Biden Investigations

[Joe Miner]

8 minutes ago, Ann said:

I don’t know where 4 went…

 

 

We now have the plea papers, no thanks to the government, and here is a very short version of what they say.
1. Under the Plea Agreement there is a probation recommendation from the government on the tax counts, even though Hunter’s misdemeanor Guidelines range calls for at least 24-30 months and even though he was going to be charged with felony tax evasion until Biden’s DOJ nixed it. The probation recommendation is NOT binding on the Court, but any sentence she imposes on a misdemeanor tax count will be capped at one year per each count. So, the judge could have accepted the Plea Agreement and still sentenced Hunter to 2 years, despite the government's probation recommendation..

2. Then there was a Pre-trial Diversion Agreement (no jail time and no permanent record) on the felony gun charge.

3. Finally, and most importantly, a broad immunity provision (arguably covering every crime Hunter may have committed during the relevant time frame) was hidden in Paragraph 15 of the the Pre-Trial Diversion Agreement and this was done by the parties in order that the judge could not accept or reject the broad immunity portion of the overall deal. Totally unprecedented. That’s what appropriately set the judge off. She thought it should have been included in the Plea Agreement, rather than hidden in the Diversion Agreement. By the way, the transcript shows that the judge didn't even see the key paragraph until shortly before the hearing.

http://5.Now the parties can try to hammer out an honest deal.

6.If they do, I think the judge will accept it, even though it is a sweetheart deal for Hunter.

 

 

At the end of this, he's still not going to jail and will still be immune from a great many potential crimes.

[Ann]

Oh, that's all!?
 

 

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

2 hours ago, Ann said:

Oh, that's all!?
 

 

 

Although it's a bullshit observation, it was said enough regarding Trump that it bears much repeating here:

 

"Where there's smoke, there's fire."

[Ann]

Oh boy
 

 

[Ann]

Why Did Jack Smith ignore Biden family scandals when he was head of DOJs Public Integrity Section, tasked with investigating political corruption?

 

In May 2014, the Obama/Biden White House was scrambling to deflect questions related to Hunter Biden’s new gig as a board member at Burisma, the compromised Ukrainian energy conglomerate; the news came just a few weeks after Vice President Joe Biden visited Kiev and promised Ukrainian leaders that the U.S. was “ready to assist” the country’s efforts to accelerate natural gas exploration. (At the time, Burisma was Ukraine's biggest natural gas producer.)

 

The day after Burisma issued a public statement boasting about their latest hire, White House press secretary Jay Carney ducked questions about the younger Biden during a May 13, 2014 briefing:

 

Reporter:  On another subject, Hunter Biden has now taken a position with the largest oil and gas company--holding company in Ukraine.  Is there any concern about at least the appearance of a conflict there--for the Vice President’s son to take a-

 

Carney:  I would refer you to the Vice President’s office.  I saw those reports.  Hunter Biden and other members of the Biden family are obviously private citizens and where they work does not reflect an endorsement by the administration or by the Vice President or President.  But I would refer you to the Vice President’s office.

 

Kendra Barkoff, a Biden spokeswoman, offered the same talking points in a terse statement to the media. “Hunter Biden is a private citizen and a lawyer. The vice president does not endorse any particular company and has no involvement with this company."

 

During a State Department briefing later that day, Jen Psaki smirked away one question about the vice president's son, insisting it was of no concern to the agency.

 

Nevertheless, major news outlets here and around the world continued to raise the improper, if not brazenly pay-to-play, nature of the arrangement. “Vice President Joe Biden's youngest son Hunter Biden has joined the board of directors of Ukraine's largest oil company at a time that the U.S. is urging Ukraine to develop energy independence from Russia and just days after the vice president visited Ukraine,” ABC News reported in May 2014, noting the fortuitous timing of the announcement.

 

“The appointment of the vice president's son to a Ukrainian oil board looks nepotistic at best, nefarious at worst,” Adam Taylor, Washington Post foreign affairs reporter, surmised in a May 14, 2014 article. “No matter how qualified Biden is, it ties into the idea that U.S. foreign policy is self-interested. [You] have to wonder how big the salary has to be to put U.S. soft power at risk like this.”

 

And despite Psaki’s spin, State Department officials soon after expressed concern about the “perception of a conflict of interest,” even taking those concerns to Vice President Joe Biden’s office in early 2015.

 

But one person in official Washington seemed uninterested in the shady deal between a corrupt international gas company operating in a notoriously unstable country and America’s most troubled nepo-baby:

 

Jack Smith.

 

Smith—appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland last year to take over DOJs dual investigations into Donald Trump for alleged mishandling of classified documents and the events of January 6—was named chief of the Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section, or PIN, in August 2010.

 

Operating within the criminal division, PIN maintains broad purview over public corruption investigations on the federal, state, and local level including cases tied to “a government official…or someone associated with such an official,” according to the office’s annual report.

 

Smith held that powerful position until February 2015—meaning Hunter Biden’s years-long board position with Burisma ultimately resulting in a $4 million windfall for the vice president’s son began right under Jack Smith’s nose.

 

This is certainly contrary to what the public has been told about Jack Smith. The news media, “legal experts” in particular, insist Jack Smith is a no-nonsense federal prosecutor with unmatched integrity and devotion to the rule of law. Smith, according to his former DOJ colleague Andrew Weissmann, is a “consummate professional” and a “skilled and fast prosecutor who does not let the grass grow under his feet."

 

So, what happened? How did the keen-eyed, apolitical Smith and his 30-plus lawyers miss what was happening just blocks from their DOJ offices?

 

Perhaps Smith truly bought Burisma’s spin that the company selected Hunter based on his “expertise” in foreign policy and the law. Or perhaps Smith believed Hunter Biden when he said he would consult Burisma on matters relating to “transparency, corporate governance, and responsibility.” 😂

 

Maybe Smith was too busy prosecuting Republican governor Bob McDonnell and his wife at the time—a case later overturned by the Supreme Court—that he missed the international headlines of how a British government agency had seized $23 million in assets belonging to Burisma’s owner amid suspicions of money laundering the very same month Hunter was appointed to the board.

 

Maybe Smith was just a tender heart who thought Hunter quickly turned over a new leaf. After all, Hunter had been discharged from the Naval reserves just three months before the Burisma appointment was announced. Hunter’s misadventures were among the worst kept secrets in Washington but maybe Smith was still reeling from his unsuccessful prosecution of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards to pay attention to Biden family gossip.

 

And it wasn’t just the Burisma gig that somehow evaded Smith’s attention; Hunter made his overseas business dealings well known. He, along with fellow nepo-baby Christopher Heinz, stepson of then-Senator John Kerry, launched Rosemont Seneca in 2009. 

 

“Over the next seven years, as both Joe Biden and John Kerry negotiated sensitive and high-stakes deals with foreign governments, Rosemont entities secured a series of exclusive deals often with those same foreign governments,” investigative reporter Peter Schweizer wrote in his 2018 book. (Schweizer also noted that the private-equity firm did not open an office in New York City, the financial capital of the world, but in Washington, D.C., “just two miles from both Joe Biden’s office in the White House and his residence at the Naval Observatory.”)

 

Multiple deals were cut as Smith led the government’s most powerful “public corruption” unit. And some of the most lucrative arrangements were with Chinese businesses tied to the Chinese Communist Party, partnerships that just happened to coincide with Hunter’s trips to China with his father. “[The 2013 trip to China] was a triumph for Hunter, who walked away with his first big deal in China—the Bohai Harvest Rosemont investment partnership,” Miranda Devine wrote in her 2021 book, “Laptop From Hell.” Devine explained the deal was consummated on December 16, 2013, “twelve days after he flew into Beijing on Air Force Two. Hunter officially became a shareholder and member of the BHR board.”

Smith probably missed the July 2014 article in the Wall Street Journal touting the private equity partnership with the vice president’s son aimed at enriching the CCP. “The funds are raising a combination of yuan and U.S. dollars. The effort is the latest example [of] private equity pushing boundaries in an area that China hopes will help drive the country's economic transformation.”

 

Now, perhaps there was nothing untoward about Hunter Biden’s sudden interest and success at global private equity. But surely the use of Air Force Two to conduct personal business—Hunter accompanied his father on 70 overseas trips including six trips to China on Smith’s watch—should have caught someone’s attention at DOJs “public integrity” unit, no?

 

The answer, of course, is no.

 

Was Smith asleep at the switch or intentionally ignorant or once again doing the dirty work of the Democratic Party? Smith have put a stop to the Biden family international shakedown nearly a decade ago--why didn't he?

 

At what risk did he put the country by turning a blind eye to this egregious level of influence peddling in nations hostile to American interests?

 

As Smith eagerly prepares to sign his name to another criminal indictment against Donald Trump for the events of January 6, Hunter Biden’s plea deal with Smith’s employer is falling apart along with further confirmation of how the younger Biden hauled in millions from countries such as China and Ukraine by leveraging his last name to support himself, his addictions, and his family—including, quite possibly, his father as well.

 

All of this could have been halted in its tracks long ago. And the person primarily responsible for letting it get to this point is none other than Jack Smith.


 

 

[Ann]

Hunter Biden directly contradicted his father to Judge Noreika by admitting to getting paid $664k from a Chinese Communist Party backed company.

 

The news comes on the same day as Rep. James Comer detailed how the Biden family used shell companies to deceive the IRS with Chinese wire transfers.

 

During the 2020 debates, Joe Biden claimed his family had never made money from China. This appears to be completely false.

 

"My son has not made money in terms of this thing about, what are you talking about, China," Biden said before blaming Trump. "The only guy who made money from China is this guy."

 

On Wednesday, Hunter admitted to Judge Maryellen Noreika that he had accepted a $664k payment from CCP backed CEFC.

 

During an interview with Sen. Ted Cruz as reported on by @KanekoaTheGreat, Comer detailed exactly how the Biden family used shell companies to deceive the IRS.

 

The comments came when the pair was discussing how a $3M payment was made from China to Biden business partner Rob Walker.

 

Cruz: "So the Chinese Communist government was sending the money?"

 

Comer: "Yes... If Hunter Biden was doing something legitimate for China, they could have just wired the money to Hunter Biden, but they didn't."

 

"They sent it to a company called Robinson Walker. Then they wired it to a company called Owasco. Then they wired it to another company called Bohai. These companies don't do anything with the money."

 

Cruz: "It's just a bucket to pour the water in, then a bucket to pour it into somewhere else?"

 

Comer: "That's exactly what it is and it was organized. This is like organized crime."

 

... and the DOJ is actively protecting the Biden family. Insane.

 

 

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[Uncle Joe]

14 hours ago, snafu said:

 

Head on down to the Courthouse and greet the crack legal team...

I see what you did there.

[IDBillzFan]

You'd have to believe arresting Archer before his testimony would even be looked down upon by the ladies of the The View.

 

You'd have to believe it. But you shouldn't count on it.

 

 

[Foxx]

1 hour ago, IDBillzFan said:

You'd have to believe arresting Archer before his testimony would even be looked down upon by the ladies of the The View.

 

You'd have to believe it. But you shouldn't count on it.

 

 

What are the odds he commits suicide before the Monday hearing?

[Cinga]

9 minutes ago, Foxx said:

What are the odds he commits suicide before the Monday hearing?

 

If they catch him and he goes to jail tonight? 100%

 

Tomorrow when he appears before the House could be interesting and a sure test of separation of powers. I think it might be a good idea for McCarthy to have a full pardon ready if SHTF

Edited July 30, 2023 by Cinga

[realtruelove]

The next 24 hours should be interesting.

[Hedge]

[CarpetCrawler]

5 minutes ago, Hedge said:

 

Great cartoon, could someone edit in Biden sniffing her hair ???

[Ann]

 

 

[Ann]

What’s a little witness tampering…
 

What appears to have happened is this DOJ - the one that doesn’t even have a pending indictment vs Hunter B (do ppl realize this? The failed plea bargain was on charges DOJ has not yet even filed & may never file) - decided the *Saturday* b/4 Devon Archer’s congressional testimony about Hunter & Joe that now would be a great time to tell the court that Archer needs to report to prison on his earlier conviction ASAP. Looks like it won’t happen b/4 Mon, but they clearly felt the need to make clear - just in time for his testimony- that he’ll be in prison very soon.

 

 

 

 

[Hedge]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Either Archer is there or else heroic Republicans will pretend to do something.

[Cinga]

6 hours ago, Hedge said:

Either Archer is there or else heroic Republicans will pretend to do something

 

Yeah, when I saw Roy ask if the would use the power of the purse 9/31 I was like WTF? Why wait for a new budget DEFUND NOW!

 

Edit to add.... the more I think about this the more ridiculous it sounds. Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't the judge decide whether a sentence is stayed (delayed) during appeal and not the prosecutor? If so, doesn't that mean the DOJ has also overstepped their authority and separation of powers with the judicial branch too?

Edited July 31, 2023 by Cinga

[Hedge]

 

 

[Deranged Rhino]

Moving those goalposts, like a good little lawfare soldier...