Comer demands Rob Walker, Biden biz associate behind China cash, detail Joe’s role

WASHINGTON — House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Friday demanded that Biden family business associate Rob Walker be questioned about his role in delivering more than $1 million from China to at least three of President Biden’s relatives.

The subpoenaed bank records indicate that Walker, an official of the pre-Clinton administration, distributed Chinese money to Joe Biden’s brother James Biden, son Hunter Biden and daughter-in-law Hailey Biden in early 2017 – $70,000 to an undisclosed “Biden Were going to The first name was not specified.

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“The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is Investigating President Biden’s Involvement in His Family’s Business Practices.” [and] has identified you as an important witness in this case,” Comer wrote to Walker.

The GOP chairman gave Walker a week — until March 24 — to schedule a written interview with committee staffers. Although the request is not legally binding, Republicans can convert the invitation into a subpoena if Walker refuses to comply.

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“When talking about dealings with the Biden family, Rob Walker once said that exposing him would ‘bury us all, man.’ Why? The Oversight Committee has many questions for Rob Walker and we look forward to getting answers from the American people,” Comer said in a statement.

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Walker could not immediately be reached for comment. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Newly released bank records raise new questions about the Biden family’s international consulting work – for the first time implicating Hailey Biden, the widow of Joe Biden’s son Beau Biden who became the lover of his second son, Hunter.

Bank records show that Walker received $3 million from State Energy HK Ltd., a firm affiliated with CEFC China Energy, on March 1, 2017 – less than two months after Biden left office as vice president – ​​and It then sent $1,065,000 to business partner James Gillier and nearly the same amount over three months to Biden’s relatives.

“It is unclear what services were provided in return,” Comer said.

Walker’s bank records show an earlier and smaller three-way split of an international wire from an undisclosed source in 2015 — Gillier, Walker and Hunter Biden each getting $59,900 — the commissar’s office said Thursday, citing the CEFC business relationship. Suggestions may have started while Biden was still vice president.

Joe Biden’s role in the CEFC deal remains questionable – as is often the case with foreign business ventures of his relatives.

The Post exclusively reported in October 2020 that Hunter’s former laptop contained a May 2017 email from Gillier that proposed that the “big guy” get 10% of the CEFC deal.

A whistleblower, former Hunter Biden aide Tony Bobulinski, came forward to allege that he met with Joe Biden personally in May 2017 to discuss the CEFC venture, just before the 2020 election.

Both Bobulinski and Gillier identify Joe Biden as the “big man”.

hunter and james biden finally Received at least $4.8 million From the CEFC – a defunct prestigious arm of Beijing’s foreign-influence “Belt and Road” initiative – in 2017 and 2018, according to a Washington Post review of laptop records.

Evidence hinting at Joe Biden’s involvement includes emails from September 2017, in which Hunter Biden asked for a new sign and more keys to an office he rented in D.C.’s House of Sweden building. The sign read, “The Biden Foundation and Hudson West (CEFC-US)” and the keys were for his father, stepmother Jill Biden, uncle James, and a Chinese executive named Gongwen Dong. A spokeswoman for the agency that oversees the property told The Washington Post, however, that the sign was never replaced and the keys were not picked up.

One October 2017 Email Identifies Joe Biden as participant in a call about CEFC’s effort to buy US natural gas.

Republicans accused Biden of being too soft on China, such as allowing a spy balloon to cross US airspace to determine the origin of COVID-19, which has killed more than 1 million Americans and Stopped fentanyl exports, which has killed 196,000 Americans since 2018. 2021 alone.

Biden dismissed it last month and told The Post, “Give me a break, man,” when asked whether his ability to deal with China was “compromised” by his family’s business ties with entities linked to the Chinese state. it was done.

In a separate Chinese business deal, Hunter Biden co-founded BHR Partners within weeks of joining then-Vice President Biden on Air Force Two on an official visit to Beijing in 2013. according to the wall street journal, Hunter introduced her father to visiting BHR CEO Jonathan Lee during the visit, and Joe Biden later wrote college recommendation letters for Lee’s children.

The Journal reported that Hunter Biden’s “paid-up capital” to establish BHR Partners was $425,000, according to corporate registration records. A week after Joe Biden’s 2021 virtual summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Hunter Biden’s attorney Chris Clark said the stakes have been split. However, records show that the first son still owns the stake, and neither Clark nor the White House provided further details on the alleged transaction such as the dollar amount or the identity of the buyer.

Republicans say the international business dealings of the Biden family constitute a conflict of interest in foreign affairs and may even lead to corruption.

Biden claims he has “Never talked” with his son about “his foreign business dealings”And That “I never discuss anything related to their businesses with my son or my brother or anyone else.”

However, there have been several instances of Joe Biden meeting with business associates of his relatives, and Hunter, who is under federal investigation for possible tax fraud and illegal foreign lobbying, said he paid “half” of his income to them. Father.

Hunter Biden earned up to $1 million a year for serving on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burma beginning in 2014, when his father headed the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy.

Laptop records show that Joe Biden, as vice president, attended a 2015 D.C. dinner hosted by Hunter, which included Burmese executive Vadim Pozharsky, who thanked Hunter the next day for “an opportunity to meet his father”. Emailed to thank you.

Hunter also invited Russian billionaire Yelena Baturina and her husband, ex-Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov, to a 2015 dinner. A fellow guest told The Post that the Russian power couple attended, as did a group of Hunter’s Kazakhstani associates.

A 2020 report by Republican-led Senate committees said Baturina 2014 paid $3.5 million to a firm linked to Hunter Biden, and further reporting linked the transfer to US real estate purchases.

Baturina and another Russian billionaire with whom Hunter Biden partnered in a US real estate investment, Vladimir Yevtuvshenkov, have not been approved by President Biden for the war in Ukraine for more than a year, despite Biden calling Russia In an attempt to stop the elite of Warning.

Hunter and James Biden also actively did business with Mexico’s business elite, with Joe Biden hosting the vice president’s residence in DC in 2015 before taking Hunter and business aide Jeff Cooper to Mexico City on an official visit in 2016 Was.

James Biden openly bragged about selling influence to his older brother as he and Hunter Biden sought to take over a hedge fund based in New York in 2006, according to “The Bidens: Inside the First Families Fifty- According to the book “Our Rise to Power” by Politico reporter Ben Schreckinger.

“Don’t worry about investors,” Jim Biden reportedly told a corporate executive. “We’ve got people all over the world who want to invest in Joe Biden … We’ve got investors lined up on 747s — full of cash.”

After Joe Biden became president, Hunter launched an art career, demanding $500,000 for his novice works. Comer is reportedly seeking records on the anonymous buyers, but Manhattan art gallery owner Georges Burgess has so far refused to comply.