A House panel investigating President Biden’s involvement in an influence-peddling scheme produced new bank records tying him to his family’s foreign business deals.
Bank records subpoenaed by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee show the president’s son, Hunter Biden, provided monthly payments to his father from a business account that funneled money from deals made with China, Ukraine and other countries.
The recurring checks to Mr. Biden were small — each totaling $1,380 — but House investigators say the deposits clash with claims made by President Biden that he did not receive money from the lucrative business deals made by family members and their business associates.
“This wasn’t a payment from Hunter Biden’s personal account but an account for his corporation that received payments from China and other shady corners of the world,” House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer said.
The payments of $1,380 were sent monthly from the bank account of Hunter Biden’s law firm, Owasco PC, to Joe Biden’s bank account from September 2018 until November 2018, after Mr. Biden’s second term as vice president had ended and before he declared his presidential candidacy.
Republicans say the proceeds from business deals with China that ended up in the Owasco bank account stemmed from transactions with Hunter Biden that originated during Mr. Biden’s time as vice president. Some were delayed to avoid the appearance of corruption, ex-business associate Tony Bobulinski has testified. Additional money from China poured into the Owasco bank account after Hunter Biden threatened a Chinese business associate by invoking his father’s power and influence, according to a social media message uncovered by IRS agents investigating the president’s son for tax fraud.
The panel has uncovered additional checks to Joe Biden, sent from his younger brother James Biden and totaling $240,000, that appear to be funded by business deals Mr. Biden’s powerful name helped to secure.
Mr. Comer, Kentucky Republican, subpoenaed both James and Hunter Biden to testify in closed-door depositions in December. Mr. Comer rejected a public bid by Hunter Biden to instead provide his testimony in public, where he’s likely to be shielded by Democrats and prolonged partisan bickering.
Mr. Comer, in a letter to Hunter Biden’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, said Hunter Biden must attend the deposition, scheduled for Dec. 13. The committee would videotape it and release the transcript, Mr. Comer said.
“Other Hunter Biden business associates are also cooperating with our subpoenas and not demanding a public hearing first,” Mr. Comer said. “Mr. Biden seems to believe that he should be treated differently than other witnesses before the committees.”
The Oversight panel is leading the House impeachment inquiry into Mr. Biden.
So far, it has uncovered 20 shell companies that were used to provide Biden family members and associates with $24 million between 2015 and 2019 from foreign business deals that ex-business associates say sold Mr. Biden as “the brand.”
Hunter Biden’s Owasco law firm collected millions of dollars from energy companies linked to the Chinese Communist Party and from businesses in Ukraine, Russia and other countries.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/4/house-impeachment-probe-uncovers-more-checks-to-jo/
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