The Hunter Biden Shell Companies Myth Exposed Over And Over Again

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Members here have posted lies like this: "20 shell companies. Why? If everything is legit, why did the Biden’s make 20 companies with no employees, investments, products, services, or payrolls." - False.

I'm not sure how people become so easily duped by media reporting sleight of hand accusations from GOP House members like Comer. The man and his accusations have been proven to be a yuge disappointment to the Get Biden crowd. Yet, I see the false claims brought up over and over again. So let us set the record straight.

quotes: For instance, the second staff memo never says that Hunter Biden used “shell” companies — a term often associated with shady or illegal activity, even though a shell company is a legitimate entity. Comer once described such an entity as “a fake company … they don’t make anything. They don’t produce anything. They don’t provide a good or service.” He is not wrong about many shell companies, but the memo lists real companies, with active websites and real business functions. (The third staff memo refers to just one “shell” company, which we will describe later.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/17/how-republicans-overhype-findings-their-hunter-biden-probe/

Analysis | How Republicans overhype the findings of their Hunter Biden probe

Rep. James Comer’s rhetoric does not track with the reports issued by House Committee Oversight staff.

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The Facts​

The House Oversight Committee has struggled to connect President Biden to any nefarious acts, so lawmakers have relied a lot on innuendo. The House speaker’s reference to “shell companies” is a good example. As we have shown, virtually all of the companies that received the funds in question had legitimate business interests. Similarly, lawmakers have claimed that it’s not clear what Hunter Biden did to earn the money, when it’s often quite evident. For instance, Hunter Biden earned millions as a board member of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company. (Whether he was qualified for the post is another matter.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/17/how-republicans-overhype-findings-their-hunter-biden-probe/

Analysis | House GOP lawmakers keep hyping the numbers on Hunter Biden’s foreign deals

Even the House Oversight Committee’s own math shows that many lawmakers overreach when they comment publicly.

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It's taken how many months now to craft plausible deniability? Fuckin' pathetic.

The party that likes to fuck kids is better off saying, "Yes, our demented shut-in DID have 22 shell companies for the purpose of money laundering and concealing racketeering operations."

The country would actually take pause and wonder why they were being truthful this one time.... Conclusion: no fucking way, they're lying again.... Robert L Peters is clean.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

The Washington Post is not a reliable source.
The WaPo is a cog in the corrupt Democrat Party's propaganda machine.
Of course, they are going to lie for Good Ol' Pedo Joe.

Opinion | No ‘Smoking Gun’ on Biden? I Beg to Differ

There are shell corporations, whistleblower testimony and the unexplained transfer of millions of dollars from abroad to Biden family members.

www.wsj.com

 

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The Washington Post is not a reliable source.
The WaPo is a cog in the corrupt Democrat Party's propaganda machine.
Of course, they are going to lie for Good Ol' Pedo Joe.

Opinion | No ‘Smoking Gun’ on Biden? I Beg to Differ

There are shell corporations, whistleblower testimony and the unexplained transfer of millions of dollars from abroad to Biden family members.

www.wsj.com

The GOP memos. 20 legit businesses.

case closed

 

[MarathonMike]

Members here have post\ed lies like this: "20 shell companies. Why? If everything is legit, why did the Biden’s make 20 companies with no employees, investments, products, services, or payrolls." - False.

I'm not sure how people become so easily duped by media reporting sleight of hand accusations from GOP House members like Comer. The man and his accusations have been proven to be a yuge disappointment to the Get Biden crowd. Yet, I see the false claims brought up over and over again. So let us set the record straight.

quotes: For instance, the second staff memo never says that Hunter Biden used “shell” companies — a term often associated with shady or illegal activity, even though a shell company is a legitimate entity. Comer once described such an entity as “a fake company … they don’t make anything. They don’t produce anything. They don’t provide a good or service.” He is not wrong about many shell companies, but the memo lists real companies, with active websites and real business functions. (The third staff memo refers to just one “shell” company, which we will describe later.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/17/how-republicans-overhype-findings-their-hunter-biden-probe/

Analysis | How Republicans overhype the findings of their Hunter Biden probe

Rep. James Comer’s rhetoric does not track with the reports issued by House Committee Oversight staff.

web.archive.org

Another "old timer" who joined in 2008 suddenly emerges from the shadows. LOL And this is the slab of baloney you bring? 30 million dollars all documented by bank records flowing into the network of 20 fake shell companies created by the Biden Crime Family for the sole purpose of money laundering and obfuscation. If that is wrong, then tell us what business are the Biden's in?
The Bidens don't seem to know.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

The GOP memos. 20 legit businesses.

case closed

Can you tell us all what Hunter Biden's shell companies made?

 

[two_iron]

The Washington Post is not a reliable source.
The WaPo is a cog in the corrupt Democrat Party's propaganda machine.
Of course, they are going to lie for Good Ol' Pedo Joe.

Opinion | No ‘Smoking Gun’ on Biden? I Beg to Differ

There are shell corporations, whistleblower testimony and the unexplained transfer of millions of dollars from abroad to Biden family members.

www.wsj.com

 

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Can you tell us all what Hunter Biden's shell companies made?

I can.

Extortion threats.

I win anything?

 

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Another "old timer" who joined in 2008 suddenly emerges from the shadows. LOL And this is the slab of baloney you bring? 30 million dollars all documented by bank records flowing into the network of 20 fake shell companies created by the Biden Crime Family for the sole purpose of money laundering and obfuscation. If that is wrong, then tell us what business are the Biden's in?
The Bidens don't seem to know.

The GOP memo does not call them shell companies, and virtually all of the companies that received the funds in question had legitimate business interests

 

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Can you tell us all what Hunter Biden's shell companies made?

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Virtually all of the companies (many of which now are defunct) had legitimate business interests. Others had clearly identified business investments. Digging through the records, we find only three whose business purpose remains vague; one (Rosemont Seneca Global Risk Services, LLC) may not even be related to Hunter Biden, according to an email found in Hunter Biden’s laptop. The memos do not list any payments that flowed through these three companies.
Companies founded by Hunter Biden

• Seneca Global Advisors was a boutique consulting firm that Hunter Biden founded in 2008 to help small and midsize companies expand into markets in the U.S. and other countries, according to a 2019 interview he gave to the New Yorker. OpenSecrets.org identifies it as “a lobbying firm that was hired by 9 clients in 2008, for a total amount of $210,000.” All of the clients are identified.
• Owasco PC was essentially Hunter Biden’s law firm and did legal work. One memo acknowledges it is “a professional corporation.” The memo also lists an Owasco LLC and Skaneateles, LLC, two of the companies whose purpose remains vague. Hunter Biden named his personal LLCs, used to handle payments like payroll, after towns in New York’s Finger Lakes region, where his mother was born, according to a former business partner.

Companies in partnership with Hunter Biden

• Rosemont Seneca Partners, founded in 2009 by Hunter Biden, Devon Archer and Christopher Heinz. The third staff memo identifies it as “central to the Bidens’ later business ventures,” confirming that it is not a shell company. Many of the other supposed shell companies are offshoots of this firm.
• Rosemont Seneca Advisors in 2017 had investment projects in West Africa and a 5 percent stake in Harves Amusement Parks and ownership in Harves Sports and Entertainment, both in China. A 2011 email in Hunter Biden’s laptop suggests most of his business was done through this entity.
• Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners (RSTP) still exists under a different name, Pilot Growth Equity. As we have previously reported, Rosemont Seneca Partners had a stake in RSTP, which invested in emerging technology companies. In 2014, the Wall Street Journal reported that Hunter Biden had been discharged that February from the Navy Reserve after testing positive for cocaine use. Biden had not disclosed the discharge to RSTP members and so in early 2015 he was eased out of the firm, which has since rebranded itself as Pilot Growth Equity and declined to comment.
• RSTP II Alpha and RSTP II Bravo were related venture capital funds that registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The investments included a genetics testing company called Counsyl, according to a 2014 Forbes article.
• Rosemont Seneca Bohai, created in 2014 to invest in a Chinese fund generally known as BHR Partners, was a replacement vehicle for Rosemont Seneca Thornton, LLC, mentioned below.
• RSP Holdings is described in an SEC document as the parent company of RSP Investments, which aimed to “provide private placement services, hedge fund marketing and capital introduction services.” The memo does not mention RSP Investments but has a listing for Rosemont Seneca Principal Investments, presumably the same company.
• Hudson West III and Hudson West IV were involved in an energy investment deal with CEFC China Energy, a Chinese energy conglomerate. Comer has decried the deal as “a scheme to try to get China to buy liquefied natural gas,” indicating he knows these are not shall companies.

Companies with a Hunter Biden connection

• Rosemont Realty LLC, founded in 1991. Hunter Biden was not on the Rosemont Realty management team but was listed as part of the board of advisers of the firm, which was managed by Devon Archer. This was a substantial company; in 2013, its website showed it owned properties in 25 states, including Comer’s home state of Kentucky. Archer was recently interviewed by the Oversight Committee and he tried to explain that a wire transfer of $3.5 million from Elena Baturina, a Russian billionaire, that interested the committee was part of a $120 million investment with Rosemont Realty that was unrelated to Hunter Biden. “Rosemont Realty was completely out of his, kind of, portfolio,” Archer said.
• Lion Hall Group and JBB SR are associated with Joe Biden’s brother James Biden. Lion Hall is a consulting group, according to a Washington Post investigation, while JBB SR has been described in Ben Schreckinger’s 2021 book “The Bidens” as managing two businesses that sold medical and agricultural products. James Biden hung up the phone when the Fact Checker identified himself.
• Robinson Walker LLC, founded in 2008 by John Robinson “Rob” Walker, and CEFC Infrastructure Investment, once a subsidy of a Chinese energy company, are not Biden family companies at all but are listed because they transferred funds to Biden family members. Walker, who at one point was a managing director of Rosemont Seneca Advisors, could not be reached for comment.

One named ‘shell’ company
Rosemont Seneca Thornton LLC is the one company specifically named in a staff memo as a shell company. As we have reported, this entity was created in 2013 to invest in BHR Partners, the Chinese fund. But almost as soon as Rosemont Seneca Thornton was created, the partners decided to dissolve it, according to a person with access to the board minutes. Thornton Group, one of the investors, was run by Jim Bulger, who brought expertise in investing in China. But the original structure had added unexpected regulatory burdens to Thornton, and so Bulger’s lawyers advised that the group split up, this person said. Archer, in his interview, confirmed this to committee investigators, saying the creation of the LLC was “a mistake.”

 

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Virtually all of the companies (many of which now are defunct) had legitimate business interests. Others had clearly identified business investments. Digging through the records, we find only three whose business purpose remains vague; one (Rosemont Seneca Global Risk Services, LLC) may not even be related to Hunter Biden, according to an email found in Hunter Biden’s laptop. The memos do not list any payments that flowed through these three companies.
Companies founded by Hunter Biden

• Seneca Global Advisors was a boutique consulting firm that Hunter Biden founded in 2008 to help small and midsize companies expand into markets in the U.S. and other countries, according to a 2019 interview he gave to the New Yorker. OpenSecrets.org identifies it as “a lobbying firm that was hired by 9 clients in 2008, for a total amount of $210,000.” All of the clients are identified.
• Owasco PC was essentially Hunter Biden’s law firm and did legal work. One memo acknowledges it is “a professional corporation.” The memo also lists an Owasco LLC and Skaneateles, LLC, two of the companies whose purpose remains vague. Hunter Biden named his personal LLCs, used to handle payments like payroll, after towns in New York’s Finger Lakes region, where his mother was born, according to a former business partner.

Companies in partnership with Hunter Biden

• Rosemont Seneca Partners, founded in 2009 by Hunter Biden, Devon Archer and Christopher Heinz. The third staff memo identifies it as “central to the Bidens’ later business ventures,” confirming that it is not a shell company. Many of the other supposed shell companies are offshoots of this firm.
• Rosemont Seneca Advisors in 2017 had investment projects in West Africa and a 5 percent stake in Harves Amusement Parks and ownership in Harves Sports and Entertainment, both in China. A 2011 email in Hunter Biden’s laptop suggests most of his business was done through this entity.
• Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners (RSTP) still exists under a different name, Pilot Growth Equity. As we have previously reported, Rosemont Seneca Partners had a stake in RSTP, which invested in emerging technology companies. In 2014, the Wall Street Journal reported that Hunter Biden had been discharged that February from the Navy Reserve after testing positive for cocaine use. Biden had not disclosed the discharge to RSTP members and so in early 2015 he was eased out of the firm, which has since rebranded itself as Pilot Growth Equity and declined to comment.
• RSTP II Alpha and RSTP II Bravo were related venture capital funds that registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The investments included a genetics testing company called Counsyl, according to a 2014 Forbes article.
• Rosemont Seneca Bohai, created in 2014 to invest in a Chinese fund generally known as BHR Partners, was a replacement vehicle for Rosemont Seneca Thornton, LLC, mentioned below.
• RSP Holdings is described in an SEC document as the parent company of RSP Investments, which aimed to “provide private placement services, hedge fund marketing and capital introduction services.” The memo does not mention RSP Investments but has a listing for Rosemont Seneca Principal Investments, presumably the same company.
• Hudson West III and Hudson West IV were involved in an energy investment deal with CEFC China Energy, a Chinese energy conglomerate. Comer has decried the deal as “a scheme to try to get China to buy liquefied natural gas,” indicating he knows these are not shall companies.

Companies with a Hunter Biden connection

• Rosemont Realty LLC, founded in 1991. Hunter Biden was not on the Rosemont Realty management team but was listed as part of the board of advisers of the firm, which was managed by Devon Archer. This was a substantial company; in 2013, its website showed it owned properties in 25 states, including Comer’s home state of Kentucky. Archer was recently interviewed by the Oversight Committee and he tried to explain that a wire transfer of $3.5 million from Elena Baturina, a Russian billionaire, that interested the committee was part of a $120 million investment with Rosemont Realty that was unrelated to Hunter Biden. “Rosemont Realty was completely out of his, kind of, portfolio,” Archer said.
• Lion Hall Group and JBB SR are associated with Joe Biden’s brother James Biden. Lion Hall is a consulting group, according to a Washington Post investigation, while JBB SR has been described in Ben Schreckinger’s 2021 book “The Bidens” as managing two businesses that sold medical and agricultural products. James Biden hung up the phone when the Fact Checker identified himself.
• Robinson Walker LLC, founded in 2008 by John Robinson “Rob” Walker, and CEFC Infrastructure Investment, once a subsidy of a Chinese energy company, are not Biden family companies at all but are listed because they transferred funds to Biden family members. Walker, who at one point was a managing director of Rosemont Seneca Advisors, could not be reached for comment.

One named ‘shell’ company
Rosemont Seneca Thornton LLC is the one company specifically named in a staff memo as a shell company. As we have reported, this entity was created in 2013 to invest in BHR Partners, the Chinese fund. But almost as soon as Rosemont Seneca Thornton was created, the partners decided to dissolve it, according to a person with access to the board minutes. Thornton Group, one of the investors, was run by Jim Bulger, who brought expertise in investing in China. But the original structure had added unexpected regulatory burdens to Thornton, and so Bulger’s lawyers advised that the group split up, this person said. Archer, in his interview, confirmed this to committee investigators, saying the creation of the LLC was “a mistake.”

They used their shell companies to launder international bribes.

shell com·pa·ny
[ˈSHel ˌkəmp(ə)nē]

NOUN

1. an inactive company used as a vehicle for various financial maneuvers or kept dormant for future use in some other capacity.
   
   
   

 

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They used their shell companies to launder international bribes.

shell com·pa·ny
[ˈSHel ˌkəmp(ə)nē]

NOUN

1. an inactive company used as a vehicle for various financial maneuvers or kept dormant for future use in some other capacity.
   
   

False. You fell for another Rightwing Big Lie.

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Analysis | How Republicans overhype the findings of their Hunter Biden probe

Rep. James Comer’s rhetoric does not track with the reports issued by House Committee Oversight staff.

web.archive.org

Analysis | House GOP lawmakers keep hyping the numbers on Hunter Biden’s foreign deals

Even the House Oversight Committee’s own math shows that many lawmakers overreach when they comment publicly.

web.archive.org

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

False. You fell for another Rightwing Big Lie.

read the links

Analysis | How Republicans overhype the findings of their Hunter Biden probe

Rep. James Comer’s rhetoric does not track with the reports issued by House Committee Oversight staff.

web.archive.org

Analysis | House GOP lawmakers keep hyping the numbers on Hunter Biden’s foreign deals

Even the House Oversight Committee’s own math shows that many lawmakers overreach when they comment publicly.

web.archive.org

Hunter Biden used shell companies to launder international bribes.
Of course the Crazy Democrat Cult is going to try to hide it.

 

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Hunter Biden used shell companies to launder international bribes.
Of course the Crazy Democrat Cult is going to try to hide it.

GOP and Comer memo says 20 out of 21 companies had legitimate business interests.

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Hunter Biden used shell companies to launder international bribes.
Of course the Crazy Democrat Cult is going to try to hide it.

The Pinocchio Test​

Hunter Biden’s decision to pursue business deals that at the time overlapped with his father’s policy brief as vice president was ill-advised and has caused political headaches for his father. Republicans are pursuing the case with vigor, but Comer undercuts the findings of his investigation by hyping what has been found. He claims there were more than 20 “shell companies,” but upon inspection most of the companies named had legitimate business transactions or investments. He claims the Bidens received more than $20 million from foreign sources, leaving off the caveat in the staff reports that two-thirds of the payments went to Hunter Biden’s business partners.

Comer would have more credibility if he stuck to documented facts — such as saying precisely that Hunter Biden received $7 million from foreign sources. He earns Three Pinocchios.

 

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Great read this one: ​

House GOP lawmakers keep hyping the numbers on Hunter Biden’s foreign deals​

The Facts​

The House Oversight Committee has struggled to connect President Biden to any nefarious acts, so lawmakers have relied a lot on innuendo. The House speaker’s reference to “shell companies” is a good example. As we have shown, virtually all of the companies that received the funds in question had legitimate business interests. Similarly, lawmakers have claimed that it’s not clear what Hunter Biden did to earn the money, when it’s often quite evident. For instance, Hunter Biden earned millions as a board member of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company. (Whether he was qualified for the post is another matter.)
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Analysis | House GOP lawmakers keep hyping the numbers on Hunter Biden’s foreign deals

Even the House Oversight Committee’s own math shows that many lawmakers overreach when they comment publicly.

web.archive.org

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/09/house-gop-lawmakers-keep-hyping-numbers-hunter-bidens-foreign-deals/

 

[MarathonMike]

The GOP memo does not call them shell companies, and virtually all of the companies that received the funds in question had legitimate business interests

Legitimate business interests? Like what? Did they have a payroll? What products or services did they provide to hostile foreign nations?

 

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Legitimate business interests? Like what? Did they have a payroll? What products or services did they provide to hostile foreign nations?

okay

 

[Markle]

Members here have posted lies like this: "20 shell companies. Why? If everything is legit, why did the Biden’s make 20 companies with no employees, investments, products, services, or payrolls." - False.

I'm not sure how people become so easily duped by media reporting sleight of hand accusations from GOP House members like Comer. The man and his accusations have been proven to be a yuge disappointment to the Get Biden crowd. Yet, I see the false claims brought up over and over again. So let us set the record straight.

quotes: For instance, the second staff memo never says that Hunter Biden used “shell” companies — a term often associated with shady or illegal activity, even though a shell company is a legitimate entity. Comer once described such an entity as “a fake company … they don’t make anything. They don’t produce anything. They don’t provide a good or service.” He is not wrong about many shell companies, but the memo lists real companies, with active websites and real business functions. (The third staff memo refers to just one “shell” company, which we will describe later.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/17/how-republicans-overhype-findings-their-hunter-biden-probe/

Analysis | How Republicans overhype the findings of their Hunter Biden probe

Rep. James Comer’s rhetoric does not track with the reports issued by House Committee Oversight staff.

web.archive.org