It was revealed today that there were 19,335 emails between then-Vice President Joe Biden’s office and his son’s private investment company, Rosemont-Seneca, despite Biden’s assertion that there had been an “absolute wall” between his public office and his son’s foreign business ventures. The records from the National Archives were obtained from a FOIA request by “America First Legal,” filed back on August 9, 2022, and reported on today by Breitbart News.
Last week, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-KY) announced that his committee obtained records of two bank wires totaling $260,000, showing that Hunter Biden received payments from Jonathan Li, the CEO of BHR Partners Equity Investment Fund Management Co, Ltd, in July and August 2019, and that the beneficiary address was that of his father’s residence in Wilmington, Delaware. When he was Vice President in 2013, Joe Biden was hosted by Li at a dinner in Beijing, which was followed, ten days later, by the issuance of a license establishing the new investment fund BHR, with Hunter on the board of directors. (The ‘R’ stands for “Rosemont-Seneca, the company of Hunter Biden; the “B’ stood for Li’s company Bohai.) A lawyer for Hunter Biden, Abbe Lowell, explained to CBS News on Oct. 4 that Hunter only used his father’s address because he had previously used that same address for his driver’s license.
Republicans have tried to sell the Biden family shenanigans as evidence of their being controlled by Russians and the Chinese Communist Party. For example, the $3.5 million that Hunter Biden received in 2015 from Elena Baturina is portrayed as coming from the “the richest woman in Russia,” whose husband was mayor of Moscow; but her husband, Yury Luzhkov, was dismissed as mayor in 2010 by the Putin-Medvedev team, and his wife lived in London on the proceeds of what was likely the fruits of their corrupt dealings. And Li, educated at the University of London, plays at the edges of China’s economy and its dealings with Western investors. BHR was set up to hive off a non-oil part of a Chinese oil company Sinopec to play merger and acquisition games. Li’s specialties seem to revolve around the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, Hong Kong’s stock market and China’s pilot program to reform some of their “state-owned enterprises.” Americans can rest assured that Biden family corruption did not involve them serving the interests of Moscow or Beijing.
Curiously, at the same time that Joe Biden was in Beijing meeting with Li, in early December 2013, Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych was in Beijing meeting with President Xi Jinping over joining the newly-announced Belt and Road Initiative.
