Hunter Biden invoking ‘my father’ resulted in millions flowing from CCP-linked company by Jerry Dunleavy
Hunter Biden‘s threatening messages invoking “my father” resulted in a swift agreement being signed between President Joe Biden’s son and a Chinese Communist Party-linked company and millions of dollars flowing to Biden family accounts.
The bombshell new WhatsApp messages were between Hunter Biden and key intermediaries with the since-defunct Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC whose chairman, Ye Jianming, is tied to the Chinese military. The messages were revealed by an IRS whistleblower.
Hunter Biden sent messages to Chinese businessman Henry Zhao on July 30, 2017, in which he leveraged his father’s name and threatened CEFC executives unless a lucrative deal was worked out with Ye, whose biography said he had been “deputy secretary-general” of the China Association for International Friendly Contact, which the U.S.-China Commission assessed was a “front organization” for the People’s Liberation Army’s General Political Department.
The newly released messages provide key context to previously discovered foreign bank transactions involving Hunter Biden. Within days after the president’s son named dropped his father in a text threat, Hunter Biden and his associated businesses soon received an estimated $5 million in payments from CEFC in 2017 and 2018, with Chinese payments quickly beginning to roll in, according to banking findings from a 2020 Senate report.
“I am sitting with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment has not been fulfilled,” Hunter Biden told Zhao in one of the July 30 messages. “I am very concerned that [Ye] has either changed his mind and broken our deal without telling me or that he is unaware of the promises and assurances that have been made have not been kept.”
Joe Biden denied on Wednesday being in the room when the message was sent.
Zhao is the chairman of China’s Harvest Fund and was reportedly the CCP general secretary of the fund. The Harvest Fund is also a part owner of BHR Partners, the Chinese investment firm in which Hunter Biden held a 10% stake for years.
Hunter Biden also mentioned CEFC Executive Director Zhang Jianjun, who is linked to the CCP and reportedly traveled to Moscow with Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2017 and met with Russian President Vladimir Putin as part of a multibillion-dollar effort to buy a stake in Russia’s state-owned oil giant Rosneft.
“Tell [Zhang] that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand,” Hunter Biden told Zhao in the July 30 messages. “And now means tonight. And Z if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the Chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction.”
The whistleblower disclosures came from Gary Shapley, a supervisory special agent with the IRS’s criminal investigation. Shapley and a yet-unnamed IRS case agent who is referred to as “Whistleblower X” played key roles in the Hunter Biden investigation.
Shapley told Congress that “communications like these made it clear we needed to search the guest house at the Bidens’ Delaware residence where Hunter Biden stayed” — but such a search was denied.
The whistleblower said Delaware Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf said “optics were a driving factor in the decision on whether to execute a search warrant” and “said a lot of evidence in our investigation would be found in the guest house of former Vice President Biden, but said there is no way we will get that approved.”
Shapley said their efforts to obtain location data on the messages, which could pinpoint where Hunter Biden was when he sent them, were also denied.
It was previously reported that Hunter Biden was pictured near Joe Biden’s Wilmington home in Delaware sitting behind the wheel of his father’s 1967 Corvette Stingray the same day as he sent his messages to CEFC. The Washington Examiner can confirm, based on analysis of Hunter Biden’s laptop, that the pictures of Hunter Biden near his father’s home were taken at 6:49 p.m. on July 30 — just hours after he sent the initial threatening messages.
“Z – Please have the director call me – not James or Tony or Jim – have him call me tonight,” Hunter Biden told Zhao in the July 30 messages, adding, “All too often people mistake kindness for weakness — and all too often I am standing over top of them saying I warned you. From this moment until whenever he reaches me. It is 9:45 AM here and I assume 9:45 PM there so his night is running out.”
“Jim” refers to Jim Bulger, a Hunter Biden business associate who also teamed up with him in the BHR effort.
“Tony” is a reference to ex-business partner Tony Bobulinski, who worked with Hunter Biden to create a joint venture dubbed SinoHawk in 2017 to manage the CEFC deals but which was bypassed when CEFC began sending millions of dollars directly to Hunter Biden instead in August 2017. Bobulinski has said the infamous May 2017 “big guy” email was a reference to Joe Biden.
Zhao responded to all of these messages by saying he would call Hunter Biden on WhatsApp.
“OK my friend – I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father,” Hunter Biden replied. “I sure hope whatever it is you are doing is very very very important.”
Zhao asked Hunter Biden if it was a good time to call and then said the “director,” Zhang, “did not answer my call, but he got the message you just mentioned.”
The next day, July 31, 2017, Hunter Biden began messaging CEFC deputy Gongwen “Kevin” Dong, whom Hunter Biden has referred to as “my partner” and as “Chairman Ye CEFC emissary.”
Shapley told Congress that Ye, Zhao, and Gongwen “are believed to be connected to the Chinese Communist Party” and said those communications were thus a national security concern.
The whistleblower said the Foreign Agents Registration Act was “in play” and that “the FBI is considering a lot of national security type issues here.” Nevertheless, he said, “We were precluded from doing anything.”
Hunter Biden told Gongwen that “I was told by the Director through Zhao that we were to speak tonight. … I assume that you know that this is highly confidential and time sensitive.”
Hunter Biden also sent a message to former Serbian politician and CEFC consultant Vuk Jeremic: “Call u in a minute I’m on w/ director.”
Jeremic reported to CEFC deputy Patrick Ho when the Serb worked as a consultant for CEFC for years.
Zhao sent Hunter Biden the foreign phone number for Gongwen, and Hunter Biden soon replied, mentioning a “Rob” — a likely reference to business associate Rob Walker.
Bank records have revealed that, earlier in 2017, more than $1 million was sent in incremental payments from Robinson Walker LLC to Hunter Biden, James Biden, and Hallie Biden, the widow of the president’s deceased son, Beau Biden, with whom Hunter Biden had a brief romantic relationship, just after Walker received a $3 million wire from CEFC-linked State Energy HK.
“Z — I reached out to K and he declined my call and has not returned my text. I assume he knows that our plan to speak is highly confidential. I just hope he isn’t talking to Tony or J — if he is we have a real problem,” Hunter Biden told Zhao in the July 31 messages. “If I can reshape this partnership to what the chairman intended then James and Rob will be well taken care of but I will not have Tony dictating to me nor the director what we can and cannot do.”
Zhao replied, “I don’t think he is talking to Tony or the other guys, mostly with the director. … The director would like to suggest you and Kevin have a meeting. CEFC is willing to cooperate with the family. He thinks now the priority is to solve the problem mentioned last night.”
Zhao later messaged Hunter Biden on Aug. 2, 2017, to say, “Director asked me to extend to you that Kevin has reported to him about your discussion. He supports your proposition and will act accordingly.”
Hunter Biden replied, “That is a great relief and very welcome news my friend — let my friend know that I’m looking forward to his arrival here with great anticipation — we will do extraordinary things together and I am happy to have him as a brother in this endeavor — and my family sends their best wishes and looks forward to playing some golf when the director has time.”
Gongwen messaged Hunter Biden on WhatsApp the next day, Aug. 3, to say Zhang was agreeing to Hunter Biden’s demands.
“I am texting to convey some info from director Zhang: (1) His best regards to you, Jim, and VP. (2) He fully supports cooperation with you and the proposition provided by you. Chairman also agrees upon you idea. (3) Kevin is designated by director Zhang to discuss with you on technical matters. The fund will be wired to the jointly administered account in a timely manner,” Gongwen said.
Hunter Biden replied that his demands were “very simple” including a $10 million annual budget. The younger Biden said “this move” to $5 million “is completely new to me and is not acceptable obviously.” Hunter Biden said, “My (Biden’s) expenses and determination of how BIDEN (loan 5M [$5 million]) capital will be determined by” his law firm Owasco “in consultation with” a company affiliated with both CEFC and Hunter Biden named Hudson West III.
The younger Biden said, “If [Ye] doesn’t value this relationship is being worth at least 5M [$5 million] then I’m just baffled.”
Hunter Biden continued, “Please let’s put this to bed tonight sign officially tomorrow (or anytime as late tonight as you want) and get to work. I am tired of this Kevin. I can make $5M in salary at any law firm in America. If you think this is about money it’s not. The Bidens are the best I know at doing exactly what the Chairman wants from this partnership. Please let’s not quibble over peanuts.”
Records on the Hunter Biden laptop indicate the deal between the younger Biden and CEFC was finalized around Aug. 2, 2017, with signatures from Hunter Biden and Gongwen on the agreement.
A 2020 report by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) stated that, on Aug. 4, 2017, CEFC Infrastructure Investment (US) LLC, a subsidiary of Ye’s CEFC that listed Gongwen as its director, sent Hunter Biden’s firm, Owasco, a payment for $100,000.
The report said CEFC Infrastructure Investment wired $5 million to the bank account for Hudson West III on Aug. 8, 2017, and, beginning the same day and continuing through September 2018, Hudson West III sent numerous payments to Hunter Biden’s Owasco, reaching $4.79 million in just over a year.
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