The typical Biden family way of doing things involves a three way split through various shell companies. After the money was moved around by wire transfer, the Biden’s third was shuffled into a whole slew of bank accounts. Those had various Biden names on them, including some grand-kids. The middleman generally kept a third for themselves and it’s not clear yet where the other slice went. The House Oversight Committee had their big press conference on Wednesday and the DOJ has some investigating to do. We’ll all be watching over Merrick Garland’s shoulder on this one.
What Biden family business?
All it would take for the Biden family to diffuse at least some of the allegations coming from House oversight investigations is to explain what exactly they do to earn the money. Even the Corleones had an olive oil business to point at as a source of revenue. The Bidens sold something to China. They sold some more of it to Romania and the House knows they sold something to Mexico, Russia and Ukraine as well.
As far as Congress can tell, the only thing they have to peddle to our adversaries around the globe is “influence.” Meanwhile, the media screams where’s the proof? To that, the House responds, “exactly.”
The big question on everyone’s mind is why hasn’t the DOJ, FBI, IRS and Treasury Department done their jobs to investigate the reports filed years ago? South Carolina lawmaker Nancy Mace was brutal in her assessment. “These people didn’t come to Hunter Biden because he understood world politics or that he was experienced in it, or that he understood Chinese businesses.”
NANCY MACE: "The DOJ needs to GET OFF ITS ASS and investigate, we’ve done the work for them"..pic.twitter.com/BFxJx80BxB
— Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) May 10, 2023
“They wanted him for the access his last name gave them, access the Chinese Communist Party couldn’t otherwise get. The Biden family needs to answer for this and the DOJ needs to get off its ass and investigate. We’ve done the work for them, so they can’t screw it up now.” Well, they can and probably will but we need them to at least give it a shot.
The biggest piece of fresh information presented at the press briefing was another million dollar transaction. This one came from “a crooked Romanian businessman to the Biden family while then-Vice President Joe Biden paid lip service to cleaning up corruption in the Eastern European nation.”
Just like in the previously reported wire transfer, the Bidens collected a million and change as their third. Middleman Rob Walker kept his third and wired it all around to everyone interested.
The Romanian connection
The memo which the committee thoughtfully provided to the press weighs in at a whopping 36 pages. In it, they detail “how $3 million was allegedly transferred from Gabriel Popoviciu’s Bladon Enterprises Limited to Robinson Walker LLC — controlled by Hunter’s business partner Rob Walker — between November 2015 and May 2017.”
From that pile, “$1,038,627.08 was transferred to bank accounts belonging to Hunter Biden, first daughter-in-law Hallie Biden and an unnamed Biden family member.” Just like the one they already knew about from CEFC China Energy.
This time, the “unidentified Biden account or accounts receiving the Romanian proceeds got $80,000 over four transactions.” As detailed in the memo, “the Romanian transactions show evidence of influence peddling and a correlation between Biden family and their business associates’ work and then Vice President Biden’s responsibilities while in office.” That makes them nervous.
🚨BANK RECORDS DON’T LIE🚨
The Biden family used their web of LLCs & associates to receive millions of dollars from foreign nationals.
No services were provided other than access & influence.
Our investigation is accelerating and @RepJamesComer will subpoena more bank records. pic.twitter.com/ufkupNnAAv
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) May 10, 2023
“The Committee is concerned about the Biden family’s pattern of courting business in regions of the world in which the then Vice President had an outsize role and influenced U.S. policy.”
At the time Hunter was working with Popoviciu in 2015, the Romanian “faced prosecution on corruption charges in his home country. At some point, the then-second son arranged a separate side agreement with the tycoon outside of his law firm, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP.” Last August, the New York Post found out about that deal and found a source who filled them in.
They were told at the time that “the side deal with Popoviciu netted Hunter and his associates ‘millions.’ It’s unclear how much money Hunter Biden made through his work for Popoviciu within the confines of Boies Schiller.” Popoviciu was “convicted of bribery in 2016.” We may now know who the family mole in the FBI was. The one they liked to call “one eye.” In one instance, “former FBI director Louis Freeh — who Hunter tapped to work on Popoviciu’s defense — called the younger Biden in July 2015, just two hours before Hunter was scheduled to meet with his dad, according to emails from the first son’s abandoned laptop.” He also happens to have only one eye. The word “pizzagate” pops up next to his name, too.