Expanded Biden Family Probe Reveals Six More Members Possibly Benefiting from Business Schemes: Rep. Comer
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer disclosed Monday that six additional members of the Biden family may have profited from the family's business dealings, raising the total number of relatives potentially involved to nine.
The revelations come as the Kentucky Republican congressman and other panel members scrutinize suspicious activity reports submitted by banks to the Treasury Department, which flagged potential criminal activity in transactions involving President Biden's family.
"Thousands of pages of financial records related to the Biden family, their companies, and associates' business schemes were made available to members of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, which confirm the importance of this investigation," Comer stated.
"The Biden family enterprise is centered on Joe Biden's political career and connections, and it has generated an exorbitant amount of money for the Biden family. We've identified six additional members of Joe Biden's family who may have benefited from the Biden family's businesses that we are investigating, bringing the total number of those involved or benefiting to nine," he added.
In March, Comer announced that his committee had discovered evidence that three Biden family members and two associates received payments originating from China in 2017, less than two months after Joe Biden concluded his term as vice president under Barack Obama.
According to Comer, bank records subpoenaed by the committee show that State Energy HK Limited, a company linked to Chinese Communist Party-backed energy firm CEFC China Energy, transferred $3 million to Biden family associate Rob Walker in March 2017. Over about three months, Walker then distributed the funds.
Hunter Biden, the president's son, reportedly received around $610,000 as part of the 2017 deal, while the president's brother James Biden received approximately $360,000, and daughter-in-law Hallie Biden received $25,000.
A "Unknown Biden" who received four payments totaling $70,000 in 2017 was also mentioned in the panel's March memo.
Comer did not reveal the identities of the six newly identified Biden family members on Monday.
"The Oversight Committee will continue to pursue additional bank records to follow the Bidens' tangled web of financial transactions to determine if the Biden family has been targeted by foreign actors and if there is a national security threat," Comer stated. "We will soon provide the public with more information about what we've uncovered to date. The American people need transparency and accountability, and the Oversight Committee will deliver much-needed answers."
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who examined the approximately 100 suspicious activity reports alongside Comer, tweeted on Monday that "it's wild the amount of [Biden] family members involved" and hinted at evidence suggesting "prostitution rings."
Mace said in a Twitter video, "I have to tell you, there are more Bidens involved than we knew previously. And every time you look under a stone, there's so much more you have to investigate because it's wild the number of family members involved." She added, "the amount of money that we're talking about in these suspicious activity reports is astronomical. And the accusations therein, the source of the funding, where the money's going, the shell companies, prostitution rings, etc. It's insanity to me that it's not been investigated in the way that it should be."