By MAIREAD MCARDLE – October 15, 2020 – 9:38 a.m. – NR
Hunter Biden entered into a consulting contract with China’s largest private energy company that initially earned him $10 million a year “for introductions alone,” according to leaked emails.
In an email chain from Aug. 2, 2017, Biden discussed a deal with the former chairman of CEFC China Energy, Ye Jianming, saying Ye agreed to change the terms of Biden’s three-year consulting contract with CEFC, which initially promised Biden $10 million per-year “for introductions alone,” to make it “much more lasting and more lucrative,” the New York Post reported, although the authenticity of the Biden emails has not been independently confirmed.
The new deal included a 50 percent equity stake in a holding company created by Ye rather than the $10 million in annual cash that had been previously negotiated.
“The chairman changed that deal after we me[t] in MIAMI TO A MUCH MORE LASTING AND LUCRATIVE ARRANGEMENT to create a holding company 50% percent [sic] owned by ME and 50% owned by him,” Biden wrote in one email.
In the same email chain, Biden discussed deals with the CEFC that he said were “interesting to me and my family.”
Another email sent to Biden on May 13, 2017 had the subject line “Expectations” and identified Biden as “Chair / Vice Chair depending on agreement with CEFC.”
CEFC reportedly went bankrupt this year. Ye, who was connected to Chinese military and intelligence, has been missing since 2018, when he was arrested by Chinese authorities.
The leaked emails and other data were found on a MacBook Pro laptop that was dropped off at a Delaware computer repair shop in April of last year, according to the owner of the shop.
The FBI has seized the laptop. The shop owner made a copy of the data, which former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani provided to the Post.
Biden is also under scrutiny for his lucrative position on the board of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma. In leaked emails from 2014, Biden appears to try to leverage his influence with his father, then-vice president Joe Biden, who was heavily involved in U.S. policy on Ukraine, referring to the elder Biden as “my guy.”
“The announcement of my guys [sic] upcoming travels should be characterized as part of our advice and thinking- but what he will say and do is out of our hands,” Hunter Biden wrote in an email dated April 13, 2014.
In one 2015 email to Biden, one of Burisma’s top executives, board advisor Vadym Pozharskyi, wrote to Hunter Biden and Biden’s business partner Devon Archer that Burisma’s “ultimate goal” was to recruit U.S. policy makers to help “close down” any “cases” or “pursuits” against the company.
Biden resigned from Burisma’s board last year.
“…Biden appears to try to leverage his influence with his father, then-vice president Joe Biden, who was heavily involved in U.S. policy on Ukraine, referring to the elder Biden as “my guy.”
How sleazy is that to refer to your Dad in emails as “My Guy”? Such an obvious attempt to mislead people that he’s selling access to the Vice President of the USA. Ukrainians never asked to be in the middle of all this corruption. Too much analysis has returned linking Ukraine to Russian corruption. Thanks Joe Biden…..
Clearly, if this is all true, this could put a damper on Biden’s popularity. Who wants a president who is involved in such dealings (even indirectly through his son)?
Interesting not on Ye Jianming:
Chairman and founder of CEFC China Energy, 43. A wunderkind of the Chinese energy world. Gave Hunter a diamond in 2017 as they pursued a business relationship. But in November 2017 company was accused of bribery in Africa by the DOJ, and in March 2018 he was arrested in China, reportedly on the orders of Xi Jinping. Has not been seen or heard from since…
The worst part is that if he is elected he can put a lid on all of it and be immune. Then we will have to suffer the same corruption again by someone else. The next worst part is the complicity of the media in the cover up.
The media are accomplices and abettors in left-wing violence, general decadence, and disorder and a major cause of the deterioration of the country since it is mostly left-leaning to far left. They will gladly rummage through the waste basket of a conservative person to help denounce him or her while blissfully ignoring the garbage container full of refuse from a leftist/liberal.
Laptop in some computer shop, owner made copy Rudy Guiliani. This sounds like a set up.
Nope, the FBI and the DNI have agreed everything so far is authentic. It was Hunter Biden’s laptops and email accounts. He probably thought he was getting rid of the evidence but who knows what a crack addict is thinking?