Oversight Committee Chairman: Joe Biden Involved in “Criminal Scheme”

by Sharon Rondeau

(Nov. 5, 2023) — On today’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer told host Maria Bartiromo that two checks the committee recently released to the public, each identified as a “loan repayment” from James and Sara Biden to Joe Biden, were part of “a very organized criminal scheme” in which money was “laundered” to avoid IRS scrutiny.

James Biden is Joe Biden’s brother and Sara his sister-in-law. Comer has reported previously, accompanied by bank documentation the committee was able to acquire, that as many as nine Biden family members benefited from shadowy transactions stemming from Joe Biden’s son Hunter’s “business” dealings with foreign countries during the time his father was vice president resulting in the conveyance of multi-millions of dollars to Hunter and family members in exchange for “foreign policy decisions.”

Since assuming the committee chairmanship after the 2022 midterm elections yielding a Republican House majority, Comer and his colleagues have been investigating allegations of “influence-peddling” and “money-laundering” emanating from Hunter’s overseas “business” endeavors with various associates, some of whom have been implicated in criminal activity, while Joe Biden was vice president.

Comer has published a list of transaction dates and bank records associated with the alleged Biden family scheme, writing, “We have traced payments from Chinese companies to Joe Biden.”

In its latest release of such records, dated November 1, 2023, the committee wrote, “The Committee’s most recent subpoenas issued to various banks for Biden family members’ bank records show a direct benefit to Joe Biden through a series of complicated financial transactions.” The report further describes what it has discovered regarding the Bidens’ relationship with CEFC, a Chinese energy company with “close ties to the Chinese Communist Party.”

A $40,000 check written from James Biden to Joe Biden on September 3, 2017 was the latter’s “10% for the Big Guy,” Comer confirmed to Bartiromo, echoing a claim first made by former Hunter Biden associate Tony Bobulinski to Tucker Carlson, then of Fox News, several weeks before the 2020 presidential election. “We traced the $40,000 check that Joe Biden received all the way back to that WhatsApp message where Hunter Biden claimed his father was sitting beside him where he was shaking down the Chinese operative,” Comer said, invoking revelations made to Congress by IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley in June. “…That’s where that $4o,000 was triggered…that money came from China, further evidence that Joe Biden benefited from his family’s influence-peddling scheme.”

While Bartiromo’s producer displayed the check and a May 13, 2017 email on which Bobulinski was copied detailing the proposed distribution percentage of the proceeds of the CEFC agreement, Comer affirmed its allocation indicated Joe Biden was to receive 10% as “the Big Guy.”

Despite government agencies’ “obstruction” throughout his investigation, Comer continued, enough “bank accounts” have been obtained “where we can trace the money; we can connect the dots.”

“This was a very organized criminal enterprise by the Biden family,” he said. “This wasn’t just some drug addict doing concoctions and making wild transactions…and the reason they did these complicated transactions was to disguise the source of the revenue and to deceive the IRS from paying taxes, so what you’re going to see in the coming weeks is a lot of loans. Anytime the Bidens have money, they’re going to claim it was a loan because you don’t have to report loans on your taxes…”

“Loans is an integral part of money-laundering where you deceive from the IRS about the revenue you’re taking in. In other words, you’re a tax cheat,” Comer concluded.

The second check, dated March 1, 2018, was written for $200,000. That check, Comer wrote on the committee’s website, also on November 1, “came from funds provided by a now bankrupt health care company called Americore.”

In 2021, former Trump personal attorney Rudy Giuliani claimed, invoking the now-infamous Hunter Biden laptop computer found to have contained information connecting Joe Biden to Hunter’s overseas endeavors, he could “put the d*** family in jail as a RICO enterprise.”

Giuliani is now being prosecuted by Fulton County, GA District Attorney Fani Willis, who has already secured plea deals with several of a total of 19 defendants stemming from their involvement in contending the 2020 presidential election outcome in Georgia was fraudulent.

Prior to the 2020 election, Giuliani provided the laptop to The New York Post, whose October 14, 2020 breaking news story about its contents was heavily censored by social media after the FBI suggested a “hack and leak operation” aimed at the upcoming presidential election would soon unfold while aware that the Hunter Biden laptop story did not stem from “Russian disinformation.”

In a December 11, 2020 interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity, Giuliani claimed the laptop demonstrated “a ’30-year history of criminality’” on the part of the Bidens.

On Tuesday, Comer continued, the House Judiciary Committee chaired by Jim Jordan (R-OH4) will hear testimony from Special Counsel David Weiss, who is reportedly investigating Hunter Biden following a failed plea deal between Biden and the government in July.

Key documents from his investigation will be released “this week,” Comer told Bartiromo. “Once all those come in, I think you’re going to see swift action and I would predict somewhere around two dozen subpoenas.”

Later in the program, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) spoke about Sen. Charles Grassley’s claim that 40 FBI sources provided “derogatory” information to the DOJ on the Bidens but that the Justice Department as well as members of the U.S. Senate have “obstructed” any investigation.

In the interview, Johnson told Baritomo that the Biden family created a “labyrinth” of shell companies designed to shield banking transactions from public scrutiny.

As chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Chairman, Johnson said Jordan is opening an investigation into the “obstruction.”

Government “whistleblowers,” Johnson added, despite numerous laws aimed at protecting them, are vilified by the mainstream media and their reputations “destroyed.”