect Joe Biden. A federal criminal tax investigation into Hunter Biden’s business dealings is under way, with findings potentially trickling out in coming months. His business ties to well-connected people in China and other places could add to scrutiny of foreign-policy decisions taken by the Biden administration over possible conflicts of interest. All are likely to provide ammunition to Republicans.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), who has led the Senate Finance Committee whose Republican staff helped investigate Hunter Biden, has said he would continue to look into what he says are possible counterintelligence and criminal concerns related to Mr. Biden’s business dealings.

"Based on all the facts known to date, Joe Biden has a lot of explaining to do," Mr. Grassley said recently.

Hunter Biden has said he takes the tax investigation "very seriously" and is "confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately." He declined to comment for this article and his lawyer, George Mesires, didn’t respond to questions. In 2019, Mr. Biden said he wouldn’t work with any foreign companies if his father were elected U.S. president.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-12-23 02:34|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ]  Top
 File under: Commies 

#1 Fuck these slimeballs
Fuck them for what they have done and are continuing to do to our beautiful beloved country

And fuck those professional liars who call themselves "journalists" for sitting on these stories of actual, documented, obvious, gross, unimaginable corruption until 51 days after the election
Posted by Omeanter Ebbeper8976 2020-12-23 06:00||   2020-12-23 06:00|| Front Page Top

#2 I can just imagine what the Chinese energy tycoon might have said when he gave Hunter Biden a 2.8 carat diamond: "You my bitch now."
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-12-23 11:31||   2020-12-23 11:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Chinese professor of Int'l Relns, speech in Mandarin with subtitles from a month ago in which he boasts about the CCP's tools on Wall Street and influence over Biden

Why did we resolve our problems with the US so swiftly from 1992 to 2016? We had people in there, in America's core circle of power-- we had old friends ...
Posted by Ulomoting Hatrack5599 2020-12-23 11:47||   2020-12-23 11:47|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ damn... now they're just laughing at us. It wasn't enough to knock us down with COVID-- they're pissing on us as well.

That video should be shown to every single American who voted for the CCP puppet that Mr Dongshen openly mocks again and again. Then we need to do the election over.
Posted by Juting Clomoter7895 2020-12-23 11:52||   2020-12-23 11:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Did I see this morning that Joe trotted out the old "Russian disinformation" trope?
Posted by Tom 2020-12-23 13:04||   2020-12-23 13:04|| Front Page Top

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