By Eireann Van Natta
The Biden family has been embroiled in scandals and foreign entanglements since at least 2014 — the first year of Hunter Biden’s pardon.
Hunter Biden’s latest charges include tax fraud and felony gun violations. He pleaded guilty in September to three felonies and six misdemeanors after failing to pay over $1.4 million in taxes from 2016 to 2019. He also pleaded guilty on charges of falsifying tax paperwork and, prior to his pardon, he was facing up to 17 years in prison.
Biden initially pleaded guilty in 2023 but changed his plea to not guilty after the judge overseeing the case rejected the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Biden legal team’s plea deal.
In addition to tax fraud, a Delaware jury in June convicted Biden of three felony gun charges. He bought a Colt Cobra revolver in October 2018 and was allegedly addicted to drugs while he possessed the firearm. He was also convicted of making false statements on the background check form required to purchase the gun.
Biden is right about one thing. Hunter was singled out….for special treatment where it took national scandal to drag the DOJ to action
If anyone of us willfully and so flagrantly didn’t pay million dollars in taxes/violate federal gun laws we would be locked up immediately
— Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) December 2, 2024
The tax fraud and felony gun charges are the latest in a string of alleged crimes and corruption surrounding the Biden family.
The Bidens’ foreign dealings drew scrutiny after the New York Post’s bombshell report on Hunter Biden’s laptop. A former Burisma executive emailed Hunter Biden in 2015 about an introduction to then-Vice President Joe Biden. (RELATED: State Department Official Said He Raised Converns Over Burisma Corruption In 2016)
Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas company, in 2014. Devon Archer, another former board member, told Congress that Burisma was protected by the Biden family “brand.”
Hunter Biden was initially a counsel at the company but upon meeting Burisma’s owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, he was swiftly promoted to the board of directors, according to a timeline from the House Committee on Oversight.
Zlochevsky is the Ukrainian oligarch who reportedly called Joe Biden the “big guy,” according to an FBI file. Zlochevsky allegedly had conversations with Joe and Hunter Biden about $5 million bribes, the Washington Examiner originally reported. Hunter Biden and his business associates tried to get Zlochevsky a U.S. visa soon after Hunter became a board member, according to emails from his laptop.
Special counsel Robert Hur’s team alleged in February that Joe Biden kept classified information on the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy as a private citizen. One of the documents was a transcript from a 2015 phone call between Biden and then-Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Hur’s report found.
Burisma was paying Hunter Biden over $80,000 a month for his position on the board during the 2014-15 tax years, bank records show.
If anyone wants to know what Joe, Hunter, and the Biden Crime Family were up to from 2014 to 2024… 👇https://t.co/Toy2WMHWbt pic.twitter.com/QuQvjBaHKK
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) December 2, 2024
Ukraine is not the only foreign nation with financial ties to the Biden family — they also received money from Russia, China, Kazakhstan and Romania.
Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina wired $3.5 million to Rosemont Seneca Thorton in 2014 and $750,000 to Devon Archer. The rest was placed into Rosemont Seneca Bohai, an entity Biden and Archer shared equally, the House Oversight Committee found.
Baturina met with Hunter Biden, Devon Archer and then-Vice President Biden at a Washington, D.C., restaurant in the spring of 2014.
Rosemont Seneca Partners is Hunter Biden’s investment firm. A Spanish rail company hired the firm to lobby Amtrak and the Department of Transportation (DOT) for government contracts, emails on his laptop revealed in 2023. (RELATED: Sen Kennedy Presses FBI Director To Admit Hunter Biden’s Laptop Content Is Real)
A Kazakhstani oligarch wired $142,300 to one of the Rosemont Seneca entities through his Singaporean company, Novatus Holdings, according to the House Oversight Committee.
“Nobody is above the law” –@JoeBiden pic.twitter.com/mvgiDGuwav
— FreedomToons (@Freedom_Toons) December 2, 2024
The following day, on April 23, 2014, the Rosemont Seneca entity sent the same amount of money to a car dealership for a vehicle for Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden and Devon Archer represented Burisma in 2014 and tried to broker a deal between Burisma, a Chinese state-owned energy company and the Kazakhstani government, according to the Oversight Committee.
The Biden family and their associates received over $3 million from Romania and over $8 million from China, according to the Oversight Committee. The DOJ alleged that Romanian businessman Gabriel Popviciu (G.P.) paid Hunter Biden to “influence” U.S. policy. Hunter Biden made an “oral agreement” in the fall of 2015 to apparently assist G.P. “contest bribery charges he was facing in Romania,” according to the DOJ.
Nearly two months after Biden left the White House in 2017, Chinese company State Energy HK Limited wired $3 million to the account of a Biden associate, according to the Oversight Committee. It was the same account that Popviciu deposited money in, the committee added. (RELATED: Hemingway: The Media Is Mostly Ignoring That Biden’s Brother Is Also Involved In Scandal)
Do you know why Biden picked 2014 as the first year of Hunter’s pardon?
That’s when he was appointed director of Ukraine’s Burisma, starting a sequence of events that almost ended in World War 3. And so we go full circle. pic.twitter.com/6CchwEjxtz
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) December 2, 2024
Additionally, Hunter Biden’s former business associate Rob Walker testified that the Chinese firm CEFC wired him $3 million as a “thank you” for work completed when Joe Biden was vice president. The CEO of CEFC also gifted Hunter Biden a 2.8-carat diamond, according to a profile in The New Yorker.
Testimony from a former business associate alleged that CEFEC also paid money to Hunter Biden’s brother, James Biden, for energy deals. Former CEFC associate Mervyn Yan told the Oversight and Judiciary Committee in January the brothers received thousands of dollars per month.
Joe Biden falsely claimed he did not discuss business with Hunter, denied that his son earned money from China and dismissed the contents of his laptop as “Russian disinformation,” the House Oversight Committee found. Biden said Sunday that his son was selectively targeted while announcing Hunter’s pardon.
“No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son — and that is wrong,” Biden said.
The House Oversight Committee sent criminal referrals to the DOJ in June and recommended the Biden brothers face charges for telling Congress false statements about the impeachment inquiry of President Biden.
