{"id":1998614,"date":"2023-08-12T07:26:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T11:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/inside-the-biden-family-tied-accounts-at-the-heart-of-the-gop-foreign-influence-inquiry\/"},"modified":"2023-08-12T07:29:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T11:29:47","slug":"inside-the-biden-family-tied-accounts-at-the-heart-of-the-gop-foreign-influence-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/inside-the-biden-family-tied-accounts-at-the-heart-of-the-gop-foreign-influence-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP investigates Biden family-linked accounts in &#8216;foreign influence&#8217; inquiry."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Finside-the-biden-family-tied-accounts-at-the-heart-of-the-gop-foreign-influence-inquiry%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1998614&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Republican Investigators Detail Biden Family&#8217;s Foreign Business \u2063Dealings<\/h2>\n<p>Republican congressional\u200d investigators\u200b have now detailed in three memos the various Biden-linked\u200d accounts\u200d they say hauled in over $20 million combined from overseas as \u2064the \u2064GOP inches toward subpoenaing the family.<\/p>\n<p>The House Oversight Committee on\u200b Wednesday \u200breleased its third memo on the Biden \u200dfamily&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-calls-travel-lid-for-wednesday-an-hour-after-bobulinski-interview-airs\/\" title=\"Biden Calls Travel Lid for Wednesday an Hour After Bobulinski Interview Airs\">foreign business dealings<\/a>, \u2062which, like the May\u200b and March memos, is based on\u200d financial\u2062 records \u200bthe panel and \u200dits\u2063 chairman, Rep. James Comer (R-KY), obtained through bank subpoenas as part of his\u200d sprawling Hunter Biden \u200binquiry. Totaling 59 pages, the three \u2063documents provide a thorough\u2063 look at the Biden family&#8217;s unique\u2062 and powerful\u200c relationships overseas, which some House Republicans allege are grounds for impeachment proceedings.<\/p>\n<h3>Up for Debate: Trump, DeSantis, and 2024\u200c GOP Hopefuls&#8217; Stances on Abortion<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The \u200bBidens benefited from nearly two\u2064 dozen shady companies, most set up \u200dduring Joe Biden\u2019s vice presidency, to receive millions of dollars from corrupt oligarchs and [Chinese Communist Party]-linked associates and sold nothing but Joe Biden, &#8216;the brand,'&#8221; Comer told the Washington\u2064 Examiner. &#8220;The House\u2063 Oversight Committee\u200c will continue to follow the money and\u200d interview witnesses \u2064to determine whether <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/comer-demands-burisma-suspicious-activity-reports-from-treasury\/\" title=\"Comer requests Burisma's suspicious activity reports from Treasury.\">foreign actors targeted<\/a> the \u200bBidens, \u200bPresident Biden is compromised and corrupt, and our national security is \u2064threatened.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On Friday, \u2064Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-stefanik-cawthorn-support-appointing-special-counsel-on-biden-family-china-ties\/\" title=\"Exclusive -- Stefanik, Cawthorn Support\u00a0Appointing Special Counsel on Biden Family China Ties\">special counsel appointment<\/a> of U.S. Attorney\u2063 David Weiss for the Justice Department&#8217;s Hunter Biden investigation. Weiss is the federal prosecutor in Delaware who has overseen an inquiry into \u200bthe business dealings of Joe Biden&#8217;s son, who in June agreed to plea guilty to two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/second-irs-whistleblower-reveals-identity-at-congress-hearing-on-hunter-biden-probe\/\" title=\"Second IRS whistleblower discloses identity during congressional hearing on Hunter Biden investigation.\">misdemeanor\u2063 tax charges<\/a> and to\u2062 attend a diversion program instead of a guilty plea to a \u200cgun charge.<\/p>\n<p>However, the agreement fell apart in late July, and\u2064 a trial\u2064 now seems increasingly likely.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;Influence Peddling&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>House Republicans intend to paint the picture that Hunter\u200c Biden \u2063and his then-associates profited\u200b off the Biden name, particularly that of his\u2062 father, and engaged in &#8220;influence\u200d peddling&#8221; on a global scale. The Oversight Committee has not yet identified any\u2062 direct payments to Joe \u2062Biden. However,\u200d the panel argued in \u200bthe Wednesday memo that \u2064Democrats have a &#8220;weak defense&#8221; in offering that doing\u200b so is necessary to show wrongdoing, adding that &#8220;the\u2064 law recognizes \u200bpayments to family members to corruptly influence others can constitute a bribe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>GOP congressional\u200d investigators \u2063have their sights set on more than 20 companies tied to Biden family members and associates, including \u200cJames Biden,\u200b Hallie\u200b Biden, Hunter Biden, Devon Archer, James &#8220;Jimmy&#8221; Bulger, and Rob Walker.\u200c In May, the Oversight Committee released a chart outlining the existence of \u2064accounts formed between 1998 to 2017,\u200d which the panel says\u200c were\u200d boosted with foreign source dollars, including in Romania and\u2062 China.<\/p>\n<p>Many of\u2063 the transactions \u200didentified by investigators involved\u200b Owasco\u2064 P.C., which Hunter Biden owned and \u200bformed in 2006, according\u200c to corporate records. Owasco P.C. notably received $500,000 combined from the Biden family\u2062 associate Rob Walker&#8217;s LLC called Robinson Walker, which steered around $1 million to Biden family\u2062 members between 2015 and\u2062 2017, according to the Oversight Committee.<\/p>\n<p>That\u200b revelation has proved concerning\u200d for Republicans, in part, since \u2062Robinson \u200bWalker \u200din March\u2063 2017 took $3 million \u2064from State Energy HK Limited, a Chinese energy firm that \u200cComer said earlier this year &#8220;appears to be Ye\u2019s vehicle, \u200dat least\u200c in part, to launder money and \u200bpurchase lucrative gifts.&#8221; The congressman was\u2062 referring to \u200bChinese businessman Ye Jianming, \u200bwho has since disappeared into \u2063China amid legal issues and headed CEFC, a \u2063defunct-Chinese energy conglomerate whose venture Hudson West III paid millions of dollars to Owasco.<\/p>\n<p>Between 2015 and\u200c 2017, \u2062Robinson Walker was also on the receiving end of over $3 million from Gabriel Popoviciu, a Romanian real estate tycoon who was \u2062facing corruption and bribery\u200c criminal charges, according to the Oversight Committee. Popoviciu reportedly brought \u2064in Hunter Biden in 2016 to legally advise him.<\/p>\n<p>These transactions, and others, are examples that Republicans have pointed to in\u2062 order to\u2062 stake the claim\u2062 that the Biden family has capitalized on its status\u200b to reap a windfall from\u200d overseas entities involved in shady activities.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;Sold Access&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s memo largely pertains to \u200bthree <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/inside-the-biden-family-tied-accounts-at-the-heart-of-the-gop-foreign-influence-inquiry\/\" title=\"GOP investigates Biden family-linked accounts in 'foreign influence' inquiry.\">limited liability corporation firms<\/a> that Hunter\u200b Biden\u2063 co-founded: Rosemont Seneca Partners, Rosemont Seneca Thornton, and Rosemont Seneca Bohai. Russian billionaire Yelena Baturina notably transferred $3.5 million in February 2014 to RST, with $1 million of that sum being sent \u2063to Archer, and the rest of\u2062 the cash \u2064going to seed the launch of RSB, according to the Oversight Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Archer confirmed the payment\u200b in \u200dtestimony before the Oversight Committee last month, as well as \u2064remarked that the $3.5 million \u200bwas apparently part of \u200da $120\u2062 million Baturina \u2063investment into \u200bRosemont Realty, which counts RST as\u2063 an offshoot. Sens. Chuck \u200cGrassley (R-IA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) previously described\u2063 the $3.5\u2063 million transfer in a 2020 report.<\/p>\n<p>In spring 2014, Hunter Biden, Archer, Baturina, and others met at Cafe Milano in Washington, D.C., according to the Oversight Committee and testimony \u2063from Archer, who said there \u2062was also a 2015 meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The 2014 meeting could \u2064prove particularly notable, given Archer&#8217;s testimony that former Kazakhstan Prime Minister Karim Massimov, who was sentenced this year to 18 years in prison over\u2063 treason and an attempted\u2064 coup, was in attendance. Archer also said Kazakh\u2064 oligarch \u2063Kenes\u200d Rakishev and &#8220;possibly&#8221; former Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, the\u2064 late husband of Baturina, were there in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>On April 22, 2014, Rakishev wired\u2063 $142,300 to Rosemont Seneca Bohai through a Singaporean entity called Novatus Holdings and also that same amount to a New Jersey car dealership for Hunter Biden to \u2064obtain a sports car, according to the Wednesday memo and \u200cArcher&#8217;s testimony.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Biden family\u2064 sold access \u2064to &#8216;the brand&#8217; Joe Biden and\u200b in the process sold out their\u2064 country,&#8221; Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), \u200dwho sits on the Oversight Committee, told \u200cthe Washington Examiner. &#8220;They have lied to cover up \u2063the truth, but justice \u200bis coming.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not long after Baturina&#8217;s 2014 payment, Hunter Biden and Archer joined forces on the board of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings, led by Mykola Zlochevsky, a Ukrainian oligarch. Zlochevsky was allegedly &#8220;coerced&#8221; by Joe and Hunter Biden to transfer them $10 million combined \u200dfor their help in working to get a prosecutor investigating Burisma fired, according to an unclassified FBI whistleblower document released by Grassley \u2063in \u200dJuly.<\/p>\n<p>Archer testified to the Oversight Committee that Hunter \u2062Biden was added \u200dto Burisma&#8217;s\u2063 board\u2064 because of Joe Biden&#8217;s influential &#8220;brand.&#8221;\u2062 Hunter Biden \u200cand Archer were paid over $1\u200d million per year from Burisma, which steered roughly $83,000 each month to Rosemont \u200bSeneca Bohai until late 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Due to Archer&#8217;s legal troubles, \u200dBurisma payments were then directed to Hunter \u2062Biden&#8217;s Owasco P.C.<\/p>\n<h3>Special Counsel Alert<\/h3>\n<p>The appointment\u2063 of Weiss as special counsel \u200ccomes \u200con the heels\u2062 of Republicans alleging that the \u2062prosecutor&#8217;s powers seem limited. Two veteran criminal\u200b IRS investigators \u200bnamed Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, who worked on\u2064 the \u2064Justice Department&#8217;s case related to Hunter Biden, alleged in May that\u200d Weiss blocked charges from being brought against Hunter Biden in California and Washington, D.C., \u200band previously was rejected from special counsel status after a request.<\/p>\n<p>Garland said on Friday that Weiss may &#8220;take any investigative steps he wanted and make the decision whether\u200c to prosecute in \u200bany district.&#8221; Meanwhile, Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) emerged on Friday as the second lawmaker to file impeachment articles against Joe Biden, with the Florida Republican\u2062 citing the president&#8217;s ties to Hunter Biden&#8217;s business dealings. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) put forth \u200barticles in\u200c May against Biden.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/republican-investigators-detail-biden-family-foreign-business-dealings\">Click here to read more from the Washington Examiner<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The evidence continues to mount by the day \u2014 the Biden crime family has personally profited\u2062 off Joe\u2019s government positions through \u200bbribery, threats,\u2063 and fraud,&#8221; the congressman said. &#8220;Joe Biden must not be allowed to\u2062 continue to sit in the White House, selling out our\u2062 country.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An attorney for Hunter Biden did not \u200creturn \u2064a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican investigators have released three memos outlining Biden-linked accounts that allegedly received over $20 million from abroad. The GOP is moving closer to subpoenaing the family. 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