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olivertapia. Washington (CNN) — Una investigación del Departamento de Justicia sobre las actividades comerciales de Hunter Biden ha cobrado fuerza en los ...

Barr, preocupado por la credibilidad de Giuliani y tratando de evitar que se manche lo que consideraba una investigación legítima de Hunter Biden, ordenó que los documentos se entregaran a los fiscales en Pittsburgh, según personas informadas sobre el asunto. Su abogado le dijo a CNBC que testificó en febrero ante el gran jurado en Delaware como parte de la investigación y entregó los registros financieros de Hunter Biden que tenía. Se le preguntó a Archer sobre la estructura de los pagos que Burisma hizo a una entidad fundada por Biden y otros socios, que parecían estar relacionados con los impuestos de Biden, dice la fuente. Biden describió en entrevistas con los medios el año pasado que era adicto a las drogas, lo que planteó la posibilidad de que violó la ley federal cuando compró el arma de fuego. También se le preguntó sobre los esfuerzos de cabildeo que involucran a Blue Star Strategies, dijo la fuente. Eso se superpone en parte con un período durante el cual su padre fue vicepresidente y resultó elegido por el entonces presidente Barack Obama para manejar los asuntos de Ucrania. La superposición generó preocupaciones sobre un conflicto de intereses entre algunos funcionarios de la administración Obama en ese momento. En el último año, un gran jurado en Delaware emitió citaciones y los fiscales recopilaron información sobre Blue Star Strategies, así como sobre Hunter Biden, dijeron cuatro personas informadas sobre el asunto. Pero los críticos señalaron que las ventas de arte y el anonimato de los compradores han despertado durante mucho tiempo preocupaciones sobre el lavado de dinero. Hunter Biden ha discutido públicamente sus propias luchas contra el abuso de sustancias, y algunos funcionarios de Justicia han debatido si sus discusiones abiertas sobre su consumo de drogas en el pasado podrían debilitar su caso en el supuesto de que presenten uno. Pero la investigación en curso ha planteado preguntas persistentes sobre la ética y el comportamiento del hijo del presidente y ha alimentado los ataques políticos de derecha. En 2020, el abogado personal de Trump, Rudy Giuliani, ayudó a orquestar noticias centradas en una computadora portátil que supuestamente pertenecía a Hunter Biden y que supuestamente incluía sus documentos comerciales y otros materiales potencialmente delicados. La investigación, dirigida por el fiscal federal en Wilmington, Delaware, comenzó en 2018 y se refiere a múltiples actividades financieras y comerciales en países extranjeros que datan de cuando el padre de Biden era vicepresidente.

Amid widespread criticism of his praise for Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump publicly called on the Russian leader to release any dirt he may have on Hunter ...

Putin’s heinous attack on a proud and sovereign nation shocks the conscience of every person of goodwill.” Trump reiterated his push for info on Biden in a statement Wednesday afternoon. Oh, that’s wonderful,” Trump told a conservative podcaster the week of Russia's invasion. I think he should release it,” Trump said. Trump later pressured the Ukrainian government to dig up dirt on Hunter Biden and his father, President Joe Biden, who was then seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, leading to the former president's first impeachment. Amid widespread criticism of his praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin, former President Donald Trump publicly called on Putin on Tuesday to release any dirt he might have on Hunter Biden, the president’s son.

Washington — Former President Donald Trump pushed Russian President Vladimir Putin to release information about Hunter Biden, President Biden's son and his ...

Most notably, ahead of the 2020 presidential election, Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to open an investigation into Mr. Biden and his son in exchange for critical military aid. She gave them $3.5 million," Trump said in the interview from his South Florida property, Mar-a-Lago. "So, now I would think Putin would know the answer to that. I think we should know that answer." The former president's actions regarding the withholding of the assistance led to his impeachment by the House on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Trump was acquitted by the Senate on both impeachment charges. I think he should release it. Trump made the remark in an interview with the "Just the News" television show on Real America's Voice, during which he cited a 2020 report from Republicans on two Senate panels that investigated allegations of corruption against Mr. Biden and Hunter Biden's business dealings in Ukraine.

The Post cited the laptop in a new, lengthy report about Hunter Biden's business ties to a Chinese company.

Take a step back, and the Russian interference of 2016 holds valuable lessons on what to do and what not to do in 2020: We must treat the Hunter Biden leaks as if they were a foreign intelligence operation — even if they probably aren’t." In most corners of the universe, though, the response was a bit different: Tony Who-now?" Bump wrote in his "analysis" piece. The Post went on to note "intelligence experts" had expressed skepticism about it and that it was part of a "carefully planned information operation designed to affect an American election." "The Post review draws in part on an analysis of a copy said to be of the hard drive of a laptop computer that Hunter Biden purportedly dropped off at a Delaware repair shop and never came to collect. "A close look at the evidence shows that neither Biden nor Trump have the facts on their side for now. And how should the nation handle this leak and potential foreign interference at a critical time?" "In some corners of the universe, it was a bombshell. It said that any outrage toward the Hunter Biden scandal was coming from the political right. Bobulinski came forward to corroborate emails he was involved in and claimed he had met with Joe Biden pertaining to business dealings. That week, Politico published a piece headlined "Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say." It went on to claim the story "did not markedly advance what is already known about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings, other than to suggest that at one point he gave Vadym Pozharskyi, a Ukrainian business colleague, ‘an opportunity’ to meet his father. "President Trump’s personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani and his former top adviser Stephen K. Bannon, who have attracted the scrutiny of U.S. authorities for their political dealings in recent months, helped make public private materials purported to belong to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s son in an attempt to swing support to the struggling incumbent," the Post wrote.

A top legal analyst at CNN said it is possible President Biden's son Hunter Biden could be indicted by the U.S. government following an investigation into ...

"There is a realistic chance this could result in federal charges," Honig said. "This is a very real, very substantial investigation of potentially serious federal crimes," Elie Honig said Wednesday morning on the network. "Why did the mayor of Moscow’s wife give the Bidens, both of them, $3.5 million dollars?

(The Hill) - The former president was referencing a controversial 2020 Senate GOP report on President Biden and Hunter Biden, which resulted in little proof ...

The Washington Post did not find evidence that Joe Biden personally benefited from or knew details about the transactions with CEFC, which took place after ...

Hunter Biden continued to battle addiction issues that created strains within his family, and his father began paying some of his bills. Hunter Biden began exchanging hostile messages with remaining executives, including Dong and Mervyn Yan. The two had questioned several of Hunter Biden’s business expenses, asking for receipts to back up the charges. By March 2018, Hunter Biden’s uncle was seeking access to the $1 million retainer that he was owed for the Ho representation. But the bank records obtained by Grassley show $1 million was eventually deposited into an account associated with Hunter Biden, with a note describing the payment as “representation” of Ho. During the time the CEFC was active, funds were being transferred from Hunter Biden to his uncle, records show. Hunter Biden told the New Yorker that he agreed to represent Ho and to try to figure out if he was under scrutiny by law enforcement. During that time period, about $1.4 million was transferred from Hunter’s account to Lion Hall Group, the consulting firm that James Biden ran, according to other government records reviewed by The Post. A signed copy was included with bank records provided to Grassley and reviewed by The Post. Under the 26-page agreement, they agreed to jointly pursue investments under a company named Hudson West III LLC. The laptop was turned over to the FBI in December 2019, according to documents reviewed by The Post, and a copy of the drive was obtained by Rudy Giuliani and other advisers to then-President Donald Trump a few months before the 2020 election. Hunter Biden and his attorney did not respond to numerous messages left over the past week. Ye’s official biography said he was once deputy secretary of the China Association for International Friendly Contact, an organization that a 2011 U.S. congressional report called “a front” for the People’s Liberation Army. The Bidens were reeling from the May 2015 death of Hunter’s older brother, Beau, and Hunter was struggling with drug use.

The examination confirmed that nearly 22000 emails carried cryptographic signs attesting to their validity. But the data had been so mishandled over the ...

One such email was widely described as referring to Joe Biden as “the big guy” and suggesting the elder Biden would receive a cut of a business deal. In a small number of cases, The Post was able to establish the veracity of some of these files, such as bank documents, by obtaining copies from other sources. Soon after that period of inactivity — and months after the laptop itself had been taken into FBI custody — three new folders were created on the drive. Williams verified a larger number of emails, nearly 22,000 in total — which included almost all of the ones Green had verified — after overcoming that problem by using software to correct alterations in the files. Maxey had alerted The Washington Post to this issue in advance, saying that others had accessed the data to examine its contents and make copies of files. He said the most common problems resulted from alterations caused when the MacBook’s mail-handling software downloaded files with attachments in a way that made cryptographic verification of those messages difficult. But he and Green agreed that sophisticated hackers could have altered the drive’s contents, including timestamps, in a way difficult and perhaps impossible to detect through forensic examination alone. The Post was able in some instances to find documents from other sources that matched content on the laptop that the experts were not able to assess. Hackers sometimes create fake email accounts or gain access to authentic ones as part of disinformation campaigns — a possibility that cannot be ruled out with regard to the email files on Hunter Biden’s laptop. The security experts who examined the data for The Post struggled to reach definitive conclusions about the contents as a whole, including whether all of it originated from a single computer or could have been assembled from files from multiple computers and put on the portable drive. In June 2021, Maxey, who previously worked as a researcher for Bannon’s “War Room” podcast, delivered to The Washington Post a portable hard drive that he said contained the data. The drive also includes some verified emails from Hunter Biden’s work with Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company for which he was a board member.

Sen. Johnson on Senate Floor: Hunter and James Biden Paid Millions by Now-Convicted “Spy Chief of China”. WASHINGTON—On Tuesday, U.S. Sen.

“So, the company that Patrick Ho was making bribes for sends one million dollars to a company Hunter Biden manages and is invested in. Senator Grassley and I will continue to investigate the Biden family’s foreign financial entanglements and provide the American people with the truth to the best of our abilities. “In October 2020, Senator Grassley and I requested to interview Hunter and James Biden about their financial dealings. Keep in mind that this arrest occurred in the same month that Patrick Ho’s company, CEFC, is wiring one million dollars to Hunter Biden’s company, Hudson West Three. “Our challenge is that the deep state does not give up its secrets easily. As the Bidens, our Democrat colleagues, and the media is learning, it is difficult to keep them hidden forever. The bank record clearly states the one million dollar payment was being made for the purpose of representing Patrick Ho. “As my colleague, the senior Senator from Iowa, has shown, Hunter Biden and James Biden received millions of dollars from companies connected to the communist Chinese regime. “This quote alone tells you that Hunter Biden knew exactly who he was dealing with. OBI is an abbreviation for Originating Beneficiary Information. In this case, the OBI indicates the transfer is being made for [QUOTE] Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping Representation [UNQOUTE]. WASHINGTON—On Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) joined U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on the Senate floor for the second day to discuss their investigation into Biden Inc. and the criminal behavior of Biden family associates. “Again, this is a record from Hudson West Three’s bank account.

Investigators have examined whether Hunter Biden and some of his associates violated money laundering, tax and foreign lobbying laws, as well as firearm and ...

Barr — concerned about Giuliani's credibility and trying to keep what he viewed as a legitimate investigation of Hunter Biden from being tainted — directed that the documents be handed over to prosecutors in Pittsburgh, according to people briefed on the matter. Her attorney told CNBC that she testified in February to the grand jury in Delaware as part of the investigation and turned over Hunter Biden's financial records she had. In the past year, a grand jury in Delaware has issued subpoenas and prosecutors have gathered information about Blue Star Strategies, as well as about Hunter Biden, four people briefed on the matter said. Also last year, investigators pursued information from former business contacts of Hunter Biden. His longtime associate and Burisma co-board member Devon Archer went before the Delaware grand jury in July, according to a person familiar with the matter. He served on the board of Burisma, paid as much as $50,000 a month, from 2014 to 2019, according to a Republican-led Senate report on Hunter Biden's business activities released in 2020. Investigators have at various times inquired about multiple facets of Hunter Biden's life — initially focusing on tax issues and money transfers related to business activities in China, according to multiple people familiar with the probe. Hunter Biden described in media interviews last year that he was addicted to drugs, which raised the possibility he broke federal law when he bought the firearm. Hunter Biden's involvement in Ukraine has been a major source of his legal and political issues. Others have countered that Hunter Biden's own public accounts of his recovery show he was fully responsible for actions now under scrutiny, according to the person briefed on the matter. In 2020, Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, helped orchestrate news stories centered on a laptop purported to belong to Hunter Biden and said to include his business documents and other potentially salacious materials. Joe Biden is not being investigated as part of the probe of his son's business activities, according to sources who have been briefed. In 2019, then-President Donald Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate the Bidens over Hunter Biden's work for Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, eventually leading to Trump's first impeachment.

The ex-president has been accused of illegally soliciting something of value from a foreign national by asking Putin for information on Joe Biden's son.

I can imagine Trump saying he was just kidding or he was just making a political point by engaging in First Amendment protected speech," McQuade said. All the same tricks Trump has used before to shield his abhorrent conduct from criminal prosecution." "Not every instance of misconduct, even horrible misconduct like this, is criminal. Now, he's soliciting help from a war criminal," Stengel tweeted. So now I would think Putin would know the answer to that. I think we should know that answer."

A federal investigation into the President's son is gaining steam, there are new details about his foreign business dealings, and he is again the subject of ...

Hunter Biden did not comment to the Post on the emails from the laptop. Perez and Polantz report Biden has told associates he paid outstanding tax bills. Included in the Post report are emails between Hunter Biden and Chinese businessmen. Hunter Biden's business dealings have long been a line of political attack for Republicans, often spearheaded by Rudy Giuliani on behalf of Trump. They sought to sully President Biden with the taint of his son's foreign business dealings and personal problems. Read the full report reports on financial documents from the mysterious laptop that tie Biden to a Chinese company (with links to the Chinese

The mother of Hunter Biden's love child has finally broken her silence -- to disavow her lawyer's prediction that President Biden's scandal-scarred son will ...

“Where have they been? Walker also said he “can’t comment” on any of the emails contained on the infamous Hunter Biden laptop that was abandoned at a Delaware repair shop in April 2019 and never retrieved, then seized by the FBI the following December. We’re not coordinating. “I’m a part of it, so I’m not going to — I can’t comment,” Walker told The Post. About a month after his father’s election in 2020, Hunter Biden released a statement saying that he’d just learned that the Delaware US Attorney’s Office was “investigating my tax affairs.” “I never said that I thought Hunter would be indicted — my attorney did,” Lunden Roberts exclusively told The Post this week.

The federal investigation into President Biden's son, Hunter Biden, over his tax affairs has intensified in recent weeks, sources tell ABC News.

However, was it poor judgment to be in the middle of something that is ... a swamp in -- in -- in many ways? ABC News has previously reported that the investigation began in 2018 -- more than a year before Biden announced his presidential run. "In retrospect, look, I think that it was poor judgment on my part," Hunter Biden told ABC News Anchor Amy Robach in October 2019, regarding the impact of his business dealings on his father's political career. "Is that I think that it was poor judgment because I don't believe now, when I look back on it -- I know that there was -- did nothing wrong at all. Since taking office, President Biden has repeatedly pledged to uphold the independence of the Justice Department and not interfere in its work. In a statement released through the Biden-Harris transition team in December 2020, Hunter Biden said that he and his attorney had learned of the investigation just days earlier, and that he was confident that he had handled his tax affairs "legally and appropriately."

The White House on Wednesday fired back at former President Donald Trump after he called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to release dirt on Hunter Biden ...

The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that a federal tax investigation was gaining steam as prosecutors gather information about the sources of his foreign income, and The Washington Post on Wednesday published a detailed report about Hunter Biden’s interactions with a Chinese energy company and its executives. “She gave him $3.5 million, so now I would think Putin would know the answer to that. His latest request for Putin sparked more backlash this week, as Trump leaned into dubious claims about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings, alleging that he received millions of dollars from the wife of Moscow’s late mayor Yury Luzhkov, and that Putin could confirm this information.

Multiple sources tell CBS News the probe is exploring whether the younger Biden and his associates violated tax, money laundering and foreign lobbying laws.

CBS News was unable to reach a representative for James Biden for comment. "I'm a spokesperson for the United States," Psaki added. Questions about then-candidate Biden's son reached a fever pitch during the 2020 campaign.

The Washington Post on Wednesday became the second major news outlet to reverse course and admit that emails from the infamous Hunter Biden laptop are ...

The Times buried its verification of the emails in the 24th paragraph of a 38-paragraph story that said Hunter Biden had paid off a significant tax debt to the IRS, potentially making it harder for prosecutors to win a conviction or a long sentence against him for tax fraud. In October 2020, the New York Post exclusively revealed the existence of Hunter Biden’s emails after being given a copy of the hard drive from a damaged MacBook Pro laptop that the owner of a repair shop in the Biden family’s hometown of Wilmington, Del., said was dropped off in April 2019 and never retrieved. The Washington Post on Wednesday became the second major news outlet to reverse course and admit that emails from the infamous Hunter Biden laptop are authentic — nine months after it obtained them and a year and a half after the New York Post first reported on them.

This week in the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, FBI Assistant Director for the Cyber Division Bryan Vorndran was pressed by Congressman Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., ...

The White House on Wednesday criticized Donald Trump's request for Russian President Vladimir Putin to release potentially damaging information on U.S. ...

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CNN's senior legal analyst called federal investigations into Hunter Biden's business dealings “very real” and “very substantial,” adding “there is a ...

“A lot of this has to do with Hunter Biden's time working with this company called Burisma,” Evan Perez, CNN’s senior justice correspondent, added during the broadcast. “They’re now gaining steam and they need to make a decision – I think, in the – at least intermediate future.” The federal probe, being led by the U.S. Attorney in Wilmington, Delaware, has been ongoing for four years, since 2018, Honig pointed out.

The President's son was pictured leaving the Giorgio Baldi restaurant in Santa Monica with his wife Melissa and their young son Beau on Wednesday night.

- In February 2019 an iPhone XS was also synced with the laptop. 'No indications were found that would suggest the data was manufactured.' His partner, Dr. Joseph Greenfield, is an associate professor at the University of Southern California and helped write their degree program in intelligence and cyber operations. Republican Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson promised on Wednesday to keep investigating the Biden's family's foreign entanglements and accused media organization of suppressing damaging stories about the President's son. A Wilmington, Delaware computer store work order with Hunter's signature shows he left his 2017 MacBook Pro laptop there on April 12, 2019. Hunter abandoned his laptop at a Delaware computer store in 2019. 'It's clear the corporate media was complicit in helping Joe Biden get elected by suppressing what they knew would be damaging stories. - An iPad with the name 'Hunter's iPad' and three email addresses associated with the Biden family was backed up on the laptop and on iCloud in January 2019 and again a month later. Giuliani reportedly leaked documents and photos from the drive to the New York Post, and also gave a whole copy of the drive to Bannon and his podcast co-host Maxey. In its Wednesday piece, the Washington Post claimed it tried to get hold of a copy of the laptop's hard drive in October 2020 but failed, and didn't get its hands on the laptop drive until June 2021, when Jack Maxey gave them a copy. 'But facts are stubborn things. The family trip to Giorgio Baldi came the same day the Washington Post confirmed the authenticity of his laptop which showed his foreign business dealings - nine months after first receiving a copy and a full year after DailyMail.com authenticated it.

Republican members of a House panel sent letters to the White House demanding records of any communication between Hunter Biden and the White House.

“It should concern every American that they did this for the Biden family’s financial gain, which came at the cost of our national security,” Stefanik said of the evidence on the laptop. “It is the inclusion of Hunter Biden — decidedly not a ‘Democratic official’ — that raises serious questions. “This appears not to be true. “The days of Hunter Biden using his father to line his own pockets are numbered. But Republicans ratcheted up their calls for new investigations into Hunter Biden after the New York Times said it had confirmed the laptop’s authenticity and the existence of the emails in a report on March 16, nearly a year and a half after The Post first reported on them. Beyond the gift from Baturina, the Republicans claim Hunter Biden and the rest of the family have made a financial killing off his father’s political influence as a longtime senator from Delaware and as vice president for eight years in the Obama administration.

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“That is true whether material was allegedly hacked or just given to a journalist by a willing source.” The move puts Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) in a position to soon schedule a vote to confirm Bedoya, whose nomination has been bogged down amid Republican opposition since September. Twitter changed course again, saying it would allow users to share the link because the information was widely available in publications beyond the New York Post. Twitter and Facebook declined to comment on the new findings. Republicans have seized on the laptop as proof of wrongdoing, while Democrats have suggested it could have been manipulated to include foreign misinformation. Twitter went a step further, locking the New York Post account and blocking users from posting links to the story over concerns it was based on hacked materials.

Multiple sources tell CBS News the probe is exploring whether the younger Biden and his associates violated tax, money laundering and foreign lobbying laws.

CBS News was unable to reach a representative for James Biden for comment. "I'm a spokesperson for the United States," Psaki added. Questions about then-candidate Biden's son reached a fever pitch during the 2020 campaign.

The former president spoke in a television interview that raised unsubstantiated questions about Hunter Biden's dealings in Russia.

It’s also not the first time Trump has called for help from Russia to attack his political opponents. I think he should release it.” “There is only one, and it’s Donald Trump.”

That was six months after then-president Donald Trump was impeached by the Democratic-controlled House over pressuring the Ukrainian government to conduct an ...