House Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-KY) stated Tuesday that the next step in the committee\u2019s probe into the Biden family business is to issue subpoenas to Hunter and James Biden if they fail to provide requested documents and communications relevant to the ongoing investigation of the family for tax evasion, wire fraud, and money laundering.
\nJames has apparently not responded to Comer\u2019s letter dated February 7, while Hunter denied the demand, claiming the committee has no legitimate oversight or legislative purpose to compel the information.
\n\u201cFor the subpoenas to win in court, we have to give them every opportunity to supply that information to us,\u201d Comer said. \u201cThe ball is in their court.\u201d
\nComer said his investigation into the Biden family business is legitimate because it has a legislative purpose. Hunter\u2019s high-powered lawyers claimed Comer\u2019s demand letter lacked a legislative purpose.
\n\u201cThe Democrats have been complaining about influence peddling. The Biden family has obviously been influence peddling. So we need to define what is \u2018influence peddling.\u2019 We need to make stricter ethics laws,\u201d Comer explained. \u201cWe also need to increase disclosure laws for family members doing business overseas with our advisories while they have a relative that serves in the White House.\u201d
\n\u201cWe can\u2019t fully understand the extent of what these laws need to be until we know the exact amount of money that the Biden family took in, including from the sources,\u201d Comer said, noting the family has made at least \u201ctens of millions of dollars\u201d from many business deals spanning at least 12 separate nations over the years, including when President Joe Biden was vice president.
\nSeveral members of the Biden family have engaged in influence peddling while Joe Biden was an elected official. Frank Biden, Joe Biden\u2019s younger brother, admitted he did so while Biden was president, CNN reported.
\nOn Tuesday, reported court documents show James Biden, Joe Biden\u2019s older brother, secretly negotiated a $140 million settlement deal in 2012 between a U.S. company and the Saudi Arabian government because of his relationship with then-Vice President Joe Biden.
\nThe instances of Hunter influence peddling are more well known. In multiple examples from whistleblowers, Joe Biden has been directly involved in the family business, despite claims he has not been.
\nAccording to Hunter\u2019s \u201cLaptop from Hell,\u201d an email shows a proposed percentage distribution of equity in a company created for a joint venture with CEFC China Energy Co. and Hunter\u2019s former business partner, Tony Bobulinski, the Biden family, and high-ranking members of the Chinese Communist Party. Sent on March 13, 2017, the proposed business venture included \u201c10 held by H for the big guy?\u201d Bobulinski confirmed \u201cthe big guy\u201d was a reference to Joe Biden.
\nIn another example of influence peddling, Hunter sent a detailed email to his business partner on April 13, 2014, about Ukraine in relation to a Ukrainian business deal. The email was found on Hunter\u2019s \u201cLaptop from Hell.\u201d In April 2014, Hunter also joined the board of Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, four years before Joe Biden \u201cbragged\u201d he forced the firing of prosecutor Viktor Shokin in 2016 for investigating Burisma.
\nDespite Hunter\u2019s lack of experience in Ukraine or the energy sector, he was paid $83,000 per month by the energy company \u2014 just weeks after his father was announced \u201cpoint person\u201d on U.S. foreign policy toward Ukraine, Peter Schweizer, senior contributor at Breitbart News reported.
\nIn 2018 and 2020, Breitbart Senior Contributor and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer published Secret Empires and Profiles in Corruption. Each book hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and exposed how Hunter Biden and Joe Biden flew aboard Air Force Two in 2013 to China before Hunter\u2019s firm inked a $1.5 billion deal with a subsidiary of the Chinese government\u2019s Bank of China less than two weeks after the trip. Schweizer\u2019s work also uncovered the Biden family\u2019s other vast and lucrative foreign deals and cronyism.
\nBreitbart Political Editor Emma-Jo Morris\u2019s investigative work at the New York Post on the Hunter Biden \u201claptop from Hell\u201d also captured international headlines when she, along with Miranda Devine, revealed that Joe Biden was intimately involved in Hunter\u2019s businesses, appearing even to have a 10 percent stake in a company the scion formed with officials at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n
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