Let's update the tally...
Number of legitimate businesses the Biden Crime Family ran out of their 20 sham LLCs: ZERO.
The needle hasn't moved any folks. You clowns need to try harder.
House Republicans launched
multiple investigations after securing their narrow majority, including one examining the Biden family’s domestic and international business practices.
The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability says the investigation is meant to provide transparency and, if needed, could lead the committee to recommend
new laws. Such changes might include requiring senior elected officials’ family members to publicly disclose foreign transactions. Another could call for a quicker review of suspicious bank activity reports if they are linked to family members of a president or vice president. If the committee’s subpoenas face legal challenges, it must show in court that its investigation has legislative goals.
The Justice Department has separately been investigating Hunter Biden’s taxes and foreign business work
since 2018. In April, Hunter Biden’s legal team met with Justice Department prosecutors to
discuss the criminal investigation and potential charges,
including tax evasion and a felony gun charge related to a firearm purchase, NBC News
reported.
What did the Oversight Committee find?
On May 10, House Oversight Committee chair Rep. James Comer, R-Ky.,
told reporters that during Biden’s vice presidency, other Biden family members "capitalized on Joe Biden’s public office" and risked U.S. national security. The committee released a
36-page memo outlining its findings.
The committee subpoenaed four banks and received thousands of records, the memo said. Based on those records, the committee said Biden family members, associates and their companies received
more than $10 million in payments from people or companies with foreign ties, during and after Biden’s vice presidency.
A selection of the released bank records show that, from 2015 to 2017, Biden family members received money from a foreign company connected to Gabriel Popoviciu, The New York Times
reported. Popoviciu is a
Romanian businessman who was convicted in Romania on criminal corruption charges.
Hunter Biden’s connection to Popoviciu has
been public since before Biden was elected president. Government ethics experts
in 2019 expressed concerns that Popoviciu tried to use Hunter Biden years earlier to avoid criminal prosecution — even as then-Vice President Joe Biden urged Romania to crack down on corruption. But
no evidence has come to light showing Hunter Biden and Popoviciu’s business relationship violated laws.
The bank records also provided details about Biden family members’ business transactions with links to China. The transactions and Hunter Biden’s connection to a Chinese energy company, CEFC, have
been known for some time. The memo provided new detail, including a copy of a bank transaction from Aug. 4, 2017, when CEFC wired $100,000 to Hunter Biden’s professional corporation.
A poster titled "China Payments to Bidens" is visible as House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman Rep. James Comer Jr., R-Ky., arrives for a news conference on their investigation into the Biden family on May 10, 2023. (AP)
In 2022, a Washington Post
investigation into Hunter Biden’s connection with CEFC "did not find evidence that Joe Biden personally benefited from or knew details about the transactions with CEFC, which took place after he had left the vice presidency and before he announced his intentions to run for the White House in 2020."
Comer on
May 14 told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that his office had lost touch with an informant in the investigation who had information into what Comer called "a quid pro quo with a foreign country in exchange for foreign aid."
A Comer spokesperson
clarified the next day that the missing informant Comer had spoken of did not have information about a foreign bribery scheme but could talk about the "Biden family’s influence peddling schemes."
Ian Sams, White House spokesperson for oversight and investigations, told PolitiFact that Comer’s investigation lacks legitimacy.
"He has hidden information from the public to selectively leak and promote his own hand-picked narratives as part of his overall effort to lob personal attacks at the President and his family," Sams said.
Previously, Biden has
falsely denied claims that his family members received money from China. A spokesperson said later that he’d been generally rebutting claims that his administration was corrupted by Chinese money, according to a New York Times
report.
What’s still unproven?
Claims that the Oversight Committee implicated President Biden in a bribery or corruption scandal overstate what is supported by evidence.
When Comer was
asked whether the committee could prove Biden’s direct involvement in the payments and business dealings, Comer said that he didn’t think anyone would believe that nine members of the Biden family receiving money was coincidental.
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so Nostra here's what we know Joe Biden had nothing to do with your so call 20 LLCs... hunter biden was doing this ... what we come to find out hunter biden did nothing illegal ... what he did do is not pay proper taxes on some of his business dealings ... so these are the facts as the republicans know it now ... they are pissed because they couldn't find any wrongdoing By joe biden and business deals by joe biden ... the only thing they know is just hunters tax and gun problem... so change you post its a lie