There would appear to be no end to the shady dealings of the former First Son, Mr. Hunter Biden. Now, a new Hunter Biden scheme has emerged into the light of day like a hissing cockroach crawling out from under a rotting log; this time it’s a scheme to sell off the land surrounding the United States Embassy in Romania to a group that included Chinese monied interests.

Yes, really.

While his father, Joseph R. Biden Jr., was vice president, Hunter Biden began developing relationships that led to an audacious proposal to sell the land around the United States Embassy building in Romania to a group that included a Chinese company.

Hunter Biden was involved in the proposed deal from multiple perspectives, creating what he privately acknowledged to an associate was an ethical quagmire, according to documents and four people with knowledge of the matter who were not authorized to speak about it.

Even after years of investigations, and a suggestion by federal prosecutors that Mr. Biden’s work in Romania left him vulnerable to a foreign lobbying charge, the full story of his efforts there has not been told before. Previously unreported details exemplify how Mr. Biden’s pursuit of lucrative foreign deals fit into the broader foreign influence industry and complicated U.S. diplomacy.

That’s a lot of formal language that boils down to, “Hunter Biden was selling access and engaging in shady business dealings while bringing nothing to the table but his last name.”

The deal he was pursuing left open the possibility that the Chinese could have ended up with an ownership stake in a critical asset — the land around the embassy in Bucharest, and possibly the land on which the embassy sat. The possibility concerned one of his former partners who sought to avoid the outcome at the time, while another partner later rejected the idea that it was ever on the table.

The chapter fits into a well-worn playbook used by deep-pocketed foreign interests to seek favor in Washington by courting politically connected Americans, including presidential family members like the adult sons of President Trump or the son and brother of former President Jimmy Carter.

You don’t say.

This smacks a lot of treacherous indifference on the part of the son of a former vice president and former president, and some of these deals were in the works when old “Autopen Joe” was in office, either as VP or president. While Joe Biden spent most of his four years in the White House trying to tie his shoes and follow the white tape on the floor to find his way to the presidential bathroom, his son clearly spent a lot of time during those four years engaging in graft-for-profit, even down to and including his “art” career. Indeed, that last bit might be the most egregious; most of Hunter’s artwork looked like what you would get if you gave a bunch of paint to a chimpanzee and surrounded him with canvas, and yet they mysteriously sold for huge sums.