{"id":1421058,"date":"2022-04-06T05:14:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T09:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1421058"},"modified":"2022-04-06T05:14:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T09:14:49","slug":"the-criminal-investigation-into-hunter-biden-is-heating-up-heres-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-criminal-investigation-into-hunter-biden-is-heating-up-heres-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"The Criminal Investigation Into Hunter Biden Is Heating Up: Here\u2019s What You Need To Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-criminal-investigation-into-hunter-biden-is-heating-up-heres-what-you-need-to-know%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1421058&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/Hunter-Biden.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>The federal government\u2019s criminal investigation into Joe Biden\u2019s son, Hunter, is reportedly gaining steam. As prosecutors begin seeking key grand jury testimony, new information appears to indicate the president himself may be linked to his son\u2019s scheme.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Background<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>In 2018, the Department of Justice launched a criminal investigation into Hunter Biden that centered on potential money laundering, tax fraud, the violation of foreign lobbying laws and more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At the center of the investigation was whether Hunter used his father\u2019s position in the U.S. government over the last decade to secure millions of dollars in fraudulent overseas business deals. Evidence appears to show Hunter flaunted access to his father as a means of securing meetings and permits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Now, the growing question for investigators and the general public is whether President Biden himself was in on this, or at the very least, aware of it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>President Biden\u2019s Potential Involvement<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Indirectly, it appears Joe Biden\u2019s position did play a role in helping his son secure deals. For example, when he was vice president, Joe Biden took Hunter with him on a trip to Asia on Air Force Two which included a stop in Shanghai where Hunter was attempting to open a private equity firm. Just ten days after that visit, Hunter secured a highly sought-after Chinese business license that allowed him to set up a fund there \u2014 something notoriously difficult for U.S. businessmen to secure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Then in 2014, despite having no experience in the energy sector, Hunter infamously scored a million dollar a year gig with a Ukrainian energy company. At the time, Vice President Biden was in charge of America\u2019s Ukraine policy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The President has so far denied that either of those deals had anything to do with him, but new evidence seems to implicate him in some other stories as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0For example, one text message that was confirmed to be authentic last week shows Hunter in 2019 complaining that he had to give \u201chalf his salary\u201d to his father.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Peter Schweizer, the author of Red Handed, told The Daily Wire the implications are potentially criminal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHunter Biden was getting money from these overseas deals. He was paying some of his father\u2019s monthly bills, but. He was also paying for things like renovations on his father\u2019s home in Delaware, et cetera. That\u2019s patently illegal in the United States.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cPoliticians can\u2019t be subsidized by family members. And the fact that the money came from overseas of course means that, uh, that has further implications,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The DOJ investigation is also reportedly looking into a 2017 email that showed one of Hunter Biden\u2019s business partners outlining the proposed distribution for equity in the aforementioned Chinese company, saying \u201c10 held by H for the big guy.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That email got the attention of the grand jury investigating Hunter, and reportedly led them to ask at least one confidential witness to reveal the identity of \u201cthe big guy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The President\u2019s Response<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>While the President has done his best to avoid talking about the matter, his staff has routinely adamantly denied that he had anything to do with the alleged scheme, and in past weeks, they\u2019ve begun to further distance themselves from Hunter Biden.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ron Klain, the current White House Chief of Staff, says the President was \u201cconfident that his son didn\u2019t break the law.\u201d He went on to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/week-transcript-22-white-house-chief-staff-ron\/story?id=83832024\"><span>call<\/span><\/a><span> them \u201cprivate matters\u201d that \u201cdon\u2019t involve the President\u201d and \u201ccertainly are something that no one at the White House is involved in.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But according to a new <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/ron-klain-solicited-money-hunter-biden-emails-vp-residence\"><span>report<\/span><\/a><span> from Fox News, Klain himself has previously asked Hunter Biden for money. In 2012, Klain reportedly emailed Hunter asking for help raising $20,000 for the Vice President\u2019s Residence Foundation, a group that furnishes the Vice President\u2019s residence. Klain reportedly told Hunter that he wanted to \u201ckeep it low key\u201d to prevent \u201cbad pr.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government\u2019s criminal investigation into Joe Biden\u2019s son, Hunter, is reportedly gaining steam. As prosecutors begin seeking key grand jury testimony, new information appears to indicate the president himself<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}