Republican lawmakers laid out in damning detail Wednesday their evidence that at least nine members of President Joe Biden’s family took in millions of dollars from operatives in China and Romania while Biden served as President Obama’s vice president.
The lawmakers, all members of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, revealed subpoenaed bank records showing payments as high as $10 million from foreign companies to Biden’s son, Hunter Biden.
“Every time we turn over a rock, there’s more evidence,” said Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., said at a news conference Wednesday morning. “This could be the most corrupt scheme in American politics, where a sitting vice president… where we saw members of his family, nine of them so far, there may be more, that were enriched from countries all over the world.”
Mace said the money was moved through a series of shell companies she believes were designed to cover the Biden family’s tracks.
Committee Chairman James Comer, (R-KY), released a memo prior to the news conference revealing that the Biden family allegedly set up more than 20 companies to take in foreign money, possibly in exchange for influencing policy. The committee subpoenaed records from four banks linked to “specific individuals and companies that engaged in business activities with Biden family members and their business associates,” the memo said.
Republicans also alleged that Hunter Biden used his family name to set up a 2016 meeting between a Serbian running for United Nations Secretary-General and then-national security adviser to the vice president Colin Kahl.
Comer again said his committee “plans to gather additional bank records in the near future and continue following the money trail” as part of its commitment to “rooting out fraud, waste, and abuse that exist at the highest level of the federal government.”
White House spokesperson Ian Sams told CNN “Comer has a history of playing fast and loose with the facts and spreading baseless innuendo while refusing to conduct his so-called ‘investigations’ with legitimacy.”
Hunter Biden is under investigation by the U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, reportedly for income tax evasion.