Hunter Biden and his Associates
The Biden web of connections and corporations has grown to a point where it is difficult to keep track of. (by design we would assert). Here is a brief primer of Hunter Biden associates and business partners. It is not a comprehensive list and we will keep updating as more information comes to light.
“I never talked with my son or my brother or anyone else — even distant family — about their business interests. Period.” – The Big Guy
I guess they discussed Delaware professional sports teams at dinner.
Hunter Biden – President Biden’s son – laptop leaving lothario with a penchant for overseas employment.
After graduating from Yale Law School in 1996, Hunter found a job at MBNA, a financial institution that had donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Joe Biden’s Senate campaigns. In a short two years, he had risen to the title of executive vice president.
He served at the United States Department of Commerce during the Clinton administration, but soon turned to lobbying to make a living. He started a firm called Oldaker, Biden, and Belair to lobby on behalf of companies that his father often had a degree of control over, such as the music sharing company, Napster.
Always a hard worker, Hunter was also appointed vice chairman of the board of directors for Amtrack. As we all know, Joe Biden was always a proponent of the perennially failing railroad operation.
In 2006 Hunter and his uncle James started the hedge fund Paradigm Global Advisors. Two years later he launched his consulting company, Seneca Global Advisors. In 2009 he opened Rosemont Seneca Partners with Devon Archer and Christopher Heinz. He also started Eudora Global and became a partner at Boises Schiller Flexner LLP, a law firm that donated heavily to Democrat campaigns.
In 2014, Hunter was appointed to the board of directors of the UN related World Food Program USA, which opened international connections for him all over the world.
In 2014, he was appointed to the board of Burisma two months after the Russian invasion of Crimea. The position’s pay seemed to vary but he was usually pulling in about $50k a month. His father was the Vice President at the time and oversaw the United States’ Ukraine policy.
Hunter was also making connections in China and Europe, with deals in place with several Chinese energy companies and doing business with Romanian criminal Gabriel Popoviciu.. At this point, he was spinning up new corporations at a rapid rate to keep money coming in from several dubious streams of income.
In 2020, his business practices were coming under scrutiny. He had famously left his laptop in a Delaware repair shop in 2019 and it found its way into the hands of the FBI. In 2020 he announced that the IRS was investigating his tax filings. Law enforcement was also interest in the sources of his overseas income. A lost firearm led to an investigation about his false statements on the purchase application.
James Biden – Joe Biden’s younger brother and a serial entrepreneur who has long faced claims of profiting from his brother’s political career. He and Hunter were in business together in 2006 when they started investment firm Paradigm Global Advisors which they shut down in 2010 after connections to a Ponzi fraudster emerged.
James Brian Biden also has interest in several other companies, BBS Benefit Solutions, 2BT LLP, Platinum Global Partners, JBBSR Inc., and Biden and Lewitt LLP. JBBSR Inc. appears to have received most of the money from China in 2017, an estimated $360,000.
Oversight Committee records show between August 2017 and October 2018, Hudson West III, Hunter and Dong Gongwen’s company, sent over $75,000 to James Biden related companies.
“A donor with deep ties to Ukraine loaned Joe Biden’s younger brother half-a-million dollars at the same time the then-vice president oversaw U.S. policy toward the country, according to public records reviewed by POLITICO. The 2015 loan from 108PL LC came as Biden’s brother faced financial difficulties related to his acquisition of a multimillion-dollar vacation home, nicknamed “the Biden Bungalow,” in South Florida.” 1018 PL LLC was controlled by John Hynansky, a Ukrainian-American businessman and longtime donor to Joe Biden’s campaigns. The loan appears to have never been fully paid back.
“While taking out a $2.1 million mortgage on the house, James and Sara missed federal tax payments of $589,000 in 2013 and $30,000 in 2014, according to IRS liens filed against the house. At the same time, they undertook expensive renovations, which they struggled to pay for. In December 2014, a contractor filed a lien against the house for $75,000 in unpaid bills for painting and other services.”
James Biden also lost a 2020 lawsuit by Americore Health over 2018 loans and promise of influencing a deal in the Middle East. Biden “procured the $600,000.00 in loans from Americore Health (the “Loans”) based upon representations that his last name, “Biden,” could “open doors” and that he could obtain a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections.” The promises were never kept, and the loans never repaid.
Americore eventually declared bankruptcy. “Although Biden was not named in Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings from several Americore entities this year, he was listed as a “principal” of Americore Holdings, and former executives allege he used his brother’s name to promote opportunities for the company. On Jan. 30, the FBI raided a shuttered Americore hospital in Pennsylvania and the home of White as part of its investigation into the circumstances surrounding the company’s bankruptcy filing on Dec. 30, 2019.”
Hallie Biden – Beau Biden’s widow and former Hunter paramour. She is employed as a school counselor, and it is unclear as to what work she performed for any Hunter related enterprises. She received $25,000 from Robinson Walker LLC (Rob Walker) after it was wired $3 million from State Energy HK in 2017. She also apparently received $10,000 from Walker in February 2017, before the $3 million Chinese payment.
Prior to the wire from State Energy HK, Hallie Biden received payments from a Romanian source, and many of the payments were made while Joe Biden was Vice President and working directly on the United States’ official policy in Romania.
Hallie was an employee at Rosemont Seneca for some period of time, but her role there is unclear.
Caroline Biden – James and Sara Biden’s daughter – She had been arrested 3 times. Once for assaulting a NYPD officer during a roommate dispute. Once by NYPD Financial Crimes Task Force for using a stolen credit card to make over $100,000 in purchases. And once for DWI. There is no evidence that she is involved involved in any of the suspicious financial transactions.
Sara Biden – James Biden’s wife. She has also embraced the entrepreneurial spirit and is involved in 2BT LLP and is listed as an owner and Biden and Lewitt LLP and Platinum Global Partners as a governor.
She was not just a figurehead. An email from Hunter business associate Eric Schwerin to Sara showed her involved with a civil court settlement over a business deal with Anthony Lolito in 2006. The Bidens wanted Lolito to find a non-lobbying job for Hunter as the election campaign started.
The Oversight Committee references her listed on SARs (financial suspicious activity reports submitted to the government) in FinCEN.
Kathleen Buhle -the ex-wife of Hunter Biden – As per the Oversight Committee she received some of the funds from the Romanian deal with . Emails recovered from the laptop shows that her attorney referenced the Romanian funds paid by Gabriel Popoviciu in their divorce proceedings.
Kathleen Buhle’s lawyer also wrote an email to Hunter’s attorney which stated, “[T]hey owe $200,000 in taxes, they owe Kathleen’s parents $100,000 (which has not been paid in two years), the credit cards are maxed out, Hunter maxed out a Bank of America cash advance, and their bills are not being paid. And yet, Hunter has been enjoying time in California with Hallie? It is more than fair to ask for Hunter immediately to provide Kathleen with half of the $120,000, and immediate disclosure with respect to his TD account,”.
Unknown Biden – an unknown individual referenced by the House Oversight Committee as receiving questionable funds. Most bank accounts need full biographical details to be opened. Did someone allow this account to be opened without proper information? Is this synthetic identity fraud? Synthetic identity theft is a newer form of fraud in which a real person’s Social Security number (SSN) is stolen and then a name, date of birth, mailing address, email account and phone number are made up and applied to that legitimate SSN to create a new identity.
Synthetic identity theft can be difficult to detect with traditional fraud monitoring systems. Its most common victims are children, the elderly and homeless individuals. These victims may be less likely to use credit or monitor their credit history. Perhaps a Biden grandkid?
Melissa Cohen – Hunter Biden’s current wife – a South African activist and filmmaker. According to the Oversight Committee she also received foreign monies. More specific information is not known. House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer stated that she received money along with several Hunter and James Biden children.
Melissa was paid an undisclosed amount of money through one of the many shell corporations and limited liability companies set up by her husband and his associates.
Frank Biden – Joe Biden’s younger brother. Frank owed $1 million to the family of a man that was killed in a car accident in 1999. Frank Biden was in a Jaguar XK8 while alcohol was being consumed when he intentionally moved the gear shifter, causing the accident. He did not attempt to pay the debt until Joe Biden was running for President in 2020 despite pleas from the decedent’s family. It is unknown how much was actually paid.
Frank Biden has also repeatedly lent his name to businesses to cash in on his perceived influence at the upper echelon of federal government. He has called his last name “a tremendous asset” and that is bought “automatic acceptance” as he sought government approvals for various enterprises.
He does not appear to be involved in any of the recent Hunter enabled money deals.
Eric Schwerin – One of Hunter Biden’s primary business associates. He was a guest at the White House or other official Obama administration events 27 times during the former president’s two terms. An email recovered from the laptop describes Eric as a “close confidant” of Joe Biden Hunter and Eric both worked in the Clinton Administrations’ Commerce Department.
He was the president of Rosemont Seneca Partners. As his relationship with the Bidens grew, he wound up managing much of the family’s financial matters. President Barack Obama announced he was appointing Schwerin to the Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad, an agency which works to preserve US-linked historic places in Central and Eastern Europe.
The House Oversight Committee has requested communications for Schwerin from several associates including Joe Biden.
Schwerin appeared to warn Hunter about his tax errors, stating in an email, “In 2014 you joined the Burisma board, and we still need to amend your 2014 returns to reflect the unreported Burisma income,” he said in an email. “That is approximately $400,000 extra, so your income in 2014 was closer to $1,247,328.” Hunter never took this advice and never claimed the money on his taxes.
Schwerin and Hunter Biden had a falling out in 2019 that included some nasty emails. This may encourage Mr. Schwerin to be more cooperative with the Oversight Committee’s investigation. The fact that Schwerin was involved in removing some of Joe Biden’s documents from his office as vice president may also give Schwerin more incentive to cooperate. Some of these documents may have been top secret and not authorized to be removed.
Catherine Dodge – Hunter Biden’s assistant and an employee at Rosemont Seneca. The Hose Oversight request to Eric Schwerin included any communications with her.
Joan Mayer or Peugh – Hunter Biden’s office manager. She also arranged a phone call with Louis Freeh and a meeting hours later with Joe Biden regarding the Romanian deal with Gabriel Popoviciu. The House Oversight Committee’s request to Eric Schwerin included any communications with her.
Vuk Jeremic – Longtime Biden ally and former foreign minister of Serbia. He appeared to assist Hunter connect with CEFC in 2015. He emailed Eric Schwerin about a dinner meeting with CEFC chairman Ye Jianming. He is identified by the House Oversight Committee as a conduit for Jianming to the Bidens. Jeremic has refused to turn over requested documents to the House Oversight Committee, stating that the documents requested are “already in the possession of the Department of Justice”.
Lunden Roberts – Hunter Biden’s baby’s mother and former stripper. She was on the payroll and health insurance of Rosemont Seneca during her pregnancy. She was terminated from the company shortly after the baby was born. The House Oversight Committee request to Eric Schwerin included any communications with Roberts.
Kevin Morris – Wealthy attorney who paid Hunter Biden’s $2 million overdue tax debt, potentially stopping a criminal prosecution of the tax scam. He also provided Hunter with free use of a private jet. He is also representing Hunter in his art sales business.
Devon Archer – a convicted felon who was business partners with Hunter Biden at Rosemont Seneca. He started the company with Hunter and Chris Heinz after the three met at Yale. They were both on the board of the Ukrainian company at the same time. Archer was convicted of securities fraud and sentenced to a year in prison in 2022. The fraud scheme involved bonds from the Oglala Sioux nation and had no ties to anyone in the Biden family. However, records from that investigation include communications with the Bidens and information about their business dealings. Joe and Hunter photographed playing golf with Archer. Archer appears to also have an association with Donald Trump.
Archer was also with Hunter when they met Russian oligarch Elena Baturina, just weeks after she wired $3.5 million to a bank account associated with Archer through Rosemont Seneca.
Friends of Archer have allegedly urged him to rat on Hunter, if possible, in an attempt to avoid his prison sentence. There does not appear to be any offer for such cooperation on the table.
Tony Bobulinski – A former Navy Lieutenant and Hunter Biden business associate. He was appointed CEO of Sinohawk Holdings LLC, a company created to engage in transactions with CEFC for deals in the United States. The proposed transactions between Sinohawk and CEFC were never completed, but Bobulinski stated that Joe Biden was aware of the relationship. He also stated that he had several electronic devices that contained incriminating evidence about Joe and Hunter Biden. He advised Tucker Carlson that “The Big Guy” was Joe Biden.
Bobulinski also alleged that the Biden’s embezzled $5 million from CEFC, and some of that money should have gone to himself, Rob Walker, and James Gilliar.
In October of 2020 Bobulinski sat for a 5-hour interview with the FBI in which he detailed the Bidens’ actions with foreign actors and turned over the contents of 3 cell phones. It is not known what the FBI did with that information.
Rob Walker – Bill Clinton administration official who is now co-founder of a technology-focused private equity firm, Pilot Growth. His wife Betsy Massey Walker was Jill Biden’s assistant when she was Second Lady.
Bobulinski claimed that Walker acted as a proxy and essentially a bagman for the Bidens. Money passed through his businesses and into accounts directly held by the Bidens. This was clear in the House Oversight Committee’s press release that showed that on March 1, 2017, Walker’s company, Robinson Walker LLC received a $3 million transfer from State Energy HK (Chinese Energy Company). He then wired money to James Gilliar’s EEIG, Hallie Biden, Owasco PC, First Clearing LLC, JBBSR INC, RSTP II, and the famous “unknown Biden” over a three-month period. Between 2015 and 2017 Rob Walker paid Biden family members $1.3 million.
When Walker found out that Tony Bobulinski was going to go public with his allegations, he told Bobulinski, “Ah, Tony, you’re just going to bury all of us, man”.
Chris Heinz – partner in Rosemont Seneca Partners and stepson of John Kerry. When Devon Archer and Hunter Biden took the position at Burisma, Kerry strongly opposed the move and cut ties with the pair. He emailed State Department officials with concerns about the Burisma hirings. He was also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
James Gilliar – British-born 56-year-old businessman and former member of the SAS based in the Czech Republic. He is the president and managing partner of EEIG (European Energy and Infrastructure Group). EEIG worked with Hunter Biden and Rob Walker on several international deals including CEFC deals. Gilliar met Ye Jingming while working in the Czech Republic.
He also set up J2CR LLC and J2CR (UK) LTD, the companies which are mentioned in emails, in 2015. They are no longer active. Gilliar appears to also be an adviser to a holding company run by the leader of Abu Dhabi’s son.
In a text to Tony Bobulinski on May 20, 2017, Gilliar stated that he shouldn’t, “mention Joe being involved, it’s only when u are face to face, I know u know that but they are paranoid”. He has also referenced Joe Biden as the “big guy” in several emails with associates.
James Gilliar of the international consulting firm J2cR, emailed that, “I am happy to raise any detail with Zang if there is [sic] shortfalls”. “Zang” is an apparent reference to Zang Jian Jun, the former executive director of CEFC China. It is in this email that Gilliar mentions “10% held by H for the big guy” which according to Bobuliski is Joe Biden.
William Oldaker – founding partner in lobbying group Oldaker, Biden and Belair with Hunter and worked on Joe Biden’s 1988 presidential campaign. He often lobbied on interests that Joe Biden had influence over.
Melvyn Monzack – handled Hunter and Joe’s brother Jim’s taxes and other Biden family affairs.
Ye Jianming – Chairman and founder of CEFC China Energy and former economic advisor to Czeck president Milos Deman. Ye also formerly served as was the deputy secretary-general of the China Association for International Friendly Contact (CAIFC), “an international outreach arm for the PLA [People’s Liberation Army],” and “a platform for deploying undercover intelligence gatherers.” In November 2017 company was accused of bribery in Africa by the DOJ, and in March 2018 he was arrested in China, reportedly on the orders of Xi Jinping. He has not been seen publicly since. Hunter Biden attempted to distance himself from Jianming after the arrest.
As director of CEFC Jianming spread China’s influence in energy matters around the world. CEFC became one of Chinas major energy interests worth billions of dollars. In a public speech Jianming stated, “CEFC China’s vision is very simple, which is to obtain overseas resources and serve the national strategy.”
He famously gave Hunter Biden a diamond worth an estimated $80k in 2017. This “gift” came up in Biden’s tax evasion investigation.
Jianming made inroads to the Bidens through James Gilliar. The two met in the Czech Republic when Jianming was throwing money around on behalf of CEFC. Jianming’s task was to spend $1.5 billion to ensure the Czech Republic would become China’s “Gateway to the European Union,”
By 2017 Hunter and Jianming’s interests were so closely connected that they planned to share office space along with former Vice President Biden in Washington. In one of emails, Hunter boasted that Jianming would pay him millions of dollars for “introductions alone”. Ye Jianming transferred over $130 million to the Hudson West V and FDLV Investment entities controlled by Gongwen Dong from June through August 2017 alone. Dong and Hunter Biden were partners in the Hudson West III corporation.
Before he left the US, Ye hired Hunter as his lawyer, as Hunter related in a New Yorker magazine interview. Ye reportedly offered Hunter $1million to be his ‘private counsel’ – though the only $1 million payment that appears on Hunter’s accounts around that time is for his representation of Ho.
Patrick Ho – secretary general of CEFC, the Chinese energy company Hunter partnered with, and which sent the Biden family more than $5 million. He was arrested and convicted by the Southern District of New York in 2018 for bribery and money laundering.
The case involved bribing the Presidents of Chad and Uganda for sweetheart oil and gas deals. (None of that here in the good ole USA of course.) Ho put $2 million cash in gift boxes and delivered them to Idriss Deby, the President of Chad. He also wired $500,000 to Sam Kutesa, the Foreign Minister of Uganda and schemed to send $500,000 to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. Ho was picked up at JFK airport in November of 2017 and convicted in 2018. He was sentenced to 3 years in prison.
Hunter referred to Ho as the “fucking spy chief of China”. It didn’t stop Hunter from accepting $1 million to represent Ho. After Ho’s arrest by the FBI, Hunter was asked to reach out to members of the FBI to find out more about the case against him. Hunter complied, referencing an agent he called “one-eye” to glean information.
Zang Jian Jun – Senior executive at CEFC and a senior figure in the China Chamber of International Commerce. James Gilliar appears to have had a close relationship with Jun, stating that he could bring up any issues with him personally.
Gal Luft – Israeli energy expert who was arrested for bribery and arms dealing in Cyprus. He claimed to have information about Hunter, Joe, and James Biden’s financial fraud schemes. He verified the information on the laptop about the FBI mole known as “One-Eye”.
Luft has given evidence to investigators for the House Oversight Committee
Gabriel Popoviciu – Romanian criminal who employed Hunter and Freeh in an attempt to get a conviction overturned. He paid $1 million to Hunter.
Louis Freeh – gave $100,00.00 to a private trust for Joe Biden’s grandchildren and wrote to Hunter in 2016 offering to set up a DC consultancy with the First Son and his then-Vice President father Joe.
Do you think Louis still knows some high-ranking officials in the FBI – like One Eye who is Hunter’s alleged mole in the Bureau. Did you know…Louis Freeh lost vision in his left eye after a serious car accident in 2014. He suffered serious damage to his left eye. His right eye is fine, so he still has ONE EYE.
Yelena Baturina – A wealthy Russian oligarch and the wife of the former mayor of Moscow. In 2014, she made a payment to Devon Asher at Rosemont Seneca Thornton LLC in the amount of $3.5 million for consulting fees. Baturina’s brother Viktor Baturin said the money was ‘a payment to enter the American market.’ It is believed that she engaged in business dealings with Biden related companies to the tune of approximately $200 million.
Baturina’s company Inteco also invested $40 million in Rosemont Realty. The money was part of financing for Rosemont Realty implement a $69.7million plan to invest in 2.15million sq ft of office space in seven US cities.
Baturina managed to escape the ire of the Biden Administration when the Ukraine War started. She was never the subject of the sanctions that many of her fellow oligarchs faced.
Mykola Zlochevsky – The CEO of Burisma. He allegedly has recordings of Hunter and Joe Biden that implicate the pair in a bribery scheme. This information is according to an as yet unidentified FBI informant.
According to several reports, the FBI investigation contains allegations that the Bidens of were paid a total of $10 million in 2015 and 2016 in exchange for the then-vice president advocating the ouster of Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin who was investigating Burisma.
Vladimir Yevtushenkov – billionaire owner of Russia’s largest cell phone company. He met with Hunter Biden, allegedly over real estate purchases in the United States. There is no clear financial transactions between the two, but Yevtushenkov has been mysteriously been left off the sanctions list.
Edward Caveney – James Biden partner at Biden, Caveney, and Stepnowski.
Michael Stepnowski – James Biden Partner at Biden, Caveney, and Stepnowski.
Michael Lewitt – A business partner of James Biden. They are partners in the firm of Biden and Lewitt LLC. He arranged for a loan to James Biden’s venture into Americore. Lewitt floated a loan to Americore at Biden’s request from his hedge fund, Third Friday Total Return. James Biden appears to have taken a loan from Americore that was never returned. The FBI raided the offices of Americore in January of 2020. There has been no update from the FBI on the results of their search warrant or progress of the case.
Anne Marie Person – a former Rosemont Seneca employee who wound up on Joe Biden’s staff in the Office of the Vice President. She allegedly kept Hunter informed of visiting dignitaries and official events. Hunter also had regular communications with Joe Biden’s secretary Kathy Chung who was recently interviewed by law enforcement of the secret documents scandal that made its way from his office. Hunter apparently recommended that his father hire Chung.
There is more to come on Hunter’s Associates. We will be updating and adding to this list frequently. We are also in the process of compiling a list of Hunter’s remarkably numerous corporations and associate’s corporations.
here is just a taste of what to expect –
HUDSON WEST LLC – Delaware 2015
HUDSON WEST I LLC (Delaware (US), 23 Aug 2015- )
HUDSON WEST II LLC (Delaware (US), 27 Oct 2015- )
HUDSON WEST III LLC (Delaware (US), 27 Oct 2015- ) This is Hunter and Dong Gongwen’s company that sent money to James Biden. I’m sure the other Hudson West LLCs are just innocent bystanders.
HUDSON WEST IV LLC (Delaware (US), 23 Aug 2015- )
HUDSON WEST VI LLC (Delaware (US), 23 Aug 2016- )
HUDSON WEST VII LLC (Delaware (US), 27 Oct 2017- )
HUDSON WEST VIII LLC (Delaware (US), 17 Jan 2018- )
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