Feds’ Foreign-Corruption Double Standard

 

• Ho and Hunter: A Lucrative Relationship  

  Court records and other documents show that Hunter Biden met with Ho’s boss Ye Jianming in February 2017 in Miami, where the CEFC chief offered him up to $30 million for “introductions alone,” according to emails. Over the next 14 months, Hunter and Jimmy Biden (as the latter is known to family and friends) ultimately received almost $6 million from CEFC entities, according to congressional investigators, including $1 million from Ho. The texts indicate Hunter was familiar with the requirements of the law. Attempts to reach James Biden were unsuccessful. Then-California Sen. Kamala Harris and then-California Lt. Early on, Joe Biden appeared from emails to be cut in on a future CEFC deal, which is at odds with his repeated denials about being involved in—or even knowing anything about—his son’s business dealings.

• ‘Take Whatever Money You Can Take’

  It’s not clear what the Chinese got for all their money, which didn’t appear to correspond with any actual billing for consulting work. .  to spend for your own benefit.” The Bidens did virtually no “legitimate” work for CEFC, according to congressional  investigators, who question whether CEFC sought out Hunter as part of an intelligence-gathering operation aimed at his father. The call was made less than 10 minutes after agents read Ho his Miranda rights. But they weren’t able to help Ho, who stayed locked behind bars at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Manhattan. FISA surveillance is sweeping, and former FBI officials say it would have included phone conversations between Ho and CEFC and Hunter Biden—as well as his uncle, who was also a partner in the joint venture with the Chinese and also communicated with Ho. Most federal felonies have a five-year statute of limitation.

• Charlie McGonigal

  One explanation for the FBI’s and Justice Department’s lack of interest in prosecuting the Bidens in the Ho case may be the role played by former FBI official Charles “Charlie” McGonigal. Ducka was close to CEFC chairman Ye, who dropped off the expensive diamond “gift” for Hunter Biden at his Miami hotel room. But the two men may have had a personal connection through their daughters. Their daughters played at lacrosse training facilities in the Maryland-D.C. area. McGonigal was a protege of former FBI director James Comey, who signed off on FISA spy warrants targeting Trump’s presidential campaign and was directly involved in the Russiagate investigation of the former president. 8220;I think many of us who were nominated for leadership positions by him will forever hold him in esteem.” McGonigal worked on national security cases with top Justice Department official David Laufman, an Obama appointee based in Washington who made the decisions in 2017 to pursue Trump and his associates over possible FARA violations, while leaving the Bidens untouched.

• Another Trump-tied counterespionage target in the FBI’s Russiagate crusade was retired Lt. In 2016, the FBI opened an investigation of Flynn based on possible FARA violations. The Justice Department eventually had to dismiss those charges, as well. This month Flynn filed a $50 million lawsuit claiming “malicious prosecution” by Comey, his former deputy Andrew McCabe, and his counterintelligence chief Peter Strzok, along with former Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his lead prosecutor Brandon Van Grack, an Obama donor. Then-Vice President Biden is named in the scheme. Last month, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) He said both Hunter and his uncle should have registered as foreign agents of the China-backed energy conglomerate.

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