Hunter Biden smoked crack “every 20 minutes or so” from 2017 to 2018, according to his ex-girlfriend’s testimony during his gun trial on Wednesday. During this period, Hunter was involved in managing some of the family’s most lucrative business deals with high-level foreign figures.
The Biden family business was thriving in 2017 and 2018, shortly after President Joe Biden concluded his tenure as vice president.
One of the largest deals occurred when Biden’s family members received money from CEFC China Energy Co, a company with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
In 2023, the House Oversight Committee disclosed that CEFC controlled State Energy HK Limited, a company tied to $1.3 million in payments to Biden family members. The committee, through the family’s suspicious activity reports (SARs), also uncovered that a Biden associate, Rob Walker, received a $3 million wire transfer from CEFC. From this amount, four Biden family members — Hunter, James, Hallie, and an unidentified “Biden” — collectively received $1.3 million.
Hunter, who is a lawyer, also earned a $1 million legal retainer in 2017 from the CEFC’s chairman, Ye Jianming. In addition, Hunter received a large diamond from Ye worth an estimated $80,000 in February 2017.
Biden family members and Biden business-linked entities received more than $15 million from individuals in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Romania, and China, according to the House impeachment inquiry. Much of the money from those deals came to the Biden business after Joe Biden left the presidency in 2017.
According to an FBI informant, Mykola Zlochevsky who is a former Ukrainian minister and founder of Burisma Holdings, allegedly paid Joe Biden and Hunter Biden $5 million each in 2017. He was later charged for lying about the arrangement by Joe Biden’s Department of Justice.
Zoe Kestan, Hunter’s lover, met him at a gentleman’s club that she worked at in December 2017, she told the jury on Wednesday.
“It was late at night” and Hunter asked for one final private dance, she said. He smoked something from an unusual pipe, she recalled. “I assumed it to be crack cocaine.”
The prosecution showed the jury an image of Kestan and Hunter during their relationship. “It’s a used crack pipe,” Kestan said of a pipe on a bathroom countertop in the image.
Kestan testified that she assisted Hunter in purchasing drugs. She recounted an incident at New York City’s Four Seasons where she brought a drug dealer named Frankie up to their room, according to CNN’s court reporters:
She also said she witnessed Biden clean out a crack pipe, using “chop sticks and disassembled pens.”
Biden also asked her to get cash for him to buy drugs, she testified, using his mobile banking app to give her a code to use at the ATM.
Kestan said that he told her that he also used this maneuver with dealers, so they could directly withdrawal cash from his bank account.
After a ten-day stay at the hotel, Kestan went to California but soon returned to New York City. “He was very stressed out, and he was talking about attempting and trying to get sober,” she said.
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