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   Newly-unredacted IRS and FBI search warrants tied to the federal   
   investigation into Hunter Biden provide new details on the information   
   that investigators had in their possession about President Joe Biden’s   
   son’s business deals linked to Ukraine, China and elsewhere.   
      
   The multiple search warrant applications were released, with only some   
   redactions remaining, late Tuesday following an agreement between Hunter   
   Biden’s legal team and the Justice Department.   
      
   The search warrants detail the knowledge that federal investigators had   
   years ago related to lucrative payments Hunter Biden had received from   
   Ukrainian gas giant Burisma, since-defunct Chinese energy conglomerate   
   CEFC, Romanian businessmen, and more – sometimes including when Joe Biden   
   was still vice president.   
      
   “The government has conferred with subject-matter experts within the   
   Department of Justice and counsel for Mr. Biden. The parties agree the   
   search warrant applications and affidavits at issue may be unsealed with   
   limited redactions,” Shannon Hanson, the acting U.S. attorney for   
   Delaware, said in a Tuesday court filing. She added that “the government   
   proposes, and counsel for Mr. Biden does not object to, limited redactions   
   to protect specific privacy and grand jury secrecy interests.”   
      
   The two IRS whistleblowers who shed light on what they considered failures   
   to properly investigate Hunter Biden – and who were allegedly retaliated   
   against as a result – received promotions from the Trump administration in   
   March. IRS supervisory special agent Gary Shapley and IRS special agent   
   Joseph Ziegler are now serving as senior advisers to Treasury Secretary   
   Scott Bessent.   
      
   Shapley was also reportedly selected to be the acting IRS Commissioner   
   last week, prior to him reportedly being replaced in that role shortly   
   thereafter.   
      
   The whistle-blowers were harshly critical of then-special counsel David   
   Weiss’s handling of the Hunter Biden investigation, arguing he had slow-   
   walked the case. Shapley had also told congressional investigators in 2023   
   that Hanson was a key part of Weiss’s team and that she was present at a   
   key meeting where Weiss said he was limited in his criminal charging   
   authority.   
      
   Ziegler himself filed the August 2019 search warrant application for   
   Hunter Biden’s Apple accounts, the new documents reveal. The application   
   was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware and was   
   approved by a judge.   
      
   The application said that, in 2014, Hunter Biden began receiving roughly   
   $83,333.33 per month from Burisma. The payments were sent to an account   
   held by Rosemont Seneca Bohai (RSB) – a partnership in which Devon Archer   
   held a 99% interest – and the RSB account at Morgan Stanley would receive   
   the payments from a Burisma account, then send them to accounts held by   
   Hunter Biden.   
      
   The IRS agent’s application said that, in 2014, $1,538,505 was sent from   
   Burisma to the RSB account, then the RSB account sent $315,000 to Hunter   
   Biden’s accounts.   
      
   Ziegler wrote that, in 2015, $83,333.33 per month was sent from Burisma to   
   an RSB Stanley Morgan account and an RSB Bank of New York Mellon account,   
   totaling $1,941,131 in payments. The memo line for payments was   
   “consulting services” and “Monthly Director Fee” – with the RSB account   
   then sending $386,979 to Hunter Biden’s accounts.   
      
   The IRS agent said that in 2016 Burisma accounts began sending $83,333.33   
   in monthly payments to Hunter Biden’s company – Owasco – where the   
   payments were received in a Wells Fargo account. That year, Hunter Biden   
   received nine payments of $833,333.33 from Burisma and three additional   
   payments of $83,731, $84,922, and $83,293 – for a total of $1,002,017.   
      
   Ziegler wrote that in 2016, the amount of $551,005 was also sent from a   
   Bank of America account in the name of Robinson Walker LLC to Hunter   
   Biden’s Owasco Wells Fargo account.   
      
   Ziegler said the money appeared to originate as $2,213,546 from Bladon   
   Enterprises Limited (owned by Romanian businessman Gabriel Popoviciu) with   
   the money then divided up among Hunter Biden, business associate Rob   
   Walker and an account held in Abu Dhabi in the name of European Energy and   
   Infrastructure. The foreign company was associated with James Gilliar, who   
   was also a Hunter Biden business partner and the author of the infamous   
   “Big Guy” email.   
      
   The IRS agent said that in 2017 Burisma sent Hunter Biden’s Owasco account   
   $630,556. Ziegler wrote that the Owasco Wells Fargo account also received   
   $2,761,959 in other payments, including $1,445,387 held in the name of   
   Hudson West III at Cathay Bank.   
      
   Ziegler also said that CEFC official Gongwen Dong originally owned Hudson   
   West III, with Gongwen also reportedly the director of the U.S.-based CEFC   
   Infrastructure. Ziegler said that in August 2017 DBS Bank Hong Kong   
   Limited funded a $5 million loan into the Hudson West III account and   
   wrote that Cathay Bank said that at some point ownership of the Hudson   
   West III account transferred from Dong to companies belonging to Hunter   
   Biden and his Chinese-American business associate Mervyn Yan.   
      
   Ziegler also wrote that Hunter Biden received $100,000 from CEFC   
   Infrastructure.   
      
   Additionally, Hunter Biden’s Owasco account received $666,572 from an LLC   
   called Skaneatles, with Ziegler saying that Hunter Biden was a 75% owner   
   of the LLC at the time, while business partner Eric Schwerin was a 25%   
   owner.   
      
   President Biden’s son also received another $550,000 from Robinson Walker   
   that year.   
      
   The IRS agent said that in 2018 there were $491,939 in payments made from   
   Burisma to Hunter Biden’s Owasco.   
      
   The Owasco Wells Fargo account also received $2,731,494 in other payments,   
   Ziegler said, including $2,187,494 from the Hudson West III Cathay Bank   
   account.   
      
   The IRS agent detailed another $544,000 bank transfer “made possible by” a   
   $1 million wire received from Hudson West III on March 22, 2018. Ziegler   
   said the memo line for the payment was “Dr. Patrick Ho Chi Ping   
   Representation” and that Hunter Biden “never entered an appearance on   
   behalf of Ho in the criminal action.”   
      
   Hunter Biden and his associated businesses are also believed to have   
   received at least $5 million in payments from Chinese energy conglomerate   
   CEFC in 2017 and 2018, and Ye deputy Patrick Ho also agreed to pay Hunter   
   Biden a $1 million retainer. Hunter referred to Ho as “the f***ing spy   
   chief of China” in a May 11, 2018, voice recording.   
      
   Ho was sentenced to three years in prison in March 2019 for violating the   
   Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. He was deported to Hong Kong in June 2021   
   after serving his sentence.   
      
   In seeking access to Hunter Biden’s Apple account, Ziegler said that   
      
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