The president’s daughter-in-law received tens of thousands of dollars from a Chinese energy company, according to bank statements released by Republican lawmakers
President Joe Biden’s daughter-in-law was one of three Biden family members to receive a share of a $3 million payout from a Chinese energy company, according to bank documents obtained by GOP lawmakers. Hallie Biden was previously thought to be unrelated to Joe and Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings.
Released Thursday by the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee, the recordings show that a Biden family associate named Rob Walker received a $3 million wire transfer from CEFC China Energy in March 2017, two months after Joe Biden’s vice presidency ended.
Over the next two months, Walker transferred more than $1 million to a company owned by James Gilliar, a business partner of Joe Biden’s son, Hunter. The same amount was split between Hallie Biden, Hunter Biden, James Biden (Joe Biden’s brother) and an unknown family account simply tagged Biden. Hallie Biden received the smaller share at $35,000.
Rob Walker also paid nearly $180,000 to himself and the Biden family while Joe Biden was vice president, records show. The money came from an unidentified foreign bank account.
Hallie Biden is the widow of the president’s late son, Beau, who died in 2015. After Beau’s death, she dated Hunter Biden and, according to files found on the president’s son’s laptop, helped her lover. get rid of a weapon in 2018.
The Republican-led committee said in a memo it would now focus on establishing “what services members of the Biden family have provided to the Chinese company”, Why “Hallie Biden – who has been publicly reported to work as a school counselor – received money,” and who is the account holder of the mysterious Biden account is.
Hunter Biden’s dealings with CEFC China Energy have previously been revealed in multiple leaks of his laptop – which was discovered in a Delaware computer repair shop and donated to the Trump campaign ahead of the 2020 election. of the president would have agreed to take $10 million per year of the Chinese company for “presentations”, while 10% of profit of a joint company set up with CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming stood to go to ” great “ a title that one of Hunter’s associates said refers to Joe Biden.
A White House spokesman accused the committee of “attack strangely” the Biden family, while a spokesperson for Hunter Biden acknowledged the payments, saying Hunter shared the funds with his family in “sincerity.”
The oversight committee, led by Rep. James Comer, also examines Biden family transactions marked as “suspicious” by the Treasury Department, and sales records for Hunter Biden’s paintings, which sold for up to $500,000 each to anonymous buyers in 2021.
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