Senators ask for intel records on Chinese criminal reported to be associate of Hunter Biden, and who allegedly paid Hunter Biden $1 million for legal representation


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  • Hunter Biden was reportedly a close associate of Chinese businessman Patrick Ho
  • Ho was reportedly wiretapped by U.S. intelligence as a national security threat
  • Ho was convicted of crimes of money laundering and bribery
  • Ho reportedly paid Hunter Biden at least $1 million for legal representation

Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) are asking the Attorney General and Director of National Intelligence for records related to a reported Chinese associate of Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden.

The senators have been investigating Biden family ties to foreign governments and businesses.

They say that one of Hunter Biden’s Chinese associates, who was later arrested on international criminal charges, had been wiretapped by U.S. intelligence, apparently because he was seen as a national security threat.

In a letter to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and Attorney General Merrick Garland, the senators ask for intelligence records that could shed light on why the Chinese national, Patrick Ho, was surveilled, and what his links to Chinese intelligence services might have been.

According to reports, when Patrick Ho was arrested in 2018, “his first call was to James Biden, President Biden’s brother.”

The Biden family and its ties to foreign governments and businesses, China in particular, has been the subject of numerous investigations by Congress and reporters.

Some of those investigations raise questions about possible conflicts of interest and national security risks.

President Biden and the Biden family have strongly denied any inappropriate business dealings or relationships.

President Biden has said he did not receive compensation from his son’s business dealings, including businesses connected to the communist Chinese government. However, some sources have alleged that Joe Biden was referred to in private communications as “The Big Guy,” who would receive a cut of funds in one Hunter Biden business deal.

Last December, Hunter Biden issued a statement saying that the U.S. Attorney’s office in Delaware was investigating his “tax affairs.” He said he was “confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately.”

Numerous sources have confirmed that the FBI has had a laptop that belonged to Hunter Biden for more than a year as part of an investigation. The computer dealer who originally turned over the laptop to law enforcement officials said he found disturbing and illegal material on it.

More recently, there were reports about a bizarre gun incident in Delaware involving Hunter Biden in 2018. Secret Service agents reportedly intervened in the 2018 investigation, trying to collect paperwork from a dealer where Hunter Biden bought a gun in 2018.

The gun purchase form asks whether the purchaser is addicted to drugs.

Hunter Biden was discharged from the military reserve in 2013 after testing positive for cocaine.

According to Politico, Joe Biden was not under Secret Service protection at the time of the reported Secret Service intervention in Hunter Biden gun investigation, so it’s unclear why the agency would have gotten involved. The Secret Service told Politico that it “no record of its agents investigating the incident.”

Read the full information and letter from Sens. Grassley and Johnson below.

Grassley, Johnson Seek Intel Records Related to Hunter Biden’s Foreign Financial Activities

Convicted Chinese money launderer and Biden family associate was subject of extraordinary U.S. surveillance

WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) Ranking Member of the HSGAC Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, are seeking all U.S. intelligence records relating to Biden family business associates linked to Chinese intelligence services.

The senators’ investigative report on the Biden family’s foreign business arrangements detailed financial transactions and connections between and among members of the Biden family and foreign nationals linked to the communist Chinese government, including its military and intelligence services. The senators issued a supplement to their report further detailing troubling financial connections involving the Biden family, their business associates and Chinese and Russian governments.

One individual, Chi Ping “Patrick” Ho, who had a close association with James and Hunter Biden, and who reportedly paid Hunter $1 million for legal representation, was the subject of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant, suggesting he posed a potential counterintelligence threat to the United States. He was later convicted of international bribery and money laundering offenses stemming from his work with a Chinese organization with deep ties to the communist regime. Hunter Biden was reportedly aware of those ties.

“It’s imperative that Congress better understand the relationship Ye Jianming, Gongwen Dong, and Patrick Ho had between and among themselves, with the communist Chinese government, CEFC China Energy, and their activities in the United States, including those relating to the Biden family.  Accordingly, please produce all intelligence records, including but not limited to, all FISA-derived information relating to these three individuals no later than April 14, 2021,” the senators wrote today in a letter to the Director of National Intelligence and the Justice Department. 

Full text of the letter follows:

March 31, 2021

VIA ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION

The Honorable

Director of National Intelligence

The Honorable Merrick Garland

Attorney General

Department of Justice

Dear Director Haines and Attorney General Garland:

As you know, we have been reviewing financial transactions and connections between and among members of the Biden family and foreign nationals connected to the communist Chinese government, including its military and intelligence services.[1]  In particular, Hunter Biden had a close and personal relationship with Ye Jianming, who reportedly had links to the communist regime’s People’s Liberation Army.[2]  According to an October 2017 text message, Hunter Biden spoke to Ye on a “regular basis,” was the “first guest in his new apartment,” “[Ye] cooked [Hunter Biden] lunch himself and [they] ate in the kitchen together,” they had a “standing once a week call,” and he helped Ye “on a number of his personal issues (staff visas and some more sensitive things).”[3]  In addition, Hunter Biden had a close association with Gongwen Dong and Chi Ping “Patrick” Ho, who were also business associates of Ye’s. 

In December 2017, Patrick Ho was charged and in December 2018 was convicted of international bribery and money laundering offenses stemming from his work for Ye’s China Energy Fund Committee, a subsidiary of Ye’s CEFC China Energy, a company with extensive links to the communist regime.[4]  After his arrest, his first call was reportedly to James Biden, President Biden’s brother.[5]  Hunter Biden reportedly represented Patrick Ho for a period of time and received at least $1 million in payment.[6]  According to recent reporting and a federal government filing, the federal government obtained at least one Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant relating to Patrick Ho, indicating his potential counterintelligence threat to the United States.[7]  Indeed, Hunter Biden was well aware of Patrick Ho’s links to the communist Chinese government, specifically its intelligence services.  According to records reportedly released from Hunter Biden’s laptop, Hunter Biden allegedly said the following:

I have another New York Times reporter calling about my representation of Patrick Ho – the f***ing spy chief of China who started the company that my partner, who is worth $323 billion, founded and is now missing.[8]

Moreover, news reports made publicly available a September 21, 2017, email from Hunter Biden to an office manager that asked for keys to be made available to then-former Vice President Biden, James Biden, and “Gongwen Dong (Chairman Ye CEFC emissary)” and referred to them as “office mates.”[9]  Hunter Biden also requested that the office sign reflect “The Biden Foundation” and “Hudson West (CEFC US).”[10]  If accurate, the sharing of office space with Chinese nationals and entities linked to the communist regime and its military demands additional explanation.      

It’s imperative that Congress better understand the relationship Ye Jianming, Gongwen Dong, and Patrick Ho had between and among themselves, with the communist Chinese government, CEFC China Energy, and their activities in the United States, including those relating to the Biden family.  Accordingly, please produce all intelligence records, including but not limited to, all FISA-derived information relating to these three individuals no later than April 14, 2021.  

Please send all unclassified material directly to the Committees.  In keeping with the requirements of Executive Order 13526, if any of the responsive documents do contain classified information, please segregate all unclassified material within the classified documents, provide all unclassified information directly to the Committees, and provide a classified addendum to the Office of Senate Security.  Although the Committees comply with all laws and regulations governing the handling of classified information, they are not bound, absent their prior agreement, by any handling restrictions.

Should you have questions, please contact Joshua Flynn-Brown of Senator Grassley’s Committee staff at 202-224-5225 and Brian Downey and Scott Wittmann of Senator Johnson’s Subcommittee staff at 202-224-3721.  Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Sincerely,

Charles E. Grassley

Ranking Member

Committee on the Judiciary

Ron Johnson

Ranking Member

Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations


[1] S. Rep., Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Concerns, S. Comm. on Homeland Sec. and Governmental Aff. and S. Comm. on Fin. (2020).

[2] Ye Jianming is a Chinese national, chairman of CEFC China Energy, a company linked to the communist regime, and a frequent figure in Hunter Biden’s financial dealings in China.  Based on public reports that were available in 2015, when his contact with Hunter Biden began to ramp up, Ye was a founder of CEFC and chairman of the board for its subsidiary, the China Energy Fund Committee.  Although CEFC reportedly remained a private company until state-owned enterprises assumed control of it in 2018, reporting in 2017 indicated that it received financing from the China Development Bank, “hired a number of former top officials from state-owned energy companies,” and had “layers of Communist Party committees across its subsidiaries — more than at many private Chinese companies.”  Our recent report also showed that Ye had connections not just to the communist party in China, but also China’s People’s Liberation Army, the armed forces of the Chinese communist party. S. Rep., Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Concerns, S. Comm. on Homeland Sec. and Governmental Aff. and S. Comm. on Fin. (2020).

[3] S. Supplemental Rep., Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Concerns, S. Comm. on Homeland Sec. and Governmental Aff. and S. Comm. on Fin. at 24 (2020).  https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2020-11-18%20HSGAC%20-%20Finance%20Joint%20Report%20Supplemental.pdf

[4] Andrew C. McCarthy, A Collusion Tale: China and the Bidens, National Review (Oct. 31, 2020),https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/10/a-collusion-tale-the-bidens-and-china/; Press Release, U.S. Attn’y Geoffrey S. Berman, Patrick Ho, Former Head Of Organization Backed By Chinese Energy Conglomerate, Convicted Of International Bribery, Money Laundering Offenses, (Dec. 5, 2018), https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/patrick-ho-former-head-organization-backed-chinese-energy-conglomerate-convicted.

[5] Alexandra Stevenson, David Barboza, Matthew Goldstein, and Paul Mozur, A Chinese Tycoon Sought Power and Influence. Washington Responded., The New York Times (Dec. 12, 2018),https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/business/cefc-biden-china-washington-ye-jianming.html

[6] S. Rep., Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Concerns, S. Comm. on Homeland Sec. and Governmental Aff. and S. Comm. on Fin., 116th Cong., Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Concerns at 79 (2020).

[7] Chuck Ross, Feds Obtained FISA Warrant Against Hunter Biden’s Chinese Business Associate, Documents Show, Daily Caller (Oct. 27, 2020),https://dailycaller.com/2020/10/27/hunter-biden-patrick-ho-cefc-fara/;https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.485530/gov.uscourts.nysd.485530.45.0.pdf.

[8] Id.

[9] Brooke Singman and Adam Shaw, Hunter Biden request keys for new ‘office mates’ Joe Biden, Chinese ‘emissary’ to CEFC chairman, emails show, FoxNews (Dec. 12, 2020), https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-requested-keys-new-office-mates-joe-biden-chinese-emissary-cefc-chairman.

[10] Id.


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5 thoughts on “Senators ask for intel records on Chinese criminal reported to be associate of Hunter Biden, and who allegedly paid Hunter Biden $1 million for legal representation”

  1. Hunter Biden could strangle Donald Trump to death on live broadcast TV and the DOJ and FBI would not do a damn thing.

    1. You are 100% correct! I can’t believe where we are… right is wrong and wrong is right! Everything that is good is now bad. I have to remind myself to have faith not in our justice system that is very corrupted, but the system of justice from God and for those of us who try to live a Christian life will one day be rewarded for that. Lady Justice was supposed to be blindfolded and it seems that the only ones with a blindfold have been us who are busy producing the economic base for their corrupt taxation to pay for their corruption!

  2. They are going to do nothing but cover it up. They all must be involved or have something on them. Nothing is going to happen the election showed that.

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