WHY IS JOE BIDEN NOT BEING TRIED FOR BRIBERY & CONSPIRACY?
And why are America’s ‘news’-media covering this up?
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/)
America’s ‘news’-media have dropped whatever attention they had been devoting to the allegations and evidence concerning whether or not Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and others, were conspiring to solicit for bribes to be paid to them in order for the bribers to obtain, from the then U.S. Vice President (Joe Biden), decisions, statements, and official actions, that the briber sought (such as to get Ukraine to fire its prosecutor against Hunter’s Ukrainian Burisma boss Mykola Zlochevsky). At first, Democratic Party ‘news’-media denied the existence of the evidence (the laptop); then, when that failed to work, everything came down to the question as to whether the references in Hunter Biden’s laptop to “the Big Man” whom Hunter’s emails referred to as receiving a 10% cut from “H” which was the way that Hunter in the emails referred to himself, was, in fact, his father, Vice President Joe Biden. So, I present here the key latest available official evidences on this matter, and the Democratic Party ‘news’-media’s alleging that there is no absolute certainty that “the Big Man” referred to Hunter’s father:
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12 August 2023, the full 6-count charge against Biden issued (to which nothing has been subsequently added):
House Committee on Oversight and Accountability
THE BIDENS’ INFLUENCE PEDDLING TIMELINE
Since taking the gavel in January, the [House] Committee on Oversight and Accountability has accelerated its investigation of the Biden family’s domestic and international business practices to determine whether the Biden family has been targeted by foreign actors, President Biden is compromised, and our national security is threatened. Records obtained through the Committee’s subpoenas to date reveal that the Bidens and their associates have received over $20 million in payments from foreign entities.
Below is a timeline that details key dates in our investigation.
The main points of interest are:
1) Romania: On September 28, 2015, Vice President Biden welcomed Romanian President Klaus Iohannis to the White House. Within five weeks of this meeting, a Romanian businessman involved with a high-profile corruption prosecution in Romania, Gabriel Popoviciu, began depositing a Biden associate’s bank account, which ultimately made their way into Biden family accounts. Popoviciu made sixteen of the seventeen payments, totaling over $3 million, to the Biden associate account while Joe Biden was Vice President. Biden family accounts ultimately received approximately $1.038 million. The total amount from Romania to the Biden family and their associates is over $3 million.
2) China-CEFC: On March 1, 2017 — less than two months after Vice President Joe Biden left public office—State Energy HK Limited, a Chinese company, wired $3 million to a Biden associate’s account. This is the same bank account used in the above “Romania” section. After the Chinese company wired the Biden associate account the $3 million, the Biden family received approximately $1,065,692 over a three-month period in different bank accounts. Additionally, the CEFC Chairman gives Hunter Biden a diamond worth $80,000. Lastly, CEFC creates a joint venture with the Bidens in the summer of 2017. The timeline lays out the “WhatsApp” messages and subsequent wires from the Chinese to the Bidens of $100,000 and $5 million. The total amount from China, specifically with CEFC and their related entities, to the Biden family and their associates is over $8 million.
3) China- Bohai Harvest RST Equity Investment Fund Management Co., Ltd. (BHR): More information will be provided in our upcoming Fourth Bank Memorandum.
4) Kazakhstan: On April 22, 2014, Kenes Rakishev, a Kazakhstani oligarch used his Singaporean entity, Novatus Holdings, to wire one of Hunter Biden’s Rosemont Seneca entities $142,300. The very next day — April 23, 2014 — the Rosemont Seneca entity transferred the exact same amount of money to a car dealership for a car for Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden and Devon Archer would represent Burisma in Kazakhstan in May/June of 2014 as the company attempted to broker a three-way deal among Burisma, the Kazakhstan government, and a Chinese state-owned energy company.
5) Ukraine: Devon Archer joined the Burisma board of directors in spring of 2014 and was joined by Hunter Biden shortly thereafter. Hunter Biden joined the company as counsel, but after a meeting with Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky in Lake Como, Italy, was elevated to the board of directors in the spring of 2014. Both Biden and Archer were each paid $1 million per year for their positions on the board of directors. In December 2015, after a Burisma board of directors meeting, Zlochevsky and Hunter Biden “called D.C.” in the wake of mounting pressures the company was facing. Zlochevsky was later charged with bribing Ukrainian officials with $6 million in an attempt to delay or drop the investigation into his company. The total amount from Ukraine to the Biden family and their associates is $6.5 million.
6) Russia: On February 14, 2014, a Russian oligarch and Russia’s richest woman, Yelena Baturina, wired a Rosemont Seneca entity $3.5 million. On March 11, 2014, the wire was split up: $750,000 was transferred to Devon Archer, and the remainder was sent to Rosemont Seneca Bohai, a company Devon Archer and Hunter Biden split equally. In spring of 2014, Yelena Baturina joined Hunter Biden and Devon Archer to share a meal with then-Vice President Biden at a restaurant in Washington, D.C. The total amount from Russia to the Biden family and their associates is $3.5 million.
Beyond this timeline, here are links to our First, Second, and Third Bank Memorandums that provide detailed descriptions and show actual bank records and wires.
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20 March 2024
WITNESSES CONFIRM JOE BIDEN'S INVOLVEMENT IN HIS FAMILY'S INFLUENCE PEDDLING
WASHINGTON — At today’s House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing on “Influence Peddling: Examining Joe Biden’s Abuse of Public Office,” witnesses confirmed Joe Biden was involved with his family’s business dealings and their attempts to sell access to him:
At 1:33:50- Mr. Jordan [Jim Jordan, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee]. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The Ranking Member just said that, ``Joe Biden was opposed to corruption.'' Really? So opposed, he leveraged a billion dollars of American tax money to fire the prosecutor in Ukraine who was investigating Zlochevsky at Burisma, the company Hunter Biden sat on the board. Wow. And the prosecutor who replaced Shokin that Mr. Parnas referenced in his opening statement, Mr. Lutsenko, guess what he did? He took Zlochevsky off the wanted list and dropped the charges. Wow. He is really, really opposed to corruption there. Mr. Bobulinski, who is the ``Big Guy’' [referred to in the emails on Hunter Biden’s laptop as getting 10% of each cut]?
Mr. Bobulinski. Joe Biden.
Mr. Jordan. Are you sure about that?
Mr. Bobulinski. Joe Biden.
Mr. Jordan. You sure?
Mr. Bobulinski. I am a thousand percent sure.
Mr. Jordan. Because when Hunter Biden did his deposition under oath, he said, ``I do not know who it is,'' even though he was copied on an email that said, ``H will hold 10 percent for the ``Big Guy''.'' You sure the ``Big Guy'' is Joe Biden?
Mr. Bobulinski. A thousand percent, and there are other text messages that back that up that the brave whistleblowers, Shapley and Ziegler, had produced, not from my phones, not from my Blackberry that I took screenshots from. They took them from subpoenas directly from Apple's iCloud that back up the fact that Hunter knew the ``Big Guy'' was Joe Biden.
Mr. Jordan. The ``Big Guy'' is the brand. The ``Big Guy'' is the lift. The ``Big Guy'' is the one who showed up at golf outings, who took phone calls in meetings and lunches and dinners with Hunter Biden and his business associates. Is that right?
Mr. Bobulinski. Correct.
Mr. Jordan. Mr. Galanis, you referenced in your opening statement, May 4, 2014, you were at a party at a restaurant in Brooklyn, New York. Can you tell me who else was there?
Mr. Galanis. Yes. It was a birthday party. So, there were more than a 100 people there, but amongst them was Devon Archer; myself; the host, Alex Makarski; Yelena Baturina; her husband; and then Hunter Biden joined after I arrived.
Mr. Jordan. And tell us, I think you referenced a phone call that took place. Tell the Committee what happened with that phone call. Who was involved in that phone call?
Mr. Galanis. As I testified in my opening statement, it was already said it was Yelena Baturina, her husband, myself, Hunter initiating it, Joe Biden on the speaker phone, and Devon Archer.
Mr. Jordan. So, there is a little pull aside where that group of people you just described, pulled aside and Hunter Biden called his father or called the Vice President. Is that accurate?
Mr. Galanis. That is accurate.
Mr. Jordan. And then tell me what was discussed on the call.
Mr. Galanis. As I testified, it was a relatively short discussion, but it was a discussion about Yelena and Yuriy coming to town. As I testified specifically, they talked about being good to his boy. And then it ended----
Mr. Jordan. Well, let me ask you this. Mr. Galanis, let me ask you this. Did you get the impression Joe Biden was expecting the call?
Mr. Galanis. Yes. To me it was clearly set up ahead of time. It was an arranged call.
Mr. Jordan. So, this was arranged. This was coordinated. Hunter Biden calls his father, then Vice President, and I think in your deposition, you said he said this, ``I am here with our friends that I told you were coming to town.'' So, it is ``our friends'' and ``I told you this was going to happen,'' which suggests that it was most definitely coordinated. Is that accurate?
Mr. Galanis. That is accurate, yes.
Mr. Jordan. And again, can you tell the Committee who Ms. Baturina is again?
Mr. Galanis. A Russian billionaire, wife of the former mayor of Moscow, served for nearly 20 years as the mayor.
Mr. Jordan. She is the wealthiest woman in Russia. She had already given money to Hunter Biden in his business before this meeting in May, and then subsequent to that meeting, she committed to give more money. Is that accurate?
Mr. Galanis. That is accurate. …
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https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-obtains-and-releases-fbi-record-alleging-vp-biden-foreign-bribery-scheme
https://archive.is/yl5iR
https://web.archive.org/web/20230720191356/https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-obtains-and-releases-fbi-record-alleging-vp-biden-foreign-bribery-scheme
https://web.archive.org/web/20230720175508/https://www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/fd_1023_obtained_by_senator_grassley_-_biden.pdf
07.20.2023
GRASSLEY OBTAINS & RELEASES FBI RECORD ALLEGING VP BIDEN FOREIGN BRIBERY SCHEME
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released an unclassified FBI-generated record describing an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and a Ukrainian business executive. Grassley acquired the record, an FD-1023, via legally protected disclosures by Justice Department whistleblowers.
“For the better part of a year, I’ve been pushing the Justice Department and FBI to provide details on its handling of very significant allegations from a trusted FBI informant implicating then-Vice President Biden in a criminal bribery scheme. While the FBI sought to obfuscate and redact, the American people can now read this document for themselves, without the filter of politicians or bureaucrats, thanks to brave and heroic whistleblowers. What did the Justice Department and FBI do with the detailed information in the document? …
“The FBI’s Biden Bribery Record tracks closely with the evidence uncovered by the Oversight Committee’s Biden family influence peddling investigation. In the FBI’s record, the Burisma executive claims that he didn’t pay the ‘big guy’ directly but that he used several bank accounts to conceal the money. That sounds an awful lot like how the Bidens conduct business: using multiple bank accounts to hide the source and total amount of the money,” House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer said. “At our hearing with IRS whistleblowers, they testified that they had never seen or heard of this record during the Biden criminal investigation, despite having potentially corroborating evidence. Given the misconduct and politicization at the Department of Justice, the American people must be able to read this record for themselves. I thank Senator Grassley for providing much needed transparency to the American people. We must hold the Department of Justice accountable for seeking to bury this record to protect the Bidens.”
Grassley first disclosed the FBI’s possession of significant and voluminous evidence of potential criminality involving the Biden family last year. He has since worked to unearth the FBI record, eventually partnering with Comer on a subpoena to compel its public disclosure. After delays, the FBI provided a highly redacted version of the document to select members of the House of Representatives, but it remained shielded from the public and omitted key details, including references to recordings. Following the FBI’s failure to fully comply with the congressional subpoena, Grassley received the legally protected disclosure with limited redactions to protect a trusted FBI source, handling agents, department whistleblowers and identifiers related to other ongoing investigations.
[in which an FBI agent in Ukraine was told on 26 June 2020 by Burisma’s CFO Vadim Pojarskii in Kiev, that “they hired Hunter Biden to ‘protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems’.” I.e., it was protection money. So the FBI has at least that evidence — and perhaps much more.]
According to the FBI’s confidential human source, executives for Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company, brought Hunter Biden on the board to “protect us through his dad, from all kinds of problems.” …
Zlochevsky claimed to have many text messages and recordings that show that he was coerced into paying the Bidens to ensure Shokin was fired. Specifically, he claimed to have two recordings with Joe Biden and 15 recordings with Hunter Biden. Zlochevsky also retained two documents, presumably financial records, as evidence of the arrangement, but said he didn’t send any funds directly to the “Big Guy,” a term understood to be a reference to Joe Biden. References to the “Big Guy” surfaced in communications involving other Biden family business arrangements independent of the Burisma arrangement. Zlochevsky claimed it would take investigators 10 years to uncover the illicit payments to the Bidens, according to the document.
Related:
05.03.2023 | Grassley, Comer Demand FBI Record Alleging Criminal Scheme Involving Then-VP Biden
05.10.2023 | Comer and Grassley on FBI Failing to Comply with Subpoena Deadline
05.31.2023 | Grassley & Comer to Wray: Provide the Unclassified Documents or Face Contempt
06.06.2023 | Grassley's Message to the Biden DOJ and FBI: Quit Playing Games with the American People
06.12.2023 | Grassley: FBI Redacted References to Recordings in Biden Allegation Shared with Congress
06.21.2023 | Grassley, Graham Lead Senate Judiciary Committee GOP in Seeking Unredacted FBI Record at Center of Biden Allegations
07.18.2023 | Grassley, Johnson, Senate Republicans Demand DOJ and FBI Protect Whistleblowers Alleging Biden Bribery Scheme: “Today, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) led a group of twenty-three Republican senators in calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to commit to protecting agency whistleblowers who disclosed the existence of FBI records alleging a criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Biden and a foreign national.”
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WHERE THE INVESTIGATION STANDS NOW
The Administration is stonewalling it. The authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop, and of the evidence it contains, is no longer disputed by the Democrats, but the key point that Democratic Party ‘news’-media such as the AP and Politi-Fact [owned by the Poynter Institute, funded by 11 Democratic billionaires and one Republcan one] focus on, is that people such as Bobulinski and Galanis (and Zlochevsky in Kiev) have told lies in the past and consequently their testimony in the present case is worthless. (The evidence such as that the FBI reported that “they hired Hunter Biden to ‘protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems’,” is ignored by them.) The testimony to Congress alleges that “the ‘Big Guy’ was Joe Biden’,” but Democratic Party ‘news’-media question that allegation and demand proof of it. And Republican Party ‘news’-media are not pressing the matter. If you want to explore further what Democratic Party ‘news’-media say about this matter, click here.
So, that’s just about everything in a nutshell. If the matter will never be prosecuted, that’s what won’t be prosecuted, and you will have to judge if for yourself, since no jury then ever will.
In the past, I have argued that Biden is the most corrupt President in U.S. history. Most of the examples I cited were from his time as a U.S. Senator, but that corruptness continued right into his Vice Presidency, and into his Presidency.
ON A RELATED TOPIC: I recommend this article about the extent of Biden’s rapidly degenerating mental capacity and the persons who have been making Presidential decisions during the past few months in his stead.
BACK TO THE MAIN TOPIC: One possible reason why the Republican Party hasn’t yet brought this issue of Biden’s brazen corruptness to the fore, is that they’re waiting to release it against him after he becomes nominated. If that’s the reason, it is smart politics. Also, it increases the likelihood that Biden, who is just about the most vulnerable nominee that the Democrats could possibly select, will become the nominee. Right now, after the June 27th debate with Trump, Trump can only be salivating at the prospect of the second debate being with the same person as before. The Republicans wouldn’t be wanting to tip their hand about the corruption issue against Biden at a time when the Democrats are considering to nominate an alternative candidate. However, if the Democrats do stick with Biden, then that would be very stupid, and would make Trump a very lucky man, because just about everyone who doesn’t already know that Biden is the most corrupt President in U.S. history will then come to learn about it before November 5th — and “sleepy Joe” will then grow to be known as “evil and sleepy Joe,” and so to go down with a thud, and bring his entire Party down with him. But frankly, I doubt that the Democratic strategists are that stupid. On July 3rd, I headlined “Powerful Evidence Democratic Nominee Will Be Whitmer or Buttigieg, Not Biden”.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.
The Dummy is a poor, old decrepit critter and that elicits sympathy and looking the other way. Besides, he's been a democrat leftist for over 50 years and that excludes you from any serious investigation. It's your Marxist government working as it always does.