House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer is releasing information that a Biden family associate used his business to wire money from foreign companies to various members of President Biden’s family.
Comer, who represents Kentucky’s 1st congressional district, told Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Wednesday that he believes at least half a dozen members of Biden’s family have benefited from their family name through doing business around the world.
“I think in the end we’re going to see that there are probably six or seven Biden family members who have been involved in various business schemes around the world.”
While Comer didn’t drop names during his appearance on the program, the Republican who led the investigation into Hunter Biden and the Biden family’s overseas operations said certain transactions, including the $3 million wire transfer to John “Rob” Walker, raise red flags.
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Home Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is leading an investigation into the business dealings of Hunter Biden, the Left, and other members of the Biden family. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post, Teresa Kroeger/Getty Images for World Food Program USA)
“There were three Biden family members, including one that was never mentioned before,” Comer said of the Biden family members involved in the transaction. “This just goes to show how deeply involved the Biden family was in this influence scheme. What we don’t know is what the money was used for.”
“Everyone says it was for an energy deal, but to me it looks like these guys who were closely associated with the Chinese Communist Party sent $3 million to a shell company and then they turned around and put it in split into three parts, with a third going to the Biden family — three different family members for no apparent reason,” he added. “They didn’t invest it in a business. Apparently they just put it in their pocket.”
Comer said the committee is “on the hunt” for about a dozen other similar transfers.
Earlier this week, the Treasury Department granted the Oversight Committee access to more than 150 suspicious transaction reports (SARs) sent to the department by banks
Hunter Biden has gone under federal investigation since 2018 for his tax affairs – an investigation partially supported by SARs on some foreign transactions. Those SARs involved funds from “China and other foreign nations,” sources familiar with the investigation told Fox News in 2020.
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Comer previously vowed to “continue to use bank documents and reports of suspicious activity to follow the money trail and determine the extent of the Biden family’s business plans when Joe Biden is compromised by those deals and when there is a national security threat.”
Home Supervision Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., pauses for questions on the House Rules Committee on February 6, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
The House Oversight Committee has already collected documents and records related to the Biden family’s business dealings. Comer has subpoenaed Bank of America over more than a decade of financial records from three of Hunter Biden’s business partners.
Fox News first reported in 2020 that the federal investigation into Hunter Biden’s “tax affairs” began amid discovery of SARs relating to funds from “China and other foreign nations.”
At the time, a Treasury Department official, who did not comment on the investigation, told Fox News that SARs are filed by financial institutions “when something unusual occurs in a particular transaction.”
Fox News first reported the existence of some sort of investigation involving Hunter Biden in October 2020, ahead of the last presidential election. At that time it became known that the FBI had subpoenaed the laptop allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden as part of an investigation Money laundering investigations.
Jill Biden, left, sits with Hunter Biden and his child during an event at Major Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III National Guard/Reserve Center January 19, 2021 in New Castle, Delaware. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Hunter Biden confirmed investigation into his “tax affairs” in December 2020 after his father was elected president.
The investigation is being led by Trump-appointed US Attorney David Weiss of Delaware.
Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this article.
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