The Treasury Department reversed course and decided to fork over that huge stack of Suspicious Activity Reports related to Biden family finances. House watchdogs on the Oversight Committee had to threaten Janet Yellen with a transcribed interview but they finally got their teeth into what promises to be a juicy bone from the Biden family skeleton closet.
Treasury caves to Congress
On Tuesday, March 14, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer made the announcement that the Treasury Department has agreed to finally let them review those suspicious activity reports relating to the entire Biden family. Each and every one is a red flag of potential illegal activity. Banks turn them in to the feds to investigate for things like money laundering and tax evasion.
This stack of up to 200 such reports, New York Post reports, “may contain new bombshells.” The source for the Biden family’s “murky foreign income” may be revealed. We already know about millions “reaped” by Hunter Biden and Joe’s brother James Biden, “in countries where their powerful relative held sway.”
Kentucky lawmaker James Comer nearly fell out of his chair. “After two months of dragging their feet, the Treasury Department is finally providing us with access to the suspicious activity reports for the Biden family and their associates’ business transactions.”
Cover-up breaks down as Biden Treasury gives House GOP access to Biden family suspicious activity reports https://t.co/bgx37M6fBA via @nypost
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) March 14, 2023
He had to pull teeth, politically, for those records. Subpoenas are something which most politicos manage to successfully ignore.
“It should never have taken us threatening to hold a hearing and conduct a transcribed interview with an official under the penalty of perjury for Treasury to finally accommodate part of our request.” It shouldn’t have, but it did. Before the Biden regime, such requests were standard and never an issue.
The American public finally gets to see what it is they were trying so hard to hide. “For over 20 years, Congress had access to these reports but the Biden administration changed the rules out of the blue to restrict our ability to conduct oversight,” Comer notes.
Flesh out details
If we didn’t get enough “flesh” out of Hunter Biden’s laptop, the watchdogs on the congressional committee have some fresh meat to devour. The way the Post puts it, the “reports, which Comer requested last year when he was ranking member of the committee, and again in January, are likely to flesh out details in the money trail involving the Biden family’s relationships in China, Russia, Ukraine and potentially other countries.”
They won’t simply be sending over some copies, the “Treasury Department is requiring committee members and staff to review the material in camera — i.e., privately.” That’s strange, the Post points out, because “it’s unclear what if any ground rules would prevent the rapid dissemination of key details.”
“According to bank documents we’ve already obtained,” Comer teases, “we know one company owned by a Biden associate received a $3 million wire from a Chinese energy company two months after Joe Biden left the vice presidency.” That’s for starters. “Soon after, hundreds of thousands of dollars in payouts went to members of the Biden family.” But wait, there’s more!
The 1st ‘suspicious activity report’ shows China sent money to 3 Bidens. Let’s take bets on how many more “sUsPiCiOuS aCtIvItY rEpOrTs” are out working their way through system!! pic.twitter.com/gO6brnfmkM
— Penny Calls a Lid 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 (@PSwal807) March 14, 2023
“Late Monday, Comer confirmed that he had received the Bank of America records for one Hunter Biden associate, a former federal official named John Robinson ‘Rob‘ Walker.” They “discovered that [Walker] got a $3 million wire two months after Joe Biden left office [as vice president in 2017], and then the very next day, from that account, they started wiring money to Biden family members, plural.” That’s one thing Treasury was covering up.
There “were three different Biden family members that received a cut from that $3 million, including a new Biden family member that’s never before been included in any of these investigations.” Comer has some sharply pointed questions for the next round of hearings.
“So our question is, what exactly did they do to receive that money? What was the purpose of that $3 million wire?” It’s not like the family company is a factory which produces goods. The only commodity the Bidens have to peddle is “influence.” This should be a big wake up call for everyone in government. What applies to Janet Yellen applies to them all. “If Treasury tries to stonewall our investigation again, we will continue to use tools at our disposal to compel compliance.“
