House Oversight Committee Subpoenas Financial Docs for Hunter Biden Business Associates
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The House Oversight Committee on Sunday subpoenaed financial documents related to three of Hunter Biden’s business associates, ramping up the probe into the first family’s overseas dealings.
Representative Jamie Raskin, the committee’s ranking Democrat, sent a letter to committee chairman James Comer concerning the subpoenas, which request records from Bank of America dating back to 2009 involving John Robinson “Rob” Walker and two other men, according to a copy of the letter obtained by CNN. The bank has complied with much of the order so far, a source told the outlet.
Raskin’s letter was sent to “get ahead of the information the Oversight Committee is receiving in its investigation of the Biden family’s influence peddling,” a House Oversight GOP spokesperson told CNN.
In the letter, Raskin blasts Comer for not notifying Democratic members at least two days before issuing the subpoenas.
The subpoena pertaining to Walker is particularly invasive, Raskin said, because it demands disclosure of intimate information from his family’s personal financial accounts.
Raskin called the subpoena a “roving congressional inquisition into the affairs of at least one private American citizen,” that goes “well beyond any business deal with Hunter Biden or CEFC.”
Hunter Biden joined Walker, James Gilliar, Jim Biden, and Tony Bobulinski in creating a joint venture, called Oneida Holdings, with CEFC, the now-defunct Chinese energy conglomerate that pledged to give them $10 million of working capital.
In a May 2017 email to multiple partners, Gilliar discussed an equity plan in which 10 percent of the venture would be held by Hunter “for the big guy,” who is believed to be Joe Biden.
Last month, ahead of House Republicans’ investigation into Hunter Biden, his attorneys sent letters to state and federal prosecutors urging criminal probes into those who accessed and disseminated personal data from his infamous laptop, implicitly acknowledging that he was its owner.
The contents of the computer, first reported by the New York Post, revealed troubling questions about Hunter and Joe Biden’s foreign business entanglements. Hunter Biden’s legal team issued letters to the DOJ, IRS, and Delaware attorney general demanding criminal referrals for Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon.
Earlier this month, FBI director Chris Wray dodged a question about whether the Hunter Biden laptop story is “disinformation” during a House Intelligence Committee hearing.
“I don’t think there’s anything I can share on that in open setting,” Wray told Representative Elise Stefanik.
President Biden has insisted that he was never involved in his son’s business dealings and has consistently dismissed the laptop bombshell as Russian misinformation.
