By Kelly Laco, Executive Editor Of Politics For Dailymail.Com and Wills Robinson and Morgan Phillips, U.S. Political Reporter For Dailymail.Com
18:50 15 Jun 2023, updated 19:41 15 Jun 2023
- Earlier this week Sen. Chuck Grassley said the Burisma executive who allegedly paid Biden a bribe has kept 17 audio recordings as an ‘insurance policy’
Oversight Chair James Comer now claims he will soon obtain bank records showing the Biden family accepted upwards of $20 to $30 million from foreign nationals.
‘We have more bank records coming in going to exceed $10 million, this week. And I think we will get between $20 and 30 million,’ Comer, R-Ky., told Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo.
Earlier this week Sen. Chuck Grassley said the Burisma executive who allegedly paid Joe Biden a bribe has kept 17 audio recordings of phone calls as an ‘insurance policy.’
According to a ‘highly credible’ whistleblower, an internal FD-1023 memo created in 2020 based off information from a well-paid FBI informant apparently details a $5 million ‘arrangement’ for an exchange of money for policy decisions between then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national.
In a bombshell speech on the Senate floor Monday, the Iowa lawmaker cited what is believed to have been redacted in the FD-1023 file from the FBI on the alleged payment.
Grassley said the foreign national has 15 recordings of phone calls with Hunter and two with Joe.
He claims they were kept as an ‘insurance policy’ in case the foreign national was in a ‘tight spot.’
The form also indicates that then-Vice President Joe Biden may have been involved in Burisma employing Hunter Biden, Grassley continued.
After a long back-and-forth between the FBI and congressional Republicans, including a threat of holding the FBI director in contempt of Congress, Christopher Wray finally allowed the form to be viewed by lawmakers in a secure setting last week.
Last month Comer and his team released a ‘Second Records Memorandum’ that expands on information it received from subpoena returns as the committee continues its investigation into the Biden family’s business practices.
The memo specifically outlines ties to Romanian ‘influence peddling’ and a web of LLCs created while Biden was vice president. It also accuses Biden of a ‘lack of transparency’ regarding his family’s receipt of funds from China, which he has said are ‘not true.’
During Biden’s time as vice president, there were 20 companies affiliated with family members created intentionally with a ‘complicated corporate structure’ the memo states.
Hunter Biden and his associates, including Rob Walker, formed ‘at least 15’ of those companies, after Biden took the office of the vice president in 2009.
Several of those entities including Owasco P.C. – which Hunter owned – Hudson West III, LLC, Robinson Walker, LLC, and Rosemont Seneca Bohai, LLC, accepted funds from foreign companies ranging from $5,000 to $3 million, the committee said.
This specifically is ‘evidence of influence peddling and a correlation between Biden family and their business associates’ work, allege the Republicans who point to multiple anti-corruption speeches and meetings with Romanian leaders then-Vice President Biden engaged in between 2014 and 2015.
The Romanian transactions outlined in the bank records released by the committee were from Cypriot – a company controlled by Gabriel Popoviciu, who was at the time under investigation for criminal corruption in Romania and later convicted for bribery-related offenses.
Between 2015 and 2017, Robinson Walker, LLC received $3 million from Bladon Enterprises Limited – Popoviciu’s Cypriot company – which was then paid out to Biden family members in a total sum of over $1 million.
The first payments were received by the LLC just weeks after then-Vice President Biden hosted Romanian President Klaus Iohannis to the White House and they discussed anti-corruption policies.
Biden family accounts gained $1.038 million from Robinson Walker, LLC in a series of 17 deposits, 16 of which were made while Biden was still in the White House. The payments went to associate James Gilliar, Hunter Biden, Hallie Biden, Owasco LLC and an ‘unknown Biden bank account.’
‘It appears from bank records the Bidens were using Robinson Walker, LLC to conceal that the source of these payments was Popovici,’ the memo says.
According to emails from Hunter’s laptop obtained by DailyMail.com, Popoviciu hired the president’s son in 2016 as part of an influence campaign to persuade anti-corruption prosecutors to cut a deal or drop the case – all while his father was sitting vice president.
The memo also ‘serves as a response to misinformation’ Republicans say has been spread by President Biden, Democrats in Congress and their allies regarding the China-connected findings in a first memo released last month.
On March 16, Comer released a ‘First Bank Records Memorandum’ detailing a payment of $3 million in 2017 received by Biden family associate Rob Walker from a CEFC China Energy-linked firm State Energy HK Limited.
About $1 million of that money was then passed from Walker to several Biden family members – including Hallie Biden – in more than 15 incremental payments.
