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By James Franey, Senior U.S. Political Reporter For Dailymail.Com
22:12 07 Apr 2023, updated 23:27 07 Apr 2023
- James J. Bulger is the nephew of the late gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger
- Hunter’s self-styled China fixer got official WH visit in August 2016
- He landed meeting with one of Joe Biden’s most senior staffers
A business associate of Hunter Biden with ties to the Mob and China scored an official visit to the White House under the Obama administration.
James J. Bulger, the nephew of the late crime boss and convicted killer Whitey Bulger, managed to land a tour of the West Wing when Joe Biden was vice-president.
Visitor records show Bulger met with Anne Marie Person, one of Biden’s aides from his stint as Barack Obama’s right-hand man, on August 25th of 2016.
Before joining the then vice-president’s team, Person previously worked for a shadowy investment firm run by Hunter Biden.
But it is unclear whether the self-styled fixer managed to secure meetings with any other White House staffers.
Bulger has been a regular adviser to the current commander-in-chief’s son on his Chinese business ventures since 2010.
He was the chairman of a Boston-based advisory group that helped Hunter Biden launch a joint-venture with Chinese investment house Bohai Capital.
Emails, first obtained by Fox News, show that he repeatedly relayed information to Hunter Biden about various deal in China between 2015 and 2016.
One such message shows Bulger proposing to set up a meeting with the Chinese ambassador to ‘talk about’ the BHR fund.
He suggested that Hunter Biden and his co-founder Devon Archer attend the meeting.
Bulger claimed that it was ‘pretty interesting that someone at the Embassy in Beijing would be interested in what the domestic Bohai PE Fund was up to.’
‘Thought you guys should see this,” Bulger writes. ‘I still believe a meeting early next week with the Ambassador if possible would be best, hope this has not caused to[sic] much of an a— ache.’
It remains unknown as to whether those talks ever went ahead.
Another leaked email showed Bulger asking Hunter to introduce business partners Jonathan Li and Andy Lu to Tung Chee-hwa, a Chinese billionaire and former first chief executive of Hong Kong.
‘Please let me know if you can introduce these two to Mr Tung by email it is very important to our BHR intiative [sic] at this moment,’ Bulger wrote.
Bulger’s visit to the White House in 2016 is the latest example of a former Hunter Biden business partner gaining access to the White House.
Eric Schwerin, a longtime associate of Hunter Biden, visited the White House at least 27 times when Barack Obama was president.
John Robinson “Rob” Walker, another ex-business partner, appeared on the White House visitor logs at least 16 times during Biden’s stint as vice president.
Walker’s name resurfaced last month when House Oversight Committee Republicans said they obtained new information about payments made to the Biden family.
The records show members of the family received more than $1 million in payments from accounts related to Walker and their Chinese business ventures in 2017.
The US president has repeatedly refused to discuss his son’s business controversial dealings.
But he met with at least 14 of Hunter’s business associates from the U.S., Mexico, Ukraine, China and Kazakhstan over the course of his vice presidency.
Two of Hunter’s Mexican business contacts Miguel Aleman Velasco and Miguel Aleman Magnani, visited the West Wing on Feb. 26, 2014, according to the Obama White House visitor logs.
The then-vice president was later photographed with Hunter giving Velasco and Magnani a tour of the White House Brady Press Briefing room.
The business dealings of Joe Biden’s son have been in the spotlight since leaked data emerged from a laptop that he had dropped off at a Delaware repair store.
The New York Post ran a story in October 2020 about his activities in Ukraine based on emails found on the device.
The laptop bombshell was originally restricted on platforms like Twitter and Facebook.
Details of their decision to restrict news that could damage Biden just ahead of the election have trickled out through Elon Musk’s release of the Twitter Files.
There were also a slew of unflattering images found on the computer, including photos of Hunter Biden smoking drugs or posing for naked selfies.
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