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Politico confirms Hunter Biden laptop em The Newsy You: News of Today
Started 9/23/21 by WALTER784; 44001 views.
From: WALTER784
Dec-3
Showtalk said...
There is a lot going on that we don’t know about because it’s never reported or it’s intentionally not discussed anywhere that reporters would hear about it.
An attempt to dumb down the public so that they can more easily pull the stupid stunts they do in Congress. And that's on both sides of the isle, but the majority of the stunts are from the Democrat party.
Here's another one about Hunter...
Emails: Hunter Biden Is ‘True Sheikh of Washington’
Hunter Biden was reportedly praised as the “True sheikh of Washington” by former British SAS officer James Gilliar, who had a close connection to one of the largest energy companies in the world that allied closely with the Chinese Communist Party, emails from Hunter’s “laptop from hell” revealed.
Gilliar’s high praise highlights Hunter’s notoriety as a power-broker between top figures in Washington and foreign clients seeking access to U.S. decision-making, while his father, Joe Biden, was vice president.
According to Miranda Devine’s new book, Laptop from Hell, Hunter was praised by Gilliar to a person named Rob Walker, a Biden and Clinton family connection.
“Hunter was great,” Gilliar noted to Walker. “True sheikh of Washington.”
Walker had reportedly organized a meeting between Gilliar and Hunter. The meeting took place because Gilliar was looking for a partner with whom to conduct business deals around the globe.
The business deal Gilliar had in mind for Hunter involved Ye Jianming, the chairman of a Chinese energy company CEFC, one of the largest in the world. Ye was a desired contact for Hunter because Ye managed a $1.5 billion fund to expand China’s economic influence throughout the world at the behest of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
After Gilliar emailed Walker to confirm his favorable business meeting with Hunter, Gilliar followed up with Hunter a few weeks later to communicate that Ye was interested in working with Hunter.
“It has been made clear to me that CEFC wish to engage in further business relations with our group,” Gilliar wrote to Hunter, emails show.
Reports indicate that Ye and Hunter met in Washington, DC, in December of 2015 to discuss how Yi and Hunter might work together. Vice President Joe Biden is alleged by Devine to have attended one of a few meetings between the two.
As talks matured, Hunter and Joe Biden’s brother, Jim Biden, wanted to structure the business deal with Ye in a favorable way. To that end, Gilliar recommended bringing Tony Bobulinski into the scheme to advance the opportunity.
In 2017, Gilliar revealed to Bobulinski the $100 million business deal would be between the Biden family and Chinese investors.
It is noteworthy that Bobulinski was accused in 2020 by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) of being part of a “Russian disinformation” effort, that was later debunked as his claims were confirmed. After being unfairly maligned, Bobulinski divulged before the 2020 presidential election that “he was the recipient of one of Hunter Biden’s emails linked to investment with a Chinese energy company,” Breitbart News reported.
Hunter, Gilliar, and Walker in February of 2017 met Ye in Miami to continue negotiating the deal. The meeting yielded a successful outcome for Hunter.
Hunter reportedly scored a lucrative deal with Ye in which he would receive $10 million for at least three years. In return, Hunter would simply make introductions for Ye.
“Ye sealed the new alliance with a rich gift — a 3.16-carat diamond worth $80,000. Photographs of the stunning stone appear on Hunter’s laptop along with a grading report that lists it as a ’round brilliant’ of Grade F with prime ‘VS2’ clarity and ‘excellent’ cut,” Devine’s book says.
Nine days after the meeting between Hunter and Ye, Hunter was reportedly wired two separate payments of $3 million. Both wire transfers were flagged by the Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement network as suspicious.
The transactions were followed by negotiations between Hunter, Gilliar, and Bobulinski. The two reportedly needed Bobulinski because he had a working knowledge of American investment vehicles that Hunter and Gilliar sought to facilitate their scheme. Hunter and Gilliar likely did not have the financial expertise to conduct th
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From: WALTER784
Feb-24
The net closes on Hunter Biden: First son's ex-girlfriend, 28 testifies for five hours to grand jury in tax probe about how he lived in Chateau Marmont for a month - where he learned to cook crack - and gave her thousands of dollars to spend
- Zoe Kestan, 28, gave evidence at a federal courthouse in Joe Biden's home state of Delaware for several hours last Tuesday morning
- Details of grand jury testimony remain secret and the lingerie designer has not spoken publicly about the case
- Kestan was subpoenaed to give evidence in the DOJ's secretive three-year probe into Hunter's murky financial affairs and business with China
- Kestan spent months living in hotels with Biden in 2018 in New York and LA
- The pair were often seen at parties and art gallery openings together
By JAMES GORDON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 07:16 GMT, 22 February 2022
UPDATED: 13:08 GMT, 22 February 2022
Hunter Biden's ex-girlfriend told a grand jury she was instructed by the president's son to withdraw thousands of dollars from ATMs and the two partied at lavish hotels from coast to coast while Hunter was in the throes of drug addiction.
Zoe Kestan, 28, who goes by the social media handle weed_slut_420, testified for five hours at a federal courthouse in Joe Biden's home state of Delaware last Tuesday morning in the investigation focused on the president's son for alleged tax crimes.
Kestan - a garment, lingerie and textile designer - faced a range of questions over what Hunter Biden was doing during his time with her and what his spending habits were like in 2018, when he admitted to learning to cook crack at the infamous Chateau Marmont in Beverly Hills.
The pair had been seen going to the openings of art shows and were regularly spotted at parties together in Manhattan.
Kestan told the grand jury she was instructed by Biden to take out 'thousands of dollars at a time' from cash machines.
In her testimony, Kestan reeled off a list of pricey five-star New York City hotels, including the Soho Grand and Four Seasons, where she had stayed with Biden, reports the New York Post.
She also detailed their West Coast hotels, which included celebrity hot spot Chateau Marmont, where the pair stayed together for a month.
An ex-girlfriend of Hunter Biden, left, Zoe Kestan, 28, right, gave evidence at a federal courthouse in Joe Biden's home state of Delaware for several hours last Tuesday morning
Kestan, who is a lingerie designer, was subpoenaed to give evidence in the DOJ's secretive three-year probe into Hunter's murky financial affairs and business with China
The DOJ's is conducting a secretive three-year probe into Hunter's murky financial affairs and business with China
In his memoir Beautiful Things, released last year, Hunter reveals how he was banned from the legendary celebrity hangout because of 'drug use.'
The money she took out at ATMs was used to buy clothes and food, but she explained she did not know how he came to have the funds, reports the Post.
Kestan joined a growing list of former business partners and associates who have been subpoenaed to give evidence in the Department of Justice's secretive three-year probe into Hunter's murky financial affairs.
Federal agents went directly to Kestan's New York City apartment where they served her with a subpoena to testify at the grand jury after her name came up during the broad investigation.
She appeared directly after Hunter Biden's baby mama, Lunden Roberts, 30, sat for the grand jury.
As well as having a three-year-old daughter with the president's son, who he refuses to publicly acknowledge, Roberts spent more than a year working in a junior position at his investment firm, Rosemont Seneca.
FWIW
- Edited February 25, 2022 2:08 am by WALTER784
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From: WALTER784
Feb-25
The investigation is far and wide and they are still finalizing the final pieces of the puzzle.
It's not just Hunter, it's his brother and father and perhaps even dead Beau's wife along with several other players.
This is just one part of the whole story:
Hunter Biden's hot water is reaching a boiling point (nypost.com)
FWIW
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From: Showtalk
Feb-26
Those texts at the end sound deranged. If Devon Archer does time, Hunter may. If he walks with a minor punishment, Hunter won’t likely go to jail for anything.
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From: WALTER784
Feb-26
I wouldn't be so sure about that... Hunter's laptop still has a lot of other precious gem stones recorded as well. E-mails, banking deals, numerous projects with various nefarious partners, not to mention numerous pictures, you name it. And some of those pictures prove that Joe Biden lied when he said he never met any of his son's business partners because he's right there in the pictures too.
FWIW
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From: Showtalk
Mar-2
Devon Archer got a one year sentence. Not much considering what the could have received.
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From: WALTER784
Mar-3
Liberal judges are going easy on the Democrats, but they'll throw the book at any Republican involved and give them the maximum sentence.
FWIW
- Edited March 3, 2022 3:54 am by WALTER784
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From: WALTER784
Mar-6
And now we have this... redacted document for the ones they hand over and "not found" for the most damning ones...
Secret Service says it can't find Hunter Biden travel records for 2010, 2011, or 2013
by Jerry Dunleavy, Justice Department Reporter
February 24, 2022 02:17 PM
The Secret Service is telling Republican investigators that it cannot find communications related to Hunter Biden’s travels for 2010, 2011, or 2013 — when President Joe Biden was the vice president.
Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin sent the Secret Service a letter last month seeking unredacted records tied to Hunter Biden’s travels between January 2009 and January 2017. They asked for full travel records and criticized the agency for years of “inappropriate redactions” — especially related to a controversial Kazakhstan trip in 2014. The senators also lamented that three years of documents seemed to be missing entirely.
James Murray, the director of the U.S. Secret Service, said the agency didn’t find any documents tied to the Republican requests in a letter in mid-February.
“In consultation with the Department of Homeland Security, on June 11, 2021, the Secret Service provided documents responsive to your request in accordance with law, longstanding Executive Branch practice, and Department-wide standards,” Murray wrote to the GOP. “In October 2020, the Secret Service worked extensively with your committees, and agreed to search parameters provided by your offices to identify communications regarding Mr. Biden’s travel. These search parameters did not yield communications for the years 2010, 2011, or 2013.”
Johnson and Grassley said last month they had determined that even though Hunter Biden was a Secret Service protectee from January 2009 through July 2014, the agency did not produce any communications about his travel for the years 2010, 2011, or 2013.
“[This] raises questions, given that USSS travel records show that Hunter Biden made trips to China and other destinations around the world, including, Russia, Italy, Spain, and Mexico,” they said.
GRASSLEY AND JOHNSON DEMAND HUNTER BIDEN'S FULL TRAVEL RECORDS FROM SECRET SERVICE
The Republicans have long sought access to the records on President Biden’s son and his taxpayer-funded travel while he allegedly conducted private business during Biden’s vice presidency under President Barack Obama. They have specifically zeroed in on communications between the Secret Service, Hunter Biden, and his business associates at Rosemont Seneca Partners.
Last month, the senators noted that the Secret Service had handed over 259 pages of records, but with “extensive” and improper redactions.
“These inappropriate redactions impede our offices’ ability to understand the full scope of the interactions between Hunter Biden, his associates, and the USSS,” Johnson and Grassley wrote in January. “The USSS hid names and other information contained in email conversations regarding Hunter Biden without any proper legal justification.”
Emails from Hunter Biden's laptop previously reported by the Washington Examiner show that Hunter Biden scheduled a meeting in 2014 with Karim Massimov, then the prime minister of Kazakhstan, to discuss an energy deal with Ukrainian gas giant Burisma. Hunter Biden said he planned to ditch his Secret Service security detail before departing from Paris to Kazakhstan to discuss the deal.
Hunter Biden went on a media blitz last year to promote his memoir, Beautiful Things, during which he admitted that the laptop allegedly dropped off for repairs at a Delaware repair shop could be his, but he doesn't remember. But he said it could have been stolen, he could have been hacked, or Russian intelligence could have been involved.
Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign, along with many in the media, dismissed the laptop story as part of a Russian disinformation operation.
Johnson and Grassley released a joint report in 2020, with much of its focus on Joe Biden’s role in helping guide the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy while Hunter Biden held a lucrative position on the board of Burisma, which the Republicans said “created an immediate potential conflict of interest."
Burisma was an issue that former President Donald Trump raised during his controversial 2019 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which led to impeachment in the Democratic-controlled House and an acquittal in the GOP-led Senate.
Russia is currently engaged in what looks like a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
While on Burisma’s board, Biden shared a close business relationship with Massimov during his second stint as Kazakhstan's prime minister from 2014 through 2016. Massimov was arrested in January by Kazakh authorities on allegations of treason.
The laptop emails between Biden, his Rosemont Seneca business partner and fellow Burisma board member Devon Archer, and Ukrainian Burisma official Vadym Pozharskyi show their desire to work out a deal with Massimov.
Johnson and Grassley noted that the Secret Service records “do not show whether USSS personnel or Hunter Biden traveled to Kazakhstan in May or June 2014.” Hunter Biden’s specific travel itinerary is repeatedly redacted in the emails.
In laptop emails, Biden said his Secret Service detail was annoyed when he ditched them to pursue business deals in Kazakhstan.
“Vadim — I’ve chosen to carry on from Paris without the Secret Service
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- Edited March 6, 2022 3:28 am by WALTER784
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