Republicans on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee say they have identified additional Biden family members who were involved in Hunter Biden’s alleged moneymaking schemes.
“The Biden family enterprise is centered on Joe Biden’s political career and connections, and it has generated an exorbitant amount of money for the Biden family. We’ve identified six additional members of Joe Biden’s family who may have benefited from the Biden family’s businesses that we are investigating, bringing the total number of those involved or benefiting to nine,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said in a statement. “The Oversight Committee will continue to pursue additional bank records to follow the Bidens’ tangled web of financial transactions to determine if the Biden family has been targeted by foreign actors and if there is a national security threat.”
Biden and Family Friends
Former Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski has stated publicly that he had “seen behind the Biden curtain” and personally witnessed the Biden family leveraging its family name and the president’s political connections to enrich themselves.
The Bidens reportedly received millions for their dealings. Hunter Biden admits he never would have been appointed to the board of the purportedly corrupt Ukrainian gas firm Burisma had his name not been Biden. Hunter Biden received $50,000 per month during the five years he served on the Burisma board.
The “big guy”- or who is suspected to be Joe Biden – reportedly was supposed to have received 10 percent of the proceeds from a deal that Hunter Biden and his business partners made with CEFC Energy, a Chinese company with close ties to Chinese military intelligence. CEFC Energy former CEO Ye Jianming, who Hunter Biden referred to as his “business partner,” previously served as deputy secretary general of the China Association for International Friendly Contacts (CAIFC).
CAIFC “performs dual roles of intelligence collection and conducting propaganda and perception management campaigns” and it is “a platform for deploying undercover intelligence gatherers,” The U.S.-China Economic Security and Review Commission said in a 2018 report.
Hunter Biden identified Ye’s associate Patrick Ho as the “spy chief of China” in audio found on his laptop. Ho also was the subject of a FISA investigation into the threat he posed to national security, and over 100,000 emails between Ho and others were recovered from his Arlington, Va., office in 2018.
Sen. Charles Grassley wrote Attorney General Merrick Garland about Ho “his potential counterintelligence threat to the United States” in a November 2021 letter.
Gongwen Dong, another of Hunter Biden’s business partners from who he received millions in wired funds through Cathay Bank, previously worked at Radiance Property Holdings, a company now run by an individual with deep connections to “‘united front’ groups linked to Chinese intelligence.”
“Since there is also evidence of comingling of funds between President Biden and Hunter Biden during the former’s vice presidency, Republicans must ask whether the current President is compromised from a national security perspective,” Comer asked last May.
Investigations Connect the Dots on Hunter Biden
Comer’s committee disclosed last month that Hunter Biden, James Biden, and Hallie Biden received $1 million from HK Energy Limited, a firm closely linked with CEFC Energy in the three months after Joe Biden left the vice presidency.
House Oversight and Accountability Committee member South Carolina GOP Rep. Nancy Mace expressed dismay in a video posted on her Twitter feed about the extent of the possible corruption by the Biden family. She reviewed Treasury Department Suspicious Activity Reports and said the scope is even larger than she had imagined.
“There were over 100 Suspicious Activity Reports on the Biden family, and I have to tell you there are more Bidens involved than we knew previously and every time you overturn or look under a stone there’s so much more you have to investigate,” Mace said. “It’s wild the numbers of family members involved, and even the amount of money that we’re talking about in these Suspicious Activity Reports is astronomical.”
Mace continued: “The source of the funding, where the money is going, the shell companies, prostitution rings, etc. It’s insanity to me that it’s not been investigated in the way that it should be.”
John Rossomando was a senior analyst for Defense Policy and served as Senior Analyst for Counterterrorism at The Investigative Project on Terrorism for eight years. His work has been featured in numerous publications such as The American Thinker, Daily Wire, Red Alert Politics, CNSNews.com, The Daily Caller, Human Events, Newsmax, The American Spectator, TownHall.com, and Crisis Magazine. He also served as senior managing editor of The Bulletin, a 100,000-circulation daily newspaper in Philadelphia, and received the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors first-place award in 2008 for his reporting.
