"Hunter Biden appears to be connected to former FBI
official Charles McGonigal, who was recently arrested for taking secret
cash payments from a former Albanian intelligence officer, among other
serious violations.
In the fall of 2017, McGonigal, the former FBI’s
counterintelligence chief in New York, received a $225,000 payment from a
former Albanian intelligence officer known as Agron Neza, according to
U.S. prosecutors. McGonigal has since been charged for taking the cash
payment, conducting meetings with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, and
trying to help a Russian oligarch from evading U.S. sanctions.
In turn, Agron Neza introduced McGonigal
to the former Albanian prime minister’s adviser, Dorian Ducka, and a
former member of the Chinese energy company named CEFC or CEFC China
Energy Co, the New York Post’s Miranda Devine reported.
In an email thread discovered on Hunter’s laptop,
Hunter and his business partners had a conversation about a person named
“Dorian.” Miranda Devine reported:
Someone with the same unusual first name as Ducka appears in Hunter’s abandoned laptop in an email discussion about CEFC between Hunter and associates James Gilliar and Rob Walker.“Dorian was a real help early on so we should consider how we include him,” Gilliar wrote in the May 13, 2017, email.“No way we don’t do it,” replies Hunter, “and if majority says no I’ll take it out of my salary.”
Meanwhile, back in Albania, McGonigal launched investigations into about
12 political opponents of Albanian’s prime minister, according to
Belind Kellici, a political opponent of the prime minister.
The probes
apparently were used to block the prime minister’s opponents from doing
business with the United States, including debanking them from the U.S.
banking system.
McGonigal’s alleged corruption in Albania has
recently made headlines in the country. Last week, protestors demanded
the Albanian prime minister resign over his meetings with McGonigal. The
New York Times reported that “McGonigal’s willingness
to meet with the head of state in Albania, a country that has an
American diplomatic presence, suggests he was not keeping his
involvement there a secret from colleagues.”
McGonigal’s recent indictment by U.S.
prosecutors for his alleged involvement in Albania for a “shakedown
operation” has opened up new questions about why Albanians were
allegedly paying McGonigal in 2017 — the same year Hunter’s emails
appear to mention payments to the Albanian prime minister’s adviser.
The year 2017 appears to be a profitable year for the Biden family
business. In 2017, Hunter was put on a $1 million retainer by CEFC
chairman Ye.
An email thread from Hunter’s laptop in 2017 also shows a
proposed percentage distribution of equity in a company created for a
joint venture with CEFC, Hunter’s former business partner, Tony
Bobulinski, the Biden family, and high-ranking members of the Chinese
Communist Party.
The email sent on March 13, 2017, proposed business venture including “10 held by H for the big guy?” Bobulinski confirmed “the big guy” was a reference to President Joe Biden." Breitbart