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Joe Biden’s involvement in his son’s overseas business schemes is finally unraveling as a grand jury is investigating Hunter Biden for tax fraud, money laundering, and the violation of lobbying laws. Biden is implicated in 11 of these business dealings as well as Joe’s brother Jim and his brother-in-law Jack. In a text message to his daughter, Hunter revealed that his father, Joe, takes half of his salary.
Major news outlets like The Washington Post have verified contents pulled off of a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden and abandoned at a Delaware computer store in 2019. This comes 18 months after The New York Post initially broke stories on Biden’s overseas business dealings, citing information from the laptop. A left-wing cover-up scandal wrongfully buried this information about Joe and Hunter’s multimillion-dollar global influence-peddling scheme. Just months before the 2020 presidential election, censorship stemming from big tech and liberal fact-checkers incorrectly labeled the story “False.” The threads are finally beginning to unravel as Joe and Hunter’s shady business dealings are being heavily scrutinized.
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The chain of custody of the data from Biden’s laptop is difficult to establish. At this point, the laptop’s hard drive contained evidence that files are missing and could have been doctored. Of the nearly 129,000 emails contained on the hard drive, Johns Hopkins University security researcher Matt Green was able to verify 1,828. Former National Security Agency operative Jake Williams was able to verify nearly 22,000.
The problem for the Bidens isn’t simply Hunter’s laptop from hell. The bigger problem is that their former business partners are beginning to talk about their involvement in the scheme. When the FBI shows up at your door, things suddenly change. Joe and Hunter’s former business partner, Tony Bobulinski, gave the FBI a six-hour interview as well as a trove of documents, emails and encrypted messages. Bobulinski hasn’t testified yet in front of the grand jury investigating the case. If he does not testify before the grand jury, something is very wrong.
According to Fox News, Francis “Fran” Person left the White House as an adviser to then-Vice President Joe Biden in the summer of 2014. Person then became president of a DC-based company founded by a Chinese executive with ties to officials at some of the highest levels of the Communist Party of China. Person went on to visit the White House at least seven times between 2015 and 2016.
A Politico profile piece on Person’s exit from the White House quotes heavily from then-second lady Jill Biden. “Fran has been like a son to Joe and me,” Jill Biden said. “For eight years, we traveled the country, shared holidays together. Fran may be leaving the office, but he will always be a part of our family.”
“In times of urgency, everyone from the Secret Service to my communications and policy teams, the first guy they go to is Fran,” Biden said. Person traveled with then-Vice President Biden to 49 of the 50 countries he traveled to between 2009 and 2014, including China and Serbia.
Person frequently emailed Hunter Biden and his business partner Eric Schwerin about business dealings associated with the Harves Group in 2015 and 2016. He also made multiple visits to the White House during that time.
During one of the visits, Person attended a White House holiday reception in December 2015 with Bo Zhang, the Chinese executive who founded the Harves Group.
One of the most critical emails on Hunter’s lap, which has been verified, reveals Joe and Hunter Biden’s communications with a Chinese energy company.
In the last two years of Joe’s vice presidency under Barack Obama, the family cashed in before the moment passed. The Biden family received millions of dollars wired by Chinese energy company CEFC. The company is accused of using the Biden name to advance the interests of Communist China in Oman, Luxembourg, Romania, the Middle East and Asia. This involvement in the family scheme would not merely be a violation of the White House’s Ethics Policy, but rather a violation of serious federal laws.
Bobulinski, who was interviewed by the FBI in connection to Hunter’s business dealings, has publicly named Joe Biden as the “Big Guy,” referenced in emails and text messages, whose 10% equity in a joint venture with Chinese energy company CEFC was held for him by Hunter.
Joe and Hunter Biden repeatedly flew on Air Force Two to meet their business partners in China. Biden also wrote a college recommendation letter and faxed it directly to the president of Brown University on behalf of the son of their Chinese business partner.
The White House’s position on this issue remains unsustainable. The White House spokespeople said the president stands by his pre-election statement that Hunter never received any money from China. This is patently false. Banks flagged massive wire transfers coming from China to Hunter’s company as “potential criminal activity,” which triggered the FBI’s investigation.
Joe Biden has claimed over and over that he has no knowledge about the corrupt business dealings involving his son Hunter, his brother James, and his brother-in-law Jack. Going a step further, White House chief of staff Ron Klain has gone on TV to declare that the president remains confident his son didn’t violate the law.
While the entire Biden family is cashing in on the career and power of Joe Biden, the “big guy” himself is conveniently unaware and has never spoken to Hunter about Joe’s 10% cut.
More on this story via Fox News:
Fran Person responded to a Fox News Digital inquiry Thursday evening about the White House visits, saying that they were “personal in nature” and that he was “visiting with old colleagues and friends” that he served with for six years during the Obama administration.
“Those visits were personal in nature, visiting with old colleagues and friends whom I served with during my six years working there, and completely unrelated to my work with Harves Entertainment which was creating experiences and attractions with iconic brands across the sports and entertainment industry,” Person said.
Person did not address whether he or Zhang communicated with or met with Obama-Biden administration officials outside of the White House to discuss Harves-related business deals. He also did not address whether he or Hunter have introduced Zhang to Biden.
FOX Business previously reported that Hunter’s private equity firm, Rosemont Seneca Advisors, held financial interests in multiple Harves affiliates.
In March 2017, Schwerin emailed Hunter breaking down their firm’s interests, including a 5 percent stake with Harves Amusement Parks and ownership in Harves Sports and Entertainment, both of which fall under the Washington, D.C.-based Harves Group.
Hunter’s introduction to the Harves Group came nearly two years earlier when Fran, then the president of the Harves Group, messaged him in July 2015 and invited him to meet Zhang and his family in China.
“Bo Zhang and his family would host us,” Person wrote in the email. “They are a great family with great respect and relationships in China. Bo graduated from American Univ and is in his late 20’s, and his parents own Harves Century Group of Shenyang – which is a top tier private chinese real estate development firm.”
Person’s email went on to say that Zhang is “being groomed to take over his family’s dynasty” and that the trip wasn’t about selling Biden on anything, but more about “grow[ing] that relationship,” adding that “there will be plenty of big things that come down the road that we can work on.”
His mom is actually the Chairman of the company, which is unique in China,” Person wrote. “They are very private, and wouldn’t tell anyone about you coming. Bo’s father-in-law is actually the Governor of Hainan (Chinese Hawaii), which he doesn’t advertise at all.”
Zhang’s father-in-law, Liu Cigui, was later elected as the Communist Party secretary of the Hainan province in 2017. He is considered a “loyalist” of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Harves Century Group, the China-based entity owned by Zhang’s parents, is backed by the state-owned China Development Bank. It is the parent company of multiple U.S.-based Harves affiliates, including Harves Investment Group (HIG), Harves Sports, and Harves Global Entertainment, where Person is now the CEO, according to his LinkedIn. He is also the CEO and co-founder of DreamCube Innovations, a company that Fast Company described as an “enticing new technology and brand that’s already signed deals with the NBA as well as with the Manchester United soccer club” that is set up “across China.”
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