BY JORDAN BOYD | The Federalist
Americans
must ‘seriously consider the implications [of] the Biden family’s vast web of
foreign financial entanglements’ on national security.
Republican Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Sen. Chuck
Grassley of Iowa revealed on Tuesday that Hunter Biden and James Biden were
funneled millions of dollars from companies directly influenced by the Chinese
Communist Party to offer the “spy chief of China” legal representation.
Energy company CEFC, which Johnson and Grassley say is
“effectively an arm of the Chinese government,” paid Hudson West Three, one of
Hunter’s companies, $1 million in November 2017. Five months later, Hunter’s
Hudson West Three transferred $1 million to another Hunter Biden company,
Owasco with a memo detailing the funds were for CEFC vice-chairman and
secretary-general Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping’s “Representation.”
The same month CEFC sent a $1 million wire to Hudson West
Three, Ho was arrested
and charged with using millions of dollars to “bribe top officials of
Chad and Uganda in exchange for business advantages for CEFC.” In 2019, Ho was
convicted and sentenced in the United States to three years in prison for
international bribery and money laundering.
“And guess what Ho did around the same time he was
arrested by the FBI for corruption and bribery. He contacted James Biden,”
Johnson explained from the Senate floor on Tuesday. “Ho’s decision to call the
Biden family around the same time he got arrested is revealing, particularly in
light of the fact that the same month a million dollars just happened to be
transferred to Hunter Biden’s company.”
Audio from Hunter’s abandoned laptop indicates that he
knew Ho as the “spy chief of China who started the company that my partner, who
is worth $323 billion, founded and is now missing.” The “missing” partner is
believed to be Ye Jianming, founder of CEFC China Energy, who was disappeared
and later tried by the communist regime.
“Hunter Biden isn’t a criminal defense attorney,”
Johnson noted. “Patrick Ho was charged and convicted for bribery and related
federal offenses. So what kind of representation was Patrick Ho’s company
paying Hunter Biden’s firm to provide? Were they paying his firm for its
legal expertise, or for Hunter’s political connections?”
Both Grassley and Johnson, who have spent
years investigating the Biden family’s shady overseas dealings, attempted
to uncover more but said the Department of Justice stifled their investigation
by refusing to cooperate. Hunter and James also refused to be “transparent and
forthcoming” when “they declined to speak to us.” He also said “their silence
speaks volumes.”
“Hunter Biden knew exactly who he was dealing
with. He was dealing with the ‘expletive deleted’ spy chief of
China. And that fact should alert the media and our Democrat colleagues to
seriously consider the implications the Biden family’s vast web of foreign
financial entanglements have in the conduct of this administration’s foreign
policy and our national security,” Johnson remarked.
Jordan
Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist
Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire and Fox News.
Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science
and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordangdavidson.
