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   From: bksherman@sunpower.com   
      
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   "Buttsniffer Number P01369"  wrote:   
      
   As federal prosecutors continue their criminal probes into   
   Hunter Biden’s taxes and international business dealings, the   
   President’s son — shuttling between Washington DC and a   
   sprawling Hollywood Hills home — is lying low, consulting with   
   lawyers and focusing on his new career in art.   
      
   Biden, who turns 51 next week, is prepping a solo show with Soho   
   art dealer Georges Berges, who currently represents Sylvester   
   Stallone. Berges was once arrested for “terrorist threats” and   
   assault with a deadly weapon in California and has strong ties   
   to China.   
      
   Biden, who continues to hold business interests in a billion-   
   dollar Chinese investment firm, moved into the 2,000-square foot   
   hilltop Los Angeles home with his wife Melissa Cohen in January   
   2020, two months before the birth of their baby boy.   
      
   The home is connected to Shane Khoh, a Los Angeles-based   
   entrepreneur and real estate investor who is CEO of SXU   
   Investment Holdings LLC, the California company that has owned   
   the $3.8 million property since 2011, according to public   
   records. Khoh, an American who is fluent in Chinese, sits on the   
   board of Siong Heng Realty Pte Ltd., a Singapore-based real   
   estate holding company, according to his LinkedIn profile. He is   
   also listed as a “venture partner” of Diverse Communities Impact   
   Fund, a private-equity group that features former Democratic New   
   Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on its board of advisors.   
      
   The house was featured in a New York Times profile of Biden as   
   an emerging abstract painter last year. Last year Khoh told The   
   Washington Examiner that Biden was paying $12,000 a month for   
   the property, which features a pool house that Biden has turned   
   into an art studio. Khoh denied any prior relationship with   
   Biden to the newspaper.   
      
   But when The Post asked this week about his arrangements with   
   his tenant, Khoh clammed up: “I have nothing to say about Hunter   
   Biden. I have no comment.”   
      
   Others in Biden’s orbit were even more reticent.   
      
   Calls to Lunden Alexis Roberts, an Arkansas stripper who sued   
   Biden for paternity and child support after the birth of their 2-   
   year-old daughter, refused comment, as did her lawyer. It is not   
   known how much Biden is paying in child support for “Baby Doe,”   
   as she is referred to in court papers. The father of five had   
   initially argued that the child was not his, and repeatedly   
   tried to delay the case. Roberts, who met Biden at a Washington,   
   DC, strip club where she used to work, said in a December 2019   
   court filing that Biden had not provided any financial support   
   for the child.   
      
   Although Biden has divested himself of many of his old business   
   interests, he does not seem to be hard up for cash. He has been   
   seen driving around Los Angeles in a Porsche Panamera, which   
   retails for more than $90,000. He retains control of a limited   
   liability corporation that has a 10 percent stake in BHR   
   Partners, a Chinese private-equity firm with $2 billion in   
   assets and partly owned by the Bank of China, according to   
   reports.   
      
   Biden’s stake in the Chinese firm is owned by Skaneateles LLC, a   
   company named for his mother Neilia Hunter Biden’s upstate New   
   York hometown. The company has used the Hollywood Hills home as   
   one of its addresses. Neilia, Joe Biden’s first wife, died in a   
   1972 car crash in Delaware that also killed Biden’s 1-year-old   
   sister Naomi. Hunter Biden and his older brother Beau, who were   
   toddlers, were injured in the accident.   
      
   “It’s like a lottery ticket he has in his hand with a 10 percent   
   stake in a company worth billions,” said a source. “Just imagine   
   if that company is worth $2 billion, Biden takes home $200   
   million.”   
      
   Biden’s convoluted international business dealings became a   
   heated political issue in the final months of the 2020   
   presidential campaign after The Post revealed a trove of emails   
   from Hunter’s laptop that raised questions about then-candidate   
   Joe Biden’s ties to his son’s foreign business ventures,   
   including Burisma. The Ukrainian energy company reportedly paid   
   Hunter $50,000 a month between 2014 and 2019 to sit on its board   
   of directors. Hunter Biden is also accused of promoting the   
   interests of CEFC China Energy Co, a Chinese conglomerate that   
      
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