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Unsurprisingly, HO’s first call from the Metropolitan Detention

Center after being arrested by federal agents on 11/18/2017
was to the pResident’s brother, Jimmy, in order to track down
his attorney, Hunter.612 HO was under FISA613 surveillance,
so HO’s calls to Jimmy614 and Hunter were recorded, which
would certainly make for some very interesting listening—and
it made the FBI slow-walk of the Biden Laptop that much
more egregious.615 According to evidence616 presented at
HO’s trial, the FISA surveillance revealed the CEFC NGO’s
modus operandi in detail: ensnare617 so-called developing
countries in situations that eventually force them to give up
ownership of their natural resources to CEFC Energy. In other
words, HO, and his benefactor, YE, were loan sharks to
African despots—and the African countries were left holding
the bag because the despots would get paid off.618 Judge
Preska, at HO’s sentencing hearing, repeated lines from a
UN Convention: “Corruption is an insidious plague” that is
“found in all countries—big and small, rich and poor—but it is
in the developing world that its effects are most destructive.”

612 David Barboza et al., “A Chinese Tycoon Sought Power and Influence. Washington Responded.,” New York Times,
December 2018, archive.ph/7Si9h
613 “Respectfully submitted … By … Andrew J. DeFilippis[.]”

See United States v. Chi Ping Patrick Ho (17-cr-00779), Document 45, S.D.N.Y., tinyurl.com/2s4kv2a7
614 Rowan Scarborough, “Hunter Biden took care of Uncle Jim,” The Washington Times, May 2022, archive.ph/GqMvu

615 Chuck Ross, “Feds Obtained FISA Warrant Against Hunter Biden’s Chinese Business Associate [],” Daily Caller,

October 2020, archive.ph/OcQQi

616 Alvin LUM, “Patrick Ho’s lawyers accuse US authorities of using ‘illegally’ obtained evidence in charges for US$2.9

million corruption scandals,” South China Morning Post, April 2018, archive.ph/ypj3a
617 “One subsidiary of the CEFC that is of particular interest is the China Institute of Culture Limited (CIOC, 中国⽂化院).
Registered in 2012 (also in Hong Kong), the CIOC is a nationally supported organization in charge of ‘promoting Chinese
culture.’”
See J. Michael Cole, “Unstoppable: China’s Secret Plan to Subvert Taiwan,” National Interest, March 2015,
archive.fo/zVEeo
618 James Areddy, “Bribery Trial Spotlights China’s ‘Belt and Road’,” Wall Street Journal, November 2018,

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Hunter did not spend a single day in court on behalf of the globe-trotting619620 Chinese loan shark.
Instead, Hunter farmed that work out to attorneys at the white-shoe firm Krieger Kim & Lewin LLP
(whose founding partner, Ed Kim, departed the S.D.N.Y. just two621 months before HO was arrested).
However, Hunter did arrange to get the $1M from HO622 wired to his shell company, Owasco LLC.623

DONG Kevin

Mesires

619 United States v. Chi Ping Patrick Ho (17-cr-00779), Document 40-2, S.D.N.Y., February 2018, archive.ph/uLrZU
620 “The Belt and Road Initiative put forward by China in 2013 has attempted to achieve similar goals with bilateral and
multilateral cooperation in building infrastructure to promote connectivity and produce jobs, followed by empowering
MSME for trade and exchanges, and finally achieving a win‐win situation of improving the livelihood of the people by
bringing prosperity, hope, and peace. Since 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative is beginning to see results.”
See “[] Forum on Sustainable development: Dr. Patrick C P HO,” United Nations, July 2017, tinyurl.com/35a84w58
621 “Edward Y. Kim,” LinkedIn, archive.ph/nfBi9

622 “Its investments have largely meshed with China’s efforts to court other countries by offering infrastructure investment,

an indication of why it has been able to make such deals. The company’s expansion underscores how Chinese
businesses are increasingly mixing money with diplomacy as they scour the world to secure valuable natural resources.
The criminal complaint charging Mr. Ho casts a light on the practice — and on a vast, mysterious conglomerate with ties
to the Chinese Communist Party. CEFC provides all of the financing for the China Energy Fund Committee, a Hong Kong
research organization. The conglomerate’s founder, Ye Jianming, is listed as a chairman on the think tank’s website.”
See Alexandra Stevenson, “U.S. Bribery Case Sheds Light on Mysterious Chinese Company,” New York Times,
November 2017, archive.ph/JudZE
623 Nick Monroe, “The Down Low on Hunter Biden and China,” January 2021, archive.ph/p1GpT

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One of the feds who was likely involved in the FISA surveillance of HO was Charlie McGonigal, the
then-SAC for Counterintelligence in the New York Field Office (NYFO).624 (McGonigal’s wife was on
the Biden Laptop, as the couple’s daughter and one of Hunter’s daughters played lacrosse together.)
McGonigal is the subject of a federal grand jury probe625 for possible FARA violations and other
dealings with Russian oligarchs. Based on an email from Kim, determining if McGonigal was one of
the agents Hunter “spoke with” on HO’s behalf ought to be the focus of a Congressional subpoena.

Edward “Ed” Young Kyu Kim

NY Bar #: 4305223

Kim walking to HO’s trial (11/2018)

Charles ‘Charlie’ Franklin McGonigal archive.ph/Op1SU
DOB: 06/23/1968
archive.ph/eLPpY
fb.com/pamela.f.mcgonigal
fb.com/sarah.mcgonigal.1
archive.ph/knG5r

McGonigal’s daughter

624 “Ambassador John Herbst, Director, Eurasia Center, Atlantic Council, moderates the discussion.”
See “Lubyanka federation: How the FSB determines the politics and economics of Russia,” Atlantic Council, October
2020, archive.ph/XYvQv
625 “While it wouldn’t necessarily have been illegal for McGonigal to work on behalf of Deripaska, failing to disclose

activities covered by the Foreign Agents Registration Act, such as lobbying and public relations, is punishable by a
$250,000 fine and up to five years in prison. … ‘You are seeing an erosion in any rule of law as it relates to the
FSB,’ [McGonigal] said. ‘It would be akin to having in the United States the FBI as a rogue element, operating at the
behest of the highest bidder.’ McGonigal’s profile on LinkedIn says he is the senior vice president of ‘global security and
life safety’ at Brookfield Properties, a multibillion-dollar real-estate company in New York. But that information, apparently,
is inaccurate. ‘Charlie McGonigal is no longer with Brookfield,’ Andrew Brent, Brookfield’s head of communications, told
Insider. McGonigal left the company, he added, in early January — just as witnesses were scheduled to appear before the
grand jury.”
See Mattathias Schwartz, “Former top FBI official involved in Trump-Russia investigation under scrutiny by federal
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When Where (Venue) Who (Accomplices) What

S.D.N.Y. & DONG Kevin & 18 USC §§ 2, 981(a)(1)(A), 1956(a)(1)(a)(i),
03/20/2018ff
E.D. Ark. HO Patrick 1957(a) & Ark. Code § 5-42-204

One month after XI626 detained YE, an email from Wells Fargo’s Cindy Duncan627 confirmed that a
$1,000,032 wire transfer hit Hunter’s account after he requested his retainer from HO628 via DONG.
Within an hour, Hunter asked Duncan how to access the illegally acquired funds (per the FARA) and
send it to other shell companies, such as Skaneateles.629 These paper trails exposed Joe’s ridiculous
lie: “My son has not made money in terms of this thing about—what are you talking about—China.”630

Cynthia “Cindy” Duncan

HO & Greenspan (10/28/2015)

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626 “Ye’s detention in China was ordered directly by the Chinese president Xi Jinping[.]”
See NG Eric and YU Xie, “China detains CEFC’s founder Ye Jianming, wiping out US$153 million in value off stocks,”
South China Morning Post, March 2018, archive.ph/oEpZb
627 “Cindy Duncan,” Wells Fargo Advisors, archive.ph/TZk0n

628 “His name is Patrick Ho. He’s from Hong Kong. And he’s becoming a regular fixture at these types of events. It’s not

quite clear what he does. But he does run a think tank, seems to have a ton of money to spend. … ‘Not just a think tank -
a do tank.’ And Patrick Ho was doing a lot. What people at that event didn’t know is that over the past few years … Patrick
Ho had been trying to make globalization 2.0 happen with millions of dollars in bribes.”
See “The Belt, the Road and the Money,” NPR, April 2020, archive.fo/qFGg5
629 “Documents reveal ex-Hong Kong minister Patrick Ho’s offshore firms and business ties in mainland,” Hong Kong Free

Press, July 2018, archive.fo/7aBLs

630 “Presidential Debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee” The Commission on Presidential Debates,

October 2020, archive.ph/5fPo2

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When Where (Venue) Who (Accomplices) What

D.D.C. & Jimmy & 18 USC §§ 2, 981(a)(1)(A), 1956(a)(1)(a)(i),
05/24/2018ff
E.D. Pa. Sara Biden 1957(a) & 18 PA Stat § 5111

Jimmy and his wife, Sara, benefited from Hunter’s illegal (unregistered) representation of a foreign
principal. Later that spring, Jimmy’s firm sent multiple fraudulent invoices for $82,500 as his “Monthly
Retainer for International Business Development” to Hunter’s shell company. In truth, the funds
Jimmy sought originated from Hunter’s faux legal counsel for HO and the original slush fund631 set up
by YE. As you will read in the INFLUENCE PEDDLING section, Jimmy alluded to these transactions
as his “monthly draw,” confirming that there was no active “business development” occurring. YE had,
in every sense of the phrase, set up a piggy bank for Hunter and Jimmy. In a bold and hilariously
ironic move, Jimmy sent a reminder—“Invoice 1180”—to let Hunter know that Hunter owed $14,001.

HO’s trial in the S.D.N.Y. (12/2018)

Jimmy Biden (05/18/2019)

Apple iPad_N39.7781W75.5965_20180210_054109.jpg

$1,398,999 via YE
Accounts controlled Accounts controlled
(Northern Int’l Capital) Hudson West III LLC
by Hunter Biden by Jimmy Biden
and/or (pass-through entity)
(e.g. Owasco) (e.g. Lion Hall Group)
$1,000,032 via HO

“Cathay Bank 8969,” Marco Polo,

631

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