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I think all of you know her from her work with Rosemont Seneca, wrote then-Vice President Bidens assistant, Kathy Chung, in a May 27, 2014 email to Beau, Hunter and Jim Biden and other members of the Biden clan. [114][115], On October 14, 2020, twenty days prior to the 2020 United States presidential election, the New York Post published an article, with the involvement of Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and former chief strategist Steve Bannon, about a laptop computer of unknown origin and chain of custody that appeared to belong to Hunter Biden, who allegedly left it for repairs at a Wilmington, Delaware computer shop owned by John Paul Mac Isaac, but never retrieved it. Other emails showed Biden and his business partner discussing inviting foreign business associates, including a Burisma executive, to attend an April 2015 dinner in Washington, where the vice president would stop by. [58][59][60] Christopher Heinz, John Kerry's stepson, opposed his partners Devon Archer and Hunter Biden joining the board in 2014 due to the reputational risk. However, "The vast majority of the dataand most of the nearly 129,000 emails it containedcould not be verified by either of the two security experts who reviewed the data for The Post. [37], Several bank accounts linked to Hunter Biden have received $3.8 million in payments from CEFC China Energy, an oil and gas company with links to the Chinese Communist Party. [135] Biden began a relationship with Hallie Olivere Biden, widow of his brother Beau, in 2016. Topics We are sorry, but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. Check if your President Donald Trump and his allies, concerning Hunter Biden's business dealings in Ukraine and Joe Biden's anti-corruption efforts there. Ambassador? cookies In the end, 1,850 boxes of files from the then-vice presidents DC office were delivered to University of Delaware in June 2012 on 33 pallets carried by two trucks, according to media reports at the time. Former Rosemont Seneca Advisors President Eric Schwerin communicated with Bidens deputy counsels Katherine Oyama and Michael Mongan in the lead-up to the delivery of the trove, and concerns were expressed by the Obama White House about the contents of the donation. [29] Biden was the board's vice chairman from July 2006 until 2009, was replaced as vice chairman in January 2010,[30] and resigned from the board in February,[31] shortly after his father became vice president. PolitiFact | Hunter Biden paid $50,000 in rent for office space in DC In May 2017, he met with Ye Jianming, chairman of Chinese energy company CEFC, to discuss investment opportunities in the US. Devon is also the executive director of Rosemont Reality as well as a General Partner in Rosemont Seneca Partners. The report, which bases the claim on a confidential document which has not been made public, doesnt accuse Joe Biden of any wrongdoing and does not claim Hunter Bidens business dealings influenced Obama administration foreign policy. Trump claimed that the former vice president got $3.5 million from Russia and it came through Putin because he was very friendly with the former mayor of Moscow. Justice Department National Security Division, "How Hunter Biden's Firm Helped Secure Cobalt for the Chinese", "There's a New Artist in Town. [50] Biden's lawyer George Mesires told The Washington Post that BHR Partners had been "capitalized from various sources with a total of 30 million RMB [Chinese Renminbi], or about $4.2 million, not $1.5 billion".