House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Thursday issued additional subpoenas for Hunter Biden\u2019s business associates, including his art dealers and individuals involved in the more than $200,000 in alleged \u2018loans\u2019 James Biden repaid President Biden for in 2017 and 2018, Fox News Digital has learned.<\/p>\n
Comer, R-Ky., subpoenaed Hunter Biden\u2019s business associate Eric Schwerin and Mervyn Yan. He also subpoenaed Hunter Biden\u2019s gallerist George Berg\u00e8s and art patron Elizabeth Naftali. The subpoenas compel all the individuals to testify before the committee.<\/p>\n
The committee subpoenaed Yan in April for financial records connected to business dealings with Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n
In January, Comer demanded Berg\u00e8s turn over all communications between his gallery and the White House related to a reported deal to withhold all records of the prices and final buyers for Hunter Biden\u2019s art.\u00a0Fox News Digital previously reported that Berg\u00e8s has\u00a0long-standing ties to China\u00a0and said in 2015 that he wanted to be the art world\u2019s \u2018lead guy in China.\u2019<\/p>\n
Comer also requested transcribed interviews with former Americore Holdings, LLC, representatives. Americore Holdings was a financially distressed rural hospital operator that provided $600,000 in loans to James Biden, who, in 2018, eventually wrote a check, allegedly using those funds, for $200,000 to Joe Biden.<\/p>\n
\u2018The House Oversight Committee is leaving no stone unturned as we investigate President Joe Biden\u2019s central role in his family\u2019s domestic and international business dealings,\u2019 Comer said Thursday.<\/p>\n
The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday issued subpoenas to Hunter Biden, James Biden and business associate Rob Walker. Walker worked on the Biden family\u2019s joint venture called Sinohawk Holdings, which was meant to be\u00a0a partnership\u00a0with Chinese energy firm\u00a0CEFC.<\/p>\n
The committee also requested transcribed interviews from James Biden\u2019s wife, Sara Biden; President Biden\u2019s daughter-in-law,\u00a0Hallie Biden,\u00a0the widow of President Biden\u2019s son, Beau, who later was romantically involved with Hunter; Hallie Biden\u2019s older sister, Elizabeth Secundy; and Hunter Biden\u2019s wife, Melissa Cohen.<\/p>\n
The committee also requested a transcribed interview with Hunter Biden\u2019s former business associate, Tony Bobulinski, who was also involved in Sinohawk Holdings.<\/p>\n
Comer said the subpoenas were issued due to the \u2018record of evidence obtained by this Committee.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018A plethora of bank records, texts, emails, and a transcribed interview with Biden family associate Devon Archer all show the Bidens and their business partners sold access to the highest levels of our government, including Joe Biden himself, to the detriment of America\u2019s interests,\u2019 Comer said.\u00a0\u2018Americans across this country have made it clear to President Joe Biden, the Biden family, and their associates that the gig is up.\u2019<\/p>\n
Comer added: \u2018The House Oversight Committee, along with the Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means, are determined to follow the facts, and deliver the transparency and accountability that the American people demand, deserve, and expect.\u2019<\/p>\n
The subpoenas come as part of the committee\u2019s months-long investigation into the Biden family\u2019s business dealings and whether President Biden benefited from or was involved in his family\u2019s business ventures.<\/p>\n
The investigation, led by Comer, also feeds into the broader House impeachment inquiry against President Biden. That inquiry is being led by Comer, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo.<\/p>\n
The subpoenaed and voluntary testimony will likely feed into the larger impeachment inquiry as Republicans seek to determine whether President Biden abused his office or committed any type of high crime or misdemeanor.<\/p>\n
Comer, in September, subpoenaed personal and business bank records belonging to both Hunter Biden and James Biden. Those subpoenaed records have revealed new lines of questioning with regard to whether President Biden knew about or was involved in his family\u2019s business dealings.<\/p>\n
Last week, Comer said those subpoenaed bank records revealed that President Biden himself received $40,000 in \u2018laundered China money\u2019\u00a0from the bank account belonging to James Biden and Sara Biden.<\/p>\n
Subpoenaed financial records also revealed that Joe Biden received a \u2018$200,000 direct payment\u2019 in 2018 in the form of a \u2018personal check\u2019 from\u00a0James Biden\u00a0and Sara Biden. That check was also labeled \u2018loan repayment.\u2019 The check for $200,000 came the same day Americore wired $200,000 into James and Sara Biden\u2019s personal bank account.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Hunter Biden\u2019s attorney Abbe Lowell blasted the investigation as \u2018partisan,\u2019 and penned a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Wednesday to demand that he stop Comer, Jordan and Smith from continuing their investigation.<\/p>\n
\u2018This is yet another political stunt aimed at distracting from the glaring failure of Rep. Comer and his MAGA allies to prove a single one of their wild and now discredited conspiracies about the Biden family,\u2019\u00a0Lowell said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As for the subpoena for Hunter Biden\u2019s testimony, Lowell said the president\u2019s son \u2018is eager to have the opportunity, in a public forum and at the right time, to discuss these matters with the Committee.\u2019<\/p>\n