President Joe Biden’s son, other family members, and their associates were paid more than $20 million by Russians and other foreigners while President Biden was vice president, according to bank records released on Aug. 9.
Russian, Ukrainian, and Kazakhstan nationals were among those paying the Biden family and their associates, according to the records. Russian billionaire Yelena Baturina, for instance, paid $3.5 million to a company called Rosemont Seneca Thornton, with about a third going to Hunter Biden associate Devon Archer. Another $2.75 million went to an account started just one day earlier for Rosemont Seneca Bohai on Feb. 13, 2014.
Mr. Archer testified recently that he and Mr. Hunter Biden co-owned the account.
Ms. Baturina, the widow of former Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, was among those present at dinners in Washington that President Biden attended, Mr. Archer recently told members of Congress. That included a dinner held within months of the payment.
The White House hasn’t denied the allegations.
Also at the dinner, according to Mr. Archer, was ex-Kazakhstan Prime Minister Karim Massimov. Mr. Massimov was sentenced to prison time this year for allegedly participating in an attempted coup in his home country. An associate of Mr. Massimov’s, who met with Mr. Hunter Biden, paid Mr. Hunter Biden the exact amount that was sent to a car dealership in New Jersey for a sportscar for Mr. Hunter Biden, according to the records and Mr. Archer.
Mr. Archer also testified that Mr. Hunter Biden placed President Biden on the phone about 20 times and that Mr. Hunter Biden, in exchange for payments, delivered the Biden family “brand.”
“During Joe Biden’s vice presidency, Hunter Biden sold him as ‘the brand’ to reap millions from oligarchs in Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine. It appears no real services were provided other than access to the Biden network, including Joe Biden himself. And Hunter Biden seems to have delivered,” Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) said in a statement.
The White House, a lawyer who has represented President Biden, and an attorney representing Mr. Hunter Biden in his criminal case didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
Mr. Comer, who chairs the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee, has previously released records detailing payments to the Biden family, including President Biden’s brother, from Chinese and Romanian nationals.
The committee has so far subpoenaed six different banks, receiving thousands of records, including the new ones, as they probe the Biden family. They haven’t yet subpoenaed records of members of the family. None of the payments so far uncovered have been directly tied to President Biden, though at least one account that received money was held by an unidentified Biden.
The records show that the family and their associates created more than 20 companies, many while President Biden was vice president, from 2009 to 2017, and that the way the payments were distributed to various accounts appeared aimed at concealing large payments from foreigners, Mr. Comer has said.
President Biden falsely said on the campaign trail in 2020 that Mr. Hunter Biden hadn’t made money from China. He also said, “I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.”
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in July after some of the records were released that the president was “never in business with his son.” She later denied that the statement was a shift from President Biden’s previous claims.
Democrats have largely defended the president. Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) noted that, according to Mr. Archer, no business was discussed when President Biden was placed on the phone. Mr. Archer also said that he didn’t witness President Biden talk business during the 2014 and 2015 dinners.
“This investigation has uncovered ZERO evidence connected to President Biden. In fact, the evidence is clear that President Biden had nothing to do with Hunter’s businesses,” Mr. Goldman said in a recent statement.
The committee said the records have shown “deficiencies … in the current legal framework regarding ethics laws and disclosure of financial interests related to the immediate family members of vice presidents and presidents—deficiencies that may place American national security and interests at risk.”
Members are looking to craft legislation that would address the issue.
“It’s clear Joe Biden knew about his son’s business dealings and allowed himself to be ‘the brand’ sold to enrich the Biden family while he was Vice President of the United States,” Mr. Comer said on Aug. 9. “The House Oversight Committee will continue to follow the money trail and obtain witness testimony to determine whether foreign actors targeted the Bidens, President Biden is compromised or corrupt, and our national security is threatened.”
Reprinted with permission from The Epoch Times by Zachary Stieber.
Let’s be honest here for a minute. Short of finding a high-resolution video of Joe Biden personally receiving bags full of cash from some foreign leader, all while Joe is recorded thanking that leader for the payoff and acknowledging the bribe and what he will explicitly do in return for the money, neither a vast majority of Democrat voters nor the MSM will accept Joe has been dirty for years. The MSM will continue to do their deflection to protect Joe. The DOJ and FBI certainly won’t lift a finger to investigate, charge or arrest a Democrat President no matter how many acts of bribery and treason are detailed in Congressional testimony. So nothing will change no matter how many witnesses come forward offering their sworn testimonies to Congress.
As for any of the proposed ethics laws being discussed in the article, good luck getting one Democrat vote in Congress or even half the RINOs in the Senate on board. Mitch McConnell stuck his head up the other day and said he won’t support impeachment yet again. The only legislation that will pass Congress between now and election day are the budget bills designed to keep the federal government humming along. Yes, we need to make serious changes in Washington before the country is completely gone, but that would require a different approach from endless congressional hearings with no one in authority in the federal government to follow through interested. Personally, I’m not holding my breath and the clock is running out for this country. Learn Mandarin so you can better understand our new masters.
It’s foolish of us to think that righteous indignation alone will get us to where we want to go, which is a country free from democrat party BS. We need a commodity that’s in short supply. That is dedication to unvarnished truth and total commitment to taking this cabal down.
If The Left had ANY integrity they might tell us WHY a dope-head would be hired by anyone to do anything since he had ZERO skills. He didn’t speak Ukrainian and had no experience in the oil business. He didn’t speak Mandarin and had No experience in finance! Also, why set up 20 shell companies if you are on the up-and-up?
I want to know what the Biden mob sold in exchange for the money. I refuse to believe that they sold influence. I refuse to believe that that money was given out of the goodness of their hearts. Something was exchanged. Why is no one interested in that?
The Biden-Clan-of-Grifters will never be held accountable as long as the Ministry of Truth [aka MSM] control what the public sees and hears.
CROOKED JOE has infamously earned his “CROOKED” title! The true question is: “Will He EVER Suffer For It?” . . . I hope to see the day he pays for it!
This entire situation of having as our President, as man who is a criminal!! He, for years, made laws, debated for and against laws so he knows the law (or at least he used to – who knows what he knows now) so he knows full well what he has done and what his son, his wife, his brothers, his nieces, etc. have done!!! He isn’t a good liar and the fact that he is getting testy with reporters who ask questions about this subject tells me that he is guilty as sin as are the rest of his criminal family!! If there is any justice in the world, he will be impeached, he will be charged and prosecuted along with the rest of his family and they are all put in jail, exactly where they belong!! But, when it comes to Democrats, especially Democrats of the elite positions, will never go to jail!! The one who claims, “No one is above the law!” (Pelosi) is one of the biggest criminals in Congress, and there are many more who belong in jail for various crimes!!!
Clearly the democrats control our media, news and entertainment. They also control education and the deep state federal government. As long as this situation remains the same the democrats will continue in their corrupt take over of all our lives; what appliances we can buy, cars we can buy, jobs we can have, money we can spend and where we can spend it, etc, etc. I fear nothing less than a bloody violent will correct this travesty.
I’m sure that the shipping magnate, Mitch M., will change his mind in about 248 more years.
Al Capone was sent to Prison for Tax Evasion.
Looks like Dictator Beijing biden (The Big Guy) and family will be joining Al Capone in Prison for Tax Evasion, Racketeering, Corruption, Bribery, Accepting Bribes, Sedition, Espionage, and High Treason.
Until people like Biden’s possibly other Democrats pay for their crimes it does not stop because they see they get away with literally murder and laugh at the American people
If the Washington Post had frontpage coverage of the Biden Crime Family for this, it would turn out to be worse than a burglary of a Watergate Hotel room.
Lets Prosecute OK ALL
No one is “Above the Law”, or at least the should NOT be.
“What? I didn’t hear anything about this on CNN so it must not be true!” (I’m being sarcastic) Nobody will know about this because it’ll either be spun as “Fox/Republican misinformation” or simply ignored.
Aha :::Biden family is benefitting financially how cozy is that?
QAS Paule said, not a Damn thing will be done about it. Gotta protect their own. Kyle L.
America is an anomaly among the rest of the hell holes They love the technology it offers but the idea of a free thinking man is so unusual disturbing and scary to the feudal frame of mind which is fighting for dominance and survival Danger of spread must be stopped at any cost Nice and easy and fast way is to pay loads and tons of money to change the ideas and the way of thinking
If this were any Republican it would be on the front page of every liberal rag. Remember when they were going on about Trump business in Russia (there wasn’t any) his hotel in DC.