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GAMER LYING LAWYER JOE BIDEN OR IS THIS POS MERELY A TRAITOR? - The Biden Family Syndicate’s Racketeering Enterprise A decade of influence peddling, money laundering, lies and coverups.

 

The Biden Family Syndicate’s Racketeering Enterprise

A decade of influence peddling, money laundering, lies and coverups.

[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Joseph Klein’s masterpiece contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]

A violation of the federal Racketeer Influenced & Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) can be proven by evidence of a pattern of criminal activities such as bribery, money laundering, obstruction of justice, and fraud committed during a span of years by multiple people in an organized enterprise. That description fits the Biden family syndicate’s nefarious course of conduct during the last decade to a tee.

The evidence already gathered shows that the Biden family syndicate engaged in pay to play schemes leveraging Joe Biden’s power and “brand” as vice president in the Obama administration to sell to foreign oligarchs and industry leaders invaluable access and influence over U. S. policy. Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop provides a treasure trove of information evidencing how these schemes worked. Bank records provide more evidence of the Biden family syndicate’s money laundering, while firsthand accounts by former Hunter Biden business associates outline Joe Biden’s central role in his family’s business affairs.

As the Democratic Party’s candidate for president during the 2020 election, Joe Biden deliberately deceived voters into thinking that Hunter’s laptop containing potentially incriminating information about the Biden family syndicate’s activities was nothing more than Russian misinformation.

After becoming president, Biden turned a blind eye as top law enforcement officials in his administration carried out a multi-pronged coverup. The evidence shows how they tried to shield son Hunter from any serious consequences for his wrongdoing and to impede the investigation of any leads implicating President Biden himself.

Taken together, as described in more detail below, these activities form a pattern of illegal conduct by the Biden family syndicate that adds up to racketeering.

The Biden Family Syndicate’s Pay to Play Schemes

As vice president, Joe Biden was the “brand” used by his family syndicate to lure foreign oligarchs and businesses looking to influence U.S. policy into handing over millions of dollars, which ended up in Biden family bank accounts. The evidence shows that Hunter Biden was the bagman. He can be charged with directing the laundering of monies paid by the foreign influence seekers through shell companies that one or more of his business partners then transferred to Biden family members.

According to congressional testimony by Hunter’s former business partner Devon Archer, Vice President Biden joined phone calls with Hunter and various of his foreign business associates at least twenty times. He also dined with Hunter and his foreign business associates at a fancy Washington, D.C. restaurant. It defies common sense to believe that they were merely discussing the weather and other pleasantries during these multiple encounters, as claimed by Joe Biden’s defenders.

Ukraine

Vice President Biden used several pseudonym e-mail accounts to secretly communicate with Hunter regarding both family and official government business, including providing advance notice of official communications that he was scheduled to have with Ukrainian leaders. The co-mingling of family and government business regarding Ukraine, the country for which Vice President Biden was the Obama administration’s point man, is highly suspicious. All this time, Hunter was making loads of money for himself and the Biden family syndicate off his father’s name and contacts.

Hunter Biden joined the board of directors of Burisma, a major Ukrainian energy company, in the spring of 2014. He was paid approximately $1 million per year for serving on Burisma’s board of directors, despite having no experience or expertise in the energy field.

Burisma and Mykola Zlochevsky, Burisma’s owner, were under investigation by Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin for alleged corruption. Zlochevsky and another high level Burisma official, Vadym Pozharsky, sought help from Hunter Biden and asked him to call his father. On or about December 4, 2015, Zlochevsky, Pozharsky, and Hunter Biden “called D.C.,” according to congressional testimony provided by Devon Archer.

Just three days later, Vice President Biden arrived in Ukraine. The vice president issued his quid pro quo ultimatum that unless Shokin, the prosecutor investigating Burisma and its owner, was immediately fired the United States would not go through with $1 billion in loan guarantees.

Biden’s excuse that he was simply following U.S. anti-corruption policy in Ukraine is laughable, especially since other Obama administration officials gave Shokin’s office high marks for its progress in fighting corruption. Nevertheless, Biden got his way and Shokin was gone by March 2016.

On top of all this, a trusted FBI informant implicated Joe Biden in an alleged criminal bribery scheme while he was vice president. An FBI 1023 reporting document referred to Mr. Zlochevsky’s claim that he was “pushed to pay” two Bidens five million dollars each. Another Burisma official was quoted as saying that Burisma hired Hunter Biden to “protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems.”

As for concealing the payments made to the Bidens, Mr. Zlochevsky said that he did not pay the “Big Guy” directly, noting that it would take investigators ten years to track the payments down. Bank records document the web of shell companies through which monies from foreign sources flowed to Biden family syndicate members’ bank accounts.

According to the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, “The total amount from Ukraine to the Biden family and their associates is $6.5 million.”

China

Hunter Biden flew with his father on Air Force Two to China when the vice president went there for official business in 2013. Hunter’s purpose for accompanying his father was to cultivate personal business with a Chinese partner, whom he introduced to his father. “Twelve days after he flew to Beijing, Hunter Biden joined the board of a just-formed investment advisory firm known as BHR (Bohai, Harvest and Rosemont), whose partners included Chinese entities, including the man he introduced to his father,” the Washington Post noted in an August 1, 2023 article.

Money started to roll in from China while Joe Biden was still vice president. And the seeds were planted to expand the flow of Chinese money to the Biden family syndicate after Joe Biden left office and became a private citizen, including from CEFC China Energy, a Chinese energy conglomerate, and its executives.

Mainstream media in President Biden’s corner continue to maintain that there is no evidence that the president directly benefited financially from his son’s foreign business dealings. But that claim does not hold water. None other than Hunter himself complained that he had to turn over as much of fifty percent of his “salary” to “pop.”

Moreover, a firsthand account by one of Hunter’s former business partners, Tony Bobulinski, refutes the lie that Joe Biden had nothing to do with his son’s business dealings.

“I have heard Joe Biden say he has never discussed his dealings with Hunter. That is false. I have firsthand knowledge about this because I directly dealt with the Biden family, including Joe Biden,” Mr. Bobulinski said in October 2020, shortly after the New York Post first reported on Hunter’s abandoned laptop on October 14, 2020. One e-mail revealed a business venture Hunter was pursuing that involved China’s largest private energy company and proposed percentage equity stakes that certain individuals would receive, including asking “10 held by H for the big guy?” Mr. Bobulinski made it clear that the “big guy” (the same phrase used by Burisma’s owner) was none other than Joe Biden himself.

During his first 2020 presidential campaign debate with then-President Donald Trump, Joe Biden lied when he flatly declared that his son Hunter had not earned any money through business dealings in China. In 2023, during the court hearing regarding his failed plea deal with the Biden Department of Justice, Hunter himself admitted to the contrary that he had received substantial amounts of money from Chinese sources.

Joe Biden’s outright lie, which earned him four Pinocchios from the Washington Post, is evidence of the “big guy’s” consciousness of guilt.

Joe Biden’s Election Fraud

After the New York Post broke the story about Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop and revealed some of its shocking contents less than a month before the 2020 election, his father’s presidential campaign went into panic mode. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, then senior advisor to the Biden campaign, was the impetus behind the misleading October 19, 2020 “Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails” signed by fifty-one former intelligence officers. This statement claimed that the New York Post’s reporting had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”

It turns out that the former intelligence officers’ public statement was disinformation used by the Biden campaign and Joe Biden himself to mislead Americans voting in the 2020 presidential election. During Joe Biden’s debate with then-President Donald Trump on Oct. 22, 2020, Biden referred to the public statement to rebut Trump’s reference to Hunter’s laptop as “the laptop from hell.”

“There are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what this — he’s accusing me of is a Russian plan,” Joe Biden exclaimed.

High tech companies used the former intelligence officers’ statement as a pretext for censoring the posting of the New York Post story on their social media platforms.

Polls have demonstrated that a significant number of voters would likely have voted differently had they known the complete truth about Hunter’s laptop. This could have made all the difference in the final outcome of the election.

Joe Biden’s and his campaign’s deliberate efforts to keep voters from knowing the truth about the big guy’s and his family syndicate’s nefarious activities fraudulentlprevented the voters from making a fully informed decision when exercising their right to vote.

The Coverup Continues

After Joe Biden became president, any possibility that his son’s pay for play influence peddling schemes and alleged money laundering would be fully investigated and prosecuted under the law went by the wayside.

Career IRS investigators were blocked at every turn from following the evidence wherever it might lead, including to President Biden himself, according to IRS whistleblowers’ congressional testimony.

The Department of Justice let the statute of limitations lapse on charges that could have been brought for tax evasion arising from payments Hunter received from Ukraine, etc. while his father was vice president.

After five years of investigation, U.S. Attorney David Weiss was inclined to let Hunter off the hook “without requiring a guilty plea on any charges,” the New York Times reported, until the IRS career investigators blew the whistle. Then his office agreed to an outrageous sweetheart deal with Hunter’s attorneys. The deal would have had Hunter plead guilty to misdemeanor tax charges with no jail time and take part in a diversion program in lieu of being charged with a gun-related felony. The president’s son also would have been granted sweeping immunity from any further charges relating to the matters that had been under investigation, including Hunter’s work as an unregistered foreign agent. But the deal unraveled after U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika shot it down.

President Biden’s Attorney General, Merrick Garland, thereupon promoted the compromised David Weiss to the position of Special Counsel to continue running the Biden investigation, rather than follow regulations and select an independent person from outside the Department of Justice. This move ensures more soft treatment for Hunter and more coverup of any criminal wrongdoing by Joe Biden.

From Joe Biden’s days as vice president until now there is more than enough evidence to bring RICO charges against the Biden family syndicate, including against the “big guy.” As the saying goes, “A fish rots from the head down.”

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Joseph Klein

Joseph Klein is a Harvard-trained lawyer, and the author of Global Deception: The UN’s Stealth Assault on America’s Freedom and Lethal Engagement: Barack Hussein Obama, The United Nations & Radical Islam.

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Oversight Committee: Joe Biden ‘Lied’ at Least 16 Times About Family Business

President Joe Biden, and his son Hunter Biden arrive at Fort McNair, Sunday, June 25, 2023, in Washington. The Biden's are returning from Camp David. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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President Joe Biden “lied” at least 16 times about his family’s elaborate business schemes, the House Oversight Committee recounted Thursday.

The committee says Joe Biden lied in five different ways about his family’s foreign business endeavors: 1) That Joe Biden never spoke to his family about their business dealings; 2) His family did not receive $1 million through a third party; 3) Hunter Biden never made money in China; 4) Hunter Biden’s dealings were ethical; 5) and his son did nothing wrong.

Below are the 16 examples.

Joe Biden on not talking to his son about his business dealings:

1) August 28, 2019

Joe Biden: “First of all, I have never discussed with my son, or my brother, or anyone else, anything having to do with their businesses, period. What I will do is the same thing we did in our administration. There will be an absolute wall between the personal and private, and the government. There wasn’t any hint of scandal at all when we were there. And I will impose the same kind of strict, strict rules. That is why I have never talked with my son or my brother, or anyone else in the distant family about their business interests, period.”

2) September 21, 2019

Reporter: “Have you ever spoken to your son about his overseas business dealings?”

Joe Biden: “I’ve never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.”

3) October 4, 2019

Reporter: “Excuse me. There was a photo of you golfing with your son Hunter and his business partner Devon Archer. Do you stand by your statement that you did not discuss any of your son’s overseas business dealings?”

Joe Biden: “Yes, I stand by that statement.”

The House Oversight Committee announced late Monday it has subpoenaed Devon Archer, a Biden family associate, to appear for a deposition to Congress this Friday.

The House Oversight Committee announced it has subpoenaed Devon Archer (highlighted in red), a Biden family associate. (Tucker Carlson Tonight)

4) October 9, 2019

Joe Biden: “I don’t discuss business with my son. I didn’t know that was the case when in fact I found out after the fact. And I don’t discuss things with my son or my family because I don’t want to have any knowledge of any, I don’t want to be accused of well you talk with your son, you talk with your whomever.”

5) October 15, 2019

Joe Biden: “I never discussed a single thing with my son about anything having do with Ukraine. No one has indicated I have. We’ve always kept everything separate.”

6) October 16, 2019

Joe Biden: “I never discussed with my son anything having to do with what was going on in Ukraine. That’s a fact.”

7) October 27, 2019

Joe Biden: “I’ve never discussed my business or their business, my sons and daughters. And I’ve never discussed them because they know where I have to do my job and that’s it.”

8) October 29, 2019

Joe Biden: “I’ve never discussed my son’s business with him.”

9) April 5, 2022

Reporter: “The President has said that he never spoke to his son about his overseas business dealings. Is that still the case?”

Jen Psaki: “Yes.”

10) June 26, 2023

Reporter: “Did you lie about never speaking to Hunter about his business dealings?”

President Biden: “No.”

11) August 9, 2023

Reporter: “There’s this testimony now where one of your son’s former business associates is claiming that you were on speakerphone a lot with them talking business. Is that what?”

President Biden: “I never talked business with anybody, and I knew you’d have a lousy question.”

Joe Biden on his family receiving over $1 million in payments from China through an associate:

12) March 20, 2023

Reporter: “Any reaction to House GOP’s memo about your family’s dealings […] revealing that Hunter Biden’s business associates sent over $1 million to three of your family members?”

President Biden: “That’s not true.”

Joe Biden on Hunter Biden making money from China:

13) October 22, 2020
Joe Biden: “My son has not made money, in terms of thing about, what are you talking about? China. The only guy who made money in China is [President Trump].”

WATCH — “Give Me a Break, Man”: Biden SNAPS at Reporter Asking About Family’s Business Relations in China:
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Joe Biden on his son’s business dealings being ethical:

14) October 22, 2020

Moderator: “There have been questions about the work your son has done in China and for a Ukrainian energy company when you were vice president. In retrospect, was anything about those relationships inappropriate or unethical?”

Joe Biden: “Nothing was unethical.”

Joe Biden on his son doing nothing wrong:

15) October 27, 2019

Joe Biden: “And it turns out, [Hunter] didn’t do a single thing wrong as everybody has investigated.”

16) December 8, 2019

Reporter: “So you think that everything that happened was kosher?”

Joe Biden: “You know that there’s not one single bit of evidence. Not one little, tiny bit to suggest that anything done was wrong.”

WATCH — Biden: Hunter Has “Done Nothing Wrong” and His Situation Impacts My Presidency “by Making Me Feel Proud of Him”:

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Atlantic Magazine Columnist Rips Joe Biden for Allowing ‘Access-Peddling Business’

US President Joe Biden speaks about his economic plan "Bidenomics" at Auburn Manufacturing Inc. in Auburn, Maine, on July 28, 2023. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
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It is a significant problem that President Joe Biden allowed the family’s “access-peddling business,” Atlantic Magazine columnist Sarah Chayes acknowledged in a recent op-ed.

Chayes, a former NPR reporter and special adviser to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrote an opinion article Wednesday describing the Biden family’s business endeavors as “image-laundering services for foreign kleptocrats.”

“The biggest problem with Hunter Biden’s access-peddling business may have been that his father, the president, thought it was fine,” she wrote. “For a president and a political party whose brand stresses integrity, that’s a self-inflicted wound.”

“It now seems quite likely that Hunter Biden has violated one or more U.S. laws,” she added. “And that’s not all the wrong he has done.”

Chayes specifically drew parallels between several influence peddling schemes and the Biden family’s elaborate business. She cited scandals in Nigeria and Afghanistan and equated them to scheming by Devon Archer, Hunter Biden’s best friend in business:

Among Archer’s associates was Yelena Baturina, who was the richest woman in Russia and had recently done real-estate business with a company founded by Archer and Hunter Biden. She was married to a former mayor of Moscow named Yuriy Luzhkov, whom the U.S. ambassador to Russia described in a 2010 leaked cable as sitting atop a “pyramid” of corruption and criminal behavior during his time in office. Also in the circle, per Archer’s testimony, was his “good friend” Karim Massimov, who served as intelligence chief and prime minister under Kazakhstan’s notoriously corrupt dictator, Nursultan Nazarbayev, and was investigated in connection with suspected bribery involving both a U.K.-listed Kazakh minerals company and the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus. (Massimov was not charged in either case but was arrested for treason in Kazakhstan in 2022, and received an 18-year sentence earlier this year.)

Archer’s descriptions of the associates’ activities illustrate what I have found to be the typical modus operandi of such networks. His own corporate holdings, as well as those in which Hunter Biden had a stake, were subdivided and recombined in a dizzying array of similarly named entities that makes any attempt to trace money flows exceedingly difficult. The principals looked outside Europe, the U.S., and Singapore for markets “that were less sensitive,” Archer explained, to public scrutiny of questionable business practices—such as Kazakhstan. “It was pretty wild,” he bragged, citing a hastily assembled lucrative drilling project. “We pulled off a lot.”

Chayes also put a spotlight on Hunter Biden and Archer’s Burisma Holding’s board position, which she says “undercut the anti-corruption message the VP and we were advancing in Ukraine, b/c Ukrainians heard one message from us then saw another set of behavior, with the family association with a known corrupt figure:

To Ukrainian oligarchs, in other words, the U.S. seemed to be sending the same type of conflicting messages Karzai sent: statements for the benefit of a Western audience and nonverbal signaling that conveyed Washington’s real meaning.

“Biden was supposed to be different,” she lamented, slamming Joe Biden for not distancing himself from Hunter Biden. “Yet his unconditional public support for everything his son has done serves to sanitize and reinforce a business model that provides image-laundering services for foreign kleptocrats and monetizes access to power — or the appearance of such access.”

WATCH — Biden: Hunter Has “Done Nothing Wrong” and His Situation Impacts My Presidency “by Making Me Feel Proud of Him”:

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