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The Republican Senate Report on Hunter Biden, Explained

The allegations against joe biden's son are complicated, but the report is also flawed in important ways., dan macguill, published sept. 29, 2020.

Voting in the 2020 U.S. Election may be over, but the misinformation keeps on ticking. Never stop fact-checking. Follow our post-election coverage here .

In September 2020, just weeks before the Nov. 3, presidential election, the Republican chairmen of two U.S. Senate committees published a joint report about the business activities of Hunter Biden, son of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, which carried the somewhat dramatic title of "Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Concerns."

Right-leaning websites and supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump talked up the findings of the investigation, which was published by U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin — the Republican chairmen of the U.S. Senate committees on Finance, and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, respectively.

The Daily Wire called it a "bombshell" report that contained "damning new allegations" against Hunter Biden, while Donald Trump Jr. said the investigation had uncovered a "laundry list of despicable corruption surrounding Hunter Biden." Fox News host Sean Hannity, one of Trump's most prominent supporters, said the report "should immediately disqualify Joe Biden from being the president of the United States."

On Twitter, Trump highlighted one of the most-publicized allegations in the report — that Hunter Biden had received $3.5 million from Elena Baturina, a Russian billionaire and wife of the former mayor of Moscow.

The report represents the latest in a series of allegations against the former vice president's son. Until now, those allegations had been limited to news articles, chiefly published by right-leaning sources, and a book penned by controversial conservative author Peter Schweizer. Grassley and Johnson's report, however, gave those claims a new air of credibility, given their respective offices, and U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky quickly vowed to refer the findings to the Justice Department, for a potential criminal investigation on unspecified charges.

Arriving just six days before the first presidential debate on Sept. 29 — and only six weeks before Election Day — the report threatened to make Hunter Biden's business dealings a significant issue on the campaign trail, and to provide ammunition for the Trump campaign in its bid to overturn Biden's seven-point lead in national polls.

Grassley and Johnson's report is 87 pages long, and its contents are somewhat complicated in places. Snopes has studied it, in full, along with other background material, and the following is a breakdown of the report's most important and relevant findings — what it says, and what it doesn't say.

In brief, Snopes found that, despite a fanfare of publicity surrounding its release, the report does not present evidence of any wrongdoing by former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, and is flawed in several important ways. Hunter Biden's attorney has already refuted one of its most-publicized claims — that the Democratic candidate's son received $3.5 million from a Russian billionaire — telling Snopes it was "false."

Democratic staff on the two Senate committees have dismissed the report as "grossly irresponsible," telling Snopes it was an attempted smear "based on secret documents and shoddy investigative work."

From 2014 to 2019, Hunter Biden was a paid member of the board of directors of Burisma Holdings, a large Ukrainian natural gas producer. The company's owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, was investigated for alleged corruption and bribery in the U.K. and Ukraine. Between 2015 and 2016, Ukraine's prosecutor general was Viktor Shokin, whose office conducted an investigation into Zlochevsky.

In January 2018, Joe Biden spoke at a Council on Foreign Relations meeting and recounted the pressure that the Obama administration in general, and himself in particular, had placed on Ukraine's government to fire Shokin. That pressure included threatening to withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees to the country.

Critics of the Bidens, including Trump and his supporters, have stitched together a narrative of corruption based on three facts: Hunter Biden sat on the board of Burisma; Burisma's owner was under investigation by Shokin's office; and Joe Biden pushed Ukraine to fire Shokin, therefore, the former vice president was abusing his power in order to protect his son's employer.

However, that wasn't the case. The Obama administration pressured Ukraine to fire Shokin not because he was fearlessly prosecuting Zlochevsky's alleged corruption, but because he was ineffective in combatting corruption in Ukraine. For months before Joe Biden's personal intervention, officials from the International Monetary Fund and the European Union had been lobbying the Ukrainian government to replace Shokin for the same reasons.

This misunderstanding (or knowing misrepresentation) of the motivations and context behind Biden's intervention in the firing of Shokin formed the basis of Trump's pursuit of a criminal investigation, in Ukraine, into Joe and Hunter Biden's activities in the country, and led to an infamous July 2019 phone call with incoming Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, during which Trump asked him to "do us a favor" by working with U.S. Attorney General William Barr, and Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, to investigate the Bidens. The Trump administration also temporarily withheld military aid to Ukraine after that phone call, and the affair led to Trump's impeachment trial.

Bohai Harvest RST

In 2009 (according to the Senate committees' report), Hunter Biden formed an investment firm called Rosemont Seneca, along with Chris Heinz, the stepson of future Secretary of State John Kerry, and their friend, Devon Archer. In 2013, according to the report, Rosemont Seneca formed a business partnership with a Chinese investment fund called Bohai Capital, resulting in an entity called Bohai Harvest RST . ("RST" stood for "Rosemont Seneca Thornton," itself a consortium composed of Rosemont Seneca and the Thornton Group, a Massachusetts-based firm.)

However, in a statement provided to Snopes, Hunter Biden's attorney George Mesires said: "Hunter Biden was not a co-founder of Rosemont Seneca Thornton LLC (“RST”) nor did he have an equity interest in RST ..."

That distinction has important implications for certain high-profile allegations made against Biden, which this article will examine later.

The report presents no evidence of wrongdoing by Joe Biden, and omits testimony that exculpates him

The Grassley-Johnson report refers to Joe Biden more than 100 times throughout its 87 pages. However, notably absent from the document is any evidence that Biden himself engaged in any wrongdoing.

In several instances, the report alludes to potential wrongdoing by Biden, and arguably uses innuendo to suggest such actions. One illustrative example can be found on page 3 of the report, which presents the following sequence of events as being meaningful in some unspecified way:

"On April 16, 2014, Vice President Biden met with his son’s business partner, Devon Archer, at the White House. Five days later, Vice President Biden visited Ukraine, and he soon after was described in the press as the 'public face of the administration’s handling of Ukraine.' The day after his visit, on April 22, Archer joined the board of Burisma ..."

Those events were first presented as being connected in Schweizer's 2018 book "Secret Empires." What both Schweizer and the committee chairmen fail to mention is that Biden's White House meeting with Archer had, at the very least, another plausible explanation. As The New Yorker reported in July 2019:

"Hunter, Archer, and Archer’s son Lukas, who is now twelve, told me that the visit was arranged by Hunter for Lukas, who was working on a model of the White House for a grade-school assignment. Afterward, Lukas posted a picture on Instagram of himself shaking the Vice-President’s hand. Hunter and Archer said that Burisma was never discussed."

After the release of the Senate committees' report, the author of that New Yorker article, Adam Entous, even tweeted out a video of Biden chatting with young Lukas Archer about his project, ostensibly during that April 16, 2014, visit to the White House.

That New Yorker article was published in July 2019, which means it was available to Grassley and Johnson, and we know with certainty that those who wrote the report were aware of it because the document actually cites that very article.

Furthermore, the broader suggestion that Biden's visit to Ukraine in April 2014, and his assumption of the role of "point person" on Ukraine for the Obama administration, had resulted from some nefarious meeting with his son's business partner and friend, was also fatally flawed. Biden met Archer on April 16, 2014, but the vice president's new role, and his forthcoming visit to Ukraine, had already been set up and publicized by that time.

Grassley and Johnson are not obliged to believe that the true purpose of Archer's visit to the White House was a special treat for his young son, but failing to mention that his son accompanied him there is an omission that is unavoidably damaging to the purported credibility and impartiality of their report. It's not the only conspicuous omission from the report.

Concerns Raised

The Senate committees' investigation found that exactly two Obama administration officials raised concerns about the possible perception of a conflict of interest around Hunter Biden's work for Burisma, at a time when his father was leading White House efforts to encourage anti-corruption reforms in Ukraine.

George Kent, former acting deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, told Grassley and Johnson's investigators that he had spoken to national security staff in Biden's office, in February 2015, and expressed concern that Hunter Biden's work with Burisma "could create the perception of a conflict of interest" ( page 16 ).

In an email sent to State Department colleagues in September 2016, Kent wrote: "... The presence of Hunter Biden on the Burisma board was very awkward for all US officials pushing an anti-corruption agenda in Ukraine." ( Page 281 ).

However, in an opening statement in his testimony, Kent also said (on page 21 ):

"... At no time did I witness any efforts by any U.S. official to shield Burisma from scrutiny, and in fact, quite the opposite. I, and other U.S. officials, consistently advocated reconstituting the scuttled investigation of Zlochevsky, Burisma's founder, as well as holding the corrupt prosecutors who had closed the case against him to account ... I am not aware of any occasion in which then Vice President Biden raised Burisma with Ukrainian officials. I am not aware of any wrongdoing by Hunter Biden or the other international members of the Burisma board ..."

Amos Hochstein, former U.S. special envoy and coordinator for International Energy Affairs, testified to the committees' investigation that he had spoken to Joe Biden in October 2015 in order to make Biden aware that Russian actors were using his son's work for Burisma as part of a campaign of disinformation by falsely claiming that it constituted a conflict of interest. Hochstein said he had a similar conversation with Hunter Biden in November 2015.

In the same section of his testimony, Hochstein stated unambiguously that Hunter Biden's work with Burisma had never had any bearing whatsoever on U.S. policy towards Ukraine. It's worth quoting that section of Hochstein's testimony in full (from page 73 ). Here, Hochstein is being questioned by attorney Zach Schram, who is appearing on behalf of Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., the ranking Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee:

Schram: Did you change U.S. policy toward Ukraine in any manner to assist Hunter Biden or Burisma? Hochstein: No. Schram: Are you aware of any U.S. official who changed U.S. policy toward Ukraine in any manner to assist Hunter Biden or Burisma? Hochstein: No. Schram: On August 14th of this year, Chairman Johnson stated to One America News that there was, quote, evidence of wrongdoing or illegal activity related to Vice President and Hunter Biden. Do you agree with that characterization? Hochstein: No. Schram: Are you aware of any evidence to support a claim of wrongdoing by Vice President Biden with respect to his policy in Ukraine? Hochstein: No.

Notably, none of this section of Hochstein's testimony was included or mentioned in the final report.

Schram put similar questions — about whether Joe Biden had engaged in any wrongdoing, whether U.S. policy was changed to benefit Hunter Biden, and so on — to five Obama-era officials . Each one of them gave substantially the same responses: that they were unaware of any wrongdoing of any kind by the former vice president, and unaware of any effort by any official to change U.S. policy, or make any decision whatsoever, in order to benefit either Hunter Biden or Burisma Holdings.

The committee lawyers also interviewed Karen Tramontano and Sally Painter, two former Clinton administration officials who work for Blue Star Strategies, an international consultancy firm that was hired by Burisma during the period in question. Both testified, in clear terms, that U.S. policy on Ukraine had never been affected in any way, by considerations of Burisma or Hunter Biden.

Remarkably, Grassley and Johnson's report does not mention that clear consensus among the individuals the committees interviewed. Instead, the final report states simply, "The extent to which Hunter Biden’s role on Burisma’s board affected U.S. policy toward Ukraine is not clear."

Former U.S. Officials Worry Grassley-Johnson Investigation Product of Russian disinformation

Hochstein, the former State Department official who spoke to Joe and Hunter Biden about his concerns regarding Russian propaganda, told Senate investigators he believes that, five years later, the former vice president is still being targeted by Russian disinformation efforts.  Uninvited, Hochstein volunteered during questioning that he thought the Grassley-Johnson investigation was itself a product of that Russian disinformation campaign:

Schram: Do you remain concerned that Vice President Biden is a target of a Russian disinformation effort? Hochstein: Yes. Schram: Why? Hochstein: Because I can see it on a regular basis. I think this investigation is probably the successful outcome of that effort...

In his testimony, Hochstein outlined his concerns that the Senate investigation was being used by Russia to "launder" false claims and smuggle them into mainstream public debate in the United States. Hochstein referred to Andriy Derkach , a pro-Russian Ukrainian MP who has for years made unsubstantiated allegations that Ukraine — and not Russia — orchestrated disinformation campaigns during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and that former vice president Biden had acted corruptly with regard to Ukraine and Burisma.

In 2019, Giuliani, Trump's personal attorney, traveled to Ukraine and openly met with Derkach as part of an effort to obtain evidence against the Bidens. In September 2020, the U.S. Treasury Department implemented economic sanctions against Derkach, describing him as "an active Russian agent for over a decade":

From at least late 2019 through mid-2020, Derkach waged a covert influence campaign centered on cultivating false and unsubstantiated narratives concerning U.S. officials in the upcoming 2020 Presidential Election, spurring corruption investigations in both Ukraine and the United States designed to culminate prior to election day. Derkach’s unsubstantiated narratives were pushed in Western media through coverage of press conferences and other news events, including interviews and statements. Between May and July 2020, Derkach released edited audio tapes and other unsupported information with the intent to discredit U.S. officials, and he levied unsubstantiated allegations against U.S. and international political figures. Derkach almost certainly targeted the U.S. voting populace, prominent U.S. persons, and members of the U.S. government, based on his reliance on U.S. platforms, English-language documents and videos, and pro-Russian lobbyists in the United States used to propagate his claims.

Schram, the attorney asking questions on behalf of Peters, outlined what he presented as a troubling overlap between several announcements and statements by Derkach, and the timing of meetings, statements and hearings initiated by Republicans on the committees. Schram asked Hochstein if that pattern concerned him. Hochstein said it did ( page 61 ):

"... The pattern that concerns me is that it's the laundering of information when someone who has no credibility in Ukraine, let alone anywhere else ... I don't really care what he says in Ukraine. It doesn't bother me. Nobody believes him in Ukraine. What bothers me is that it seems that more people in the United States believe him than people who know him in Ukraine believe him. There, he's discredited, and here, his information, sometimes in a direct leap and sometimes through a stop on the way, gets into the mainstream discussions of U.S. policy."

Hochstein later added:

"I had heard these allegations before, except that they usually came from noncredible sources. I was rather disappointed and sad to see that it was coming from more mainstream, as in the United States Senate, which I hold in great regard and great esteem."

None of this section of Hochstein's testimony was included or mentioned in Grassley and Johnson's final report.

In his testimony (on page 27 ), Kent said he was "concerned that some of their [the committees'] activities could be exploited to advance a Russian agenda" and expressed a concern that Derkach's "unsubstantiated allegations have also been amplified by some Americans," including Giuliani.

Anita Decker Breckenridge, records representative to former President Barack Obama and formerly White House deputy chief of staff for operations, was responsible for responding to the committees' requests for certain Obama-era records, as part of the Grassley-Johnson investigation. In her reply, she put on record her view that the request "serves no legitimate purpose" and "[gives] credence to a Russia disinformation campaign" but ultimately handed over the records "in the interest of countering the misinformation campaign underlying this request." In March 2020, she wrote (on page 398 ):

President Obama has consistently supported the nonpartisan administration of presidential records and the commitment to transparency core to NARA's [the National Archives and Records Administrations] mission. However, the current request is not a proper use of the limited NARA exceptions. It arises out of efforts by some, actively supported by Russia, to shift the blame for Russian interference in the 2016 election to Ukraine ... The request for early release of presidential records in order to give credence to a Russian disinformation campaign — one that has already been thoroughly investigated by a bipartisan congressional committee — is without precedent ... This use of the special access process serves no legitimate purpose, and does not outweigh or justify infringing confidentiality interests that all presidents have sought to protect. Nevertheless, in the interest of countering the misinformation campaign underlying this request, we are prepared on this occasion to provide the Committees access to the records responsive to this request.

The Republican authors of the final report firmly denied that they were advancing a Russian disinformation campaign, claiming that that was, itself, an unfounded conspiracy theory. They attributed to theory to Democratic lawmakers on the two committees, a misleading characterization because it omits to mention the trenchant concerns raised by non-partisan officials.

Report Hints at, but Doesn't Prove, Criminal Financial Activity by Hunter Biden

Perhaps the most salacious allegations in the report, and the most widely publicized ones, relate to Hunter Biden's personal financial affairs. In particular, the report alleges the following:

"Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow."

$3.5 million

President Trump himself tweeted out the "$3.5 million" claim, as did his son, Donald Trump Jr., and it also formed the basis of articles by the New York Post , Fox News , the Daily Mail , Newsweek and the Federalist .

Here's what the final report says about that alleged $3.5 million payment (on page 69 ):

Hunter Biden and his associate, Archer, had a financial relationship with Russian businesswoman Elena Baturina. Baturina is the former wife of the late Yuri Luzhkov, who was the mayor of Moscow and was fired in 2010 by then-Russian president Dmitry Medvedev over corruption allegations. Baturina became Russia’s only female billionaire when her plastics company, Inteko, received a series of Moscow municipal contracts while her husband was mayor. ...On Feb. 14, 2014, Baturina wired $3.5 million to a Rosemont Seneca Thornton LLC (Rosemont Seneca Thornton) bank account for a “Consultancy Agreement DD12.02.2014.” Rosemont Seneca Thornton is an investment firm co-founded by Hunter Biden that was incorporated on May 28, 2013 in Wilmington, Del.

However, Hunter Biden's attorney, George Mesires, refuted this claim, which the report describes as one of the investigation's "key findings." In a statement sent to Snopes, Mesires wrote:

"The Senate report falsely alleges that Hunter Biden had a financial relationship with Russian businesswoman Yelena Baturina and that he received $3.5 million from Baturina.  Hunter Biden was not a co-founder of Rosemont Seneca Thornton LLC (“RST”) nor did he have an equity interest in RST, so the claim that he was paid $3.5 million is false."

None of the news reports referenced above contained any evidence that their authors had sought comment from Hunter Biden on the Baturina allegation. We asked Grassley and Johnson for a response to Mesires' statement, but we didn't receive a response of any kind.

In a minority report, Democratic staff from the two Senate committees slammed the Republican-led investigation as "grossly irresponsible" and unprecedented in its methods, writing on page 48 :

The Republican Chairmen’s use of confidential Treasury documents to justify its unsubstantiated allegations and personal attacks against Vice President Biden’s family is grossly irresponsible. The information in the documents cited by the Republicans has not been verified, and we are not aware of any other Congressional committee ever releasing this sort of information in this manner. ...The Chairmen spent a year investigating Russian-backed allegations of wrongdoing by Vice President Biden in Ukraine, only to find the allegations discredited by their own investigation. Here the Republicans made no attempt to independently investigate the transactions at issue, perhaps to avoid the embarrassment of seeing these allegations discredited as well.

'Prostitution, and or Human Trafficking'

Another "key finding" from the report was the allegation that:

"Hunter Biden paid nonresident women who were nationals of Russia or other Eastern European countries and who appear to be linked to an 'Eastern European prostitution or human trafficking ring.'"

Predictably, this allegation attracted widespread news coverage, including articles by Fox News , the New York Post , the Daily Mail , the Sun , and the Federalist . However, its sourcing appears rather uncertain. In a footnote on page 67 , the report states that:

There is extensive public reporting concerning Hunter Biden’s alleged involvement with prostitution services. Records on file with the Committees do not directly confirm or refute these individual reports. However, they do confirm that Hunter Biden sent thousands of dollars to individuals who have either: 1) been involved in transactions consistent with possible human trafficking; 2) an association with the adult entertainment industry; or 3) potential association with prostitution. Some recipients of those funds are Ukrainian and Russian citizens. The records note that it is a documented fact that Hunter Biden has sent funds to nonresident alien women in the United States who are citizens of Russia and Ukraine and who have subsequently wired funds they have received from Hunter Biden to individuals located in Russia and Ukraine. The records also note that some of these transactions are linked to what “appears to be an Eastern European prostitution or human trafficking ring.”

The first thing to note is that the "extensive public reporting" in question appears to amount, in fact, to a single article published by the New York Post in March 2017. It was based on a leaked court filing from Hunter Biden's divorce from his wife, Kathleen, who accused him of "spending extravagantly on his own interests (including drugs, alcohol, prostitutes, strip clubs, and gifts for women with whom he has sexual relations) ..."

Speaking to The New Yorker in the summer of 2019, Hunter Biden denied hiring prostitutes.

Secondly, the footnote itself notes that the committees don't have evidence that directly confirms the claim that Hunter Biden hired prostitutes. Rather, it states that "records on file" with the two committees point to patterns of transactions and payments involving Biden which suggest a link to prostitution or human trafficking.

It's not clear what the nature of those records is. Elsewhere in the report, claims about payments and transactions are linked to citations of specific "confidential documents", for example "Confidential Document 1", "Confidential Document 14" and so on. Those typically appear to be bank records. However, the allegation that Biden sent thousands of dollars to women linked to prostitution is not cited in that way, and the alleged payments are not referred to separately, or cited separately. This would tend to suggest that the "records on file with the committees" are not bank statements.

The footnote also refers to the records in a somewhat unusual way, for example: " The records note that it is a documented fact that Hunter Biden has sent funds to nonresident alien women ..." and " The records also note that some of these transactions are linked to..." If the records constituted concrete evidence of Biden's transactions, then it would make more sense to say "The records show that ..." It is notable that the report doesn't describe them in that way, and it suggests some measure of distance between concrete proof of Biden's alleged payments, and the records on file with the committees.

Snopes asked Grassley and Johnson for further details about those records, including their format, their author(s), and why they hadn't been specifically cited in the report, or published as exhibits. We also asked for copies of the records in question. We did not receive a response of any kind.

Other Claims

The Grassley-Johnson report also details business connections between Hunter Biden and several Chinese nationals who, according to the report, have "deep connections to the Communist Chinese government." In particular, the report addresses BHR Partners, a fund created by a 2013 agreement between Rosemont Seneca and Bohai Capital.

The report details multiple transactions between Hunter Biden, his uncle, James Biden, and James Biden's wife, Sara, and entities associated with Ye Jianming, a businessman reportedly detained in China on suspicion of financial crimes, as well as Patrick Ho, an associate of Ye, who was convicted in 2019 of international bribery and money laundering.  

The transactions in question are rather convoluted, and some of the individuals and entities involved certainly appear questionable. However, the Grassley-Johnson report does not articulate specific acts of wrongdoing, or criminal offenses, by Hunter Biden or his family members.

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Unraveling the tale of Hunter Biden and $3.5 million from Russia

“She [Russian billionaire Elena Baturina] gave him [Hunter Biden] $3.5 million so now I would think [Russian president Vladimir] Putin would know the answer to that. I think he should release it. I think we should know that answer.”

— Former president Donald Trump , in an interview with Just the News, March 29

“The FBI knew of the laptop, knew that Hunter received a $3.5 million wire transfer from the former mayor of Moscow’s wife.”

— Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), interview on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” April 3

Less than 50 days before the 2020 presidential election, the Republican staff of the Senate Finance and Homeland Security committees issued a joint report with a startling claim — that Joe Biden’s son Hunter had received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, a Russian billionaire and the widow of the former mayor of Moscow.

Trump quickly weaponized the factoid, mentioning it 42 times in the final weeks of the campaign. He sharply questioned Biden during the first presidential debate: “They were the ones involved with Russia, turns out not me, it was the opposite. But why did your son get three and a half million from the wife of the mayor of Moscow?”

An attorney for Hunter Biden denied the allegation in 2020, but it has lived on, especially in the right-wing media. Recently Trump called on Putin to reveal what he knows about it.

Trump’s call-out to Putin inspired us to dig deep into this story again. We interviewed people familiar with the transactions, reviewed property and real estate documents, and probed for leads in the emails contained on a hard-drive copy of the laptop Hunter Biden supposedly left behind for repair in a Delaware shop in April 2019. None of our sources would speak on the record because of continuing investigations of Hunter Biden and his business practices, but we sought confirmation from corporate filings and other records.

The flimsiness of the allegation was apparent from the start merely by carefully reading the Senate GOP report itself.

The executive summary offers a seemingly definitive bullet point almost exactly the same as Johnson’s comment: “Hunter Biden received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow.” But the two pages in the report that deal with this transaction are considerably more nuanced, never saying outright that Hunter Biden received this money and making no claim that any laws were broken.

The GOP report itself does not provide evidence to back up the claim that became a talking point — and our reporting has unearthed the best explanation about what really happened. It’s a complicated story, involving a web of corporate entities, that eventually leads to the purchase of millions of dollars worth of real estate in Brooklyn by the Russian billionaire. We found no evidence that Hunter Biden was part of those transactions.

A deal in China

Let’s start our story in China, where Hunter Biden invested in a private investment fund backed by Chinese state entities at a time when his father was vice president — a controversial practice that has raised ethical questions. The allegation that he received this payment hinges on his involvement with a firm called Rosemont Seneca Thornton that initially invested in the fund, generally known as BHR Partners .

The report says that on Feb. 14, 2014, Baturina wired $3.5 million to Rosemont Seneca Thornton LLC, which it said was “co-founded” by Hunter Biden. The payment was listed as “Consultancy Agreement DD12.02.2014,” the report said.

The report attributes details on financial transactions to a “confidential document” obtained from the Treasury Department. Johnson and Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), then chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, in 2019 announced they had sought Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) on individuals and entities, including Hunter Biden. SARs are akin to an informant’s tips, not evidence of fraud.

Rosemont Seneca Thornton was created on May 28, 2013, according to corporation records, and was incorporated in Delaware , which does not require shareholders or directors to be revealed. But Devon Archer, Hunter Biden’s former business partner, sometimes used “Rosemont” in company names, and Biden used “Seneca.” Thornton referred to Thornton Group, run by Jim Bulger, who brought expertise in investing in China.

But almost as immediately as Rosemont Seneca Thornton was created, the partners decided to dissolve it, according to a person with access to the board minutes. The original structure had added unexpected regulatory burdens to Thornton, and so Bulger’s lawyers advised that the group split up, this person said.

Within a year, Chinese corporate records reflected that the foreign investors in BHR were Rosemont Seneca Bohai LLC, with 20 percent, and Thornton Group LLC, with 10 percent. Corporate records show Rosemont Seneca Bohai, the replacement corporate vehicle, was formed on Feb. 13, 2014, the day before the Baturina transfer.

In theory, for Hunter Biden, Rosemont Seneca Thornton was no more.

RST unexpectedly lives on

But Rosemont Seneca Thornton was not dissolved as planned. Four people familiar with the company said that Devon Archer, Hunter Biden’s former business partner, controls it. Archer had kept the vehicle alive for his own real estate business, Rosemont Realty, which raised money from Eastern European and Central Asian investors, two people knowledgeable about his activities said. But he did not inform either Hunter Biden or Bulger, they said.

Archer’s secret was exposed when the Senate report was published. Confronted, Archer told Bulger that he had used Rosemont Seneca Thornton to transfer funds from Baturina to purchase real estate in Brooklyn, according to a participant in the conversation.

Archer and his attorney, Matthew Schwartz, did not respond to queries. Hunter Biden’s attorney, Chris Clark, declined to comment.

Baturina did not respond to emailed questions. When the report was released, she told the Daily Mail she was “not interested” in explaining an alleged consultancy fee. Her estranged brother Viktor Baturin claimed to the news organization that “it was a payment to enter the American market.” Baturin, who is reported to be in custody after losing a fraud case filed by his sister, could not be reached for comment.

Hunter Biden’s laptop does not contain significant evidence of direct interaction between Hunter Biden and Baturina, according to a review of emails that have been verified by experts working with The Washington Post as well as emails that the experts were unable to verify.

Here’s how The Post analyzed Hunter Biden’s laptop

Her name, for instance, appears as a possible guest for a 2015 dinner that then-Vice President Biden briefly visited, according to our reporting , but it’s unclear if she attended.

There’s also no sign of a $3.5 million payment in Hunter Biden’s reported income for 2014, the year of the wire transfer. That year, he reported earning almost $1.25 million, according to information contained in a verified laptop email he sent to his lawyer. The email said $400,000 of the income was related to Biden’s board seat at Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company.

Archer did a lot of business with Hunter Biden and had originally brought him into the BHR deal. But Archer also had many side deals in that period unconnected to his business with Biden. So doing his own deal with Baturina would appear to be part of that pattern.

In February, Archer was sentenced to a year and a day in prison after being convicted of defrauding Native American tribes and various clients in relation to the fraudulent issuance and sale of tribal bonds between 2014 and 2016. “I was doing too many things at once and not paying enough attention,” said Archer before he was sentenced. “I have deep remorse for the victims of the crime.”

Baturina’s deals in Brooklyn

Besides the allegation about Hunter Biden, the GOP report made other claims about payments from Baturina to Rosemont Seneca Thornton. But that part of the report showed sloppiness in the reporting and calls into question the thoroughness of the investigation. The report critically misidentified the recipient, mixing up two entities with virtually the same names.

The Fact Checker identified the correct owner of the entity that received the funds — and traced the money to real estate purchases in Brooklyn that match a statement by Baturina as well as Archer’s admission that he used Rosemont Seneca Thornton to transfer funds for Baturina for real estate investments in Brooklyn.

The Senate report said that “between May 6, 2015 and Dec. 8, 2015, Baturina sent 11 wires in the amount of $391,968.21 to a bank account belonging to BAK USA LLC,” with the transactions listed as “loan agreement.” The report said that nine of the transactions, totaling $241,797.14, were sent to a Rosemont Seneca Thornton bank account, which then transferred the money to BAK USA.

The report said “BAK USA was a start-up technology company headquartered in Buffalo, N.Y., that produced tablet computers in cooperation with unnamed Chinese business partners.” It turns out there were two BAK USA LLCs, but the one that received the payments had a comma in its name — BAK USA, LLC, which corporate records show was formed on May 28, 2014.

In 2016, Baturina issued a statement saying she had opened a representative office in New York to oversee investments in the United States. “Baturina’s company has acquired the first set of commercial buildings next to Barclay’s Centre, a very popular sports and entertainment venue. The company owns the buildings with a total area of 1,500 square meters, and the investment that went into their acquisition totaled US $10 million,” the statement said.

New York City real estate records show that BAK USA, LLC, using the same business address as Archer’s firm Rosemont Capital, on June 27, 2014, had purchased two parcels in Brooklyn within a half-mile of Barclays Center. One parcel was bought for $4.1 million and another for $5.4 million , or a total of $9.6 million. The properties had been auctioned by the unclaimed and seized assets program of the United States government.

The property records and a property tax bill directed us to Helen Gotman, who is active in New York City real estate. She confirmed to the Fact Checker she managed the properties on behalf of Baturina.

In 2018, the properties were sold for about $11.7 million each , property records show, for a gain of more than $14 million.

J.P. Folsgaard Bak, a Danish lawyer who moved to the United States to become an entrepreneur, headed the Buffalo company misidentified in the report. The company had closed its doors in 2018 after Trump’s Chinese tariffs made Chinese components more expensive and the tablets unprofitable. Bak said he was reading the Daily Mail in 2020, shortly after the Senate report was released, and was stunned to see an article saying his company had received payments from a Russian billionaire.

The committee staff had not contacted the company before publication of the report. Bak said the story exploded on social media and threats were being made against him and his wife. He sought an immediate correction from the committee but said the company’s appeals were not heeded, with officials being told that the burden of proof was on the company.

After the election, on Nov. 18, 2020, the committee issued a supplemental report that on Page 16 included a footnote stating: “It appears that the tablet company did not receive the wires, but rather the other entity under the name BAK USA LLC was the recipient of those funds.” Bak said he did not learn of the footnote until May of the following year, when he received a letter from Grassley’s chief of staff alerting him to it.

The GOP response

Alexa Henning, a Johnson spokesperson, said he stood by the report.

“Our report cited information from factual statements in U.S. government records,” said Taylor Foy, a spokesman for Senate Finance Committee Republicans, in a statement . “We’ve been provided no evidence to change our findings or dissociate Hunter Biden’s financial connections to Devon Archer and Yelena Baturina.” In an apparent reference to the Biden laptop, he added: “In fact, additional evidence has come to light that suggests Hunter Biden and Devon Archer collaborated on financial transactions with Yelena Baturina around the time of the transaction in question, and were involved in additional financial ventures together than had been previously known.”

As for BAK USA, Foy said, “Hunter Biden, Devon Archer and their associates would routinely set up multiple corporations with similar names for limited use.” He said that “the committee received angry messages” from “combative” BAK company officials but sought to clarify the record with the footnote in the supplemental report.

Bak said as far as he knows, no news organization ever corrected its reporting on BAK USA. “Our old company officially is still identified as the receiver of the funds, if you look it up at the Internet,” he said. “Typical Washington strategy: October surprise on front page and subtraction at Page 11 next to the crossword.”

(Update, Aug. 3, 2023: In an interview with congressional investigators on July 31, 2023 , Archer confirmed that the $3.5 million transfer was intended for his real estate business dealings with Baturina and that Hunter Biden was not involved. “Quite frankly, it was not supposed to go there [Rosemont Seneca Thornton], but that’s where it went,” Archer said.)

(Update, March 1, 2024: In an interview with congressional investigators, Hunter Biden also said he did not receive any funds from Baturina. “I had nothing to do with Rosemont-whatever entity, the realty or whatever it is,” he said, according to a transcript released Feb. 29, 2024 . “That was Devon’s. I never received a dime from Ms. Baturina. I didn’t have any involvement with her in any way.”)

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