The nephew of Boston crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger was a business associate of Hunter Biden and played an active part in furthering his business ventures in China, leaked emails show.
The Boston mobster was a high-profile figure in the city’s organized crime scene from the 1970s to the 1990s and had for years been America’s most wanted fugitive. He was killed by fellow prison inmates in 2018 while serving two life sentences for 11 murders.
Massachusetts mobster James “Whitey” Bulger. (FBI via AP, File)
His nephew, James J. Bulger, is the son of a former Massachusetts state senator and chairman of Boston-based investment consulting Thornton Group, which he co-founded with Taiwanese American businessman Michael Lin Chun-Liang. The company was a stakeholder in the investment firm Bohai Harvest RST Shanghai Equity Investment Fund Management (BHR Partners), backed by major Chinese state financial institutions such as the Bank of China and the China Development Bank Capital.
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