A review by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project of documents recently released by the Justice Department reveals that for nearly three years, the agency actively has hindered congressional probes into a Chinese businessman associated with Hunter Biden, the president’s son.
Patrick Ho, also known as Hé Zhìpíng, is a Chinese national who was a prominent figure at the conglomerate CEFC China Energy. In 2019, Ho was convicted of international bribery and money laundering.
CEFC China Energy focused on the expansion of Communist China’s One Belt One Road initiative across multiple continents before being absorbed in 2018 by Chinese government interests through bankruptcy.
As revealed in court documents, the FBI had monitored Ho’s communications under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act from as early as June 2016 until FBI agents arrested him in late…
