House Oversight Republicans subpoena extra financial institution data in Biden household probe

The House Oversight and Accountability Committee has subpoenaed a number of extra banks for data on the Biden household’s enterprise dealings, following Bank of America data that exposed suspicious payouts months after President Biden left the vice presidency.

The newly revealed subpoenas went to Bank of America, Cathay Bank, JPMorgan Chase, and HSBC. The committee can be demanding info from Hunter Biden affiliate Mervyn Yan.

The newest volley of calls for was first reported by Fox News on Friday.

In a Twitter put up linking to the Fox News reporting, committee Chairman James Comer, Kentucky Republican, accused committee Democrats of as soon as once more disclosing the committee’s subpoenas “in a cheap attempt to thwart cooperation from other witnesses.”

“No one should be fooled by Ranking Member [Jamie] Raskin’s games,” Mr. Comer wrote. “We have the bank records, and the facts are not good for the Biden family.”

The employees of Mr. Raskin, Maryland Democrat, didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

The revelation follows accusations by Mr. Raskin, the highest Democrat on the committee, that Republicans have been squeezing out Democrats and stretching the reality with the general public because the panel probes the presidential household.

In a letter to Mr. Comer on Thursday, Mr. Raskin mentioned that he has grown “increasingly alarmed” by Republicans’ efforts to defend info obtained within the probe from committee Democrats.

Mr. Raskin additionally accused Mr. Comer of “apparent public misrepresentations about certain investigative steps.”

“Our committee has always adhered to the principle that equal access to information is the cornerstone of legitimate congressional oversight,” Mr. Raskin wrote. “I fear you have repeatedly offended this core understanding of our committee’s work by going on cable television to tout investigatory steps undertaken in secret or, more disturbingly, which may not have been taken at all.”

Mr. Raskin cited Mr. Comer’s look on Fox News final month through which the chairman mentioned 4 totally different folks affiliated with “Biden influence peddling all across the globe” had not too long ago come ahead with info “that has been very helpful.”

According to Mr. Raskin, Democratic employees reached out to the bulk after the looks to get entry to that info, however have been instructed that “no new witness information, including from whistleblowers, had actually been provided to committee Republicans.”

Democratic employees have been instructed that Mr. Comer was referring to testimony from two people — Hunter Biden affiliate Eric Schwerin and President Biden’s former aide Kathy Chung.

Mr. Raskin mentioned neither Mr. Schwerin nor Ms. Chung “have claimed to have — nor have they provided — any information about any wrongdoing by President Biden or his family.”

Nonetheless, Mr. Raskin mentioned, the chairman repeated the claims in a number of subsequent interviews.

“Your repeated statements about ‘four people’ suggest that either you have intentionally misrepresented the committee’s investigative progress to your conservative audience or that key investigative steps have been deliberately withheld from committee Democrats,” he mentioned.

Mr. Comer dismissed his colleague’s claims in a press release on Thursday, saying “multiple individuals” have approached the committee confidentially as whistleblowers.

Mr. Comer additionally accused Mr. Raskin of releasing “disingenuous, misleading financial information from the committee’s investigation” referring to the highest Democrat’s disclosure final month that committee Republicans had subpoenaed Bank of America data relationship again greater than a decade associated to Hunter Biden’s enterprise dealings.

Soon after Mr. Raskin publicized the subpoena, Mr. Comer disclosed that the financial institution paperwork revealed funds totaling roughly $1 million to members of the Biden household after Hunter Biden affiliate Rob Walker acquired a $3 million wire switch from a communist-backed Chinese vitality firm.

Mr. Walker acquired the multimillion-dollar wire switch from State Energy HK Ltd., a Chinese firm affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party-backed CEFC China Energy Co., simply two months after Joe Biden ended his tenure as vp beneath President Obama.

Mr. Walker then made funds to President Biden’s brother James Biden, son Hunter Biden and daughter-in-law Hallie Biden.

The purpose for the funds stays a thriller.

Hunter Biden’s authorized crew mentioned the House oversight memo exposing the suspicious funds was baseless. The White House additionally dismissed the memo.