****REPORT: HUNTER BIDEN'S 'QUESTIONABLE' TRANSACTIONS

THE REPORT FROM AN INVESTIGATION BY SENATE REPUBLICANS QUESTIONED TRANSACTIONS BETWEEN THE BIDEN FAMILY AND A CHINESE BUSINESSMAN. THE CHINESE NATIONAL HAS CLOSE TIES WITH THE CHINESE REGIME AND THE MILITARY. A new Senate report on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's son has emerged. it states that Hunter Biden received millions of dollars over the course of several years from Ye Jianming, a Chinese oil tycoon with ties with the Chinese military. The report identified some transactions between them as “questionable” and potential financial criminal activities. ((potential financial criminalhttps://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/HSGAC_Finance_Report_FINAL.pdf)) In August 2017, Ye’s company ((CEFC Infrastructure Investment)) wired $5 million dollars to a U.S. company called Hudson West III. ((search $5 million)) The company was incorporated in 2016, and Hunter Biden became the co-owner together with Ye’s subordinate. ((Gongwen Dong)) ((at an unknown point.)) ((Hudson West III was incorporated on April 19, 2016 search "half owner")) In the year following the $5 million dollar transaction, Hudson West III sent frequent payments to Biden’s law firm Owasco. ((pronouciation https://youglish.com/pronounce/Owasco/english?))Described as consulting fees, the payments totaled about $4.8 million dollars. Around the same time, Hunter Biden’s company moved over $1 million dollars to his uncle, James Biden’s consulting firm. The report identifies the transaction as a potential financial criminal activity. When the bank reached out to James Biden’s wife Sara Biden to clarify the activity, she refused to provide any supporting documents. And in September 2017, the Chinese tycoon’s subordinate ((Gongwen Dong)) opened a bank account together with Hunter Biden. Hunter, James and Sara Biden were all authorized users of credit cards associated with the account. They later used the cards to purchase over $100 thousand dollars' worth of luxury items. A previous media report shows that in 2017, Hunter Biden helped negotiate a deal for Ye Jianming to invest $40 million in a natural gas project in Louisiana. The project reportedly fell through the following year. ((REPORT: In keeping with that agreement, after meeting Ye, Hunter Biden stated that he began working on a deal for Ye that involved a $40 million investment in a natural gas project on Monkey Island in Louisiana that reportedly fell through the following year. Around the same time that Hunter Biden began this work, Ye raised concerns with Hunter Biden that one of his associates, Patrick Ho, was under investigation by U.S. law enforcement.361 Hunter Biden subsequently agreed to represent Ho.3)) ((Louisiana https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/08/will-hunter-biden-jeopardize-his-fathers-campaign)) Biden had also reportedly agreed to represent another of Ye Jianming subordinates --Patrick Ho-- in his corruption trial. Ho was sentenced to three years in New York’s federal court for bribing top African officials to obtain local oil businesses. ((https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/patrick-ho-former-head-organization-backed-chinese-energy-conglomerate-sentenced-3)) U.S. prosecutors had also accused him of trying to sell weapons to Middle East countries, and of helping Iran obtain funds from Chinese banks. ((https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/business/cefc-china-weapons-iran.html)) According to a New York Times report, when American authorities arrested Patrick Ho, the first phone call he made was to James Biden. ((He dined with R. James Woolsey Jr., a former Central Intelligence Agency director and later a senior adviser to President Trump. An aide to Mr. Ye met the vice president’s second son, Hunter Biden, in Washington. Mr. Ye then met privately with Hunter Biden at a hotel in Miami in May 2017, according to people with direct knowledge of the meetings who were not authorized to speak publicly because the meetings were private. Mr. Ye proposed a partnership to invest in American infrastructure and energy deals, the people said. Last year, as