Hunter and James Biden are called for statements

House Republicans plan to fire subpoenas for the Biden family in a major escalation of their investigation into their foreign business deals. Hunter Biden and James Biden, the president’s brother, and Biden family aide Rob Walker have been called for testimony before the Oversight Committee — which has taken the lead in Biden’s impeachment inquiry.

Committee Chairman James Comer is also requesting transcribed interviews with Melissa Cohen, Hunter’s wife, Sara Biden, Frank’s wife, Hallie Biden, Hunter’s ex-girlfriend and Beau Biden’s widow, Elizabeth Secundy, Hallie’s sister with whom Hunter is believed to have had a romantic relationship. while she was married, and Hunter employee Tony Bobulinski.

Comer says he has traced about $24 million from foreign actors to the bank accounts of the Biden family and Biden associates. In issuing subpoenas for banking records, the Republican Party-led commission says it has found 20 shell companies linked to the Biden family, most of which were created when Joe was vice president. The money was traced to foreign actors in China, Russia, Ukraine, Romania and Kazakhstan.

Comer says the shell companies were used to provide a convoluted path to the payments that didn’t set off any alarm bells. Comer recently touted an image of a $200,000 check that James Biden sent to his brother Joe Biden as a “smoking gun,” but the check was marked as a loan repayment. President Joe Biden is at the center of a highly lucrative “racketeering scheme” between members of his family and foreign actors – including China – whom Republicans are denouncing.

Earlier this week, Comer revealed a $40,000 direct payment to Joe from 2017, labeled as a “loan repayment” that he claims is “laundered money” traced to the Chinese. Comer says banking records the committee obtained through recent subpoenas for James and Hunter Biden’s financial records, a money trail that began in July 2017, trickled from Chinese oil giant CEFC — one of Hunter’s joint ventures — into Joe’s account.

In WhatsApp messages from August 2017, previously published by DailyMail.com, Hunter demanded $10 million from CEFC and claimed his father was sitting “right here” next to him during the exchange. After an initial $5 million infusion from CEFC into the joint venture on August 8, 2017, and a transfer of $400,000 to Hunter Biden entity Owasco, PC on the same day. Then, on August 14, 2017, $150,000 was transferred directly from Owasco to the bank account of James and Sara Biden – Joe’s sister-in-law.

Then, on September 3, 2017, Sara wrote a $40,000 check directly to Joe — just six days after she withdrew $50,000 in cash, according to the documents obtained. “By transferring money to a CCP-affiliated company that wanted to advance Chinese interests, Joe Biden exposed himself to future blackmail and put American interests behind his own desire for money,” Comer said in a video released Wednesday published.

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