House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer on Thursday suggested his committee is subpoenaing several credit card companies for President Joe Biden’s family’s records.
The Biden family used credit cards for “personal expenses” that Chinese firm CEFC paid for directly or indirectly, Comer alleged on Fox Business’ “Mornings With Maria Bartiromo.” Comer specifically announced a subpoena issued to American Express Wednesday morning and suggested there will be subpoenas to other major companies. (RELATED: Joe Biden’s Brother Had No Clear Role At Healthcare Firm That Wired Him $600,000, Trustee Testifies)
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“We’re subpoenaing several credit card companies,” Comer asserted. “Through the interviews and depositions we’ve conducted thus far, we’ve learned that there were several credit cards that were used by various members of the Biden family, we believe for personal expenses, and we believe these credit cards were being paid by CEFC or through CEFC-funded affiliates, so this is something obviously we need to investigate, and it’s something that today we finally took the steps to issue the subpoenas.”
State Energy HK, a CEFC account, wired Hunter Biden’s former business associate Rob Walker about $3 million in March 2017 shortly after Joe Biden’s vice presidency term ended, according to bank records and Hunter Biden’s California federal tax indictment. Walker’s company then wired roughly $1 million in funds to Biden family accounts and $1 million to a firm linked to business associate James Gilliar.
Walker testified the payment was a “thank you” for work conducted during Joe Biden’s vice presidency, according to Comer.
“We know that there was a pretty extensive money laundering scheme,” Comer told host Maria Bartiromo. “We know they used a complex series of transactions through what I consider shell companies. A shell company as your viewers know full well is a company with no assets, or no known purpose, and this was a complex way to try to deceive the IRS and operate in the shady manner that they operate in.”
“One of the things that you’ll notice on all of the bank statements is a lot of payment to credit cards and they were various credit cards … They had dozens of credit cards and dozens of bank accounts but what we’ve been been able to narrow it down to is some specific credit cards that were used by various members of the Biden family, so we’ve taken all steps necessary to be to the point we are issuing a subpoena that will win in court,” Comer added. “Remember we’re subpoenaing very sensitive information, personal information from the Biden family. At the beginning of this investigation nobody felt we would ever be able to obtain that information but we’ve done everything the right way and we’re winning, we’re in a position we can win in court and I believe that we’ll be able to obtain the credit card information.”
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