The Justice Department has consistently turned a blind eye to compelling evidence of Biden family corruption, even as it continues to prepare charges against former President Donald Trump in a flagrant case of election interference.
RealClearInvestigation’s Paul Sperry has found in Justice Department documents that presidential son Hunter Biden’s Chinese business partner Chi Ping Ho not only “distributed international bribes, but trafficked weapons, including grenade launchers and anti-tank missiles.”
As Sperry explains, the Ho-Hunter connection was buried in court documents. But the DOJ refrained from prosecuting Hunter Biden or his brother James Biden as unregistered foreign agents.
In 2016-2017, evidence shows, the FBI raided the offices and intercepted the communications of Chi Ping “Patrick” Ho, a Chinese national suspected of espionage even as he was negotiating business deals with the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, Hunter and brother James. .
The DOJ later used information obtained from the searches and wiretapping, which included conversations with the current president’s son and brother, to convict Ho of bribery and money laundering, as part of a separate corruption case involving United Nations officials. But he refused to use his evidence, including “more than 100,000 emails,” to explore connections between Ho and the Bidens, who received millions of dollars from Ho and a Chinese intelligence front and spoke to share office space.
At Ho’s 2018 trial, prosecutors concealed Hunter’s connection to Ho, removing his name from court exhibits (see sidebar) while describing Ho as “the person who flies around the world paying bribes to advance the interest of the oil company. [CEFC China Energy],” according to transcripts of the hearing.
A federal database shows the Bidens failed to register as foreign agents while engaging in activities on behalf of CEFC, a state entity suspected of being a front for Chinese intelligence. Federal counter-espionage laws require anyone acting as a lobbyist for a foreign power to register with the Department of Justice under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
The DOJ did not prosecute any members of the Biden family for potential FARA violations for representing the interests of the Chinese.
As Sperry points out, the “texts indicate that Hunter was familiar with the requirements of the law.” Offenses carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
Members of the Biden family were never prosecuted, a brazen double standard that contrasts with the goal of Trump’s former national security adviser, retired Lt. Gen. Flynn. As Sperry explains:
In 2016, the FBI opened an investigation into Flynn based on possible FARA violations. Although the case was later dismissed, prosecutors accused him of making false statements. The DOJ also had to dismiss those charges.
Flynn is now suing those who targeted him for alleged “malicious prosecution,” which is further highlighted by the Justice Department’s refusal to similarly investigate members of the Biden family.
This month, Flynn filed a $50 million lawsuit claiming “malicious prosecution” by Comey, his former deputy Andrew McCabe and his counterintelligence chief Peter Strzok, along with former special counsel Robert Mueller and his lead prosecutor Brandon Van Grack, an Obama donor.
The 51-page complaint filed in federal court in Tampa alleges its goal was to sabotage Trump and prevent Flynn from blowing the whistle on the FBI’s illegitimate Russiagate investigation as Trump’s national security adviser, where he would have had access to the intelligence from all agencies. Then-Vice President Biden is named in the scheme.
In a phone interview, Flynn told RealClearInvestigations that the specter of his exposure of the FBI and DOJ cover-up of the Bidens’ Chinese connection was “another reason to get me out of the way.”
As the former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, he said he posed a direct threat to corrupt actors in the intelligence community: “There was never a national security adviser with my type of training in this key role.”
Something needs to be done about the two tier justice system. Flynn’s lawsuit will further expose the weaponized Justice Department and its abuses by partisan Democrats.
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