A Chinese company paid a Hunter Biden partner millions of dollars shortly after Joe Biden “stopped by” a 2017 lunch meeting involving business associates from China and the U.S., according to newly-released testimony.
Joe Biden briefly attended a 2017 private lunch meeting between Hunter Biden, Rob Walker and other business associates — including those from Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked energy firm CEFC — hosted at the Four Seasons hotel in Washington, D.C., Walker told the House Oversight and Accountability Committee on Jan. 26, according to a transcript of his testimony released Tuesday. A company connected to CEFC wired Walker’s LLC approximately $3 million not long after that meeting occurred, with a portion of those funds subsequently routed to members of the Biden family.
Walker characterized Joe Biden’s attendance as innocuous, brief and coincidental, asserting that no business matters were discussed in his presence, according to the transcript of his testimony. CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming, who has since disappeared, was at the lunch meeting, Walker said.
Once the CEFC-connected firm paid Walker the $3 million, he subsequently routed slightly more than $1 million to another business partner in a single transaction, he testified. However, Hunter Biden requested that Walker send him his cut of the payment in smaller installments, Walker said.
The meeting was meant to help Hunter Biden and his associates “[discuss] ways we could work together” with the Chinese businessmen because there was not yet a “structured deal” between the two sides, Walker testified. Hunter Biden had initiated his business relationship with CEFC while Joe Biden was still the vice president under former President Barack Obama, according to Walker’s testimony.
Early in 2016, Walker, Hunter Biden and another business associate collectively decided that it would be best to write to CEFC Director Jian Jun Zang about potential deals using Hunter Biden’s letterhead because doing so “would probably make more sense,” Walker testified.In his opening statement, Walker asserted that he believes the serious allegations that Hunter and Joe Biden were involved in a massive influence-peddling scheme to be “unfounded.”
Tony Bobulinski, another former Hunter Biden business partner, expressed a much less forgiving view of the Biden family’s business interests in the opening statement he provided to lawmakers as he testified behind closed doors in Washington on Tuesday.
“The Chinese Communist Party through its surrogate, China Energy Company Limited, or ‘CEFC’ – a CCP-linked Chinese energy conglomerate – successfully sought to infiltrate and compromise Joe Biden and the Obama-Biden White House,” Bobulinski told lawmakers, according to a transcript of his opening statement. “Joe Biden was more than a participant in and beneficiary of his family’s business; he was an enabler, despite being buffered by a complex scheme to maintain plausible deniability.”“Joe Biden was aware of the CEFC transaction, enabled it and had a constitutional responsibility and obligation to the American people to shut it down before it began,” he said.
The White House and the Biden campaign did not respond immediately to requests for comment.
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Hunter Biden Partner Says Joe Biden Met With Chief of Chinese Energy Firm
A former business partner of Hunter Biden said that President Joe Biden met with the chief of a CCP-linked Chinese energy company in 2017.
Rob Walker, former business partner of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, testified in Congress that the elder Biden met with the chief of a Chinese energy firm linked to the ruling communist party in 2017.
According to the newly-released transcript, Mr. Walker testified that, after the elder Biden met with the chief of the Chinese energy conglomerate(CEFC) and about 10 others, an affiliated firm wired $3 million to Robinson Walker LLC, a company Mr. Walker controlled.
When Mr. Walker testified in January, the chairman of the GOP-led House Oversight Committee, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), said the testimony served as proof that “the Bidens sold the ‘Biden Brand’ to enrich the Biden family.”
In his testimony, Mr. Walker insisted that he only ever did “legitimate business” with Mr. Biden and that President Biden “was never involved in any business activities we pursued.”
The White House said that Mr. Walker’s testimony had refuted Republican claims that President Biden was involved in his son’s business dealings.
The release of the transcript comes on the same day that Tony Bobulinski, another former business associate of Mr. Biden, is set to testify behind closed doors at the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees.
Joe Biden Meets Chinese Company Chief
According to his transcribed testimony, Mr. Walker testified that President Biden met with Ye Jianming, chairman of the China Energy Company Limited (CEFC), a Chinese energy conglomerate with links to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), in 2017.While Mr. Walker struggled to recall the exact date and time of the meeting, he said it took place in 2017, after then-Vice President Biden’s term in office had ended.
“I don’t remember the exact time, but I remember being in Washington, D.C., and the former vice president stopped by. We were having lunch,” he said, according to the transcript.
Mr. Walker said the meeting took place “at the Four Seasons in a restaurant in a private room,” and that he was sure the CEFC chief was there, along with 10 or so CEFC-affiliated individuals.
“I’m certain—I’m certain Ye was there,” Mr. Walker said of the CEFC chief, adding that the aim of the meeting was to explore “ways we could work together.”
President Joe Biden (L) and his son Hunter Biden exit Holy Spirit Catholic Church after attending mass in Johns Island, S.C., on Aug. 13, 2022. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images)He said the meeting lasted about an hour and a half, with the elder Biden attending briefly.
“The former vice president was not there the entire time. He was there maybe 10 minutes,” Mr. Walker said. “He spoke nice, you know, normal pleasantries. I think he probably did most of the talking.”
Mr. Walker testified that the elder Biden talked to the entire group for about 10 minutes and then left.
After that meeting, a CEFC-linked entity called State Energy HK Limited wired $3 million to Robinson Walker LLC, a company controlled by Mr. Walker, according to his testimony.
‘Interesting Last Name’
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) was present at Mr. Walker’s testimony.“Only time Joe Biden shows up in a meeting, he gives a 10-minute presentation to the entire group, and a few days later, you get $3 million?” Mr. Jordan asked.
Mr. Walker confirmed that this was the case, although James Gillar, a business partner of Mr. Biden’s, had been in discussions with CEFC since about 2015.
He added that he viewed the fact that the $3 million wire took place shortly after the meeting as a “coincidence,” insisting the meeting was “more about how we’re going to work together in the future but it had nothing to do” with the $3 million.
“Hunter made sure there was always a clear boundary between any business and his father,” Mr. Walker said. “As his partner, I always understood and respected that boundary.”
Still, Mr. Walker said that Mr. Biden had an “interesting last name” that would open doors to business deals, reinforcing the view expressed by Mr. Comer and other Republicans that members of the Biden family may have leveraged their relationship to President Biden for personal gain.
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Who is CEFC?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEFC_China_Energy
CEFC China Energy (Chinese: 中国华信能源) was a Chinese conglomerate. The company was among the 10 largest private companies in China in 2014.[4] In 2017, the company was listed as 222 on the Fortune Global 500.[5] In March 2020, the company—along with its subsidiaries CEFC Shanghai International and CEFC Hainan International—was declared bankrupt.[1] The company used a complex web of affiliated companies to facilitate fake deals, inflate trade figures, and obtain bank loans to fuel its aggressive expansion.[6]
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