Robert Hunter Biden (Hunter Biden) and James Biden sold access to then Vice President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., (Joe Biden) while he was in office from 2009 to 2017 and sold promised access to a future Biden Presidential Administration while he was out of office from 2017 to 2021. Hunter and James Biden appear to have promised official actions by Joe Biden in return for payments and business opportunities from foreign and domestic business partners. Joe Biden assisted by making appearances, phone calls, meeting with the business partners, and knowingly allowing his family members to promise access to him and actions by him in furtherance of these schemes.
These acts are abuses of power as well as the following Federal crimes or conspiracy to commit the following Federal crimes: Bribery of Public Officials,
18 U.S.C. 201; Hobbs Act Extortion “Under Color of Official Right,”
18 U.S.C. 1951; Honest Services Fraud relating to use of official position,
18 U.S.C. 1346.
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According to reports released by the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight and Accountability Committee (Oversight Committee) James Biden promised access to a future Biden Administration and “the highest levels of government” and that his brother Joe Biden had been made aware of his business dealings, which would be made profitable when it could become part of the Biden platform. James Biden would often explain over the phone that Joe Biden was in the room with him, and James Biden had been explaining the deal to him.
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Also, according to reports released by the Oversight Committee, Hunter Biden, James Biden, Hallie Biden, and an unknown “Biden” and their companies collectively received $1.3 million in payments from accounts related to Rob Walker, a Biden family associate. On March 1, 2017, less than two months after Vice President Joe Biden left public office, State Energy HK Limited, a Chinese company, wired $3 million to Rob Walker’s company. The next day, the company wired $1,065,000 to a company associated with James Gilliar, another Biden family associate. Afterwards, the Biden family received approximately $1,065,000 in payments over a 3-month period in different bank accounts. From the bank records, it appears that the Biden family received approximately one-third of the money obtained from wires from China.
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Previously, in a 2011 email, Hunter Biden described his value to Chinese investors as “everything to do with my last name”. In another correspondence with Chinese investors, Hunter said “we should be able to achieve a great deal. Just give me my marching orders”.
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In 2014 Russian oligarch Elena Baturina paid a company connected to Hunter Biden over $3 million. Also in 2014, Elena Baturina attended a dinner with Hunter Biden and Joe Biden in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC. Notably, Elana Baturina, one of Russia’s wealthiest individuals, has not been included in the Treasury Department sanctions against many of Russia’s other wealthiest people.
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Additionally, the Biden family received improper payments from Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Hunter Biden received millions of dollars in payments from Burisma from serving on its board. These payments were made entirely based on Hunter Biden’s connections to Joe Biden and promised access to Joe Biden.
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In 2015, then Vice President Joe Biden attended a dinner in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC, with Burisma executives and Hunter Biden. At the time, Hunter was receiving over $80,000 a month from Burisma based on no other reason than access to his father.
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Several officials in the Obama Administration specifically flagged these payments from Burisma to Hunter Biden as corrupt. In early 2015, the former Acting Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, George Kent, raised concerns to officials in Vice President Joe Biden’s office about the perception of a conflict of interest with respect to Hunter Biden’s role on Burisma’s board. In October 2015, senior State Department official Amos Hochstein raised concerns with Vice President Biden, as well as with Hunter Biden, that Hunter Biden’s position on Burisma’s board enabled Russian disinformation efforts and risked undermining U.S. policy in Ukraine.
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In an August 2023 interview, Devon Archer, a business partner of Hunter Biden, said claims that Joe Biden was not involved in Hunter’s business deals with foreign partners were false.
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In testimony before Congress, Devon Archer admitted that Burisma would have likely gone out of business had it not been for the Biden brand being attached to it. He also testified that Biden was routinely put on conference calls with Hunter Biden’s foreign associates to “sell the brand”.