A Colorado-based attorney claims the Justice Department admitted having 400 pages of “potentially relevant” documents on Hunter Biden and Jim Biden’s foreign dealings before going back and said it “cannot confirm or deny” the existence of such records.
Attorney Kevin Evans first sued the DOJ in March after alleging its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents related to “any relationship, communication, gift(s) and/or remuneration in any form” between the DOJ The President’s son and brother and China, Russia or Ukraine did not comply, according to the Chron.
Evans told the outlet he submitted his application in November 2020 after hearing about the Bidens’ foreign operations. He said the DOJ initially turned over 60 pages of documents, but they were all letters from lawmakers asking about the younger Biden and answers from the DOJ.
“Then towards the end of last year they said, ‘Well, we have these 400 pages of potentially responsive documents, we need to review them,'” he said. “In March I filed a lawsuit and before Magistrate Judge Michael Hegarty they made the same account: they conducted a thorough search and uncovered 400 potentially relevant documents.”
However, the government ultimately said it could “neither confirm nor deny” the existence of records. The answer is one the government has previously given to avoid disclosing information that could harm national security. A judge first confirmed the answer in 1975, when the government, in response to a FOIA request from the Los Angeles Times, said it could “neither confirm nor deny” the existence of records on the USNS Hughes Glomar Explorer.
“I don’t know how the hell they can take the position that Glomar is applicable now,” Evans said. “It seems to me that the cat is out of the bag here after disclosing the existence of the documents.”
According to the report, the next hearing in the Evans case is scheduled for this month.
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Meanwhile, the National Archives and Records Administration may soon release hundreds of internal Obama administration documents containing information about Hunter Biden’s relationship with Ukrainian gas company Burisma. The younger Biden was on the company’s board of directors and earned $83,000 a month. The Biden administration has until February to decide whether to veto the release if the records date back to 2014, which in turn would keep the documents under wraps until 2029.
Meanwhile, the release of files from Hunter Biden’s recovered laptop has also drawn attention to his overseas operations.
An infamous email allegedly described a business deal between a Chinese company and the Biden family.
Tony Bobulinski, who is listed as the recipient of the email first published by the New York Post, offered further details last year in a statement to Fox News regarding the October 2020 correspondence, which referenced a proposed share split: “20 ‘ for ‘H’ and ’10 held by H for the big guy?’
“The reference to ‘the big one’ in the highly publicized May 13, 2017 email is actually a reference to Joe Biden,” said Bobulinski, who says he was hired by Hunter Biden and James Gilliar as CEO of Sinohawk Holdings, the sender of the email. The spurned Biden business partner is likely to be called to testify and, given his willingness to speak to the media, will likely not need a subpoena to appear.
Sinohawk “was a partnership between the Chinese operating through CEFC/Chairman Ye and the Biden family,” he said.