China: what Hunter’s deals actually paid

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Sources & limits.

Numbered citations in each article identify the relevant sources. These records have different purposes and evidentiary weight.

1. ABC Australia: the China fund and $1.5 billion claim, October 9, 2019 ↗

   Contemporaneous explanatory reporting distinguishes a fund’s fundraising target from personal earnings and describes the 2017 investment. Figures are historical, not a present valuation.

2. Bloomberg via Business Day: Hunter calls Burisma role poor judgment, October 15, 2019 ↗

   Bloomberg report distinguishes the BHR management-company stake from fundraising targets and reports Hunter’s own defense. Do not confuse a management-company percentage with ownership of all fund assets.

3. Senate Republican staff report: Hunter Biden, Burisma and corruption, September 2020 ↗

   Republican majority report compiling documents and testimony; its characterizations are investigators’ conclusions, not criminal judgments. This guide uses its documented ethics warnings without adopting every allegation.

4. House Oversight Committee majority, 16 March 2023: first bank-records memorandum ↗

   Traces the $3 million wire from State Energy HK to Robinson Walker LLC on 1 March 2017 and about $1.065 million then sent on to Biden family accounts.

5. NBC News, 16 March 2023: House chairman questions $1.3 million in payments to Hunter Biden and relatives ↗

   News account of the first memo, with the Democrats’ response.

6. House Oversight Republican bank-records memorandum, November 1, 2023 ↗

   Republican interpretation of fund flows and the $40,000 repayment. Tracing a payment’s upstream source does not by itself establish a knowing bribe by its eventual recipient.

7. PolitiFact: examining the $40,000 claim, November 14, 2023 ↗

   Secondary reporting states it reviewed the two outgoing loan wires; useful independent check on competing committee descriptions. Not a court adjudication.

8. Hunter Biden deposition, February 28, 2024 ↗

   Primary congressional transcript; Hunter’s explanations and denials are attributed testimony, not independent findings. Relevant pages include 21–34, 81–84, 104–106, 116–118 and 145–146. Questions can contain contested premises.

9. DOJ: Patrick Ho sentenced for bribery and money laundering, March 25, 2019 ↗

   Official sentencing announcement concerning Ho’s schemes involving African officials. It does not announce a Biden conviction or a payment to Joe Biden.

10. Reuters, 1 March 2018: China’s CEFC chairman investigated for suspected economic crimes ↗

    Reports Ye Jianming’s detention and the investigation.

11. DOJ inspector general report 25-080: Charles McGonigal misconduct, September 2025 ↗

    Primary redacted inspector-general investigation. Printed pages 11–13 address James Biden’s request for a Patrick Ho warrant check. Its central misconduct findings concern McGonigal; it is not a criminal verdict against James or Joe Biden.

12. James Biden interview, February 21, 2024 ↗

    Primary interview; pages 127–129 address loans and repayments. The introduction explicitly says the interview is not under oath, although knowingly false statements to Congress can still be criminal. Do not call this a perjury conviction.