CBS News Uncovers Over 150 Banking Transactions Involving Hunter or James Biden ‘Flagged as Concerning’ A new report says more than 150 financial transactions of two Biden family members raised bankers’ eyebrows.
CBS News reported that more than 150 financial transactions involving either President Joe Biden’s son or his brother were “flagged as concerning” by U.S. banks. The report Wednesday noted that simply because a transaction was flagged does not mean it was improper or illegal, only that it was reviewed. CBS News reported that it did not know the outcome of the review of any of the transactions.
CBS News senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge said one reason transactions are reviewed is to determine whether there has been an effort to hide the source of the transactions.
She said the amounts of various transactions and their frequency can also make a bank want to ask questions of the account holder to determine what is going on. Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa told CBS News he believes James Biden was “instrumental” in Hunter Biden’s business activities in China.
“I think James Biden was very much a part of this,” Grassley said. James Biden’s company, the Lion Hall Group, received money from what the report said was a Chinese-financed group in 2018.
Grassley noted that monthly retainer fees from a Chinese group amounted to $100,000 for Hunter Biden and $65,000 for James Biden, according to CBS News. “So, what this tells us is that Hunter Biden and James Biden linked up with companies connected to the communist regime to assist them with finding projects for global and domestic infrastructure and energy,” the senator said in prepared remarks when he presented his findings last week.
“We have people with the Biden name dealing with Chinese business people that have a relationship to the Communist Party,” he said. “I think it’s very concerning.” Grassley agreed with a comment from Herridge that the records he has been reviewing have “come directly from the banks,” with “no third party” involved.
CBS News noted that a federal subpoena sought bank records from Hunter Biden and James Biden going back to 2014. “I think Hunter and James Biden should not have entered into those relationships,” Robert Weissman, president of the advocacy group Public Citizen, said. “In the best case, those things look really bad. In the worst case, the consequences can be quite serious,” he said.
“To the extent those occurred while Joe Biden was the vice president, there’s a worry that they hope to get something direct from the Obama administration,” he said. Weissman said concerns do not end when Joe Biden was no longer vice president because there was concern over “investing in these family members to get future benefits in the possibility that Joe Biden would become president later on.” Grassley said new records show that Hunter Biden and an executive of a Chinese firm applied jointly for a $99,000 line of credit in 2017.
“These records we got are the first records that have ever been made public on this issue. Nobody else has them,” the senator said. “These years of records show that Hunter Biden and James Biden were more connected to the communist regime’s elements than had been previously known,” he said in his remarks last week.
Liberal Hivemind is a great YouTube CH and thanks to them for letting us all know who this woman is if you’re not aware, and now after watching his video I can say I’m not shocked as this is just typical bull by the Democrats as once again they get one of their own CAUGHT Faking Ethnicity! Kristen Claims To Be “HISPANIC”. Problem Is.. She’s NOT.
Kristen Rosen Gonzalez, who’s vying to get her seat on the Miami Beach commission back, told local Democratic Party leaders last week that they should endorse her because she’s “the most high-profile Hispanic Democrat” in the city.
But it didn’t take long for that argument to blow up in her face because she’s not actually Hispanic. She’s Jewsish and American. Now after being called out for her false claims, Rosen Gonzalez was forced to apologize and insisted it was all a terrible mistake.“It is being reported that I have called myself Hispanic. Clearly, I misspoke. I deeply apologize to anyone that was offended,” she told The Washington Post. They’re all sorry when they get caught in a lie. But they tell the lie thinking people are too stupid to find out it’s a lie. She’s now exposed, and while she later told the Miami Herald editorial board that she’s “always identified politically as a Hispanic.” and continued with “I’ve apologized and I’ve said I am obviously not Hispanic,” she added.
Rosen Gonzalez married a man named Emilio Gonzalez in 2001. She took his last name and kept it even though the couple divorced in 2009. She acknowledges that her children are Hispanic, that she’s close to the Hispanic community, and speaks Spanish fluently.
“That does not make me Hispanic,” she has said… Her kids are half from a Hispanic background and half Jewish American on her side… They should embrace both the sides, and this woman should not use our culture, and ethnicity to pander for votes.
Maria-Elena Lopez, acting chair of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party, was part of the Zoom interview with local leaders and said she was shocked to hear the candidate identify herself as Hispanic. “By keeping a Hispanic name, you are trying to confuse voters,” she said.
The former commissioner has seemingly tried to capitalize on her last name on the campaign trail. She’s been accused of having “Gonzalez” blown up in larger letters than the rest of her name on posters and signs. Later Rosen-Gonzalez defended her false identity claims to CBS Miami by explaining how close she is to the Hispanic community.
“I’m their girl,” she said. “My last name is Hispanic. I know I’m not Hispanic.” You’re not our girl, and we don’t want you in our community. We don’t like liberals, liars, and con artists, and she’s all those things. To quote ICE CUBE… “Bye Felicia…”
Explosive bombshell have launched against Joe Biden tying him to his son Hunter Biden’s overseas business interests, publicizing emails and photos supposedly from a laptop alleged to have been abandoned by the younger Biden and timing their release in a manner reminiscent of Russia’s efforts to dump damaging material about Hillary Clinton in 2016. Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, said his own attorney, Robert Costello, obtained the material from the owner of a computer repair shop in Wilmington, Delaware, after Hunter Biden allegedly left it there for months. Giuliani provided the material to the New York Post on Sunday, and the Post began running stories about the supposed documents this week. But the owner of the computer store, John Paul MacIsaac, was unable and unwilling to answer key questions about how the laptop supposedly arrived in his store, and eventually, how the data was shared with Giuliani. CBS News interviewed MacIsaac for almost two hours on Wednesday and throughout the interview he contradicted himself about his motivations, raising questions about the truthfulness of one of the central figures in the story.
MacIsaac told CBS News he first turned over the hard drive to the FBI last December during the president’s impeachment, and provided a copy of its contents to Costello after becoming frustrated by the Senate trial in January. MacIsaac refused to provide key details about his interactions with Giuliani. The Post’s first story ricocheted across major social media platforms on Wednesday before Facebook and Twitter moved to block its distribution, seemingly wary of allowing the dissemination of the kind of misinformation that spread across their networks in the run-up to the 2016 election. Mr. Trump seized on the Post story and the ensuing tech crackdown to paint Biden as corrupt and the media as complicit before a massive crowd of supporters in Iowa on Wednesday night. Giuliani apparently held the information for months and released it less than three weeks before the election. Giuliani has long been involved in efforts by the president and his allies to highlight Hunter Biden’s work overseas to damage Joe Biden and boost Mr. Trump’s reelection campaign, and in 2019 met with a Ukrainian lawmaker who has been deemed an “active Russian agent” by the U.S. government.
What was allegedly on the laptop?
CBS News has not seen or corroborated the data supposedly on the hard drive, and Giuliani has declined to allow other news outlets to review the information. In a story published Wednesday, 20 days before the election, the Post said it included a trove of Hunter Biden’s emails and photos, some of which it published. The Post story trumpeted a “smoking-gun email” allegedly showing Hunter Biden had arranged for a meeting in 2015 between his father and an adviser to the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company. Hunter Biden was a member of the board. A photo of the alleged email published by the Post shows it was written by Vadym Pozharskyi, the Burisma adviser, and reads, in part: “thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together.” The Post presents this line as evidence that Pozharskyi met with Joe Biden, who was spearheading the Obama administration’s policy toward Ukraine. If true, it could contradict Biden’s assertions that he “never discussed” his son’s foreign business interests with him.
But a spokesman for the Biden campaign said a review of Biden’s schedule for the period in question showed no such meeting with Pozharskyi, and several of Biden’s top advisers who worked closely with him on Ukraine policy have publiclysaid they’ve never heard of him. While they did not rule out the possibility that Biden and Pozharskyi interacted briefly on the sidelines of an event, they said a formal meeting did not happen.
“We have reviewed Joe Biden’s official schedules from the time and no meeting, as alleged by the New York Post, ever took place,” said Andrew Bates, a Biden campaign spokesman. Republicans and the president’s allies allege Biden pushed in 2016 for the ouster of Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin to shield Burisma and, by implication, Hunter Biden from an anti-corruption investigation. But both the U.S. and the European Union had called for Shokin’s ouster over his failure to prosecute officials for corruption, and an investigation into Burisma was at that point dormant. Biden eventually threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid from Ukraine unless Shokin was fired, and the country’s parliament voted to remove him in 2016.
Mr. Trump was impeached by the House last year over his efforts to pressure the current Ukrainian government to investigate Hunter Biden’s ties to Burisma. After Mr. Trump was acquitted by the Senate, Senate Republicans launched their own investigation into Hunter Biden’s Ukraine connections, resulting in the publication of a report last month that called his actions “problematic” but did not allege the former vice president acted to protect his son, nor accuse him of any wrongdoing.
The owner of the repair store’s political motivations came to light in the interview with CBS News and a few other reporters, raising even more questions about the veracity of how this supposed laptop became public. MacIsaac, the owner, said several times how he felt Mr. Trump was treated unfairly during his impeachment trial and suggested if the alleged documents are true, the “sham” impeachment was reason to release them. He also repeatedly mentioned his girlfriend left him after he voted for Trump in 2016.
Asked about the timeline of events detailed in the Post story, MacIsaac told CBS News that a man who identified himself as Hunter Biden dropped off three laptops to have them repaired in April 2019. He said the man never paid him for the repairs and did not return to pick them up. Standing in his shop on Wednesday, MacIsaac admitted he was unable to confirm it was actually Hunter Biden who dropped off the laptop because he is “legally blind” and only realized it was the former vice president’s son when Hunter stated his name for the point of contact. The Mac Shop is equipped with indoor cameras that preserve recordings for two months. MacIsaac said he did not realize the significance of the laptops until after the footage was automatically deleted.
MacIsaac also would not reveal when he first looked through the data, and refused to provide key details about his handling of the material. Asked by CBS News if he actually saw the email purportedly from Pozharskyi, he repeatedly said “no comment” before saying he “believed” he had. MacIsaac refused to answer in any detail whether or why he would have searched through the laptop to find a four-year-old email, which seemingly appears to be an innocuous message about arranging a meeting for coffee.
MacIsaacprovided no additional details to CBS News to corroborate he saw these alleged documents. He told CBS News he reached out to the FBI through “people that [he] trusted” and was eventually put in contact with two FBI agents. On December 9, 2019,he was issued a subpoena demanding he turn over the laptop and hard drive to a federal grand jury in Wilmington, according to a photo of a copy of the subpoena published by the Post and confirmed by MacIsaac. He said he complied and turned over the hardware, but first made a copy of the hard drive’s contents. MacIsaac described becoming frustrated while watching Mr. Trump’s Senate impeachment trial in January, with no updates from the FBI. “This country had its third impeachment, and I honestly felt like it was a sham, because of what I had seen,” MacIsaac said. The FBI declined to comment, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Wilmington said it could “neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation.”
MacIsaac contradicted himself repeatedly about why he wanted to share the alleged contents of the hard drive.He first asserted he went to the FBI for protection, fearing possible retribution from the Biden family. When the FBI supposedly did not act, he said he thought the FBI could be out to get him, which is why he turned to Giuliani. MacIsaac responded to most questions about Giuliani with “no comment,” saying he “didn’t feel comfortable” discussing it. He declined to say whether he sought Giuliani out or vice versa, but he indicated he viewed the former New York mayor as a potential ally.
“When you are afraid and you don’t know anything about the depth of waters that you’re in, you kind of you want to find a lifeboat,” he said. “I was told not to talk to anybody else,” MacIsaac said at one point, refusing to provide specifics. Giuliani told CBS News on Wednesday that MacIsaac had reached out to Costello “around the time of the impeachment hearings,” and that he has neither met nor spoken to him personally. Over the course of the interview, MacIsaac said he felt his life and business were in danger by possessing this information, invoking debunked conspiracy theories of revenge, specifically mentioning false allegations that a Democratic National Committee staffer was murdered in 2016 to cover up his supposed involvement in leaking Democratic Party emails. The emails were in fact stolen by Russian intelligence operatives, and the conspiracy theory surrounding his death was boosted by a Russian disinformation campaign.
Experts warn about potential foreign interference
The U.S. intelligence community has warned for months that Russia is actively working to “denigrate” Biden by amplifying allegations of corruption, and experts have issued dire warnings that Russia could orchestrate a “hack and dump” operation similar to its effort to steal and release stolen Democratic emails in the runup to the 2016 election.
Moreover, Russian hackers are believed to have breached Burisma’s systems earlier this year, and Giuliani himself has been tied to Ukrainian lawmaker acting as a Russian agent who has publicized private recordings of Biden speaking to Ukrainian officials in the past. But as of now, there is no evidence that Russia was directly involved in obtaining or publicizing the alleged information on Hunter Biden’s laptop. The Biden campaign has also offered no alternate explanation for how this alleged personal information came to light. George Mesires, an attorney for Hunter Biden, did not immediately reply to a phone call and email seeking comment on Wednesday. But in a statement to the Post, he said Giuliani “has been pushing widely discredited conspiracy theories about the Biden family, openly relying on actors tied to Russian intelligence.”
In August, an assessment by the U.S. intelligence community singled out the Ukrainian parliamentarian, Andriy Derkach, for “spreading claims about corruption — including through publicizing leaked phone calls — to undermine former Vice President Biden’s candidacy and the Democratic Party.” The Treasury Department leveled sanctions against Derkach in September, describing him as an “active Russian agent” who has done the Kremlin’s bidding for more than a decade. Derkach and Giuliani met in Ukraine last December at the height of the impeachment saga, as Giuliani worked to uncover damaging information about Hunter Biden. In January, the cybersecurity firm Area 1 revealed Russian military operatives had launched a phishing attack against Burisma and accessed its systems. The extent of the breach was unclear, but the report said the attack “raises the spectre that this is an early warning of what we have anticipated since the successful cyberattacks undertaken during the 2016 U.S. elections.”
Well this should make AOC proud! As she recently advocating for people to steal food if they hungry… And he was as he said, and I quote! ‘Oh, I was hungry’good job there guy.
The Uber Eats delivery driver refuses to apologize for eating his customer’s order of Buffalo Wild Wings after he was caught on security camera! Can’t make this shit up folks…. An Uber Eats customer was shocked to discover a delivery driver eating his meal after he watched security footage and noticed it had been tampered with.
Richard Jackson, who lives in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, was looking forward to enjoying 15 boneless chicken wings from his local Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant.
But the after spotting sauce smeared all over the bag and realizing the man arriving at his door had already tucked into it, the order became less appealing. ‘He’s walking along the grass and then my camera happened to pick him up. I gestured towards my camera,’ Jackson told CBS News about the incident. ‘He was clearly caught digging into my food.
‘He was digging into the bag, you know, sort of chucking the boneless wings repeatedly popping them in. This is when I see the sauce smeared all over the bag. It’s missing several pieces of the chicken.’
The video appears to show the driver reaching into the bag almost immediately after getting out of the car. Footage from one of Jackson’s several cameras around his property shows him refusing to accept the order after an inspection. ‘I did challenge him on why he was eating my food,’ Jackson said.
‘He eventually admitted to eating my food. He said, “Oh, I was hungry.”‘
The driver was not the same one originally assigned to his order, Jackson said. Jackson got a refund for the meal but he is not happy with the restaurant for not putting a tamper-proof seal on the container. ‘It’s concerning that he was so nonchalant,’ Jackson said, ‘especially during a pandemic where we have a highly transmissible disease.’
Uber said it was looking into the incident. A large number of businesses have been relying on food delivery orders amid the pandemic. According to Uber, 82 percent of restaurant operators say Uber Eats has been crucial to business during COVID-19 and 75 percent of operators said that they would have had to close their business if not for Uber Eats.
A whopping 81 percent said they would have had to lay off staff members if not for third-party delivery and Uber Eats partners have reported more impact from the app than others during the crisis, including a larger increase in sales. Some partners saw sales increase by more than 40 percent.
CBS reported that s 2019 U.S. Foods study found 28 percent 500 delivery worker polled admitted to eating customers’ food and more than half said they were tempted by the smell. Which is why I never get any of these places to deliver anymore cause you never know with Uber Eats. These people don’t give a shit about doing a good job, and Uber doesn’t do shit about it. I wonder if they can take this guy to jail over this?
President Donald Trump BLASTS CBS News False Reporting Following Project Veritas who busted the hospital, and CBS for lying about reporting a line at a hospital. This is hilarious, sad, and scary to watch as these nurses, and doctors are being told to lie to pack a line to make it look like it’s being packed. This lie is to keep people scared, and follow the lockdown. This folks is part of their agenda to keep us scared, and indoors, and not opening our economy. This is what these people want because they wanna destroy our country from within. The President, and project veritas exposed these clowns for the liars they are once again. This is is a bio warfare by the left to rig the election folks… They can’t beat the President so they want to blame him on false crap again by lying to you the public. Don’t be an idiot, and don’t follow the sheep leading DemocRATS.
So the once ICONIC actor who’s now fallen from grace looks like he’s about to get his #metoomoment all while trying to hide his own wrongdoing by trashing the PRESIDENT! A Twitter user, and host on NRATV named “Grant Stinchfield” @stinchfield1776 is calling him out, and called him a “sissy” if he doesn’t come out, and address his video. He’s tired of Robert De Niro and his bullish behavior both towards the NRA and our President. Check out the tweet below.
.@stinchfield1776 challenges anti-#NRA Robert De Niro: “Come on my show. Talk to me. Prove you’re the unafraid tough guy you play in movies and not a socialist sissy you appear to be in real life.” pic.twitter.com/l8p47MQ5e4
This is about to get UGLY for Robert who I think is about to experience his own backlash which will have him lose possible work, and will get his name dragged through the mud like he’s currently partaking in against Trump on social media throwing out accusations, and threatening our President. Something which the FBI/CIA someone should into. How can they let this moron say what’s he’s saying about President Trump?
But here is what I’ve come to the conclusion with folks! Robert is being sued for “racial discrimination” so what’s he calling Trump? A RACIST! Now isn’t this funny. Robert himself who’s being sued for being a racist is calling Trump “The real racist” now I know that Hollyweird is all socialist, and all hate Trump because he’s not like them. And every lie they tried to stick to him has failed… I don’t need to tell you how all the stuff in that impeachment is based on lies I’m sure you know by now.
But here is the reason why Robert is attacking Trump…. He’s projecting his own bad behavior on the President, and thus joining his socialists fools out in Hollyweird to trash out President so people don’t pay attention to this.
A former assistant is suing actor Robert De Niro, claiming the Oscar winner made sexually explicit comments and was verbally abusive. CBSN New York’s Ali Bauman reports.
There it is folks… He’s the real racist not TRUMP but once again the left is eating their own, and HOLLYWOOD or Hollyweird as I call it is full of these elitists who think they’re better then the rest of us, and that they’re above the law. Funny enough who says that alot? Naaaaaaasty Nancy Pelosi who’s in charge of San Francisco? Well no wonder… It all makes sense why that, and the rest of California is starting to become a “SHIT HOLE” or “3rd World” with their sanctuary cities, and crap. Keep it up Cali it’s not looking good for you. This also helps makes sense why his wife recently divorced him. He’s got anger issues, and looks like he’s losing his mind if you ask me. He sounds violent, and I really think the feds should look into his actions, and threats on President Trump.
