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Biden pardons his own bribery-kickback-conspiracy and tax-evasion.

2 December 2024, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

The Biden Administration did not prosecute Hunter Biden for any of the crimes that would implicate his father the President, but only for lesser crimes, and the pardon by Joe Biden of Hunter Biden on December 2nd was written so as to not only prevent his son from going to prison (which the news-media report), but also to prevent Hunter from being prosecuted for the crimes that DID implicate his father, as being the “big man” (as the evidence on Hunter Biden’s computer put it) in an international influence-peddling conspiracy ring in which Hunter was ‘hired’ by business entities in Ukraine (and also in China), to provide no other service than to obtain from the U.S. Government (under Joe Biden) legal protection of Hunter’s Ukrainian employer, Mykola Zlochevsky, from a corruption investigation against Zlochevsky by Ukraine’s government — which government has, ever since February 2014, been controlled by the U.S. Government. In other words: this was (and still is) protection-money for that service, which U.S. Vice President Joe Biden DID provide to Zlochevsky/Burisma, and, according to multiple evidences Zlochevsky paid for by $5 million each to both Joe and Hunter Biden, and for which monies neither the father nor the son reported as having been taxable income.

Here is how the Epoch Times reported that matter on 20 July 2023:

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https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/fbi-source-provided-allegations-that-joe-biden-hunter-biden-were-bribed-document-5412158

https://archive.is/dD09M

“FBI Source Provided Allegations That Joe Biden, Hunter Biden Received Bribes: Document”

20 July 2023, Zachary Stieber is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times based in Maryland. He covers U.S. and world news. Contact Zachary at zack.stieber@epochtimes.com

A confidential source provided information to the FBI in 2020 alleging that then-presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden were bribed to pressure Ukraine to remove a prosecutor investigating Burisma, the Ukrainian company that employed the younger Mr. Biden, according to a document made public on July 20.

The source said he traveled to Burisma’s office in Ukraine in 2015 or 2016 with a man named Oleksandr Ostapenko. During the meeting, Vadim Pojarskii, chief financial officer of Burisma, told the source that the company hired Mr. Hunter Biden “to protect [the company], through his dad, from all kinds of problems.”

Burisma contacted the source to seek assistance in buying a U.S. company to merge with in the hope that it could go public in the United States.

After an investigation of Burisma by Ukraine Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin was disclosed in 2016, the source told Mykola Zlochevsky, owner of Burisma, that the disclosure would have a negative effect on the prospective initial public offering. Mr. Zlochevsky replied that Mr. Hunter Biden “will take care of all of those issues through his dad,” according to the document.

Mr. Zlochevsky was also cited as saying that it cost $5 million to pay one Biden and $5 million to pay another Biden.

The source replied that payments to the Bidens would complicate matters and that the Bidens didn’t have experience with the oil and gas sector, according to the document. Mr. Zlochevsky said that despite his low opinion of Mr. Hunter Biden’s intelligence, Mr. Zlochevsky needed to keep him on the board “so everything will be okay.” He also said both Bidens had told him that Mr. Hunter Biden needed to remain on the board.

At about the same time, Mr. Joe Biden, U.S. vice president at the time, was pressuring Ukrainian officials to fire Mr. Shokin.

“‘We’re leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor’s not fired, you’re not getting the money,’” Mr. Joe Biden said at a public event about the interaction, referring to a $1 billion loan guarantee he threatened to withhold. “Well, son of a [expletive]. He got fired.”

Mr. Shokin has said that the threat was cited when he was ousted. He said in a sworn statement that then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko asked him to resign because of “pressure from the U.S. presidential administration, in particular from Joe Biden.” …

Released by Congress

The document was a summary of conversations between the FBI and the source. It was dated July 30, 2020. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) released it, with redactions, after receiving a copy from the FBI. The bureau initially refused to hand over the document but finally did so after the House moved to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt. …

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That Ukrainian Prosecutor’s, Shokin’s, sworn witness testimony has been hidden from the public by the ‘news’-media but can be seen HERE. Nobody has presented evidence anywhere that anything said in it is false; so, secrecy regarding it has been the only ‘defense’ against it. Christopher Wray lied to Congress about it, but was then forced by Congressional Republicans to produce it, and Congressional Republicans made only minimal efforts to make it available to, and seen by, the public. And Shokin himself was not called to Congress to testify in public.

See especially #8 and #11 there: “8. The truth is that I was forced out because I was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into Burisma Holdings (“Burisma”), a natural gas firm active in Ukraine, and Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, [who] was a member of the Board of Directors.” “11. After my dismissal Joe Biden made a public statement, saying — even bragging — that he had me fired.” But his ENTIRE 12-page Witness Statement is informative.

The CIA-edited and written Wikipedia (which blacklists (blocks from linking to) sites that aren’t CIA-approved) says of Shokin:

Parliamentary investigations and removal from office [edit]

In July 2015, shortly after his appointment, reformist minority member Yehor Soboliev advanced a motion to dismiss Shokin for corruption, gaining 127 of the required 150 signatures including several members of the ruling parties.^[61] Representatives of the EU and the United States pressed Poroshenko for his removal,^[5] as did the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.^[6]

In March 2016 the Ukrainian Parliament voted overwhelmingly to remove Shokin, a decision which was welcomed by the EU.^[62]

In short: he is being simply smeared throughout the U.S. empire. And even the Republicans ignore him and his testimony — and the reams of additional evidences, such as what was on Hunter Biden’s laptop computer.

Here is how President Biden’s 1 December 2024 pardon of his son reads:

A Full and Unconditional Pardon

For those offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.

That includes not ONLY the lesser crimes, for which Hunter was convicted, but ALSO the bribery-kickback-conspiracy and tax-evasion ring, of which the “big man” was U.S. Vice President and now full President, Joe Biden, Hunter Biden’s father.

In other words: it means that not only will Hunter not be imprisoned, nor ever be prosecuted for the crimes that he did as part of his father’s crime-ring, but Joe Biden himself cannot be prosecuted for his role in it.

There is considerably more evidence that has been made public (even if not published in mainstream media) about the Biden family’s influence-peddling operation of bribery-kickback-conspiracy and tax-evasion. For example, the Epoch Times, on 9 December 2023, headlined “Ukrainian Gas Company Halved Hunter Biden's Salary After Father Left White House in 2017, Indictment Reveals. After salary cut, Hunter Biden would continue to work with Burisma for two more years, leaving the company in April 2019.” Apparently, Trump’s first years in the White House convinced Zlochevsky that the Biden family no longer had much influence to peddle.

On 4 July 2024, I headlined “WHY IS JOE BIDEN NOT BEING TRIED FOR BRIBERY & CONSPIRACY?” and summarized the massive evidence that the Republicans in Congress had assembled but refused to act upon regarding both the Ukrainian and the Chinese wings of the Biden family’s influence-peddling crime-ring. It raises seriously the question as to whether the U.S. might have the world’s most corrupt Government.

On 11 June 2024, I headlined “Biden is the most corrupt President in U.S. history.” The fact that he gets away with all of it is proof that America needs a Second American Revolution.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.