Chinese Client Demands Hunter Biden to Return $1M

A demand has been made by a former business associate for Hunter Biden to repay $1 million this week due to the failure to provide legal services, as reported by the New York Post.

Chi Ping “Patrick” Ho, who worked for Chinese firm CEFC, sent a letter to Hunter Biden’s attorneys last week threatening legal action if the money is not returned within seven days.

In 2017, Hunter Biden was hired to work as an attorney for Ho, who claims that no legal work was done for him.

“Patrick says he paid him, and that Hunter never did anything for him and that according to the contract the money should be reimbursed,” a source told Post columnist Miranda Devine.

Ho sent a legal letter to Hunter Biden last week requesting the termination of their attorney-client agreement. The letter also threatened legal action unless Ho receives a detailed list of services provided by Hunter Biden and reimbursement for the unused funds.

The letter was sent by the Hong Kong law firm Huen & Partners to Hunter Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell in Washington, D.C.

Ho, former Hong Kong Home Affairs secretary, was convicted in 2019 for paying bribes to the presidents of Chad and Uganda. He was sentenced to three years’ jail before being deported to Hong Kong.

Ho claims that the only legal work Hunter Biden did for him was to call another attorney, Edward Kim, and show up late for a meeting with Ho and Kim the morning after Ho’s arrest in November 2017.

A transcript of Hunter Biden’s plea deal appearance in July before Delaware U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika shows that the first son, under oath, said he received the million dollar payment “for legal fees for Patrick Ho,” through “my own law firm.”

During the plea deal appearance, Hunter Biden clarified that the payment was made through his own law firm.

IRS whistleblower Joe Ziegler testified to the House Ways and Means Committee last year that the $1 million payment was misrepresented in the failed plea agreement.