New Hunter Biden revelations raise counterintelligence questions

[Hobby]

Patrick Ho hardly seemed the profile of a big-time international fixer. A short, pudgy man, affectionately known to friends as "Fat Ping," Ho had been a Harvard-trained ophthalmologist and a Hong Kong government minister. Yet in the fall of 2017, after landing at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City, he was arrested by FBI agents and charged in an audacious plot to dole out millions of dollars in bribes to African leaders in exchange for major energy contracts that appeared to advance Chinese government interests.

What emerged in his indictment and later trial and conviction in federal court was a revealing portrait of Chinese influence peddling that included allegations that Ho arranged to broker arms deals — including the sale of rocket and grenade launchers — to countries in war zones in Africa and the Middle East.

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https://news.yahoo.com/new-hunter-biden-revelations-raise-counter-intelligence-questions-090046438.html

[kidinacandystore]

This rabbit hole runs deep.  I'll be surprised if anything ever comes of this in terms of any prosecutions.  The US Royal Elite look after their own no matter what the initial is after their name...

Term limits...get these idiots out of office and lock the door when their term is over...not even dog catcher and my apologies to the dog catchers out there.

[Hobby]

There was one noteworthy detail, however, about Ho's global wheeling and dealing that went unmentioned in federal court documents or Justice Department press releases at the time. During the same period that he was being pursued by the FBI for his role in the global bribery scheme, Ho and his boss, Ye Jianming, a billionaire oil tycoon with past ties to a front for the People's Liberation Army, had entered into a business relationship with two members of the Biden family — President Biden's son Hunter Biden and the president's brother, James Biden.

As Yahoo News first reported, when Ho was arrested by agents at JFK, the first call he made was to James Biden. (The president's brother later told the New York Times that he believed the call was intended for his nephew Hunter.) At the time, Ho's connection to the Bidens was unclear. But emails on a damaged laptop that Hunter Biden left at a computer repair store in Wilmington, Del. — many of which have since been authenticated by the Washington Post and the Times — as well as bank records and other documents uncovered by Senate Republican investigators, reveal a high-dollar money trail that flowed from Chinese interests to Hunter and James Biden and which now appears to be at the heart of an ongoing Justice Department criminal investigation. (George Mesires, a lawyer for both Hunter and James Biden, did not respond to requests for comment from Yahoo News. A lawyer for Ho declined to comment.)

[HighStepper]

I'm with kidinacandystore about term limits for members of Congress.
Maybe they would do their job of holding presidents accountable for ethics violations, rather than just going with the party line.

Even the right wing New York Post is headlining Trumps son-in-law Jared Kushner gets $2B Saudi investment, drawing Hunter Biden comparisons. Link

[Hobby]

I'm with kidinacandystore about term limits for members of Congress.
Maybe they would do their job of holding presidents accountable for ethics violations, rather than just going with the party line.

Even the right wing New York Post is headlining Trumps son-in-law Jared Kushner gets $2B Saudi investment, drawing Hunter Biden comparisons. Link

Big difference here. One is the son-in-law of a crook while the other is just a crook!

[HighStepper]

The overarching problem is corruption coming from people trading off their relationship to a famous politician. Trump, Biden, Justice Thomas, and other Congressional members. Connected lobbyists.

This happens a lot with the relatives of famous people. However, when it is people in the entertainment, sports industry it is a part of life. It really stinks when it is people that have been given a public trust as elected and appointed officials in government.

People can't control what their relatives do. Or control the actions of influence seekers who hope to gain an advantage. However, there needs to be strict rules with consequences for behavior that is aiding and abetting.