House uncovers new evidence in Biden foreign deals probe

On Wednesday, Republicans on the House Oversight Committee, led by Chairman James Comer, Republican of Kentucky, released a memo that reveals new information about alleged business practices of the Biden family.

The committee's investigation focuses on $10 million that the Biden family allegedly received from several foreign citizens. Records disclosed the existence of a $1 million payment related to Romania that was not previously known.

"Biden family members and business associates created a web of over 20 companies—most were limited liability companies formed during Joe Biden’s vice presidency," the memo reads. "Bank records show the Biden family, their business associates, and their companies received over $10 million from foreign nationals’ companies."

The memo alleges that "from 2015 through 2017, Biden family members and their companies received over $2 million in payments" through Robinson Walker, LLC, a limited liability company, in Delaware established by Rob Walker.

The memo establishes alleged links of the Bidens to Romanian "influence peddling" and a network of 20 companies created while Biden was vice president in a "complex corporate structure," at the time the Obama administration had entrusted him with handling corruption fighting overseas.

According to Chairman James Comer, in his second interim report, his committee is becoming increasingly worried that Hunter Biden and his associates have engaged in a pattern of making profitable business deals with foreign figures who are suspected of corruption in countries for which his father had official U.S. policy responsibilities.

The report offers new information about a series of transactions between 2015 and 2017 with a Romanian businessman named Gabriel Popoviciu, who, according to the committee, was charged and convicted by Romanian prosecutors of a bribery-related offense.

"The Committee is releasing a selection of bank records that shows the Biden family’s receipt of money from a foreign company reportedly controlled by Gabriel Popoviciu, the subject of a criminal probe and prosecution for corruption in Romania" 

The memo also states that President Biden has dealt with a total "lack of transparency in the way his family received money from China", a fact that Biden has specifically vehemently denied, saying that "it's not true."

"The White House refuses to correct the president's statement. The president is now using the federal government to run interference for his family and his own role in these schemes," said Comer during a press conference announcing the memo Wednesday. 

The memo details that "several of these entities, including Owasco P.C., Hudson West III, LLC, Robinson Walker, LLC, and Rosemont Seneca Bohai, LLC, accepted funds from foreign companies ranging from $5,000 to $3 million."