Thursday, June 22, 2023

DEPT OF JUSTICE - A BIDEN PROTECTION AGENCY OF GAMER LAWYERS - Federal Prosecutor on Hunter Biden Case Served as Right-Hand Man to Longtime Biden Family Crony

   

ABC, CBS Evening Programming Ignore Bombshell Whistleblower Claims of Hunter Biden’s ‘Preferential Treatment’ from DOJ

Hunter Biden talks with guests during a State Dinner for India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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ABC’s “World News Tonight” and “CBS Evening News” on Thursday evening ignored the bombshell IRS whistleblower allegations that Hunter Biden received preferential treatment from the Justice Department (DOJ) regarding probes into tax violations.

On Thursday morning, House Republicans released transcripts of two IRS whistleblowers, one of whom provided evidence that Joe Biden was present when Hunter Biden pressured a Chinese business partner to send them millions of dollars, Breitbart News reported.

A second whistleblower also said the DOJ interfered in the effort to investigate Hunter Biden for tax crimes, although Joe Biden’s attorney general recently claimed otherwise.

But ABC and CBS evening news programming ignored the whistleblowers’ publicly available testimony provided by the House Ways and Means Committee.

Their decision to ignore the allegations follows a historical pattern of shielding their viewers from allegations of Biden family wrongdoing:

  • In October 2021, ABC, CBS, and NBC spent “0 seconds” reporting on Joe and Hunter Biden’s alleged shared bank account, the Republican National Committee’s research team found.
  • In June 2022, ABC News, NBC News, and CBS News aired only 298 seconds on Hunter Biden’s “Laptop from Hell” story since March 16, when the New York Times confirmed authentication of the laptop, according to Media Research Center.
  • In June, the network news channels ABC, CBS, and NBC spent zero time on the alleged Biden “bribery” scandal, compared to 291 minutes on the Trump indictment, according to a media watchdog report.
  • In addition, ABC News acknowledged in March the legacy outlet refused to review Hunter Biden’s abandoned “Laptop from Hell,” all while reporting on the infamous laptop story by printing scoops from Hunter’s legal team.

According to recent polling, 50 percent of Americans believe the national media intend to mislead, misinform, and persuade the public, as just 35 percent say most news organizations can be relied upon.

Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.

Understand the Biden Plea Deal for What It Is: Evidence

After 5 years of investigation, and a damning amount of publicly available evidence, Hunter Biden got a sweetheart plea deal from the Department of Justice. The son of the President was given a deal that would have never been offered to Donald Trump, and we all know it. He pled guilty to two misdemeanor tax violations which will probably result in a couple of fines.

He was also given a diversion program for a weapons charge. The left wants to further restrict our access to instruments of self-defense – because “something must be done.” Yet Hunter lied on a federal affidavit to illegally obtain a firearm, lost it near a school, and will face no significant consequences.

The plea deal boils down to no jail time, and nothing to discourage further bad behavior. The political right has understandably exploded with outrage.

I don’t want to downplay the significance of this plea. It is a big deal. But the outrage shouldn’t be about a crackhead deadbeat escaping justice. Hunter Biden is of no consequence to our society. But what it indicates is very significant. Our criminal justice system is broken.

I want to put the plea deal in context. I watch a lot of those forensic crime shows. I don’t recall a single episode in which the detectives at a murder scene were disappointed to find a fingerprint. That’s what Hunter Biden is – a greasy smudge on America’s windowsill. His only significance is that he is also a metaphorical fingerprint – a piece of evidence exposing serious wrongdoing. The deal is further evidence that “public servants” are using the power of their offices to undermine the US Constitution.

While it remains bad when any crime is committed, it is good when evidence is left behind. If our Department of Justice is corrupt, it’s good that evidence of the corruption is mounting.

That evidence is becoming too much to ignore.

  • Michael Flynn was prosecuted for the same offense that Andrew McCabe was excused for.
  • Donald Trump is being prosecuted for the same offense that Hillary Clinton was excused for.
  • Mark Houck faced federal charges for protesting outside an abortion clinic, yet more than 100 pro-life organizations have been vandalized with no federal response.
  • Derek Chauvin was convicted for violating George Floyd’s rights for holding him down, yet Michael Byrd received a commendation for killing the unarmed Ashli Babbitt. Both Floyd and Babbitt were committing crimes. But Floyd was 6-foot 4-inches of fentanyl induced resistance, while Babbitt was a 5-foot 2-inch unarmed woman. Why was her killing excused?
  • January 6 protesters are charged with insurrection for trespassing, yet agents of the FBI and CIA colluded to overthrow an elected President, and they’ve become celebrity contributors on the cable news networks.

All of this is evidence that our federal criminal justice system has been corrupted for political purposes. A clock that is only correct twice a day is not a timepiece, and a law enforcement system that only prosecutes enemies of the left is not a justice system. It has become an enemy of the republic.

Evidence matters, and it is making a difference. Politicians, pundits, and citizens are talking about the need to defund, reorganize, or radically overhaul the DOJ and FBI. Such discussions would have been considered “crazy talk” just three years ago. Now they are serious debates.

According to Pew Research, only 21 percent of Americans trust the government to do what is right. A recent Rasmussen poll found that 53 percent of voters agree with the Roger Stone statement that there is “a group of politicized thugs at the top of the FBI who are using the FBI … as Joe Biden‘s personal Gestapo.” The evidence is speaking to the public – and the public is starting to listen.

Why do Donald Trump’s poll numbers climb every time he’s indicted? It’s not because we’ve developed an affection for criminals. It’s because we don’t trust the allegations of a system run by criminals. We know that FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith tampered with evidence. We know that the FBI and Robert Mueller team investigated Trump for 3 years without a predicate – violating his due process rights. Why should we trust such an organization’s allegations about Donald Trump?

Public opinion on our federal criminal justice system is changing, and every piece of evidence that drops is adding to our understanding of the problem. We have not heard the DOJ’s death rattle yet, but its reckoning is approaching.

There will eventually be a tipping point, when the public will demand that a correction be made. The only mystery is when that tipping point will arrive, and what form the public demand will take. Overhaul of federal law enforcement has reached the point of serious debate. With each new piece of evidence, it inches closer to being an imperative.

In those crime shows I mentioned above, the criminals invariable leave more evidence when they try hide their crimes. That’s what we’re witnessing now. The DOJ is in too deep to turn back. It’s trying to cover its corruption, and the coverup is creating more evidence – like resisting congressional subpoenas and punishing whistleblowers. The problem is becoming more evident every day. It’s impossible to know how close we are to the tipping point, but the Hunter Biden plea deal has moved us a few inches closer.

John Green is a political refugee from Minnesota, now residing in Idaho. He has written for American Thinker, and American Free News Network.  He can be reached at greenjeg@gmail.com.

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Federal Prosecutor on Hunter Biden Case Served as Right-Hand Man to Longtime Biden Family Crony

Joe and Hunter Biden at the 2023 White House Easter Egg Roll / Getty Images
June 20, 2023

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.

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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

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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.


Understand the Biden Plea Deal for What It Is: Evidence

After 5 years of investigation, and a damning amount of publicly available evidence, Hunter Biden got a sweetheart plea deal from the Department of Justice. The son of the President was given a deal that would have never been offered to Donald Trump, and we all know it. He pled guilty to two misdemeanor tax violations which will probably result in a couple of fines.

He was also given a diversion program for a weapons charge. The left wants to further restrict our access to instruments of self-defense – because “something must be done.” Yet Hunter lied on a federal affidavit to illegally obtain a firearm, lost it near a school, and will face no significant consequences.

The plea deal boils down to no jail time, and nothing to discourage further bad behavior. The political right has understandably exploded with outrage.

I don’t want to downplay the significance of this plea. It is a big deal. But the outrage shouldn’t be about a crackhead deadbeat escaping justice. Hunter Biden is of no consequence to our society. But what it indicates is very significant. Our criminal justice system is broken.

I want to put the plea deal in context. I watch a lot of those forensic crime shows. I don’t recall a single episode in which the detectives at a murder scene were disappointed to find a fingerprint. That’s what Hunter Biden is – a greasy smudge on America’s windowsill. His only significance is that he is also a metaphorical fingerprint – a piece of evidence exposing serious wrongdoing. The deal is further evidence that “public servants” are using the power of their offices to undermine the US Constitution.

While it remains bad when any crime is committed, it is good when evidence is left behind. If our Department of Justice is corrupt, it’s good that evidence of the corruption is mounting.

That evidence is becoming too much to ignore.

  • Michael Flynn was prosecuted for the same offense that Andrew McCabe was excused for.
  • Donald Trump is being prosecuted for the same offense that Hillary Clinton was excused for.
  • Mark Houck faced federal charges for protesting outside an abortion clinic, yet more than 100 pro-life organizations have been vandalized with no federal response.
  • Derek Chauvin was convicted for violating George Floyd’s rights for holding him down, yet Michael Byrd received a commendation for killing the unarmed Ashli Babbitt. Both Floyd and Babbitt were committing crimes. But Floyd was 6-foot 4-inches of fentanyl induced resistance, while Babbitt was a 5-foot 2-inch unarmed woman. Why was her killing excused?
  • January 6 protesters are charged with insurrection for trespassing, yet agents of the FBI and CIA colluded to overthrow an elected President, and they’ve become celebrity contributors on the cable news networks.

All of this is evidence that our federal criminal justice system has been corrupted for political purposes. A clock that is only correct twice a day is not a timepiece, and a law enforcement system that only prosecutes enemies of the left is not a justice system. It has become an enemy of the republic.

Evidence matters, and it is making a difference. Politicians, pundits, and citizens are talking about the need to defund, reorganize, or radically overhaul the DOJ and FBI. Such discussions would have been considered “crazy talk” just three years ago. Now they are serious debates.

According to Pew Research, only 21 percent of Americans trust the government to do what is right. A recent Rasmussen poll found that 53 percent of voters agree with the Roger Stone statement that there is “a group of politicized thugs at the top of the FBI who are using the FBI … as Joe Biden‘s personal Gestapo.” The evidence is speaking to the public – and the public is starting to listen.

Why do Donald Trump’s poll numbers climb every time he’s indicted? It’s not because we’ve developed an affection for criminals. It’s because we don’t trust the allegations of a system run by criminals. We know that FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith tampered with evidence. We know that the FBI and Robert Mueller team investigated Trump for 3 years without a predicate – violating his due process rights. Why should we trust such an organization’s allegations about Donald Trump?

Public opinion on our federal criminal justice system is changing, and every piece of evidence that drops is adding to our understanding of the problem. We have not heard the DOJ’s death rattle yet, but its reckoning is approaching.

There will eventually be a tipping point, when the public will demand that a correction be made. The only mystery is when that tipping point will arrive, and what form the public demand will take. Overhaul of federal law enforcement has reached the point of serious debate. With each new piece of evidence, it inches closer to being an imperative.

In those crime shows I mentioned above, the criminals invariable leave more evidence when they try hide their crimes. That’s what we’re witnessing now. The DOJ is in too deep to turn back. It’s trying to cover its corruption, and the coverup is creating more evidence – like resisting congressional subpoenas and punishing whistleblowers. The problem is becoming more evident every day. It’s impossible to know how close we are to the tipping point, but the Hunter Biden plea deal has moved us a few inches closer.

John Green is a political refugee from Minnesota, now residing in Idaho. He has written for American Thinker, and American Free News Network.  He can be reached at greenjeg@gmail.com.


The feds already have all the evidence they need to charge Biden with bribery to change our policy in Ukraine

The DOJ has long held the evidence needed to charge Joe Biden with bribery to change our policy in Ukraine. (And also all the evidence needed to charge Hunter with several crimes, including violations of the tax code, of the laws governing the purchase of firearms, and laws prohibiting money laundering. ) Here is an overview of the evidence needed to charge with bribery to change our policy in Ukraine

Our policy was to have Ukraine force Burisma and its owner Zlochevsky to return the oil and gas properties Zlochevsky stole when he was the Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources.  And Zlochevsky wanted that policy reversed.

The documents show that Zlochevsky was paying Hunter Biden approximately $83,000 a month.  Zlochevsky claimed he was paying for corporate governance advice. However privately owned companies do not need corporate governance advice, and if they did, they wouldn’t hire Hunter Biden to provide it. And they wouldn’t pay anyone $83,000 a month for such advice.

Documents show that Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Victor Shokun, issued an arrest warrant on Zlochevsky in the event, he returned to Ukraine from foreign exile and placed seizures on his and Burisma’s property.  Shortly after that, Victoria Nuland publicly claimed for the first time that Shokin was corrupt and had to go. Joe Biden has publicly bragged that he then went to Ukraine and forced the government to fire Shokin by threatening to withhold foreign aid.

The same political establishment that claimed Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation has also promoted the idea that it was NATO policy to have Shokin fired for corruption. I’ve never seen anything to support that other NATO members said anything of the sort but, the fact is, the US acted for NATO in Ukraine pretty much unilaterally.

And consider that during the time the Bidens were involved in Ukraine, there were two other prosecutors general, both of whom were corrupt and assisted Zlochevsky escaping justice, and neither Nuland nor  Biden  called them corrupt or demanded their ouster. Nor did any other NATO member. 

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And consider that we provide foreign aid to many corrupt countries where political corruption is not prosecuted and no one I know has any memory of our demanding that the prosecutors in those countries be fired.

It strikes me that the payments to Hunter Biden are enough. You can bribe a public official by paying his family. Plus, Hunter’s emails show he paid up to half of his compensation to his father.


Trump should have stored his documents in a garage

The Babylon Bee ran a story about the documents and President Trump.  The headline reads, "Trump Indicted for Keeping Classified Documents at Mar-A-Lago Instead of Somewhere Secure like the Trunk of a Corvette."  Yes, he should have bought a Corvette and a big house with a garage.  Or he could have used a private server to run his presidency?  He'd be okay either way.

The indictment raises serious questions.  The decision to indict raises more questions because the DOJ has now gone "banana republic" on us.  The Wall Street Journal raises some important questions:

In the court of public opinion, the first question will be about two standards of justice. Mr. Biden had old classified files stored in his Delaware garage next to his sports car. When that news came out, he didn't sound too apologetic. "My Corvette's in a locked garage, OK? So it's not like they're sitting out on the street," Mr. Biden said. AG Garland appointed another special counsel, Robert Hur, to investigate, but Justice isn't going to indict Mr. Biden.

As for willful, how about the basement email server that Hillary Clinton used as Secretary of State? FBI director James Comey said in 2016 that she and her colleagues "were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information." According to him, 113 emails included information that was classified when it was sent or received. Eight were Top Secret. About 2,000 others were later "upclassified" to Confidential. This was the statement Mr. Comey ended by declaring Mrs. Clinton free and clear, since "no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case."

This is the inescapable political context of this week's indictment. The special counsel could have finished his investigation with a report detailing the extent of Mr. Trump's recklessness and explained what secrets it could have exposed. Instead the Justice Department has taken a perilous path.

A serious path indeed, because this is how a banana republic does it.  Yes, banana republics indict the guy from the other party leading the incumbent in the polls.  They find a man and then look for the crime.  In the meantime, they are left with bananas and not a republic.

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Emails Show Burisma Executive Opened Maltese Bank Account for Hunter Biden

Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, speaks to guests during the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House, April 18, 2022, in Washington. Republicans are laying the groundwork to make Hunter Biden and his business dealings a central target of their investigative …
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Burisma Holdings executive Vadym Pozharskyi informed Hunter Biden in 2016 that he was opening a Maltese bank account for him, emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop show.

Pozharskyi was an associate of Mykola Zlochevsky, who allegedly paid Hunter and Joe Biden each $5 million in a pay-for-play scheme. According to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), an FBI informant document indicates Mykola Zlochevsky allegedly kept 17 audio recordings of his conversations with them as an “insurance policy.”

Emails uncovered by the nonprofit Marco Polo suggest Burisma tried to move money to the Bidens through a Maltese bank account set up by Pozharskyi for Hunter Biden.

In May 2016, Pozharskyi requested the documentation required for the account opening, including a copy of Hunter’s passport, a bank reference letter, and a utility bill:

Source: Marco Polo

Hunter responded to Pozharskyi, “We are working on this – I was traveling with my dad and had my passport abroad last week”:

Source: Marco Polo

In the following weeks, Hunter Biden’s assistant, Joan Mayer, provided copies of Hunter’s documentation at the request of Pozharskyi. Mayer also suggested providing a letter from Hunter’s law firm to confirm his annual salary:

Hi Vadym,

We are slowly getting there.  Not sure this is helpful but attached is the color passport, utility bill and bank reference letter. They still need to be apostiled though- which we will do when we get these other requested documents.

I just wanted to confirm what is required for “a certified declaration of source wealth including profile”? We can provide a letter from Hunter’s corporation, Owasco, confirming his annual salary. Is that what the bank is looking for?

Source: Marco Polo

On May 13, 2016, just a week after Mayer followed up with Pozharskyi about the additional documents, a Burisma attorney emailed Hunter Biden sharing the address and swift code of the Maltese bank, Satabank:

Source: Marco Polo

A few days later, Mayer sent “Hunter’s tax ID number and signature” to Pozharskyi, who responded with a confirmation: “All received!”

Source: Marco Polo

Source: Marco Polo

According to Times of Malta, in 2018, Satabank closed upon money laundering violations:

The transaction involved Ukranian energy giant Burisma Group, which had US-President-elect Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, on its board of directors until April 2019.

It passed due diligence tests including one by Malta-based Satabank, which processed the transaction and has since lost its licence to operate.

The court heard how the police investigation began over the involvement of Burisma’s founder, Mykola Zlochevsky, a Ukrainian oil and natural gas businessman, politician and oligarch.

A year later, the bank’s accounts froze, and investigations started for suspicious transactions tied to illegal activities, Malta reported in 2019. In 2021, Malta reported that “[n]early €11 billion in transactions that flowed through the Malta-based Satabank were flagged as suspicious in 2020, auditors EY have said.”

In 2020, the New York Post reported that Ukrainian officials seized a $6 million cash bribe linked to Mykola Zlochevsky. “Ukrainian officials seized a $6 million cash bribe — the largest in the nation’s history — in a case linked to the founder of Burisma Holdings, the gas company that gave Hunter Biden a seat on its board of trustees,” the report read.

Hunter and Joe Biden appeared to have personally met with Pozharskyi in 2015. Pozharskyi emailed Hunter Biden and his business partner Devon Archer to thank Hunter Biden for organizing a private dinner with then-Vice President Joe Biden at Cafe Milano in D.C.

“Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together. It’s realty [sic] an honor and pleasure,” the email reads.

In a previous email, Pozharskyi asked Hunter Biden for advice to benefit Burisma:

Source: Marco Polo

We urgently need your advice on how you could use your influence to convey a message / signal, etc .to stop what we consider to be politically motivated actions bearing in mind the following:

Burisma holdings is a leader among private gas producers;

Our primary client is Accelor Mital- Ukraine’s biggest metal steel plant. We cover more thet 60% of its gas needs.

Our clients and their production are largely dependant on our work and our ability to perfom our contractual obligations;

We employ hundreds of employees etc. and etc.;

Negative influence on our companies may result in multy-level negative social, econimical and political consequnces.

Please advice, looking forward for your reply,

Vadym Pozharskyi

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), a member of the House Oversight Committee, told Breitbart News last week that the FBI’s informant document depicts Zlochevsky telling the informant that the alleged payments of the bribes would take ten years to unravel.

She also said the document indicated Hunter Biden’s position on Burisma’s board, where he received about $80,000 per month. These were monthly installments of a $5 million total cut owed to Hunter Biden in the deal with his father.

Despite the allegations, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) believes the FBI has taken little to no action on the FBI’s informant’s information. The stonewalling triggered Comer to issue two more bank subpoenas last week, along with a demand for Devon Archer to testify. Archer is a Biden family business associate and Hunter Biden’s “best friend in business.”

Archer served in 2014 with Hunter Biden on the board of Burisma, a Ukraine-based energy company. Archer was also photographed playing golf with then-Vice President Joe Biden in Southhampton, New York, in 2014. In 2016, Archer resigned from Burisma’s board after his arrest.

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Sen. Tom Cotton: If Those Without Biden Name Engaged in Fraction of Hunter’s Misconduct, They Would Face ‘Real Consequences’

Tom Cotton and Hunter Biden
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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) highlighted Tuesday the difference in treatment between someone without the Biden name and Hunter Biden.

“Let’s be clear: if anyone without the Biden last name engaged in even a fraction of Hunter’s misconduct, they’d face real consequences,” Cotton wrote in a social media post:


Social media users were quick to offer their thoughts on Cotton’s message.

“I want to see them in handcuffs,” one person replied, while another said, “We the regular people would be UNDER THE JAIL!”

Cotton’s message comes as Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden (D), reportedly agreed to plead guilty to a pair of federal tax violation charges and a single violation of gun laws.

“Biden will plead guilty to willful failure to pay federal income tax — most likely on his foreign earnings — and will enter a ‘pretrial diversion program’ regarding his gun crime, indicating that he will face no jail time,” according to Breitbart News:

Biden’s dubious business exploits came to light during the Obama administration, after he was discharged from the Navy for drug use and immediately found employment on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma.

Reporters briefly questioned the White House about Hunter Biden’s role, given that his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, had been placed in charge of Ukraine policy under President Barack Obama. State Department officials complained about the conflict of interest, but were told that the Vice President was grieving for his other son, Beau Biden, who died after a battle with brain cancer. The issue was never resolved.

Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump correctly predicted Hunter Biden would end up being charged with “something small” weeks before it was reported that the president’s son was ready to plead guilty, Breitbart News reported Tuesday.

In a Truth Social post on June 6, Trump wrote, “They are the Party of Disinformation! They’ll hit Hunter with something small to make their strike on me look ‘fair.’ Nothing about these Fascists is fair or honest. FIGHT!”

A few weeks ago, federal prosecutors indicted Trump regarding the investigation into his handling of White House papers, according to Breitbart News.

However, the former president has maintained his innocence. Meanwhile, Breitbart News has extensively covered the issues surrounding President Joe Biden and Hunter Biden.

Related: “DISGRACEFUL!” Ted Cruz CRUSHES FBI Deputy Director for “STONEWALLING” Alleged Biden Bribery Investigation

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