Nearly all of Hunter Biden’s bank records subpoenaed by House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) are in the hands of the committee, Comer said Friday.
Comer subpoenaed the personal and business bank records of Hunter and James Biden on September 28 to investigate the link between Joe Biden and his family’s foreign deals.
Speaking with Lou Dobbs on the The Great America Show with Lou Dobbs, Comer confirmed the committee subpoenaed Hunter Biden’s bank records. “We’ve gotten almost all the bank records in,” he said.
“It’s been a long process because, Lou, he [Hunter Biden] has so many bank accounts,” Comer said, explaining the complexity of the process. “He would have one shell company with a dozen bank accounts.”
Comer, a former bank board member, accused the Bidens of running a scam. “They laundered money,” he said.
“Because we got these bank accounts, we’re very close to bringing in the Bidens,” Comer said about demanding their testimony. “I would say it’s a matter of days before they get served.”
Comer said the outstanding bank records are relevant to the questions he hopes to ask the Bidens under oath. “I think that we’ve just about got enough bank records to where we can bring them in and ask them specific questions with specific hard evidence in the form of bank statements,” he said.
On Wednesday, Comer alleged Joe Biden received $40,000 in laundered CEFC China Energy Co. money in 2017 from the account of his brother, James Biden, and sister-in-law, Sara Biden, once again in the form of a personal check labeled as a “loan repayment.”
Comer’s revelation is the second instance where Joe Biden accepted a personal check from his brother James Biden, who was involved in the Biden family’s business ventures.
Comer told Dobbs the checks are “direct evidence” that Joe Biden “benefited financially” from the Biden business.
Ian Sams, a White House spokesperson, claimed Wednesday that Comer’s claims are “lies and conspiracy theories.”
Comer pledged to continue the investigation into Joe Biden. “We continue — on at least a weekly basis — to come up with more evidence, more checks, more wires,” Comer told Dobbs.
Evidence found by the impeachment inquiry against Joe Biden is growing. The evidence is noted below:
It appears Playbook did not know the House Oversight Committee remained active during the speakership battle, during which the committee revealed James Biden wrote a $200,000 check to Joe Biden in 2018.
The committee believes the $200,000 check is suspicious because the money flowed through a distressed entity, Americore, which loaned James Biden a total of $600,000. On March 1, 2018, Americore wired James Biden $200,000. That same day, James Biden sent Joe Biden a $200,000 check.
The White House and James Biden deny the $200,000 check James gave Joe Biden was due to a pre-existing business relationship. They insist the money was a return payment for money Joe Biden lent him but have not provided the committee any evidence to prove their claims.
In a Thursday letter to the White House, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY), a former bank board member, requested the loan agreement, along with any applicable IRS tax filings.
“The Internal Revenue Code has specific requirements for delineating and reporting ‘below-market [rate] loans’ from gifts,” he wrote. “While there are some exceptions, for example loans of $10,000 or less, the payment in question would not appear exempt from such requirements if it is a loan. Indeed, there appears to have been no interest paid on the “loan” based upon the White House’s own representations.”
The large check from one brother to another is not the only evidence the Friday newsletter ignored. The documented trail of evidence includes:
- Biden family suspicious activity reports of wire transfers
- Texts
- Emails
- WhatsApp messages
- Photos of Joe with Hunter’s business partners
- Joe Biden’s voicemail to Hunter
- Five individuals referencing Joe Biden as the “big guy”
- Two whistleblower testimonies
- FBI FD-1023 form alleging recorded phone calls and texts between Biden and a Burisma executive
- FBI informant alleging bribes
- Video of Joe Biden bragging about firing the Ukrainian prosecutor
- Hunter’s statements about giving half his income to his dad
- Former White House Aide saying FBI ignored Joe Biden’s role in Ukraine business dealings
- Millions flowing into Biden family bank accounts
- Hunter paying for Joe Biden’s expenses
- Email aliases
- James Biden’s $200,000 check to Joe Biden
Playbook’s claims appear to confirm Americans’ opinion of the establishment media. According to a Gallup poll released last week, confidence in media to accurately report “news in a full, fair and accurate way” fell to the lowest level since 2016’s record low. Only 32 percent of Americans said they trust the establishment media “a great deal” or “a fair amount” to report the news. The survey moved American trust in media a few points lower than in 2021 (36 percent) and 2022 (34 percent).
Meanwhile, public opinion of the Biden scandal highlights the media’s perceived bias. A majority of voters believe Joe Biden committed a crime with Hunter Biden, a Yahoo/YouGov survey released in September found. Sixty-one percent of Americans believe Joe Biden was involved in his family’s business deals with China and Ukraine, a CNN poll found. A majority of voters believe the Biden family received payments from foreign nationals to influence policy, according to Trafalgar and Convention of States polling exclusively revealed to Breitbart News in June.
The House Oversight Committee released an official timeline that details key dates of its investigation into the Biden business schemes that earned the family millions.
The timeline’s scope includes four main points of its business ventures in Romania, China, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. The timeline records 14 years of the Bidens’ business, beginning with then-Vice President Joe Biden entering the White House during the Barack Obama Administration in 2009.
After four years as vice president, the timeline records the Biden family creating Bohai Harvest RST Equity Investment Fund Management Co. (BHR) in 2013 with associates and Chinese investors. The fund is bankrolled by the Bank of China, a state-owned bank that controls BHR Partners. BHR Partners’s website boasts 15 billion Chinese Yuan (RMB) in various portfolio companies, translating to more than two billion USD.
Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, held a ten percent interest in BHR with the entity Skaneateles, LLC. Hunter Biden controlled Skaneateles, according to Chinese public records from Baidu, as the sole governor until its dissolution in September 2021, a Washington, DC, registration indicated. Documents obtained by Breitbart News, first revealed by nonprofit Marco Polo, show the control of Skaneateles, LLC is held by Kevin Morris, Hunter Biden’s top attorney, who also paid Hunter Biden’s IRS debts.
Starting in April 2014, the timeline records the family’s work with Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company. The timeline catalogs payments and meetings to and with the Bidens.
It details Joe Biden’s official visit to Ukraine in 2015 under the auspices of an anti-corruption initiative. Joe Biden met with then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Kyiv about Ukraine’s corruption. Four months after the meeting, Poroshenko fired Viktor Shokin, a prosecutor investigating Burisma, which paid Hunter Biden $83,000 a month to sit on its board. Joe Biden bragged in 2018 about the firing of Shokin.
Then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and then-US Vice President Joe Biden shake hands during a press conference to discuss the outcome of official talks in Kyiv, Ukraine, on January 16, 2017. (Vitaliy Holovin/Corbis via Getty Images)
According to an FBI informant file reviewed by the committee, Joe and Hunter Biden each received $5 million from Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Burisma, after Joe Biden threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine until President Poroshenko fired the prosecutor.
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The family’s work in Kazakhstan first appears on the timeline in February 2014 with a photo of Joe and Hunter Biden meeting with Kenes Rakishev, a Kazakhstani businessman. A few months later, Rakishev’s Singaporean company wired $142,300 to a Hunter Biden-linked shell company, a Rosemont entity. A few days later, the Rosemont entity wired $142,300 to a car dealership in New Jersey for a new sports car for Hunter Biden.
In December of the same year, the timeline shows Kenes Rakishev’s Kazakhstani oil company and Burisma joined with a Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked company and announced a transnational financial arrangement.
During the business with Ukrainian, Kazakhstani, and Chinese entities, the family also conducted business with Romanian entities. The timeline shows the first Romanian mention in April 2014, when then-Vice President Biden visited Romania and delivered a speech to the Romanian prime minister, judges, prosecutors, and leaders of the Romanian Parliament.
In the years following, shell companies linked to the Biden business received millions from entities in Romania. One of the largest payouts came in 2015 from Gabriel Popoviciu, who worked with CEFC, the committee reported:
Romanian businessman, Gabriel Popoviciu, begins making deposits into Robinson Walker, LLC’s bank account. Robinson Walker, LLC is an entity owned by a Biden associate, Rob Walker. Popoviciu’s company sent Robinson Walker the first wire for $179,836.86. From November 2015 to May 2017, Popoviciu’s company paid Robinson Walker, LLC over $3 million. Biden family accounts received approximately $1.038 million from the Robinson Walker, LLC account after Popoviciu’s deposits. Sixteen of the seventeen payments from Popoviciu’s company to Robinson Walker, LLC were made while Joe Biden was Vice President.
In December 2015, CEFC China Energy Co. first appears on the timeline. CEFC is most known for its association with “10 held by H for the big guy.”
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The CEFC chairman was Ye Jianming, who paid Hunter a $1 million retainer fee for legal services in 2017. Hunter also received a large diamond from Ye in February 2017 worth an estimated $80,000. Ye “had direct abiding and deep ties to Chinese intelligence when they were arranging these deals for the Bidens,” according to Breitbart News Senior Contributor and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer.
“The Bidens are the best I know at doing exactly what the chairman wants from this partnership,” Hunter Biden told a CEFC associate in a 2017 WhatsApp exchange.
A few days prior, Hunter told a second CEFC associate in another WhatsApp message:
I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.
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Many Biden family members accepted money from a deal with CEFC. The House Oversight Committee revealed in March that CEFC controlled State Energy HK Limited, a company linked to the $1.3 million collective payments to the Biden family members.
Through the Biden family’s suspicious activity reports (SARs), the committee discovered a Biden associate, Rob Walker, received a $3 million wire transfer from CEFC. In turn, four Biden family members — Hunter, James, Hallie, and an unidentified “Biden” — received a collective $1.3 million cut from the $3 million wire transfer.
