First brother Jim Biden told Congress last week that Hunter Biden held a previously undisclosed meeting with Patrick Ho, an executive with Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC China Energy - which, weeks earlier, paid Hunter and Jim Biden $5 million as part of a joint venture to find investments for the Chinese firm, the Washington Free Beacon reports.
In a congressional deposition last month, Jim Biden said he accompanied Hunter Biden to Hong Kong in September 2017 to meet with Patrick Ho... ...The Biden family's arrangement with CEFC China Energy has stoked national security concerns because of the Chinese firm's links to Chinese military intelligence.
According to Jim Biden, he and Hunter Biden had a "Pleasant" lunch in Hong Kong with Ho, who also served as head of the China Energy Fund Committee, a think tank funded by CEFC China Energy.
Washington Free Beacon According to Jim Biden, "Ho said, 'Can I borrow Hunter for, you know, a half-hour? We're going to go in the next room.'" CEFC paid Hunter $1 million to represent Ho, however Hunter does not appear to have done any actual legal work on Ho's behalf.
Worming their way in Jim Biden also described how CEFC entered the Biden orbit - telling congressional investigators that the father of one of Hunter's daughter's classmates contacted Biden about working with CEFC. The man, Scott Oh, gave Hunter a diamond ring after approaching Hunter in October 2015 to discuss "Investment opportunities" involving CEFC. Meanwhile, a former Hunter Biden business associate has revealed in a jailhouse confession that the first son sought roughly $5 million from fugitive Ukrainian oligarch Dmitri Firtash in order to try and quash a US indictment while his father Joe Biden was Vice President, Just the News reports.
According to the report, around $300,000 of the $3 million made it into Rosemont Seneca Bohai, one of Hunter Biden's firms - which was also used for payments Hunter received from a second Ukrainian oligarch, Mykola Zlochevsky - president of Burisma Holdings energy firm.
As Just the News reports further, Gelanis told Congressional impeachment investigators: Hunter Biden offered to help Firtash try to "Influence or attempt to quash" his federal indictment; Galanis believed either $5 million or $5.5 million was delivered to Boies, where Hunter worked as a lawyer.
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