Federal Prosecutor on Hunter Biden Case Served as Right-Hand Man to Longtime Biden Family Crony
A prosecutor on the team that struck a sweetheart deal with Hunter Biden worked just years ago for a longtime Biden family friend who did business with the embattled first son, raising potential concerns about an investigation that has already been marred by whistleblower allegations of political favoritism.
Derek Hines, a special assistant U.S. attorney on the Hunter Biden case, was special counsel to former FBI director Louis Freeh at Freeh's private consulting firm from August 2013 to February 2015, according to Hines's LinkedIn profile. Freeh has extensive ties to the Biden family. He was recruited by Hunter Biden in 2016 to help a Romanian businessman fight bribery charges in Europe. That same year, Freeh gave $100,000 to a college trust for two of Joe Biden's grandchildren, according to emails from Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop. Freeh said that he looked forward to "future work" with Hunter Biden and that he had discussed "future work options" with then-vice president Biden. Freeh later joined the board of the Beau Biden Foundation, named for the president's late son.
Hines now serves as special assistant to U.S. attorney David Weiss, according to court filings in Biden's case. Weiss, the federal prosecutor in Delaware, announced Tuesday that Biden agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax crimes for failure to pay taxes in 2017 and 2018. Biden is also charged with one count of felony gun possession, though he will enter a diversionary program that will likely keep him out of jail. Republicans blasted what they called a sweetheart deal handed down by the Biden Justice Department.
Hines's past work for a Biden family friend could raise questions about the investigation into the younger Biden. Weiss's office reportedly investigated Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings, though it appears that Biden will not be charged with any crimes related to that activity. Government whistleblowers have raised concerns that the Justice Department pulled punches in the Biden probe for political reasons. A veteran IRS investigator has claimed that Justice Department headquarters slow-walked the investigation into Biden's unpaid taxes.
House Republicans are investigating Biden's foreign ventures, including his work for Gabriel Popoviciu, a Romanian real estate magnate who faced investigations in Europe for bribery.
Beginning in 2015, Popoviciu wired at least $1 million to Hunter Biden, according to a recent report from the House Oversight Committee. Biden met multiple times with the former U.S. ambassador to Romania to discuss Popoviciu, though he did not register that work under federal lobbying laws. Emails from Biden's laptop show that Freeh conducted private investigations to help Popoviciu's case. Freeh said he had contacts with the FBI, the State Department, and Romania's anti-corruption bureau.
According to his emails, Hunter Biden first contacted Freeh about Popoviciu on June 18, 2016.
"Time is of the essence and my client has never balked at bringing whatever team it takes together at whatever cost to obtain justice," Biden wrote.
Freeh quickly took up the Popoviciu case. According to a July 8, 2016, email, Freeh told Biden that he "had conversations with the head of the FBI's Criminal Division" regarding Popoviciu.
It is unclear whether Hines interacted with Biden when he worked for Freeh. The U.S. attorney's office in Delaware declined comment. The Justice Department and Freeh did not respond to requests for comment.
Still, Joe Biden should be deeply concerned about what is coming to his family—and likely his presidency. He’d better hope that he wins reelection so that, just as the forty-fifth president plans to do should he win in 2024, Biden can pardon himself and his family for their misdeeds.
The Joe Biden Disaster Has Arrived
Story by Brandon Weichert
How much trouble is Joe Biden in thanks to Hunter Biden and his foreign business dealings with nations like China and Ukraine? - President Joe Biden has been in the hot seat of controversy surrounding his wayward son, Hunter’s global exploits.
Billing himself as a “consultant,” the First Son has spent years cultivating relationships with contacts both in foreign governments and within powerful multinational corporations.
The question has always been whether Hunter was freelancing or if he was representing larger interests—notably those of his family, specifically, his powerful father, Joe.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has been leading the investigation into these matters and is now demanding that the president retract his “misleading and dishonest denial” that the Biden family received $1 million from a Chinese conglomerate.
Is the Biden Family Actually an International Crime Syndicate?
In fact, the Biden family did receive those funds via one of Hunter Biden’s business partners.
The money is believed to have been disbursed not only to Hunter’s account, but to the bank accounts of Hunter’s uncle, James Biden, as well as Hunter’s sister-in-law (and onetime girlfriend), Hallie Biden.
The most important query, of course, is whether President Biden had received the money himself—either directly or indirectly. And for that, further investigation is required (which is ongoing).
The reason that Comer and the House Oversight Committee know about these transfer payments from a Chinese conglomerate to the Biden family’s personal accounts is because the Biden family attorneys confirmed this to the Oversight Committee in a recent round of disclosures. More ominously, according to reports on the matter, “a bank account identified as an unknown ‘Biden’ also received $70,000 from .”
China Thinks Biden is “Easier to Control”
I remind you also that at the start of the Biden Administration, after his controversial victory in the hotly contested 2020 Presidential Election, Di Dongsheng, a professor of international relations at Renmin University (and someone with connections to the highest levels of China’s government) boasted that Joe Biden would be “easier to control” than Donald Trump ever was as president.
This statement was instantly downplayed by Western media and it was outright censored by China’s truth averse media.
Wonder why? Could it be because the Biden family accepted at least $1 million from a Chinese state enterprise over the last decade?
President Biden is in such a legal quandary that not even brer rabbit—who is far less cognitively impaired than the forty-sixth president—could extricate himself from. He probably doesn’t realize it yet.
The Walls Really Are (Slowly) Closing In…
The Republicans have control over the House of Representatives, which means that they will continue to investigate this issue for as long as they hold power there. The Biden family’s various misdeeds will be uncovered one way or another. Maybe it all goes on Hunter. Maybe we get lucky and it clips the president (who is almost certainly involved). This investigation will take time and it will be annoying to those on the outside, but something will pan out about Hunter’s international business ties.
The walls are actually closing in around Joe Biden. How long it takes and how much the walls close in will be up to several factors which may not work on the relatively short (for investigation standards) timeframe that the House GOP is working with as the 2024 Presidential Election rapidly approaches.
Still, Joe Biden should be deeply concerned about what is coming to his family—and likely his presidency. He’d better hope that he wins reelection so that, just as the forty-fifth president plans to do should he win in 2024, Biden can pardon himself and his family for their misdeeds.
Brandon J. Weichert is a former Congressional staffer and geopolitical analyst who serves as a Senior Editor for 19FortyFive.com. Weichert is a contributor at The Washington Times, as well as at American Greatness and the Asia Times. He is the author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower(Republic Book Publishers), The Shadow War: Iran’s Quest for Supremacy (March 28), and Biohacked: China’s Race to Control Life (May 16). Weichert can be followed via Twitter @WeTheBrandon.
How to throw the Hunter Biden 'justice' outcome straight into Joe Biden's face
The decision by the Department of Justice to charge Hunter Biden for two mere misdemeanors for massive tax evasion linked to the foreign payoffs he took, and put him in a "diversion program" with dismissal likely for lying about his drug use and possible drug distribution activies on his gun ownership application drives home to most Americans that we have a two-tier system of justice.
It's not just in striking contrast to the cascade of charges being leveled at President Trump on questionable matters as he seeks to re-run for office.
It's that any one of us, faced with the same charges at the same scale would be thrown into the slammer for the rest of our lives.
Writer Tom Knighton calls that a "slap in the face" to ordinary Americans, and writes on his substack:
Hunter Biden has apparently broken a number of laws. We know he’s broken them and he broke them repeatedly.
And it seems he’s now about to face charges for his crimes.
That’s the good news.
Unfortunately, that’s about all the good news. You see, Hunter’s getting the kind of deal that neither you nor I would be offered. He’ll likely never see a day in prison.
Writer Jonathan Tobin at Newsweek calls it "sweetheart deal," and all about the political protection for Joe Biden himself:
The worst part of all of this is the way the DOJ is protecting the President. If such allegations were leveled against anyone else involved in the kind of criminality Hunter was routinely engaged in, the Department of Justice would be using them as leverage to get to the bottom of his family's questionable activities. Anyone else would be squeezed to reveal all about his shady dealings. Yet Hunter was simply... let off.
One set of laws for us. Another set for Hunter.
Andrew McCarthy has more disgusted thoughts here, arguing that the sweetheart deal was "intentionally provocative" and intended to rub our noses in it, while Michael Goodwin calls it new take on the "president's day sale" with "friend and family discounts" here.
Hunter always did brag about his political clout -- and now with this utterly obvious special treatment from the reaches of the long arm of the law, there it is.
In the House, Rep. James Comer has vowed to carry on with his investigation into the Biden family syndicate of corruption, and that's useful work indeed, given the amount of payoff money uncovered, now in the neighborhood of $30 million.
But in a corrupt, rigged system, such as we have now, it's hard to think that anything will come of it, though it could perhaps serve as a marker for potential action if Trump does manage to win the presidency again.
This phony justice cries out for at least some kind of Republican statement-action now.
Since there is a two-tier system of justice and now everyone knows it, with Joe Biden quite convinced he's going to skate without consequences, maybe Congress could pass a corrective bill about it, reducing all penalties for tax fraud and gun application violations for everyone else to Hunter Biden's level. They could call it the "Hunter Biden Two-Tier Justice Correction Act."
The leftist Senate would probably not pass it (just imagine Mitch McConnell, who's been playing swamp games for years advocating for a bill like that), but in case it did, it could be put in front of Joe Biden's face for signature ... and everyone could watch him veto it.
At that point, the voters will be informed as to what this Hunter justice is really about. If Hunter Biden can't be made to do jail time for the illegal activities he engaged in, then nobody should be forced to do jailtime for the same offenses. Reduce all penalties for anyone commiting Hunter's crimes to Hunter's level, take a stand for one-tier justice, and see how that plays out with the voters.
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Who was this “unknown Biden”? Why is their identity masked? Could it be that the entire Biden family are acting as go-betweens shuttling money-for-access from China to Joe Biden?
In 2018 and 2020, Breitbart Senior Contributor and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer published Secret Empires and Profiles in Corruption. Each book hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and exposed how Hunter Biden and Joe Biden flew aboard Air Force Two in 2013 to China before Hunter’s firm inked a $1.5 billion deal with a subsidiary of the Chinese government’s Bank of China less than two weeks after the trip. Schweizer’s work also uncovered the Biden family’s other vast and lucrative foreign deals and cronyism.
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James Comer Predicts Biden Bank Records Will Show Family Accepted Up to $30M from Foreign Business
House Oversight Committee chair Rep. James Comer (R-KY) predicted Thursday that newly subpoenaed Biden bank records will show the family accepted up to $30 million from its foreign business dealings.
In March, Comer’s probe identified three Biden family members who collectively received $1.3 million, wired through a Biden associate from a Chinese energy company two months after Joe Biden left the vice presidency.
In May, Comer discovered that over the course of several years, the Biden family business received at least $10 million from business schemes in Romania and China in return for what appears to be influence peddling. In total, nine Biden family members received payments from the family foreign business ventures, including two of Joe Biden’s grandchildren.
U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden watch a Christmas tree lighting ceremony with the President’ son Hunter Biden and his son Beau Jr. on his shoulders during their family’s Thanksgiving holiday in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on November 25, 2022 (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images).
“We have more bank records coming in going to exceed $10 million, this week. And I think we will get between $20 and 30 million,” Comer told Fox News.
Last week, Comer subpoenaed two more banks related to the Biden family’s business schemes in Ukraine.
President Joe Biden delivers a speech at the Lockheed Martin facility that manufactures the Javelin anti-tank missiles that Biden is giving Ukraine on May 3, 2022, in Troy, Alabama (Peter Zay/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images).
In addition, he subpoenaed Hunter Biden’s business partner, Devon Archer, for deposition this week. Archer served in 2014 with Hunter on the board of Burisma, a Ukraine-based energy company. He was photographed in 2014 playing golf with Joe Biden. In 2022, a judge sentenced Archer to a year and a day in prison.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told Breitbart News on Friday the subpoenas were triggered by an FBI informant document that alleged Joe Biden accepted a $5 million bribe from a Ukrainian oligarch.
According to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the document also says the founder of Bursima, Mykola Zlochevsky, who allegedly paid Joe Biden and Hunter, kept 17 audio recordings of his conversations with them as an “insurance policy.”
Ukrainian businessman and founder of the Burisma Holdings company, Mykola Zlochevsky, during a media conference (Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images).
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BIDEN WOULD HAVE MADE HITLER PROUD!
Biden’s DOJ Turned Trump’s Secret Service Detail Into Informants
The bond of trust between presidents and Secret Service agents is being violated.
The Obama strategy was to weaponize every element of the federal government. The Biden administration, run by many of the same people, are taking that strategy to the next level.
Previously, I discussed how Jack Smith, the Clinton allied Special Counsel, had violated the attorney-client privilege of 3 Trump lawyers so far, bringing the total number of Trump attorney-client privilege violations to 5 so far.
Even Trump’s Secret Service detail has been weaponized and transformed into informants.
Secret Service agents hired to protect Donald Trump may have provided key evidence in the classified documents case where the former president is at risk of federal indictment, according to a legal expert.
Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance discussed a “new and interesting” detail reported by The New York Times on June 6. More than 20 members of the former president’s security detail have testified to a grand jury in Washington D.C., the newspaper reported. The grand jury heard evidence as part of the investigation into allegations Trump mishandled classified materials found at his Mar-a-Lago resort and obstructed the federal attempt to retrieve them…
It was previously reported in April that “multiple” Secret Service agents had been subpoenaed to testify in front of the grand jury in Washington D.C. Further details—including the questions the agents were asked to answer under oath—are unknown….
Secret Service agents are always with Trump. And they are also highly trained as observers and witnesses,” Vance wrote.
“Agents work criminal cases and testify before grand juries and trial juries. It’s their job. In other words, these folks are trained witnesses. As a prosecutor, you couldn’t ask for much better.”
While Trump, as a former president, can decline Secret Service protection, if he were to win reelection, he could not.
There is supposed to be a bond of trust between presidents and the Secret Service agents who protect them.
The Democrat DOJ coup there, as with Trump’s lawyers, has set out to violate that bond of trust and to weaponize people who are supposed to protect Trump.
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Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
The FBI is Now a Democrat SuperPAC
The FBI’s mission is “To protect the American people and uphold the U.S. Constitution.” Their motto is “Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity”.
How is the FBI doing on these fronts?
What are they protecting the American people from? Are they upholding the Constitution? Who is their fidelity to? Do they act with integrity?
The current FBI fails on all these counts. They have morphed from the premier law enforcement agency in the world to a Democrat party superPAC.
Start with revelations from the Durham, and previously the Weissman/Mueller reports. The FBI knowingly and deliberately used bogus and unverified opposition research from the Clinton campaign to spy on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, his transition, and then his administration.
The FBI lied to FISA courts to obtain warrants to spy on those within Trump’s orbit. Some were entrapped, as was Gen. Michael Flynn, and prosecuted. Others received visits by FBI agents or SWAT teams, such as Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, and Rudy Giuliani, to intimidate and harass them for the sin of supporting Donald Trump.
Have any Democrats been treated similarly?
The FBI conspired with suspected Russian agent Igor Danchenko who, along with British agent Christopher Steele, concocted the bogus “Steele Dossier” used as the basis of spying and undermining the Trump campaign and administration.
Cornell Law school defines, “Treason refers to the betrayal of one’s own country by attempting to overthrow the government through waging war against the state or materially aiding its enemies.”
Isn’t Russia considered our enemy?
Since the CIA knew that “Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, wanted Hillary Clinton to win the 2016 election,” treason accurately describes the FBI's activities, preventing Trump’s election and stopping his presidency to serve the wishes of and aiding America’s enemy Russia.
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Then there is the Hunter Biden laptop, in FBI’s possession since 2019, but hidden away and not investigated.
According to Yahoo News, “A whistleblower claims FBI officials instructed agents not to investigate Hunter Biden’s laptop ahead of the 2020 presidential election.”
Of course, Democrats and the FBI wanted to suppress such a story, just as their FBI superPAC smothered the Hillary Clinton email scandal? This was blatant election interference by the FBI.
The FBI, by ignoring the laptop in their possession, altered the 2020 election, “16% of Biden voters would have voted differently if Hunter Biden laptop story was not suppressed by media, big tech.” They left out the original suppressor, the FBI.
Voters agree that the FBI actions interfered in the 2020 election: “79% say ‘truthful’ coverage of Hunter Biden’s laptop would have changed 2020 election.”
Additional confirmation came from a Twitter file release last December, “Evidence shows FBI, Biden campaign and Twitter worked together to suppress Hunter story.” In other words, the FBI and Twitter were part of the Democrat campaign.
At least in Twitter’s defense, it is a private company. The FBI is not, instead it is a taxpayer funded agency under the Department of Justice. Yet here they are as a Democrat party superPAC.
Who was in charge of the FBI during this time? An honest guy like the Efrem Zimbalist Jr character in the 1960 series “The FBI”? No, it was James Comey, who doesn’t hide his hyper-partisanship and political activism.
In a recent MSNBC interview Comey asserted, “Trump poses a near-existential threat to the country if he gains a second term.” In another interview he was in full campaign mode saying, “It has to be Biden in 2024.” He also predicted, "He could be wearing an ankle bracelet while accepting the nomination at the Republican convention."
It's extremely likely that Comey held these views as FBI director, when Trump ran for and was elected president. After Trump’s election, Comey, along with his wife and daughters marched through Washington, D.C. wearing “pink pussy hats,” protesting the election of the president he purportedly served. So much for fidelity or integrity.
Not only Comey, but two senior FBI officials, Lisa Page and Peter Strzok had this exchange in August 2016,
I’m sure similar conversations took place in the DNC headquarters. Is there any difference between the DNC and FBI?
The FBI has hunted Trump supporters anywhere near the U.S. Capitol on January 6, arresting them and serving them up to the other Democrat superPAC, the DOJ, for draconian prosecution. Meanwhile they can’t seem to identify the January 5 pipe bomber and are keeping Ray Epps and his role on January 6 hidden and buried as deeply as Hunter Biden’s laptop.
The FBI raided the home of a former Republican president over supposed classified documents, which he has declassification authority over, and which were in locked in his home under Secret Service protection.
While a Democrat senator and vice president, Joe Biden, without declassification authority, stored classified documents in garages, homes and offices, in multiple states, under no specific security protection, and the FBI yawns and instead pursues parents exercising their right of free speech at school board meetings.
Our FBI shields firms tied to the Chinese communist party that hold U.S. voter data in mainland China while they pressured Twitter to suppress information critical of the Biden family.
The FBI celebrates Democrat priority Pride Month while targeting Catholics as domestic terrorists. Just as any Democrat operative would have done.
As Rep. James Comer said, “The FBI is attempting a coverup, and Democrats are doing their bidding by lying to the American people” regarding supposed DOJ investigations into the Biden Family selling influence to foreign countries.
Then there is last week’s Trump indictment, after an unprecedented FBI raid and fishing expedition, seizing thousands of Trump’s personal items having nothing to do with national security. The FBI played tag team with the DOJ, indicting Trump for flimsy interpretations of the Espionage Act.
Trump was indicted over so-called classified documents that remain hidden. As Sundance described, “They cannot tell anyone, even the court, what the nature of the documents are that underpin their assertion. Remember, they wouldn’t even let a court appointed “special master” review the documents.”
I predict that if there is a trial, it will drag out through campaign season, only to be dropped on election day, having served its original intent of election interference by the Biden administration.
On the same day as the indictment, the FBI, under Congressional pressure, finally coughed up documents verifying their slow-walked investigation into an alleged $5 million bribe to then Vice President Biden from a Ukraine energy company.
Joe Biden has been confirmed as “the big guy” by a Burisma executive, after a few years ago being called the same over peddling his vice presidential status and influence to China. The FBI is “investigating” a $5 million bribe paid to “the big guy” but are sure keeping the investigation quiet.
No swat raids. No indictments. No arrests. Senate Republicans had to drag this out of the agency charged with monitoring and prosecuting foreign influence peddling by U.S. officials. The FBI is protecting one of its own fellow Democrats.
What’s the solution? Few Republicans seem to care, and the Democrats are happy to have the FBI as one of their most influential superPACs. If wrongdoing by the FBI is uncovered, nothing will happen, as evidenced after the Durham Report release.
The U.S. House has the power of the purse and could defund the FBI if they don’t reverse course but that will never happen. Instead, the FBI thumbs its nose at Congressional subpoenas, comfortable in the assurance that the DOJ would never prosecute such contempt of Congress. That’s reserved only for Republicans.
Fortunately House Speaker Kevin McCarthy found his spine and tweeted,
Talk is cheap though. Let’s see of Speaker McCarthy follows through.
The American people stand with Trump though. Following his indictment, Trump’s poll numbers went up, giving him a nearly 40 point lead over the rapidly diminishing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Fifty years ago, many feared a politicized and weaponized FBI under the reign of J. Edgar Hoover. Now those fearing a tyrannical government are in charge and running these agencies.
We now have a federalized police agency targeting political opponents of the party in power. Biden is now in good company with other tyrants who acted similarly including Mao, Stalin, and Hitler.
From Reagan’s “Shining city on a hill” we have Biden’s Banana Republic of America, thanks to the unethical and unscrupulous FBI. The Democrat party, with the able assistance of the FBI and DOJ, is attempting to take out the leading 2024 election opponent to assist their very own Big Guy. So much for the will of the people electing their president.
Welcome to the Banana Republic of America.
Brian C. Joondeph, M.D., is a physician and writer. Follow me on Twitter @retinaldoctor, Substack Dr. Brian’s Substack and Truth Social @BrianJoondeph.
Grassley: ‘I Believe the FBI Is Covering for President Biden’
Wednesday, during an appearance on FNC’s “Jesse Watters Tonight,” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, accused the FBI of covering for President Joe Biden.
Grassley was referring to the FBI’s alleged stonewalling regarding House inquiries into potential wrongdoing by Biden and members of his family.
“Senator Chuck Grassley, you’re a resolute guy,” FNC Jesse Watters said. “You are patient. You’ve done this before. You know how this works. Do you feel like the Department of Justice and the FBI are playing games?”
“Absolutely,” Grassley replied. “First of all, I want to compliment Congressman Comer because he has been very helpful with working me on this issue. And we wouldn’t be where we are with the FBI if he hadn’t been involved.”
“So, let me answer your question this way,” he continued. “We have an unclassified document. We have what the FBI calls a credible source because they paid this person over the years, six figures. And I’ve got a reputation for protecting whistleblowers, and we’re going to keep going until we get this document. But, yes, I believe the FBI is covering for President Biden. And the information that’s in this is from a credible source, from credible whistleblowers, people that are protected by the Whistleblower Protection Law, and we just got to get to the bottom of it, and we’re not going to give up until we get this document.”
“Senator Grassley, we’re hearing the FBI says they can’t protect this whistleblower if this document drops, he might wind up dead,” Watters asked. “How does that make you feel?”
“Well, let’s put it this way,” Grassley replied. “Look at — compared to the way they’re treating Congress as a second-class citizen. They gave the New York Times on May 18 a classified document. We have an unclassified document, and they gave them the name of a human source. Did they worry about that person being assassinated? I think that’s all blue smoke.”
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Exclusive: GOP Lawmakers Question Who Gave Joe Biden’s Corporation Nearly $10M in 2017
Republican lawmakers are demanding transparency from President Joe Biden regarding his 2017 tax returns in which his entity, “CelticCapri Corp,” listed nearly $10 million without specifying revenue line items, raising concerns about who paid the entity and for what in the wake of Joe Biden’s alleged link to a $5 million Ukrainian “bribery” scheme.
Before the 2020 election, USA Today published a “fact check” article that tried to support the claims that the Bidens earned “$15.6 million … from speaking fees and book deals” from 2017 to 2019, and that “more than $10 million of that total income was profits from Biden’s memoir ‘Promise Me, Dad’ and $3 million in profits from Jill Biden’s book.”
But a closer look at Joe Biden’s 2017 tax returns raises eyebrows. “Follow the source link provided to that $10 million number, though, and you’ll end up at Joe Biden’s campaign website with financial disclosure links to only their individual returns — no S-corporation tax returns,” the Federalist critiqued USA Today. “So, in reality, readers were left with a smokescreen.”
The so-called “smokescreen” raised alarm for Republican lawmakers, causing them to demand transparency about the nearly $10 million sum from the passthrough entity.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), a co-author of the 2020 Senate report on the Bidens, told Breitbart News Joe Biden should openly disclose the source of the revenue. “Biden should disclose and every member of the press ought to hound him until he does,” he said.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) told Breitbart News Joe Biden should produce unredacted bank records to provide transparency.
“The President seems to find selling out our country funny. We don’t,” she said. “If he’s serious about proving our allegations wrong he should release his and his family’s unredacted bank records and show the American people where all this money is coming from. The FBI can’t protect him forever.”
Related: FBI Deputy Director Refuses to Discuss Biden Ukraine Allegations as Cruz Presses Him
Senate Judiciary CommitteeRep. Eli Crane (R-AZ), a successful businessman in his own right, told Breitbart News Joe Biden should come clean about the money in lieu of the alleged pay-for-pay scheme.
“The fact that there are credible claims signaling that a foreign national bribed the President of the United States with cash in exchange for influence over U.S. policy decisions is appalling. The American people deserve to know who paid the Bidens and what exactly they were paid for,” he said.
“Now that we know there are recordings of conversations Joe Biden and his degenerate son had with a Burisma executive, it’s becoming more and more obvious how the indictment of President Trump is meant to be a distraction,” Crane added. “It would shock no one in this town if Joe Biden received millions of dollars from selling out the country in a bribery scheme and then hid that money in shady shell companies.”
It is apparently “common” for personal tax returns to not list line item income of S Corporations entities, according to Jerry Allison, a CPA of Allison Financial Services who practiced accounting for over 30 years. However, the lack of detail should raise concern for House investigators, he noted, as allegations against Joe Biden arose last week about receiving a foreign bribe while he was vice president.
Upon reviewing Biden’s personal tax return, which includes an entity controlled by first lady Jill Biden, Allison explained the entity’s revenue is likely much higher due to expense deductions.
“The point I am making here is that the $9.5M income and the $557K income on Schedule E are after expenses have been subtracted, so the original income is much more than these numbers,” he told Breitbart News.
“It is my opinion that both S Corporation returns should be examined to find the actual amount of income and to obtain clues as to where the income may have originated,” he added. “The S Corporation returns might reveal other entities from which the income may have originated.”
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Poll: Majority of Voters Say FBI Covered Up Alleged Joe Biden Bribery Doc
A majority of voters believe FBI officials tried to cover up a bureau informant file that allegedly details a $5 million bribery scheme involving an exchange of money for policy decisions between now-President Joe Biden and a foreign national, a Rasmussen Reports poll found Wednesday.
The FBI’s informant file allegedly linked Joe Biden to the family’s business deals in Ukraine, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) revealed Tuesday. The FBI file originated from an interview the bureau conducted with an informant, who is reportedly a “highly credible” FBI source with a history dating back to the Barack Obama administration.
The FBI refused to comply with Comer’s subpoena for nearly a month. Eleven hours before the House Oversight Committee planned to assemble to vote on holding FBI Director Wray in Contempt of Congress, the FBI agreed to permit all members of the Oversight Committee to review an unclassified file.
The bureau’s capitulation came on the same day polling revealed that 60 percent of voters believe it is likely that top FBI officials helped cover up any alleged wrongdoing the document might detail by Joe Biden or his family, including 48 percent who believe it is “very likely.”
“Thirty-three percent (33%) don’t believe an FBI cover-up is likely, including 16% who say it is Not At All Likely,” the poll found.
The poll surveyed 999 likely voters from June 4-6 with a +/- three percent margin of error.
The committee stated Wednesday:
“Allowing all Oversight Committee members to review this record is an important step toward conducting oversight of the FBI and holding it accountable to the American people,” the committee added.
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Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.
FBI Stonewalls Ted Cruz on Alleged Biden ‘Bribery’ Audio Recordings
FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate stonewalled Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) during Tuesday’s Judiciary Committee hearing about if the bureau possesses the alleged 17 recordings between a Burisma Holdings executive and President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.
On Tuesday, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) revealed the Burisma executive who allegedly paid Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden $5 million each kept 17 audio recordings of his conversations of them as an “insurance policy.”
“Do you have the 17 recordings? Yes or no?” Cruz drilled Abbate.
“I’m not going to get further into that,” he replied after admitting the FBI possesses a form that alleges the 17 recordings.
“That’s the problem the FBI has right now, an unlimited hubris that you believe you are unaccountable,” Cruz slammed the FBI agent. “You don’t believe you’re accountable to the United States Congress, and you don’t believe you’re accountable to the American people.”
“You’re sitting there happily erecting a wall to protect Joe Biden,” he added.
Cruz again pressed Abbate to disclose the alleged audio recordings. “Will you provide the 17 recordings so we can assess what is the evidence, the specific credible evidence, that Joe Biden personally took a $5 million bribe from a foreign national?”
“Senator, we will work with this committee, you, and other members to provide the information within the parameters of the process,” Abbate said, providing an indefinite answer.
Cruz also noted that if Joe Biden wanted to disprove the allegations, he could call for the release of the unclassified FBI informant form.
“And to be clear, if the allegations are false, you know who could disprove them?” Cruz rhetorically asked. “Joe Biden.”
“He could call for this to be released publicly. But the FBI is stonewalling. Would you agree?” Cruz questioned.
“Senator, no one’s stonewalling,” Abbate claimed.
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C-SPANThe FBI’s refusal to be forthcoming about the alleged “bribery” scheme comes as Republican lawmakers demanded transparency from Joe Biden regarding his 2017 tax returns in which his entity, “CelticCapri Corp,” listed nearly $10 million without specifying revenue line items.
The lack of transparency raises concerns about who paid the entity and why in the wake of Joe Biden’s alleged link to the $5 million Ukrainian “bribery” scheme.
While it is apparently “common” for personal tax returns to not list line item income of S Corporations entities, the lack of detail should raise concern for House investigators, according to Jerry Allison, a CPA of Allison Financial Services who practiced accounting for over 30 years.
Upon reviewing Biden’s personal tax return, which includes an entity controlled by first lady Jill Biden, Allison told Breitbart News that the entity’s revenue is likely much higher due to expense deductions.
“The point I am making here is that the $9.5M income and the $557K income on Schedule E are after expenses have been subtracted, so the original income is much more than these numbers,” he told Breitbart News.
“It is my opinion that both S Corporation returns should be examined to find the actual amount of income and to obtain clues as to where the income may have originated,” he added. “The S Corporation returns might reveal other entities from which the income may have originated.”
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James Comer to Review Two More FBI Informant Docs About Bidens’ Business
Top members of the House Oversight Committee will review two more FBI informant documents related to the Bidens’ business, a spokesperson for the Committee confirmed to Breitbart News.
The FBI holds at least two more FD-1023 forms referenced in the FBI informant document reviewed by the Committee Thursday.
The FBI will allow House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) and Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) to review the two new forms this week.
The original FBI informant file revealed the alleged existence of two pieces of evidence showing President Joe Biden received $5 million from Ukrainian energy company Burisma, Committee Republicans told reporters.
When a reporter questioned Joe Biden Thursday about the alleged $5 million payment, he jokingly responded, “Where’s the money?”
Watch — Joe Biden Denies Bribery Allegations, Claims He Is Not Interfering with DOJ
The White HouseIn 2015, Burisma was under suspicion of money laundering and public corruption. Prosecutor Victor Shokin investigated the case before his termination due to pressure applied by then-Vice President Joe Biden, who threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid from Ukraine if the Ukrainian government did not fire the prosecutor investigating Burisma.
In exchange, the informant file alleges Joe Biden and Hunter Biden received $5 million each in small sums through separate bank accounts.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Friday exclusively told Breitbart News the FBI held two more informant files on the Biden family’s business ventures, triggering the House Oversight Committee on Friday to subpoena two more banks.
The Committee did not respond to a request for comment about the bank subpoenas.
Greene told Breitbart News the House Oversight Committee issued two subpoenas Friday to compel information about the Bidens’ Ukrainian transactions. Greene did not comment on which banks Comer subpoenaed.
Before Friday, the Committee subpoenaed at least four banks — Bank of America, Cathay Bank, JPMorgan Chase, and HSBC USA N.A. — and one individual.
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GOP Lawmakers: FBI Informant File Confirms Joe Biden Is the ‘Big Guy’
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Report: Informant Alleging a Joe Biden Bribery Scheme Is ‘Highly Credible’ FBI Source from Obama Era
An informant alleging a $5 million bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden is reportedly a “highly credible” FBI source with a history dating back to the Obama administration era.
The FBI possesses a document from an interview the FBI conducted with the informant, which allegedly details an arrangement involving an exchange of money for policy decisions between now-President Joe Biden and a foreign national.
After weeks of stonewalling a congressional subpoena, FBI Director Christopher Wray finally agreed to allow members of Congress to view the unclassified document next Monday. A House Oversight Committee spokesperson told CNN the committee still plans to move forward with holding the FBI in contempt of Congress.
A source told Fox News the informant was a “pre-existing” FBI source with a long track record dating back “at least several years” to the Obama era before generating the file detailing allegations against then-Vice President Biden.
In addition, the source claimed the informant was previously “found to be highly credible” and was “consistently reviewed by the FBI.”
In May, James Comer issued a subpoena to obtain the document from the FBI following legally protected disclosures to Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-IA) office.
Elements of a potential bribery scheme involving Biden and his family members’ overseas business interests have been evident for years. Breitbart News’s Joel Pollak wrote in March that there was evidence supporting the impeachment of President Biden for bribery:
Biden could be impeached retroactively, following a precedent set by Democrats in their second impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in 2021.
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After Weeks of Stonewalling, FBI to Divulge File to Congress Allegedly Linking Joe Biden to Bribery Scheme
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White House Lashes out over Effort to Hold FBI Director in Contempt of Congress
White House spokesman Ian Sams lashed out against House Republicans who plan to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress for refusing to divulge an unclassified, subpoenaed document that allegedly details an arrangement involving an exchange of money for policy decisions between now-President Joe Biden and a foreign national.
After Wednesday’s meeting between Wray and House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY), in which the bureau chief confirmed the file’s existence, Comer doubled down on his threat to hold Wray in contempt of Congress — which the White House called a “silly charade” and a “political stunt.”
“This silly charade by @JamesComer is yet another reminder that his so-called ‘investigations’ are political stunts not meant to uncover facts but to spread thin innuendo to attack the President and get himself media attention and the Fox News spotlight,” Sams posted on Twitter shortly after the meeting.
During Comer’s meeting with Wray, the FBI confirmed the existence of the subpoenaed informant file the bureau refuses to provide Congress that allegedly links President Joe Biden to a $5 million bribery scheme, Comer said. The Justice Department previously did not deny the document’s existence upon Comer’s subpoena.
Comer said in a statement:
After releasing the statement, Comer told Fox News that he and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) already inspected the document he subpoenaed and will go to the FBI headquarters and review it again.
“We will go there and look at the redacted document. But we know what is in the document,” he said.
“Despite these extraordinary accommodations—and the fact that Republicans have claimed to have access to the very information subpoenaed—Chairman Comer has continued to insist he will hold the FBI Director in contempt,” Raskin told reporters.
The Democrats’ angst about the FBI potentially being held in contempt comes as Comer’s probe into the Biden family uncovered damning information. The probe uncovered that the Biden family business, over the course of several years, received at least $10 million from business schemes in Romania and China in return for what appears to be influence peddling. In addition, nine Biden family members received payments from the family foreign business ventures, including two of Joe Biden’s grandchildren, Comer revealed.
Watch — Schiff: Rep. Comer’s Investigation into Biden a “Fiasco” Full of “Unsubstantiated Allegations”
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Levin: Biden, AG Garland Tied Directly to Trump Prosecution
During the Sunday broadcast of “Life, Liberty & Levin,” host Mark Levin argued against the Justice Department’s prosecution of former President Donald Trump.
According to Levin, President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland had to authorize the investigation.
Transcript as follows:
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Which party is divisive and acts more like dictators?
Donald Trump's general philosophy was to give more power and money back to the people. For that, the media and other Democrats repeatedly lied by calling him an authoritarian. He was also called divisive. In fact, he was compared to Hitler, and I do not recall the media lecturing Democrats for using divisive terms.
Meanwhile, Biden seeks to transfer more power and money to the government and continually calls anyone who disagrees with him “white supremacists” or “domestic terrorists.”
The Justice Department is clearly politicized to target Trump or parents who dare speak out against policies they disagree with. They compared parents at meetings to domestic terrorists to shut them up. They went after Catholics.
Hillary and Joe, who mishandled classified documents and committed other crimes, have never been charged, while Trump has been targeted in search of crimes for over seven years.
And now the media is lecturing Trump and other Republicans for being divisive by pointing out what the tactics of the Biden administration look like.
And suddenly, after years of slow investigations, Hunter Biden is going to get a slap on the wrist from the Justice Department for gun and tax charges. He will have to spend his probation in rented mansions and the White House.
Meanwhile, trespassers in the US Capitol are sentenced to harsh jail time. This shows how little the Justice Department cares about taxes and guns when a special person is involved.
I can see the talking points now: The media and other Democrats will say that this shows that we have an independent Justice Department, and no one is above the law.
What a crock!
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