Committee Chairman James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, released the memorandum ahead of his scheduled global press conference on Wednesday. The document contains new information from a legislative investigation into the “Biden family’s influence peddling and business schemes.” The memo says the Biden family apparently took steps to ‘conceal the source and total amount received from foreign companies,’ reports FoxNews. According to the congressman, for Biden and his administration, “judgment day” is approaching.
The committee subpoenaed representatives from four different banks as part of its investigation and received “thousands of filings in response”. These subpoenas were “specifically directed to specific individuals and companies that did business with members of the Biden family and their business associates,” the document says. The memo also alleges that these companies were established primarily in Delaware and Washington, DC, with the help of Rob Walker and James Gilliar, business partners of the president’s son, Hunter Biden.
“After he took over as vice president in 2009, records show that Hunter Biden and his business partners started at least 15 businesses. Banking records show that the Biden family, their business partners, and their businesses received more than 10 millions of dollars of businesses of foreign citizens”. It says the committee identified payments to members of the Biden family from foreign companies “while Joe Biden was Vice President of the United States and after leaving that public office.” At the same time, according to Comer, the Biden family “received additional payments over time in different bank accounts.”
The White House called the committee’s investigation “unfounded” and “politically motivated.” The administration also said President Biden had never been involved in his son’s business dealings.
According to US media, the US Department of Justice is set to make a final decision on whether to charge ‘first son’ Hunter Biden with tax evasion and other alleged crimes. Hunter’s attorneys met with Justice Department attorneys April 26 in Washington, in what may be the final step before a sentencing is handed down. Meanwhile, President Biden was spotted on Sunday with his younger brother James Biden, who has partnered with Hunter in several of his overseas dealings. It was previously reported that Hunter Biden earned up to $1 million a year while serving on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma between 2014 and 2019, from when his father ran Ukrainian politics. of the Obama administration.
The case of the condemned oligarch
Committee members said they already see signs that the Biden family may have raised money from foreign nationals in an effort to influence US policy. Specifically, the committee said it found that Hunter Biden, through his aide Rob Walker, received over $1 million from a foreign company allegedly controlled by Gabriel Popovichu. This Romanian oligarch is the subject of a criminal investigation and prosecution for corruption in Romania, reports The New York Post. Then-Vice President Biden met with Romanian leaders in 2014 and 2015 “about corruption in the country.” The Bidens pocketed $1 million from a ‘corrupt’ Romanian oligarch just as Vice President Joe was lecturing the country on ethics. Popovichu, who was convicted of corruption in 2016, came to the attention of US intelligence agencies precisely because of his interactions with Hunter Biden.
