i was a business partner of hunter biden, and devin archer among others. our business included the accusation of 85-year-old wall street firm, birmingham company. our objectives was to build diversified private equity platform, which would be anchored by a globally known wall street brand, together with a globally known political name, biden. our goal that is hunter biden, devin archer, and me, was to make billions. not millions. the entire value of hunter biden to our business was a family name and access to his father, vice president joe biden. in 2014, we believe that the enterprise would be significantly enhanced by performing a partnership with harvest fund management, a $300 billion chinese financial service company closely led to the chinese government. mr. shal was interested in this partnership because of joe biden, who was to be a member of the team post vice presidency. my lawyers provided for me a draft email dated august 23, 2014, drafted from hunter biden that states and i quote, michael, please also remind henry of our conversation about a b