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2022-02-09 Government Corruption
Hunter Biden tried to broker a $120million oil deal between Chinese energy firm now under US sanctions and former Kazakhstan prime minister who has been accused of treason in hopes of pocketing a fortune, laptop emails reveal
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Emails obtained by DailyMail.com show Hunter Biden worked with former Kazakh prime minister Karim Massimov to try to pull off a $120M pipeline deal

  • The oil deal involved Massimov, who's now accused of treason, and the State China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), now under US sanctions

  • The president's son traveled to Beijing and Kazakhstan in 2014 and 2015 to broker the deal on behalf of a Ukrainian gas firm Burisma as a board member

  • The venture came years after a similar oil deal had faced opposition from Western energy firms

  • Devon Archer, Hunter's longtime friend and business partner at Burisma wrote to Hunter that he was excited that the offer could make them rich

  • Emails show their plan was for the Kazakh government to grant drilling rights to CNOOC, with the rigs and wells being operated by Burisma

  • It is unclear from Hunter's emails whether they pulled off either deal

  • The State Department's sanctions only cover CNOOC's activity in the South China Sea, not their other global operations
Posted by Skidmark 2022-02-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top
 File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats 

#1 The grift that keeps on giving.
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-09 00:13||   2022-02-09 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 'When Hunter Biden smokes crack, he does so in style - not everyone in this country is so fortunate': Tucker Carlson ridicules Joe Biden’s $30million plan which will provide crack pipes to addicts to promote 'racial equality'
Posted by Skidmark 2022-02-09 09:31||   2022-02-09 09:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Slides another chip onto the winnings of The Weirdos.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-02-09 10:46||   2022-02-09 10:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Sadly my cynical mind suspects that when the arrests for the myriad crimes of the Biden family syndicate finally begin, a Presidential Pardon will loom, and they know it. Nothing else can explain the arrogant boldness of the graft and corruption they display. It appears to eclipse even the Clinton and Obama records, certainly for chutzpah if nothing else!
Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-02-09 12:35||   2022-02-09 12:35|| Front Page Top

#5 The worst scandal of all is the spiking of this story by American Pravda. They threw the election.
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-02-09 23:06||   2022-02-09 23:06|| Front Page Top

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