The House Oversight and Accountability Committee on Wednesday directly challenged President Joe Biden’s claims about his family’s overseas business deals, providing fresh evidence his son Hunter got money directly from China, was involved in a business deal with a Romanian figure accused of corruption and helped arrange for one of his foreign business associates to meet with his father’s vice presidential office.
In his second interim report, committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said his panel was increasingly concerned that Hunter Biden and his partners engaged in a pattern of making lucrative business deals with foreign figures suspected of corruption in countries for which his father had official U.S. policy responsibilities, a pattern first exposed years ago with a deal the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings that U.S. officials deemed corrupt.
"The committee has uncovered evidence indicative of influence peddling and financial deception warranting further investigation and legislative solutions," Comer’s panel wrote in a 36-page report.
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For instance, the report provided fresh details on a series of transactions between 2015 and 2017 with a Romanian businessman named Gabriel Popoviciu, whom the committee said was charged and convicted by Romanian prosecutors with a bribery-related offense.
"The money stops flowing from the Romanian national soon after Joe Biden leaves the vice presidency," Comer said during a news conference on Wednesday. "This is a pattern of influence peddling."
White House spokesperson Ian Sams responded to the Republican report by stating in a memo that Comer’s probe is "is clearly an evidence-free, politically-motivated ‘investigation.’" He also said Comer has a "long pattern of making absurd claims that President Biden has made governing decisions not in the interest of America, but of the Chinese Communist Party, using baseless claims, personal attacks, and innuendo to try to score political points."
The committee noted that payments to companies tied to Hunter Biden began from the Romanian businessman shortly after then-Vice President Joe Biden met with Romania’s president at the White House in September 2015 to discuss "anticorruption efforts and rule of law" a little over a year after Joe Biden made a similar speech in Romania.
"The Committee is further concerned that while Vice President Biden advocated publicly for anti-corruption policies in Romania, bank records show Biden family members and business associates were simultaneously reaping in significant amounts of money from a Romanian individual at the center of a Romanian corruption scandal," the report said.
The report stated that bank records show that within five weeks of Joe Biden’s meeting with the Romanian president a company called Bladon Enterprises Limited — Popoviciu’s Cypriot company – began making deposits into a bank account of a company called Robinson Walker LLC, controlled by one of Hunter Biden’s associates.
"From November 2015 to May 2017, Bladon Enterprises paid Robinson Walker, LLC over $3 million," the report noted. "Biden family accounts received approximately $1.038 million from the Robinson Walker, LLC account after Bladon Enterprises deposits. Sixteen of the seventeen payments from Bladon Enterprises to Robinson Walker, LLC were made while Joe Biden was Vice President."
The committee said it feared the Robinson Walker account was used to disguise the fact that some of the monies would be routed to the Biden family. For instance, on Nov. 5, 2015, Bladon Enterprises wired $179,836.86 into the Robinson Walker, LLC bank account and a day later a third of the amount was transferred to Hunter Biden, the report said.
The pattern occurred several times, including in early 2017 after Joe Biden had just left office, Comer’s investigation found.
For instance $84,000 of a $172,000 payment from Bladon to Robinson Walker was routed to Biden family members, including Hunter Biden and Hallie Biden, the widow of Hunter Biden’s older brother, the committee said.
Comer said his team is still investigating whether Hunter Biden tried to influence the U.S. government on behalf of the Romanian businessman. "The Committee is investigating Hunter Biden and his business associates’ engagement with U.S. government officials on behalf of Popoviciu," it noted.
The committee also released bank records it said directly contradicted Joe Biden’s assertion during the 2020 presidential campaign that his son never received money from China.
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