Headline Roundup • March 19th, 2023
House GOP Examines $1M In China-Linked Payments To Biden Family
Summary from the AllSides News Team
On Thursday, the House Oversight Committee published a memo alleging Hunter Biden and two other family members received over $1 million indirectly from a Chinese company.
The Details: The records were obtained after a subpoena of Bank of America by committee chairman James Comer (R-KY). The payments came from accounts related to Rob Walker, Hunter’s business associate, and their Chinese business ventures in 2017. A day before the funds were wired from Walker’s account, he received a $3 million payment from Chinese company, State Energy HK Limited. Hunter Biden’s legal team stresses that the payments were made to family members, not the president himself.
For Context: The probe is led by Republicans, who won back a House majority in November.
Key Quotes: Rep. Comer said, “We will continue to follow the money trail and facts to determine if President Biden is compromised by his family’s business schemes and if there is a national security threat.” A spokesperson for Hunter Biden’s legal team called the probe a “baseless right-wing conspiracy”, and said Hunter and his partners were “seeking a joint venture with a privately-owned, legitimate energy company in China.”
How The Media Covered It: Despite being covered by some of the biggest outlets, the story was not widely covered across the spectrum. Fox News went more in-depth on Comer’s comments, while CNN did the same for the comments from Democratic representatives. Newsweek compared the payments to those received by business dealings of Former President Donald Trump
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House Oversight Republicans said in a new memo issued Thursday that members of President Joe Biden’s family received just over $1 million indirectly from a Chinese company – the committee’s latest disclosure in its investigation into the Biden family’s business dealings.
The memo, which representatives for the White House and Hunter Biden’s legal team quickly dismissed, does not provide any evidence tying the payments directly to President Joe Biden, which Republicans have said is the purpose of their investigation.
The memo names Hallie Biden, the widow of the president’s son...
Since winning back the House majority, Republican lawmakers have jumped at the chance to target the Biden family over their alleged foreign transactions, echoing concerns similar to the ones that have been raised about the Trump family.
On Thursday, the GOP chairman of the House Oversight Committee published a memo alleging that President Joe Biden's son Hunter and at least two other relatives received just over $1 million from a Chinese company through indirect payments.
The latest developments surrounding the Biden family are not the first time a first family has been investigated by the...
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Members of the Biden family received more than $1 million in payments from accounts related to Hunter Biden’s business associate Rob Walker and their Chinese business ventures in 2017, subpoenaed financial records obtained by the House Oversight Committee reveal.
Walker worked with Hunter Biden, President Biden's brother Jim, their business associate James Gilliar and Tony Bobulinksi in a joint-venture called Sinohawk Holdings, which was meant to be a partnership with Chinese energy firm CEFC.
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