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17 Dec 2020
A series of emails released Wednesday allegedly credited to President-elect Joe Biden’s son Hunter shine a light on his deep business connections in communist China.
The revelation comes just four days after an email reportedly from the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop called his father Joe and a Chinese business partner “new office mates,” as Breitbart News reported.
The latest email tranche, reported by the Daily Caller News Foundation, reveal communications which set out Hunter Biden was informed in 2018 by one of his business partners he would start to receive “significant” payments the following year from a firm in China that was co-owned by the Bank of China, which is owned by the communist Chinese government.
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Two members of the family that owns Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, will testify before a congressional committee over their role in the opioid epidemic.
David and Kathe Sackler, who served on Purdue’s board for a combined 34 years, will appear before the House Oversight Committee Thursday and become the first members of their family to take public questions from a governing body, according to the Associated Press.
They will likely face questions regarding their company’s role in worsening the opioid epidemic, which has been connected to approximately 450,000 deaths in the U.S. this century.
The hearing, rescheduled from last spring, was announced by House Oversight Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney in a harsh letter to their lawyers that outlined their role in the epidemic and floated a subpoena if the two failed to appear.
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A black Minnesota man who was sentenced to life in prison as a teen after a careless police investigation led to a sentence for life was released Tuesday after spending 18 years behind bars, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.
Myon Burrell spent 18 years in prison after he was sentenced for killing an 11-year-old girl with a stray bullet, the AP reported. However, new evidence and revelations of significant failures by police investigators led to an independent legal review of Burrell’s case resulting in his release from the Stillwater prison on Tuesday night, according to AP and APM Reports.