Opinion: This Hunter Biden deal in a foreign country really does look bad – By Frank Figliuzzi (MSNBC) / April 6, 2022
We should require all candidates for high office to report their foreign financial interests and those of their immediate family members.
How should we think about the curious case of Hunter Biden?
According to a report last week from The Washington Post, the president’s son signed a contract with an executive with the Chinese energy company CEFC in August 2017. According to the newspaper, “Over the course of 14 months, the Chinese energy conglomerate and its executives paid $4.8 million to entities controlled by Hunter Biden and his uncle, according to government records, court documents and newly disclosed bank statements, as well as emails contained on a copy of a laptop hard drive that purportedly once belonged to Hunter Biden.” Hunter’s uncle James Biden is the president’s brother, and the contract in question, according to The Post, provided Hunter Biden a one-time retainer of $500,000, in addition to monthly stipends of $100,000 for him and $65,000 for his uncle.
The Post says neither Hunter Biden nor his attorney responded to numerous messages and that when James Biden was reached on his mobile phone and asked about the CEFC deal, he declined to comment.
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