Biden’s GRANDCHILDREN and Hunter’s current wife are among the 10 family members who got foreign cash
Oversight Republicans revealed Wednesday morning how 10 of Joe Biden’s relatives — even down to a grandchild — received bank transfers of more than million from foreigners around the time he was vice president.
Those who benefited included Hunter Biden, Hallie Biden, Beau Biden’s widow and one-time girlfriend of Hunter Biden, Hunter Biden’s ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle, Hunter Biden’s current wife, Melissa Cohen Biden, Biden’s brother James and his wife Sarah, and the grandchildren and nieces. and cousins of Joe Biden.
An additional Biden bank account has been identified, but it is not yet clear who it belongs to.
“We are talking about grandchildren, a grandchild. That’s weird. Most people who work hard every day don’t get a telegram from a foreigner or anything like that,” Comer said at a news conference.
“We are talking about grandchildren, a grandchild. That’s weird. Most people who work hard every day don’t get a message from a foreigner or anything like that,” Comer said at a news conference.
It has not been suggested that the president himself directly accepted any of the payments, but Republicans say they are confident he was aware of the plan.
“It’s inconceivable that the president didn’t know,” Comer said.
As a presidential candidate, Biden said he and his family have not taken money from China.
“The White House refuses to correct the president’s statement,” Comer said. “The president is now using the federal government to interfere with his family and his own role in these plans.”
Republican Oversight Committee members recently dug into the previously undisclosed $1 million in Romania-linked payments and a “web” of 20 companies created while President Joe Biden was vice president and anti-corruption efforts in the country. performed abroad.
On Wednesday, the commission released a “Second Records Memorandum” that builds on information it received from subpoenas as the commission continues its investigation into the Biden family’s business practices.
“We are in the early stages of this investigation,” Comer warned, announcing that they would subpoena further bank records and again ask the Biden family’s business associates to cooperate with the investigation before issuing subpoenas.
Wednesday’s memo specifically outlines the Biden family’s ties to Romanian “influence peddling” and a web of LLCs created while Biden was vice president. It also accuses President Biden of a “lack of transparency” regarding his family’s receipt of money from China, which he said is “untrue.”
It details the family’s efforts to hide, conceal and confuse sources of money – including more Chinese money.
“China is probably the most reputable country on the list,” Comer said of the various countries associated with payments to the Bidens.
“It is inconceivable that the president did not know, and the White House refuses to correct the president’s statement … the president is now using the federal government to interfere with his family and his own role in these plans,” he said. Comer. at a press conference announcing the memo Wednesday.
During Biden’s time as vice president, there were 20 companies affiliated with certain Biden family members that were intentionally created with a “complicated corporate structure,” the memo states.
Hunter Biden and his associates, including Rob Walker, made up “at least 15” of those companies after Biden assumed the position of vice president in 2009.
Several of those entities, including Owasco PC — which Hunter owned — Hudson West III, LLC, Robinson Walker, LLC and Rosemont Seneca Bohai, LLC, accepted funds from foreign companies ranging from $5,000 to $3 million, the commission says.
“I’ve all been accused, on this particular issue, of being conspiracy theorists. We’re not,” Representative Nancy Mace, RS.C., said at a news conference about the memo.
“This may be the most corrupt scheme in American politics,” Mace added.
During Biden’s time as vice president, there were 20 companies affiliated with certain Biden family members that were intentionally created with a “complicated corporate structure,” the memo states.
Defending his son Hunter, Biden said last Friday night during an interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, “First of all, my son has done nothing wrong”
Specifically, this is “evidence of influence and a connection between the work of the Biden family and their business partners,” the Republicans claim, pointing to multiple anti-corruption speeches and meetings with Romanian leaders who then had Vice President Biden between 2014 and 2015.
The Romanian transactions described in bank records released by the commission came from Cypriot – a company controlled by Gabriel Popoviciu, who was under investigation for criminal corruption in Romania at the time and later convicted of bribery-related offences.
“While Vice President Biden was lecturing Romania on anti-corruption policies, he was really a walking billboard for his son and family to raise money,” Comer said.
Between 2015 and 2017, Robinson Walker, LLC received $3 million from Bladon Enterprises Limited – Popoviciu’s Cypriot company – which was subsequently disbursed to Biden family members totaling more than $1 million.
The LLC received its first payments just weeks after then-Vice President Biden hosted Romanian President Klaus Iohannis at the White House and discussed anti-corruption policies.
Biden family accounts received $1.038 million from Robinson Walker, LLC in a series of 17 deposits, 16 of which were made while Biden was still in the White House. The payments went to employees James Gilliar, Hunter Biden, Hallie Biden, Owasco LLC and an “unknown Biden bank account.”
“Bank records show that the Bidens used Robinson Walker, LLC to hide that the source of these payments was Popovici,” the memo says.
The memo also “serves as a response to misinformation,” Republicans say it was distributed by President Biden, Congressional Democrats and their allies regarding the China-related findings in an initial memo released last month.
On March 16, Comer released a “First Bank Records Memorandum” detailing a 2017 $3 million payment received by Biden family member Rob Walker from CEFC China Energy affiliate State Energy HK Limited.
About $1 million of that money was then passed on by Walker to various Biden family members — including Hallie Biden — in more than 15 incremental payments.
Hunter and Hallie Biden started dating after the death of her husband Beau Biden
“It is unclear what services were provided to arrive at this exorbitant amount,” Comer said when the first memo was released.
The new memo released Wednesday contains additional information about Ye Jianming and his company CEFC, including the role of the company’s US “envoy” Gongwen Dong — which lawmakers say is evidence that the Chinese Communist Party is trying to establish a relationship to ‘cultivate’ with the Biden. family directly.
The Republicans accuse Ye and Dong of “seducing” Biden family members with millions of dollars “in exchange for influence and legitimacy” in the US and globally.
Dong founded several LLCs in the US, including in Delaware, under the variation of the phrase “Hudson West,” including one in which Dong and Hunter Biden owned 50 percent each.
The bank records show that between 2017 and 2018, Hudson West sent more than $4 million to Hunter Biden’s affiliates and $75,000 to James Biden’s entities.
In addition, Hunter Biden’s “personal entity” of Owasco PC received $100,000 directly from CEFC Infrastructure in 2017.
Ian Sams, the president’s White House special assistant and spokesman for oversight, denounced Comer in a statement ahead of the news conference calling out his “absurd” attacks.
James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, loudly and proudly broadcasts a press conference today to continue his long pattern of absurd claims that President Biden has made government decisions that are not in the interests of America, but of the Chinese Communist Party, using baseless claims. personal attacks and innuendos to score political points.’ said Sam.
The commission is committed to creating “legislative solutions” that require greater transparency in the vice president or the president’s immediate family — particularly in “income, wealth and financial relationships” — the memo states.
As part of the push for greater transparency, Republicans say the Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering laws should be strengthened.
The committee is still examining whether ethical and financial disclosure laws should require a government official to disclose the identities of the 20 companies founded by the Biden family.
The Biden family’s corruption and influence has benefited at least 12 family members, Comer said — and includes telegrams to some of Biden’s grandchildren, he confirmed Wednesday.
In addition, Comer said Tuesday that he hopes DOJ will pay attention to the press conference and take into account the information he and his committee present.
Hunter Biden faces federal tax and gun charges following a four-year investigation by the Justice Department.
Representative Byron Donalds, RN.Y., questioned at the press conference how the department’s investigation is being conducted.
Interestingly, the Justice Department has been investigating Hunter Biden for quite some time. And we just never seem to really get anywhere. And so I think that’s interesting as well. I wonder what’s going on at the Justice Department,” Donalds said.
Rep. Nancy Mace, RS.C., added, “DOJ needs to get off its ass and investigate that we did the job for them so they can’t screw it up now.”
The investigation into the first son, led by U.S. attorney David Weiss of Delaware, is reportedly set to conclude soon, meaning an indictment may follow.