House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer claims new Treasury and bank records he has obtained potentially implicate an unnamed Biden “family member” who has not previously been identified as part of what has been described as “influence peddling”.
Comer made the comment to Fox News after announcing that his panel obtained Treasury Department documents known as “suspicious activity reports” that it has been requesting.
His claim comes days after it was revealed that the committee quietly subpoenaed Bank of America for information about the financial dealings of a Hunter Biden associate, John R. Walker.
“I am not going to reveal that new name because that really changes things, because what we assumed was that it was just the son of the president and his two brothers, but now a new name has come up. And they are a Biden’, Eat told Fox News host Bill Hemmer on Tuesday.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer said a “new name” has emerged in his committee’s investigation, and that the person is “a Biden.” Comer specified that the person is not Hunter Biden, nor the president’s brothers, Frank or Joe Biden, which means he was someone new.
“So we have a problem here with regard to trying to determine what exactly this family was doing to receive these transactions from China,” he said, suggesting a coordinated effort. “This is important, and I think all Americans should be concerned about this issue of national security.”
Daytime host Bill Hemmer told the panel’s new chair that the information seemed “important,” and then warned, “Let’s see where it goes.”
“It’s been five years, a long time to investigate,” Hemmer added.
The White House has long denied that President Biden had any knowledge of his family members’ dealings.
Hunter Biden is under federal investigation related to fiscal and financial matters. After Republicans won the House, Comer said he would investigate ‘influence peddling’
That came hours after Comer made a similar claim on opinion host Sean Hannity’s show, where he explained that Bank of America records revealed a $3 million transaction from a Chinese energy company to Biden associate Walker. .
‘Two weeks ago, Sean, I subpoenaed a bank to get records of three different former business associates of Hunter Biden. One such partner in particular was Rob Walker. We have your account. We confirmed that account about two months after Joe Biden left the vice president’s office, he received a $3 million wire transfer from two people directly associated with the Chinese Communist Party.
He said the next day Walker’s account “began transferring money to the accounts of three different Biden family members, including a new Biden family member who had never before been identified as someone involved in the influence peddling scheme.” “.
He called it “very serious information.”
“It shows a pattern that the Biden family was receiving money directly from China and the question I have Sean is what were they doing in exchange for that money? This is just one account, there are many more accounts and many more associates,’ he said.
Comer did not provide evidence of wrongdoing by members of the Biden family, and Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee previously issued a report detailing transfers to an LLC for Walker’s company.
His accusations came a day after the top Democratic panel Rep. Jamie Raskin wrote a scathing letter accusing Comer of running a “political fishing net” seeking to uncover private details about Walker’s life, with bank records covering a ‘chilling period of 14 years.’
Raskin seems to have learned of the summons from the majority, but reprimanded Comer in his letterdated Sunday, for exceeding a usual 48-hour notification period.
And he accuses Comer of prying into the private details of Walker, who participated in a joint venture with Chinese firm CEFC Energy, part of what Comer portrays as a web of entanglements that benefit members of the Biden family.
Raskin called the Bank of America subpoena “too broad.” He also noted that Comer had sought documents from the “estranged mother of Hunter Biden’s son” who sued him for paternity and child support, a reference to Lunden Alexis Roberts.
Comer claimed that there were three different members of the Biden family who got “a share” of the $3 million he mentioned, and he dismissed the idea that it could be for services rendered.
‘So our question is, what exactly did they do to receive that money? What was the purpose of that $3 million transfer?’
“Now, that’s just the first wire we’ve been able to get from the bank records,” he continued. There are many, many more.