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Biden aides refuse to comment on first family FARA exposure after American charged for work with same China firm
VILNIUS, Lithuania — The White House refused to comment Tuesday on the potential legal exposure for President Biden, first son Hunter and first brother James Biden after a US citizen was criminally…
nypost.com
11 Jul 2023 ~~ By Steven Nelson
VILNIUS, Lithuania — The White House refused to comment Tuesday on the potential legal exposure for President Biden, first son Hunter and first brother James Biden after a US citizen was
criminally charged for working as an unregistered agent of the same Chinese firm that paid the Biden family.
What’s the White House’s take on potential [Foreign Agents Registration Act] liability for the first family and the president?” The Post asked White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan at a NATO summit in Lithuania.
“I’ve not seen that and cannot comment on it,” Sullivan deflected during a briefing.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who took reporter questions after Sullivan, did not provide additional comment or immediately respond to an emailed inquiry.
Gal Luft was charged Monday by the Manhattan US Attorney’s Office for allegedly violating FARA by accepting from CEFC China Energy at least $700,000 to his Maryland-based think tank, the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, in exchange for co-hosting conferences and attempting to influence a 2016 Donald Trump campaign adviser.
CEFC is a since-defunct cog in Beijing’s “Belt and Road” foreign influence campaign and provided the Biden family one of its most lucrative foreign income streams.
Luft
claims he provided the FBI with information in 2019 about the Biden family’s role in the operation.
Luft worked “to recruit and ‘educate'” a 2016 Trump campaign adviser, who was not identified by name, “so that [the adviser] would make public statements, at the request of LUFT and [CEFC leader Patrick Ho], which were in the interest of China,” according to
the indictment, which charges Luft with additional crimes related to his work in other countries.
CEFC appears to have paid far more to the Biden family than to Luft — and both congressional Republicans and
legal experts say the first son almost certainly violated FARA by failing to register as an agent of CEFC and other foreign employers.
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Former Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski says he personally met with Joe Biden in 2017 about the CEFC venture, and a May 2017 email from another Hunter Biden partner, James Gilliar,
penciled in a 10% cut of proceeds for the “big guy,” whom both Bobulinski and Gilliar have identified as Joe Biden.
An
October 2017 email from Hunter Biden’s laptop identifies Joe Biden as a participant in a call about CEFC’s attempt to purchase US natural gas.
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The Biden family’s CEFC relationship appears to have started around 2015 — the same year as Luft’s — when Hunter connected with Vuk Jeremic, a former foreign minister of Serbia and president of the United Nations General Assembly who was running for UN secretary-general, while his dad was vice president.
In his threatening July 30, 2017, message, Hunter wrote to CEFC employee Raymond Zhao that he was “sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled.”
Photos show Hunter Biden was at his father’s Wilmington, Del., home on the day he sent the message, which was released by the House Ways and Means Committee after receiving it from IRS supervisory agent Gary Shapley.
Shapley testified that Assistant US Attorney Lesley Wolf steered investigators away from investigating Joe Biden’s role in various international business dealings.
Commentary:
They’re not even pretending.
Remember their mantra - ‘No one is above the Law’
Jake Sullivan a Hillary partisan is now part of Hunter’s Crew!
John and Tony Podesta didn’t need to register either.
The ruling elite gets to break the law. The ordinary folks, the ones whose money is seized by the government in taxes, fund the lavish lifestyle of the Nomenklatura, which hates and scorns the folks. Remember your sacrifices are all for the Rodina.
Biden, the Clintons, Kerry and Obama are life-long members of the Nomenklatura.
Manafort, Luft - FARA violators - but not any Biden. "Delaware US Attorney David Weiss has said his investigation is ongoing, leaving open the possibility of additional charges"? Is Tony Bobulinski next to be charged?
Helps to quell the outrage, give an excuse to not answer questions, and make it difficult for anyone else to investigate. We have a FSB/DOJ led by an AG that is as partisan as any in history.
Funny isn`t it, the DNC Quisling media calls Weiss a Trump appointee but, Obama appointed him twice before, and he was a holdover. If Trump, or any Republican, wins this time, he/she will clean house.
