House Republicans Investigating Chinese Company Payments to Biden Family

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee, in the United States, released a new memo on Thursday (16) stating that members of President Joe Biden’s family received just over $ 1 million indirectly from a Chinese company – the most recent committee disclosure in its investigation into the Biden family business.

The memo, which White House officials and Hunter Biden’s legal team quickly rejected, does not provide any evidence linking the payments directly to President Joe Biden, who Republicans have said was the target of their investigation.

The memo names Hallie Biden, the widow of the president’s son Beau Biden, as a previously unknown recipient of payments from Biden family associate John Robinson Walker, who transferred money to members of the Biden family after receiving $3 million from a company based in China.

Hallie Biden and Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s youngest son, were romantically involved for a period after Beau Biden’s death.

The House Oversight Committee quietly subpoenaed Bank of America for the financial records of three Hunter Biden associates, including Walker, on Feb. 27, which is how they obtained those records.

“It is unclear what services were provided to obtain this exorbitant amount of money,” Republican Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said in a statement.

Comer told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Thursday that the committee planned to subpoena additional bank records.

“We will do everything in our power to follow all leads from the bank,” said Comer.

Comer requested that Walker sit down for a transcribed interview, according to a letter obtained by CNN on Friday.

A CNN reached out to Walker for comment.

Republicans say these transactions raise questions about foreign influence on the Biden family, but there is still no conclusive evidence that Joe Biden was involved in his son’s affairs and there is no indication that he abused his powers in public office to help your family get money.

President Biden has previously denied any involvement in his son’s overseas affairs.

A spokesman for Hunter Biden’s legal team denied the memo.

“Here we go again as Deputy Comer takes something old and tries to make it new, engaging in a wild and baseless right-wing conspiracy,” the spokesperson said.

“Hunter Biden, a private citizen with every right to pursue his own business ventures, has joined several business partners in seeking to consortium with a legitimate privately owned energy company in China. As part of that consortium, Hunter received his share of the seed funds in good faith that he shared with his uncle, James Biden, and Hallie Biden, with whom he was involved at the time, and splitting the expenses.”

Senate Republicans in 2020 first detailed how Walker made wire transfers to Hunter Biden and the president’s brother James after receiving a $3 million transfer from Shanghai-based company State Energy HK Limited .

The House Republican Party compiled the memo after receiving bank records from a Biden family associate as a result of a subpoena in its investigation.

Earlier this week, Comer revealed some of the findings, saying that a third member of the Biden family had been identified as part of the family’s overseas business, in apparent reference to Hallie Biden. Hallie Biden received two separate payments from Walker totaling $35,000 in 2017, according to the memo, but only one of those installments came after Walker received the telegram from the Chinese company, multiple sources with knowledge of the transactions told the Times. CNN .

White House spokesman Ian Sams accused Comer of deciding to “go after” Beau Biden’s widow.

“Instead of bizarrely attacking the President’s family, perhaps House Republicans should focus on working with the President to deliver results for American families on important priorities like reducing costs and strengthening the health care system,” Sams said.

The memo further reveals that Walker and his company Robinson Walker, LLC received a transfer of $3 million from a Chinese company in March 2017 and then transferred approximately $1,065,692 to various bank accounts associated with members of the Biden family during a period of time. period of three months.

The document also attempted to raise questions about a wire transfer that Hunter Biden received when Joe Biden was vice president. According to the memo, Walker received a transfer of $179,836.86 from a company with an overseas bank account in November 2015, transferred $59,900 of that money to one of his personal checking accounts and sent Hunter Biden the same amount.

The memo also pointed to a bank account identified only as “Biden” that also received wire transfers, which the Republican party promised to investigate further.

In a statement, a spokesman for Hunter Biden’s legal team said: “The accounts so dramatically listed by Representative Comer belonged to Hunter, his uncle and Hallie, and no one else.”

In response to Thursday’s memo, Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland raised questions about why Comer will not investigate foreign influence in the Trump administration.

He said in a statement sent to CNN : “President Comer’s memo proved once again that after four years of investigations by the Senate and House Republicans into Hunter Biden, they found no connection to the President of the United States or, indeed, any government official .”

Raskin first released the subpoenas earlier this week and raised questions about their broad scope, but did not mention Walker’s payments to the Biden family.

“They intrude on private details of Mr. Walker and his family: How much he pays for his son’s dance lessons, when he’s been in the hospital, how many parking tickets he’s paid, how often he eats at Papa John’s or drinks coffee at Starbucks, and how much he spends shopping at Safeway ,” he wrote on Sunday.