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New York Post's recent revelations (sourced from emails, files, and other documents on Hunter Biden's laptop) pointing to a massive behind-the-scenes influence-peddling operation involving members of the Biden family (as reported here, here, here, and here) were dramatically confirmed by Tony Bobulinski during an interview with Tucker Carlson on Oct. 27.

Bobulinski Speaks to Tucker Carlson

Bobulinski, one of Hunter Biden's business partners, stated that he was vetted by Joe Biden to run the Biden's China business in two separate meetings. Bobulinski further stated that as part of the initial deal, the Chinese company CEFC which is involved in the partnership with the Bidens, sent $10 million to JP Morgan-Chase to capitalize on the new joint company BHR Partners. Half of the money was the Chicoms' capitalization investment in BHR, and the other $5 million was provided as an unsecured loan direct to the Biden family. After the money was transferred, BHR was founded to include two U.S. entities: Thornton Group LLC and Rosemont Seneca Partners. (Hunter Biden was a founding partner of the latter.) Bobulinski also stated that his partners James Gilliar and the Biden family also had business dealings in Oman, Luxembourg, Romania, France, and Kazakhstan and that the only qualification they had in those dealings was trading on the Biden name.

Follow the Money

Many independent journalists are examining the obvious corruption and influence-peddling aspects of the scandal as well as Joe Biden's past denial of knowledge of those activities and their potential impact on the 2020 election. Others, such as Bob Anderson at The Federalist, have been attempting to find out where all the money went. As Anderson reported on Oct. 28:
  • While former Vice President Biden did release his federal tax returns from 2016-2019, these are essentially shell documents with no detail regarding the majority of his income earned since leaving office. In total, $13.5 million of Joe and Jill Biden's $17 million flowed to their tax returns via upstream S corporations CelticCapri Corp (his), and Giacoppa Corp (hers), with more than 90 percent from his entity.
  • Prior news reports rationalized the Bidens' use of S corporations as a means of reducing their Social Security and Medicare taxes, a common tactic of taxpayers with substantial income from non-W-2 sources. At this time, however, we can't determine if any foreign income was reported through CelticCapri.
  • We also don't know how much income from foreign sources has flowed through Hunter Biden's bank accounts.
  • Multiple law enforcement sources recently confirmed that the FBI seized Hunter Biden's laptop in late 2019 as part of a federal money laundering investigation, although the agency declined to move forward reportedly based on how the material was obtained.
Where did all the money go from these various Biden family (and associates) foreign business adventures? Did some of that foreign money flow into Joe Biden's own S corporations? What is the status of the federal money-laundering investigation now that Bobulinski has come forward with his own evidence and files to augment the information found on Hunter Biden's laptop? Does the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) have records of some of the relevant financial transactions that would be direct evidence of money laundering?

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