


(CNSNews.com) - The House Oversight Committee's investigation into alleged Biden family influence peddling and personal enrichment is steam-rolling along, with a total of nine Biden family members now identified as being involved.
Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) told Fox Business on Monday the committee has "learned a lot that was new" after examining Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) at the U.S. Treasury Department:
"The committee went there today," Comer told Larry Kudlow on Monday afternoon.
"But I've had staff there over the past two weeks. There are thousands of pages of documents relating to financial transactions.
"And let me be very clear, this isn't just about the president's son or the president's brother. We've identified six new Biden family members involved in shady foreign transactions, that we believe were a direct result of influence-peddling.
"That brings the number of Biden family members now to nine that were involved in the Biden family influence-peddling, and we still have more family members that we suspect were involved.
"So this is a family affair. This is something that should be troubling to every American, and what we've learned from going through these records, are, there are a lot of additional LLCs, a lot of additional bank accounts we didn't know prior to going to the Treasury Cabinet. So we've learned a lot.
"This investigation is ongoing but I can tell you, without hesitation, it's very serious. And the president of the United States is going to have a very hard time explaining how so many of his family members have received so much money from our adversaries around the world."
Comer stopped short of saying that the money was passed to Joe Biden:
"Well, we'll have to stay tuned on that. Obviously this is an investigation of the president of the United States," Comer said.
"We've talked to several of the former Biden associates. And we've got bank records. We're going to get more bank records. So I think that question will be answered in due time."
The nine Biden family members mentioned by Comer have not all been identified. But the three Bidens known to have received money from Hunter's business dealings are Hunter; Hallie Biden, Beau Biden's widow (and Hunter Biden's ex-girlfriend), and Hunter's uncle, James Biden.
Comer said on Monday he's subpoenaed six banks, and "I already have those bank records in hand."
He said the committee is now looking at additional banks, "because we’ve learned of new accounts and new LLCs we didn't know existed...
“The one thing that stands out to me is how many different LLCs were involved that this family had their fingerprints on, and we really can't tell what those LLCs did other than launder deposits from our adversaries around the world back to the Bidens."
Comer repeated what he's said before, that "we're going to go where the evidence leads us."
"There will get to a point very soon where the mainstream media as well as (Attorney General) Merrick Garland cannot continue to turn a blind eye to this. This is -- it's strange. It's illegal.
“There's no laws that allow family members to profit from -- from a high-ranking government official, to the tune of what this family has done.
"So I think the American people deserve the truth. We're going to get to the truth. We've already gotten more information than I think critics ever thought we would get. And this information leads to more information we'll continue to request.
"There will be more subpoenas. I think in due time, the American people will get the answers they deserve.”
Prostitution rings?
Comer is not the only one to express surprise at what the committee is learning:
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), an Oversight Committee member, posted a video to Twitter on Monday, in which she discussed her review of Suspicious Activity Reports at the Treasury Department earlier in the day:
"And I have to tell you, there are more Bidens involved than we knew previously,” Mace said:
“And every time you overturn or look under a stone, there's so much more you have to investigate, because it's wild the number of family members involved.
"And it's even the amount of money we're talking about in theses Suspicious Activity Reports is astronomical.
“And the accusations therein, the source of the funding, where the money's going, the shell companies, prostitution rings, etc. -- it's insanity to me that's it's not been investigated in the way it should be."