• Numerous news reports have asserted Hunter Biden received $50,000 a month from the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma, but available records do not support that claim.
• But the son of former Vice President Joe Biden did receive over $700,000 in payments from a capital management company called Rosemont Seneca Bohai, which obtained a 20% equity stake in BHR Partners, a Chinese investment firm.
• Hunter Biden served on the board of BHR Partners, which has close ties to the Bank of China.
• Hunter Biden has also dodged questions about whether the $50,000 monthly payments were compensation for his work with Burisma, and his lawyer did not respond to multiple requests for comment on this story.

Hunter Biden received over $700,000 from a New York-based capital management company that held equity in a Chinese investment firm with close ties to the Bank of China, a Daily Caller News Foundation review of Hunter Biden’s Chinese, Ukrainian and American business dealings has found.

And despite the deluge of media reports saying Hunter Biden received $50,000 a month for his work on the board of the Ukranian natural gas company Burisma Holdings, the records tell a much different story.

Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, did not receive any compensation directly from Burisma, according to available records. The oft-cited $50,000 a month figure is actually based on payments he received from a New York-based company called Rosemont Seneca Bohai, which was owned and controlled by his longtime business partner, Devon Archer.

Rosemont Seneca Bohai’s Morgan Stanley bank records are publicly available because they were submitted in an unrelated criminal case that involved Archer and an alleged scheme to defraud millions from an American Indian tribe. Archer was found guilty in the case in 2018, but his conviction was later overturned.

The bank records show that in each month between June 2014 and October 2015, Rosemont Seneca Bohai wired between $10,000 and $150,979 to Hunter Biden for undisclosed purposes. In total, Hunter Biden received $708,302 from Rosemont Seneca Bohai, which was under Archer’s care at all times.

During that 17-month timeframe, in June 2015, Rosemont Seneca Bohai obtained a 20% equity stake in Bohai Harvest RST, the Chinese private equity firm that Hunter Biden has been a board member of since its founding in 2013. Hunter Biden announced Sunday he would resign from that position by the end of October.

Bohai Harvest RST is often referred to as BHR Partners in English news reports.

Just four months prior, in February 2015, Archer’s associate, investment banker Dan McClory, said he, Archer and BHR Partners CEO Jonathan Li, were pictured meeting with a leader of the Chinese State Assets Commission (SASAC), which as of 2017 managed $26 trillion in Chinese state assets.

“Group shot with the Director General of Chinese State Assets Commission. He’s the short guy at center,” McClory emailed his associates after the meeting. “Sasac is the largest controlling shareholder in the world … I brought them to BHR. Jonathan Li of BHR is third from right.”

“Fun times in Beijing,” McClory added. “Devon was stellar.”

McClory’s email was received as evidence in Archer’s trial. A witness testified that Archer was the individual third from the left in the photo attached to McClory’s email.

Rosemont Seneca Bohai held onto its 20% equity in BHR Partners until October 2017 when its stake was split in half between two companies, according to Chinese business records. One of the entities that took a portion of Rosemont Seneca Bohai’s equity in BHR Partners was Skaneateles LLC, where Hunter Biden is one of two co-directors, according to business records.

Skaneateles still holds its 10% equity stake in BHR Partners, according to Chinese business records. The other director of Skaneateles is Eric Schwerin, a longtime business partner of Hunter Biden. (RELATED: Hunter Biden Still Holds Stake In Chinese Private Equity Firm. His Business Partner Holds A Supervisor Role, Records Show)

On the same day Skaneateles obtained equity in BHR Partners, Schwerin was appointed as supervisor of BHR Partners, a role that grants him the power to oversee the firm’s financial affairs. Schwerin still holds the role of supervisor of BHR Partners, according to Chinese business records.

Hunter Biden announced Sunday that he would resign his position on the board of BHR Partners, but he did not say whether Skaneateles would divest its equity stake in the firm, nor did he say whether Schwerin would step down as the firm’s supervisor.

BHR Partners currently manages the equivalent of $2.1 billion in assets and boasts having the support of the Bank of China, according to its website.

Hunter Biden dodges the question

When Hunter Biden and Archer were appointed to the board of Burisma in 2014, the company’s chairman, Alan Apter, told The Wall Street Journal the two would receive a salary for their independent directorship.

But Hunter Biden has never publicly confirmed what his salary was. And he outright dodged the question when asked about what he received from Burisma during an interview Saturday.

Referring to Burisma, ABC News reporter Amy Robach asked: “You were paid $50,000 a month for your position?”

Hunter Biden responded: “Look, I’m a private citizen. One thing that I don’t have to do is sit here and open my kimono as it relates to how much money I made or make or did or didn’t.”

“But it’s all been reported,” Hunter Biden added, without confirming the accuracy of what’s been reported.

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Hunter Biden’s lawyer, George Mesires, did not respond to multiple inquiries from the DCNF requesting confirmation that the funds Hunter Biden received from Rosemont Seneca Bohai were exclusively to compensate him for his service on Burisma’s board.

Where did the $50,000 a month figure come from?

New York Times journalist Ken Vogel was first to report that Burisma paid Hunter Biden $50,000 a month, basing that figure on Rosemont Seneca Bohai’s bank records. Those bank records show Rosemont Seneca Bohai wired $708,312 to Hunter Biden in the same timeframe that Burisma paid the firm $3.15 million.

But Burisma was just one of many entities that paid Rosemont Seneca Bohai in the timeframe it was wiring funds to Hunter Biden. Over 30 entities and individuals wired nearly $30 million to Rosemont Seneca Bohai in 2014 and 2015, the bank records show.

Notably, BHR Partners was one of the entities that transacted with Rosemont Seneca Bohai during that critical timeframe.

Rosemont Seneca Bohai wired $484,920 to BHR Partners on Dec. 9, 2014, for an undisclosed purpose, the bank records show. A few weeks later, on Dec. 30, BHR Partners sent $61,227 back to Rosemont Seneca Bohai. In February 2015, BHR Partners wired an additional $2,452 to Rosemont Seneca Bohai.

Mesires, Hunter Biden’s lawyer, did not respond to multiple inquiries from the DCNF asking if the funds Hunter Biden received from Rosemont Seneca Bohai had anything to do with his work with BHR Partners.

Why was Burisma wiring funds to a capital management firm?

Burisma said Hunter Biden would serve in the firm’s legal unit, according to a May 2014 press release announcing his directorship.

“As a new member of the Board, I believe that my assistance in consulting the Company on matters of transparency, corporate governance and responsibility, international expansion and other priorities will contribute to the economy and benefit the people of Ukraine,” Hunter Biden said in the release.

Indeed, Burisma bank records made public in October by Ukranian MP Andriy Derkach show that the gas company’s payments to Rosemont Seneca Bohai were for “consulting services.”

But it’s unclear why Burisma paid consulting services to Rosemont Seneca Bohai, considering that at the time Hunter Biden was the chairman of Rosemont Seneca Advisors, a firm he co-founded in 2009 that was dedicated to providing financial and corporate advisory services.

Additionally, Rosemont Seneca Bohai was a capital management firm, not a consulting firm, Rosemont Seneca Bohai’s Morgan Stanley account manager, Catharine Driever, testified during Archer’s 2018 trial regarding the scheme to defraud an American Indian tribe.

Hunter Biden served no official role at Rosemont Seneca Bohai at the time it was receiving consulting payments from Burisma. But Hunter Biden was serving as the chairman of Rosemont Seneca Advisors, the chairman of investment advisory firm Rosemont Seneca Partners, and sat on the board of advisors for Rosemont Reality, a real estate investment firm.

Burisma did not return the DCNF’s inquiry regarding why it was paying consulting fees to a capital management firm.

Rosemont Seneca Bohai’s Florida attorney, Clifford Wolff, did not respond when asked for confirmation that the funds Rosemont Seneca Bohai wired to Hunter Biden were compensation for his work on the board of Burisma and whether the payments were in any way related to his work with BHR Partners.

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