The Bigger Picture
Newsweek, as have other sources, traces the $49,910 amount to what was actually a security deposit on quarterly rent paid to House of Sweden by Hunter's firm Rosement Seneca Partners for office space there. Newsweek fills out additional details in the link:
A 2021 report by Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, which examined a trove of communications between the National Property Board and Hunter Biden's representatives, stated that in February 2017: "Hunter Biden and his companies" moved into House of Sweden, with rent at "$50,000 per quarter".
Furthermore, an email exchange among files from the Hunter Biden laptop leak, which shows a conversation with "CECILIA BROWNING, GENERAL MANAGER AT HOUSE OF SWEDEN" also lists a security deposit that exactly matches the rent listed on the background check form. Emails within that exchange also roughly match the dates quoted in the background check and the Dagens Nyheter investigation.
The National Property Board of Sweden confirmed to Newsweek that "$49,910 was paid quarterly between March 2017 and February 2018."
. . . "House of Sweden is owned and managed by National Property Board Sweden," general manager Cecilia Browning said to Fox News. "We have tenants who rent office space, and it is correct that Rosemont Seneca LLC rented an office at House of Sweden between February 2017 – February 2018."
But the story doesn't stop there. 2018 was, to put it mildly, a crazy year for Hunter, who in its first months was continuing his affair with his late brother's widow, Hallie, and apparently spending time at her Washington home, while also frequently seen at a Washington strip club , The Mpire Club, where he developed a relationship with a dancer there, Lunden Alexis Roberts, who worked under the stage name “Dallas”. Hunter traveled extensively with her during this period, and she bore his love child that August.However, neither Hallie nor Alexis had a monopoly on Hunter's time.
It’s May 2018, and Robert Hunter Biden is trawling through his favorite Los Angeles escort sites. He orders “Yanna,” a 24-year-old Russian native from Emerald Fantasy Girls.
However, Hunter moved out of Chateau Marmont, where that escapade took place, later in the month. (He was kicked out for good that July.)On May 19, 2018, Hunter moves from his cottage at the Chateau Marmont to a cheaper hotel in West Hollywood, The Jeremy, where rooms are $469 per night. He orders an escort from Emerald Fantasy Girls. She stays for a couple days and wants to be paid. The problem is Hunter’s debit cards aren’t working and she’s not leaving without the $8,000 he owes her for the extended callout. On the morning of May 24, hung over and out of sorts, Hunter adds a new recipient on the cash transfer app Zelle, a woman named Gulnora, the registered agent for Emerald Fantasy Girls.
. . . What we do know from the laptop is that a few hours after Hunter’s debit-card woes began, text messages start arriving that are labeled as being from Robert Savage III. Savage was once the Secret Service’s special agent in charge of the Los Angeles field office and a contact card for him appears on the laptop, with a photographic avatar, phone number and Secret Service email address.
. . .The activity recorded on Hunter’s devices shows Savage sending Hunter an urgent missive on May 24 at 6:37 p.m.: “H – I’m in the lobby come down. Thanks, Rob.”
Five minutes later, Savage texts again: “Come on H, this is linked to Celtic’s account. DC is calling me every 10. Let me up or come down. I can’t help if you don’t let me H.”
“Celtic” was Joe Biden’s Secret Service code name when he was vice president.
Did one of the credit cards used to pay Gulnora belong to Joe Biden? Was it a shared account?
But while all this was going on, Lunden Roberts, the dancer, was on Hunter's payroll, as was Hallie. There seems to have been some pressure on Hunter, by the summer of 2018, to tone things down and get his affairs in order as Celtic began to clarify his plans for 2020. A few months after the birth of his and Lunden's child in August, Hunter took her off his payroll and insurance.By December, he was having to deal with the office items left over from the Rosemont Seneca lease at House of Sweden, which had expired in February (we can only assume he'd been so busy he couldn't attend to it before then):
“Have what’s in storage sent to my parents guest house,” Hunter Biden told his assistant Katie Dodge in a Dec. 10, 2018 text message, which was part of a trove leaked online last year and now hosted by nonprofit Marco Polo USA.
Four days later, Dodge followed up with an image from inside a storage facility with large wooden containers stacked three levels on top of each other.
“You have almost I think 3 of these containers full of office and personal items. Will they fit at Barley Road? It’s 3,000 cubic feet,” she said.
I've got to assume the slightly smaller house to the right of the main house in the photo above is the "guest house" Hunter refers to in his text message. This exchange provides some possible insight into how some of the documents that may have been found at the Wilmington location might relate to Hunter's business interests, and it also gives some insight into the actual scale of the task confronting Biden's personal attorneys in going through this information and scubbing it. From this account, these aren't just a few random cardboard cartons.What I've been doing has simply been collating the dates of the numerous individual stories of Hunter's escapades into a single timeline with links, which is providing a great deal of extra context to each individual episode of his saga during the years of the Biden interregnum. What astonishes me is that nobody else appears to have done this, even though it involves nothing more than a few hours of time and a web connection.
