The Biden Family
The Hunter Becomes the Hunted, Well, Not Really
Biden corruption is like one of those Russian nesting dolls, a series of crimes, one within another. Each doll is both a doll in itself and a hiding place for other dolls. The Bidens have created such a complicated web of deceit and deception, not to mention shell companies and transactions, that it becomes hard to understand just what they did wrong. If you look at the Biden crime family holistically and from a high altitude, you’ll get a headache. So I want to talk about one small Biden crime. It’s nothing major, it’s not the lynchpin of the whole criminal enterprise, but if you or I did anything close to this, we’d be in prison.
I think the way to understand the Biden Crime Family is to take the crimes apart, one by one.
With this in mind, I want to talk about one small Biden crime, involving Patrick Ho, a man that Hunter Biden once called the “spy chief of China.” Actually he used an expletive before “spy chief” that starts with an f and ends with a g, but there is no need for me to devolve to Bidenesque grotesqueries. It’s bad enough I have to write about Hunter Biden, I don’t have to mimic his drug-infused speech patterns.
Like all Biden crime reports, this one involves a lot of far-flung people with difficult-to-pronounce names.
We’re going to start with a guy named Vuk Jeremic. Jeremic is a Serbian but he works for the Chinese. This is out in the open; Jeremic isn’t a spy in a trenchcoat. Jeremic got paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the Chinese entity Chinese Energy Company, Ltd., (CEFC) to get them entrée to meet various important world leaders. I know the CEFC acronym doesn’t work in English, but that’s how they’re known. Like all Chinese companies, they have deep but often hidden ties to the Chinese government. China is a communist country, after all, and that means the commies infest every big business.
Jeremic made a living by making important introductions. He was sort of a business-and-political matchmaker. He knew who could benefit whom and he traded on being able to place the right “buyers” with the right “sellers.” In December 2015, Jeremic introduced CEFC chairman Ye Jianming (Mr. Ye) to Hunter Biden. By 2017, Hunter and Mr. Ye were such good friends they had multiple business parternships and were going to share office space in Washington, D.C. Hunter and Mr. Ye had multiple adventures together, none of which are going to play out in this story. We’re going to focus on one story at a time.
One of the key players in CEFC was Patrick Ho, the aforementioned “spy chief of China.” Mr. Ho was busy trying to get his Chinese paws on the natural resources of two nations in Africa, Chad and Uganda. (China is spending like mad to get African interests right now; Africa is rich in resources and willing to deal.) The details of Mr. Ho’s African adventures are not important to the Biden story. Suffice it to say that Patrick Ho was up to no good and the FBI stepped in an arrested him on international bribery charges.
Ho is an interesting man. He’s a Chinese national, born and living mostly in Hong Kong. Educated as an ophthalmologist, he is an eye doctor who works primarily in Chinese intelligence.
Just in case you think that the spy business is like the old Mad Magazine cartoons of Spy v. Spy, allow me to explain how modern espionage works, at least at a very superficial level. Spies are no longer like James Bond, sneaking around and collecting secrets while shooting bad guys and bedding bad girls. Spies today mainly work by trying to find nationals of the country they’re spying on and through persuasion, coercion, camaraderie, and sometimes blackmail, getting those people to gather the desired information and provide it (likely sell it) to the spy. For instance, if Patrick Ho wanted to spy on the United States, he wouldn’t slink around the Pentagon at night. (Ho can’t slink anyway; he’s morbidly obese and looks more like Sydney Greenstreet than James Bond.) He would find an American who had access to the information he wanted and he would finagle a way to get it. The ideal American to find would be one with access to the desired information and a willingness to sell it. In other words, a connected person with no moral compass. Washington, D.C. is full of them.
Most of the time money works swell for this type of thing, but sometimes other means are used, such as blackmail or other forms of coercion. When the deals are made based on cash payments, everybody at least stays friends.
Patrick Ho had been arrested and detained in the United States; he was going to be tried here for international espionage.
Mr. Ho needed an attorney, so he hired Hunter Biden. Here is the letter of engagement. A letter of engagement is the official agreement or contract between a client and his attorney. Click on the link, and you’ll notice under provision 4 that Mr. Ho agreed to pay Hunter $1M for his services, even though Hunter was not much of an attorney. This is not disparaging to Hunter, who graduated Yale Law School; it’s just that he was not an attorney who actually practiced the law by representing clients. I doubt Hunter had ever represented a single client charged with international espionage.
This happened in 2017, and Hunter knew very well who Patrick Ho was. He knew him to be the “spy chief of China.” Hunter agreed to represent him, which made it perfectly legal for him to accept the $1M payment. Legal fees are like the price of paintings; they are what people will pay. There is no objective way to set value. However, $1M seems high to me, particularly because Hunter never represented Ho in court and had no background in espionage.
I do not know what Hunter did for this money, but it sure wasn’t keeping Ho out of jail. Ho got sentenced to three years, and when he was released, he went back to Hong Kong.
According to the book Breaking Biden by Alex Marlowe, Jim Biden also got a cool $1M from Patrick Ho, although it is not clear what for. I cannot find any letter of agreement or contract specifying what Jim Biden was going to do for Ho. Jim Biden is not an attorney; in his past careers he ran a nightclub, sold insurance, and worked as a “political consultant.”
Could Ho afford to pay the Biden boys millions? Absolutely! Ho is a very wealthy man; his portfolio according to CNN is worth over $3B.
The sick thing about this little unholy threesome is that it may be legal. Hunter and Jim Biden do not hold public office, so Patrick Ho is free to shower them with millions of dollars for no reason at all. That’s not a crime. Ho is also free to overpay them; he may be buying legal advice or political advice and he can overpay if he wants to. Mr. Ho might have just been feeling generous and took a shine to the Biden boys. After all, if Ho wanted to send you and me millions of dollars, all we have to do is report it to the IRS and give them half. Giving people money for nothing is not a crime. It almost never happens, but if it ever did, it would not be a crime.
Mr. Ho seems to have gotten off easy. Sentenced in December 2018 to three years for seven counts of bribery and money laundering, he was released in June 2020 (he did about a year and half). Was that because of Hunter’s help? Who knows?
Joe Biden would say it’s news to him—President Biden has repeatedly said he knew nothing about what his family was doing, least of all what Hunter was up to. (Curiously, he also claims his family is very close.) Joe would likely even say he had no idea a Chinese spy had given $1M to his son and another $1M to his brother. They never talked about such things.
(Now if a Chinese spy gave me a ballpoint pen, I’d mention it to my family. And if anybody gave me $1M, it would come up in family conversations.)
CEFC Energy is a big company in China and although it’s allegedly in the energy business, it’s got deep government connections and spies on the payroll. The chairman of this company is a guy named Ye Jianming, and Mr. Ye is one of Hunter’s many business partners.
If Mr. Ye wanted to know U.S. secrets or wanted to influence U.S. policy, he would want to cozy up to a guy like Hunter, which could give him a secure but indirect path to Joe Biden. A direct line of payment to a sitting Vice President looks a little sketchy, even for CEFC and CNN, but a roundabout way makes it legal and obscure. And it’s legal for Mr. Ye and Hunter Biden to be business associates, friends, and colleagues.
So how do we know if Hunter is involved in shady business? Well, Mr. Ye once paid $6M to a company that Hunter was starting, of which $5M was earmarked for James Biden, described as a “loan.” However, there are no loan documents; it was more like a handshake gentleman’s agreement. So we know Mr. Ye funneled at least $6M into Biden pockets that were not Joe’s.
These stories are very convoluted—but now let’s go to a 2013 email found on Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop. It talked about a business agreement between Hunter Biden and an affable American guy named Tony Bobulinski. Bobulinski, a retired Naval officer, has since turned whistleblower, but he was at the time an American businessman doing all kinds of deals in China. I would describe Bobulinski as a clear-talking and unpretentious American with a salesman’s knack for finding opportunity and a deep understanding of Chinese business. Bobulinski was not a shady character, nor was he selling influence; he didn’t have any influence to sell. He was mainly sniffing out business in a very large and largely untapped international market. Until Bobulinski met Hunter Biden, he had minimal ties to politicians, least of all to the Executive Branch of the U.S. federal government. Bobulinski just knew how to get business done in China. And Bobulinski knew a lot of Chinese people eager to meet Americans with political ties, such as Mr. Ye.
Bobulinski helped Hunter work out a deal with Mr. Ye. According to Bobulinski, he knew that what Hunter Biden was selling was the “Biden brand,” whatever that meant. Bobulinski told Congress that the “Biden brand” was Joe Biden himself.
Part of the deal between Hunter and Mr. Ye contains the clause that 10% of money went to Jim Biden, and another 10% went to H (which likes means Hunter) to be held for “the big guy.” The big guy is never named, but Bobulsinki has testified before Congress that it was understood by all concerned to be then-Vice President Joe Biden. Bobulinski had gone on Tucker Carlson (before Carlson was fired from Fox) and siad this; he testified the same before Congress.
Mr. Ye apparently got his money’s worth from the Bidens. In 2017, Mr. Ye gave Hunter Biden a diamond valued at $80,000. Mr. Ye said it was just a gift. You know, the way businessmen always give other businessmen 3-carat diamonds. Proof of this gift is on Hunter’s laptop, but Hunter says it was not a bribe, it was just a little present. My grandmother called them doo-dads, little trinkets.
(It is not clear what happened to the doo-dad diamond. When Hunter divorced his wife Kathleen Buhle, she made a claim on the diamond as part of the divorce settlement. The rock is also part of a tax investigation, since it is not clear if Hunter paid taxes on the diamond. Nor do we know where this mysterious Mr. Ye Diamond is, although at one time it was kept in a safe deposit box that was jointly held by Hunter and the unfortunate first Mrs. Hunter Biden. It is not known who has it or where it is being kept.)
We can’t tell if the money and the diamond were bribes or not because we do not know what Hunter and Jim Biden did for Mr. Ye. All we know is Mr. Ye shelled out $6M, started talking business, and then gave Hunter a valuable diamond. He must have gotten something in return, but what?
Joe Biden has often said that he knew nothing of what was going on. But how was the hapless Hunter with a raging crack addiction and no marketable skills able to waltz into foreign countries and leave with millions of dollars?
Hunter holds a JD, but did he offer legal services of any kind? And would his legal advice to a Chinese energy businessman be worth $1M, considering that Hunter knew nothing about China, the energy business, or anything else relevant. Did Hunter sell state secrets? Did Hunter pass along top-secret documents (we know Hunter had access to lots of them)? Did he backdoor meetings with his father? Did he arrange that his father handle certain China policy issues in a way that Mr. Ye wanted and that was favorable to China? We don’t know, but no products or services are readily disclosed as being sold.
The Bidens control close to two dozen shell companies, but none of them sold a product, offered a service, and had no employees, no websites, no emails, no market presence. Most did not even have a real address, just a PO Box or someone’s home address. They were literally shells of companies. Yet millions of dollars flowed through these companies, sometimes bouncing around like a pinball from Company A to Company B to Company C and back again to Compay B, to be split up with some going to Company D and the rest to Company E. You’d need to take an anti-nausea pill to follow the twists and turns of the Biden cash. And over 150 Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) are tied to the accounts of these companies. A SAR is a federal document automatically issued by a bank when a suspicious transaction—likely indicative of money laundering—is observed. In the real world where honest people live, a SAR is a very, very rare thing. Banks get nervous with clients who have one or two SARs on their record. But the Bidens have upward of 150. As Representative James Comer (R-KY) said, “Those are the most serious bank violations.” Except for an arrest warrant, nothing is more serious. SARs are considered confidential but banks have turned over the Biden collection of SARs to Congress.
Peter Schweizer, in his book Red-Handed about Biden corruption with Chinese businesses, said that in 2014, Hunter Biden was flying with his dad on Air Force 2 to China. Hunter made this same trip more than once. When they arrived in China, Joe went one way, Hunter another, and remember, Joe claimed total ignorance about what Hunter was doing. Hunter went off with his business guys and flew back with his dad. Joe has said vehemently and with violent hand gestures and a snarl on his wrinkly lips that he has never ever once talked ever about business with his son Hunter. For all Joe knew, Hunter was a dentist in Poughkeepsie.
On such trips, both Joe and Hunter Biden were entitled to Secret Service protection details. It’s standard for Vice Presidents and the assumption was that Hunter needed a security detail as well, since he was traveling officially on taxpayer money to a foreign nation. Hunter traveled at taxpayer expense, but Joe—the other guy on the plane—had zero clue what Hunter was doing or why he needed to go to China. How do we know he should have gotten a taxpayer-covered junket?
Curiously, Hunter asked that no Secret Service protection detail be assigned to him whenever he was in China. (Bill Clinton sometimes requested this when he flew on the Lolita Express, although perhaps for different reasons.) The request seemed foolish since Joe and Hunter were apparently on official business funded by taxpayers, but Joe Biden seemed happy to suspend Hunter’s Secret Service team. My impression is that Hunter did not want the Secret Service to see where he was going, who he was talking to, or find out what he was doing.
Over and over, Hunter was able to travel to far-flung places, meet with important people, and get them to pay huge amounts of money in return for nothing of value. Joe Biden was so oblivious to his son’s activity that, in Joe’s own words, he never asked one thing of Hunter, never asked him what he was doing or how he was making a living. He had no idea how Hunter earned his money, how much money he had, or if he even had money.
If Biden noticed his son’s flamboyant lifestyle with expensive cars and Malibu beach houses, Joe just figured that the world showered Hunter with money because he was such a roguishly handsome guy. Remember, Joe never asked, not once. It reminds me of the Dire Straits song, Money for Nothing. Hunter had no particular expertise in Chinese energy or Chinese business etiquette. He didn’t speak the language, didn’t know the culture, and he lacked all business savvy in the complicated world of energy production or energy trading. Plus he was a drug addict who holed up in expensive hotels with multiple women from escort services. Yet people loved him so much, they just threw money at him.
So if we are to believe Joe Biden, he had no idea why Hunter was tagging along with him on his trips to China. Joe may have just assumed that Hunter liked flying on Air Force 2 or he enjoyed going to China so he could get authentic Peking duck while his dad carried on the affairs of state. Again, it is the grandfather of all lies to believe Joe Biden when he said he had no idea what Hunter was cooking up (besides crack).
Even if you’re Barney Fife, you have to admit, these transactions, like the network of Biden shell companies, sure seem a lot like bribery. Patrick Ho got off with a light sentence for international espionage. Did Biden intervene? Ho got 18 months on multiple counts of international espionage and the Bidens got money. There is no other discernible reason that Mr. Ho would have paid large sums to Hunter and Jim Biden.
With Mr. Ye, it’s even more sinister. The Bidens have collected mega-millions from Mr. Ye, and China has gotten all sorts of favorable treatment from the U.S. from Joe Biden. Joe sure seems to like to help the Chinese. Was this what Mr. Ye was buying? Or was he buying state secrets? Joe kept enough of them on his premises to have a few to offer on the open market. I have no proof he did, but I have some suggestive evidence that he could have (motive and opportunity).
So what does Joe Biden do for the Chinese? Joe talks tough on stuff like TikTok, but he’s pretty much giving away the store to China.
China, either directly or through other companies, is buying up U.S. farmland at a rapid pace, particularly agricultural land near military bases. Americans can’t buy Chinese farmland, but we sell to China readily. Attempts to make this illegal all fail.
Remember the spy balloon? Biden let it sail across the United States and get all the data it wanted. He shot it down, but only after China likely got the information they sought.
Biden’s plan for “clean energy” offers more benefits to China than American industry.
Green technologies in China are heavily subsidized—by the United States.
Was COVID a gain-of-function virus leaked from the Wuhan Virology Lab? You would think Biden would push China to find out. He hasn’t done anything of the kind and, in 2023, the White House said that officially, they have no idea if the COVID bug came from the lab or nature. Biden was very critical of how Trump handled the pandemic, yet Biden has zero official interest in how the pandemic started.
When Biden disastrously pulled out of Afghanistan, he left in place and intact Bagram Air Force Base, one of the largest and most advanced military installations in the world. It’s relatively close to China and the current report is that China is training there now and has plans to operate it. (Biden’s Afghan debacle pushed Afghanistan into the arms of China. This is the honeymoon period.) The base allegedly cost $96M (almost $1B) to build and the last expansion of the property cost the US taxpayers $200M. Biden surrendered it and China is now using it. Coincidence?
In 2023, there were 372,000 Chinese nationals on F-1 visas attending American universities. That’s a lot; students from China make up about a third of all international students in the United States. Two thousand Chinese nationals are at Harvard alone. Most of them are interested in our tech programs. Are they studying? Stealing our secrets? Working on making contacts with people who can get them proprietary or confidential scientific secrets? Chinese students favor classes in science, math, research, and engineering rather than art history or music appreciation, so I think they may have their eyes on serious subjects worth stealing rather than just partying for four years in America.
China invests in many, if not most, big Hollywood movies, even ones with no obvious ties to China. The reason is that Chinese people love to go to the movies to the point that it is a huge business there. However, China has never been much of a hub for inventing things or creativity. They’re good at copying what we do, but not developing their own stuff. So why struggle to build up their own film industry when they can just invest and profit from ours—and let us do the creative and technological work for them? China is one day going to own Hollywood, if they don’t already.
China runs camps for Uyghurs, an ethnic minority, and violates their human rights. Among other horrible things, China is involved in organ trafficking from Uyghurs, who are often held in concentration camps. America says nothing and keeps the whole scandal massively under wraps. This is a bigger deal than the Holocaust just in terms of human depravity, and Joe Biden won’t say boo.
China would like to control Taiwan and Joe Biden has more or less said he would do nothing if they seized Taiwan. Who knows what Biden would actually do, but he’s definitely giving off a “don’t care” vibe. The Republic of Taiwan is a small island nation but it produces over 58% of the world’s semiconductors. Technologically, Taiwan is a very powerful little giant. But Biden would let China invade and take over … although he’s intent on defending Ukraine against Russia. That doesn’t make sense unless you realize—China pays Biden so he would go easy on them if they invaded Taiwan. Ukraine pays Biden, so he has to defend them against Russia.
Biden once said in a formal speech that China was not our enemy, they were “good people” and “not going to eat our lunch.” Yet China spies on us, steals our intellectual property, harvests our people’s personal data on TikTok, practices a genocidal form of organ harvesting—and we sit back quietly and listen to Joe Biden praise them for being “good people.”
So it looks to me that China was paying the Bidens for certain favors. It’s a clever crime because the siblings and children of a sitting politician are not culpable for bribery the same way the politician is. Mr. Ho and Mr. Ye never gave Joe Biden any money directly, so Hunter and Jim are in the clear—and we can’t prove a link to Joe Biden except by using common sense. Mr. Ho and Mr. Ye gave money to the President’s ne’er-do-well brother and son for apparently nothing, and we’re supposed to believe Joe Biden never even knew.
Meanwhile, China profits and America loses.