House Republicans plan to fire off 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 associate Rob Walker have been called in for depositions before the Oversight Committee – which has taken the lead on the Biden impeachment investigation.
Committee Chair James Comer is also requesting transcribed interviews with Melissa Cohen, Hunter’s wife, Sara Biden, Frank’s wife, Hallie Biden, Hunter’s ex-girl friend and Beau Biden’s widow, Elizabeth Secundy, Hallie’s sister who Hunter is believed to have had a romantic relationship with while she was married, and Hunter associate Tony Bobulinski.
Comer says he has traced some $24 million from foreign actors to Biden family and Biden associate bank accounts. Through issuing subpoenas for bank records, the GOP-led committee says it has found 20 shell companies related to the Biden family, most of which were set up when Joe was vice president. The money was traced to foreign actors in China, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, and Kazakhstan.
Hunter Biden will be hit with a subpoena to testify before Congress and Melissa Cohen, his wife, right, is requested to sit for an interview
James Biden, left, has been subpoenaed. His wife Sara has been requested to sit for an interview
Comer says the shell companies were used to give a convoluted path to the payments that didn’t set off alarm bells.
Comer recently touted an image of a $200,000 check James Biden mailed 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 an extremely lucrative ‘extortion scheme’ between members of his family and foreign actors – including China – charge Republicans.
Earlier this week Comer unveiled a $40,000 direct payment to Joe from 2017 labeled as a ‘loan repayment’ that he claims is ‘laundered money’ that can be traced back to the Chinese.
Comer says bank records the committee obtained through recent subpoenas for James and Hunter Biden’s financial records, a money trail beginning in July 2017 snaked 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 here’ next to him during the exchange.
After an initial $5 million from CEFC was put in the joint venture on August 8, 2017, and a transfer of $400,000 was placed into Hunter Biden entity Owasco, P.C. on the same day. Then, $150,000 was transferred directly from Owasco into the bank account of James and Sara Biden – Joe’s sister-in-law – on August 14, 2017.
Then on September 3, 2017, Sara wrote a $40,000 check direct to Joe – just six days after she took out $50,000 in cash, according to the obtained documents.
‘In taking funds sourced to a CCP-linked company that wanted to advance China’s interests, Joe Biden exposed himself to future blackmail and put America’s interests behind his own desire for money,’ Comer said in a video published Wednesday.
This is the fourth ‘Bank Records Memorandum’ released by the committee so far this year to inform members of their ongoing investigation.
Joe Biden has previously stated that Hunter never made money from China, and the White House has maintained that the president never benefitted from his family’s business ventures.