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Court upholds bribery conviction of Chinese executive with ties to Hunter Biden
By: Douglas Braff, Dec 30, 2020
Story continues below advertisementOn Tuesday, a federal appeals court in New York upheld the bribery conviction of the former chairman of a think tank bankrolled by a Chinese energy conglomerate with ties to Hunter Biden, the son of President-elect Joe Biden, The New York Post reports.
Back on December 5, 2018, Patrick Ho Chi-ping, the former Hong Kong home affairs secretary, was convicted for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by attempting to bribe high-ranking officials in Chad and Uganda. On Tuesday, the three-judge panel maintained that conviction.
After being released in June from a 36-month prison sentence for good behavior, Ho was deported to Hong Kong. In 2019, he was given the sentence as well as a $400,000 fine.
Ho was accused of offering bribes to these officials in order to secure oil drilling rights on behalf of CEFC China Energy, an important Chinese energy company that funded a think tank which lauded its “special consultative status” with the United Nations and an office in Manhattan. Ho was the think tank’s primary director.
According to prosecutors, during a December 2014 meeting Ho and CEFC executives offered $2 million in cash crammed into a box to President Idriss Déby of Chad. On top of that, around February 2016, Uganda’s foreign minister, Sam Kutesa, allegedly took a $500,000 bribe from Ho that was masked as a payment to a charitable organization.
The judges stated in the ruling—despite Ho’s argument that there’s insufficient evidence—that the evidence brought forward during the trial was “more than sufficient” to prove that he acted on behalf of a U.S. non-governmental organization to “assist it in obtaining business for CEFC Energy”.
Ye Jianming, who was linked to China’s military and intelligence services, was CEFC’s chairman until he vanished after being apprehended by Chinese authorities in early 2018.
According to documents obtained by The New York Post and published in an October 15 report, Hunter Biden reached a deal with Ye for half-ownership of a holding company that was anticipated to give him more than $10 million a year for making “introductions.”
The documents were found in a laptop that Hunter Biden left at a computer repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware back in April 2019. Later on, the FBI obtained the laptop as part of an investigation.
Another document The Post published included an “Attorney Engagement Letter” executed in September 2017 in which Ho, one of Ye’s chief underlings, agreed to pay Hunter Biden a $1 million retainer for “Counsel to matters related to US law and advice pertaining to the hiring and legal analysis of any US Law Firm or Lawyer.”
In other exchanges between Hunter Biden and CEFC released by The Post on December 16, the younger Biden said that any deals struck would be “interesting for me and my family.”
Included in an email sent to Hunter Biden in May 2017 are details of “remuneration packages” for six people involved in an unspecified business venture in which he was referred to as “Chair / Vice Chair depending on agreement with CEFC,” The Post reported.
Under a “provisional agreement” laid out in the email, 80% of the “equity”—the shares in the new company—would be divvied up equally between four individuals whose initials correspond to the sender and three recipients, with “H” supposedly being Hunter Biden.
The email also mentioned “10 Jim” and “10 held by H for the big guy?”
Separately, in June 2017, Hunter Biden urged Ye to “quickly” wire him $10 million to fund a failing business venture, SinoHawk Holdings, which dissolved in October 2018, The Post reported.
Earlier this month, Hunter Biden announced that he was the subject of a federal investigation into his “tax affairs” as well as his foreign business dealings. The investigations of him, which commenced in 2018, are also looking at if he and his business associates broke tax and money laundering laws.
A source told Fox News the investigation was predicated, in part, by Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) regarding foreign transactions. Another source familiar with the matter said that the SARs were regarding funds from “China and other foreign nations.”
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10 Comments3 years agoAnd the US is going to let this corrupt drug addict’s senile father sit in the Oval Office next year. Seriously?
3 years agoReply to Andre LewisAnd pardon him. But not the whistleblower partner, he’ll do life without parole for speaking out against the family if he doesn’t Epstein himself first.
3 years agoReply to Joy Ann RobertsAnd here’s some ways NOT…
https://www.brighteon.com/e882fb82-1a29-4623-963f-5b5e84b305cb3 years agoReply to Andre Lewis3 years agoI hear GITMO is nice this time of year.
3 years agoSo, the fella offering the bribes gets busted while those taken them remain doped-up…scot free…and heaven forbid running the world’s greatest country?
3 years agoTrump vowed to clean the swamp now we are going to have the king of the swamp
in the Oval Office. We are swiftly being flushed down the swamp toilet. There is
no justice in this country.3 years agoReply to glenda lafontYes and no.
Yes, old Joe may be allowed to sit in the Oval Office for a short time but whoever will sit there will have very little, if any, say about running this country. The HMIC will be the king of slime his self, his Despicableness, B H O .
Just sayin’.3 years agoBrains are hard to come by nowadays, Joe might be the smartest people in the demonrats
