The House Oversight Committee is sending subpoenas to multiple Biden family members and a key business associate to have them appear for depositions.
The Oversight Committee is subpoenaing Hunter Biden, his uncle James Biden and former business associate Rob Walker to answer questions about the Biden family’s foreign business enterprise, the committee announced Wednesday. (RELATED: Top Hunter Biden Prosecutor Confirms Key Detail Of IRS Whistleblower Testimony, Jim Jordan Says)
🚨BREAKING🚨
Today, @RepJamesComer signed subpoenas for:
◼️ Hunter Biden
◼️ James Biden
◼️ Rob Walker pic.twitter.com/fuS3yR9r8z— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) November 8, 2023
“The House Oversight Committee has followed the money and built a record of evidence revealing how Joe Biden knew, was involved, and benefited from his family’s influence peddling schemes. Now, the House Oversight Committee is going to bring in members of the Biden family and their associates to question them on this record of evidence,” Oversight Committee chairman James Comer said in a statement.
“Unlike the many lies President Biden told the American people about his family’s business schemes, bank records don’t lie. These records reveal how the Bidens sold Joe Biden around to the world to benefit the Biden family, including Joe Biden himself, to the detriment of U.S. interests. The House Oversight Committee, along with the Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means, will continue to follow the facts and deliver the transparency and accountability that the American people demand and deserve,” Comer continued.
HUNTER BIDEN SUBPOENA:
In addition, the Oversight Committee is requesting interviews from James Biden’s wife, Sara Biden; Hunter Biden’s ex-lover, Hallie Biden; former business associate Tony Bobulinski; Hunter Biden’s wife, Melissa Cohen and Hallie Biden’s sister, Elizabeth Secundy.
The Biden family and its business associates brought in more than $24 million from Ukraine, Russia, China, Romania and Kazakhstan from 2014-19, according to a House memo released in September ahead of the first impeachment inquiry hearing.
Comer announced subpoenas for Hunter and James Biden’s personal and business bank records in late September at the conclusion of the hearing.
The Oversight Committee in October revealed a $200,000 payment James Biden sent to Joe Biden in March 2018 on the same day the distressed healthcare company Americore had loaned the money to the former. James Biden told the company his last name could “open doors” and said he’d use his political connections to secure a Middle East investment, bankruptcy court documents show.
Comer unveiled bank records Nov. 1 outlining how Joe Biden received a $40,000 check from Sara Biden in September 2017 shortly after money from China flowed into Hunter Biden and James Biden’s bank accounts.
Both checks disclosed by the Oversight Committee are classified as loan repayments. The White House has defended the payments to Joe Biden as loan repayments from his brother. Comer wrote a letter in October requesting financial documentation of the loans from the White House, and the Biden administration declined to hand them over.
Chinese firm State Energy HK sent Walker $3 million in 2017 and he proceeded to send roughly $1 million of the funds to Biden family accounts and another $1 million to company linked to former business associate James Gilliar, bank records released by the Oversight Committee in March show.
The FBI interviewed Walker in December 2020 and he confirmed State Energy HK is an account belonging to Chinese firm CEFC, a company whose Chinese business associates met with Joe Biden after his vice presidency concluded, Walker recalled.(RELATED: Here’s All The Evidence Connecting Joe Biden To Hunter Biden’s Foreign Business Dealings)
The Biden family and its business associates created more than 20 shell companies for its business enterprise and most of the companies were LLCs formed during Joe Biden’s vice presidency, according to bank records released in May by the Oversight Committee.
Walker used the Robinson Walker LLC to take in payments from CEFC’s State Energy HK account.
Henry Rodgers contributed to this report.