Witnesses, emails suggest funds paid to Hunter Biden in 2017 from CEFC China Energy was for work done much earlier.
Congress has assembled a growing body of evidence that Hunter Biden’s dealings with a Chinese energy company that landed the family millions of dollars in 2017 actually began in 2015 and may have involved a meeting with his father before he left office as vice president, according to documents reviewed by Just the News.
The new evidence includes statements made to the FBI by a longtime Biden family friend who was involved in the deal with CEFC China Energy executives like its Chairman Ye Jianming, contemporaneous emails from Hunter Biden and testimony recently released from two IRS whistleblowers.
Those whistleblowers alleged they were kept from investigating evidence that payments from China to the Biden family that began in March 2017 may actually have been deferred from work done while Joe Biden was still vice president.
“The significance of the March 2017 was that they withheld payment from that Chinese company until then-Vice President Biden was no longer in office,” whistleblower Gary Shapley told the House Ways and Means Committee in testimony released a few days ago.
The revelations are taking on greater significance in the House impeachment inquiry after the release of a report from money laundering investigators monitoring Hunter Biden’s bank accounts. The bank investigators warned that payments from the CEFC deal bore resemblance to Chinese influence operations, according to an email made public recently by Congress.
File: Bank Email.pdf
The head of the House impeachment inquiry said Thursday night that congressional investigators are probing whether the Chinese payments were delayed to the Biden family avoid legal, intelligence and political scrutiny about why. sitting vice president’s family was getting money from sources inside a communist country.
“I mean, they knew you weren’t supposed to be negotiating with the Chinese while you’re sitting in the vice presidency. I mean, that’s a given,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer told the “Just the News, No Noise” TV show.
By Steven Richards and John Solomon
