{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://comer.house.gov/2023/11/comer-issues-subpoenas-to-biden-family-associates", "Comer Issues Subpoenas to Biden Family & Associates", "2023-11-08", "2023", "2023-11", "Republican", "House", "KY", "James Comer", "C001108", "comer.house.gov", "comer", "https://comer.house.gov/media", "scraper", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\n\nContact:Austin Hacker\n\nWASHINGTON\u2014House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) today issued subpoenas to President Joe Biden\u2019s son, Hunter Biden, brother, James Biden, and Biden family associate, Rob Walker, to appear for depositions. Chairman Comer also requested additional members of the Biden family and their associates appear for transcribed interviews. Chairman Comer plans to send additional subpoenas and transcribed interview requests later this week.\n\n\u201cThe House Oversight Committee has followed the money and built a record of evidence revealing how Joe Biden knew, was involved, and benefited from his family\u2019s influence peddling schemes. Now, the House Oversight Committee is going to bring in members of the Biden family and their associates to question them on this record of evidence,\u201d said Chairman Comer. \u201cUnlike the many lies President Biden told the American people about his family\u2019s business schemes, bank records don\u2019t lie. These records reveal how the Bidens sold Joe Biden around to the world to benefit the Biden family, including Joe Biden himself, to the detriment of U.S. interests. The House Oversight Committee, along with the Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means, will continue to follow the facts and deliver the transparency and accountability that the American people demand and deserve.\u201d\n\nAccording to financial records obtained by the House Oversight Committee, the Biden family set up over 20 shell companies \u2013 most of which were created when Joe Biden was Vice President \u2013 in a concerted effort to hide payments from foreign adversaries. The Biden family, their business associates, and their companies received over $24 million from foreign nationals over the course of approximately five years \u2013 including millions of dollars from China, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, and Kazakhstan. The Bidens and their associates made complicated financial transactions to conceal the source and total amount of money they received from foreign nationals and companies.\n\nDevon Archer, a Biden family associate, testified that Joe Biden was \u201cthe brand\u201d the Bidens sold around the world and used to send signals of access, power and influence. Archer admitted that Joe Biden was put on speakerphone by Hunter Biden with his business associates over twenty times; dined with his family\u2019s foreign associates, including Russian and Kazakhstani oligarchs, and a Ukrainian executive being investigated for corruption; and had coffee with Hunter\u2019s Chinese business partner and went on to write his daughter a college letter of recommendation.\n\nRecently, the House Oversight Committee identified two checks labeled as \u201cloan repayments\u201d from James and Sara Biden to Joe Biden that were funded by laundered China money and domestic influence peddling schemes. After Chairman Comer called on President Biden to provide proof of loans to his brother, the White House refused.\n\n\u201cPresident Biden and his administration have continually changed their stories throughout this inquiry. You know who\u2019s been consistent? The IRS whistleblowers. With each piece of evidence we gather, their whistleblower accounts are corroborated. These subpoenas are a necessary next step as House Republicans deliver accountability for the American people,\u201d said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).\n\n\u201cThe American people are learning the truth about how the Biden Family sold access to Joe Biden and his political influence all around the world,\u201d said Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.). \u201cBased on the evidence uncovered by an ongoing Congressional investigation that includes the testimony of two brave IRS whistleblowers, we know President Biden lied when he said he had no knowledge of his son\u2019s business dealings; we know he was not only aware but involved; and it has now become abundantly clear that he in fact benefited. No one should be shielded from legal scrutiny based on their last name. Congress has a constitutional duty to conduct oversight to determine whether our nation\u2019s elected leaders have used public office to enrich themselves or their families, and more importantly, whether those public officials may be compromised by their family\u2019s foreign business dealings. Subpoenaing key members of the Biden family influence peddling operation is the next logical step in this investigation.\u201d\n\nBelow are the links for today\u2019s subpoenas and transcribed interview requests:\n\nHunter Biden\n\nJames Biden\n\nRob Walker\n\nSara Biden\n\nHallie Biden\n\nElizabeth Secundy\n\nMelissa Cohen\n\nTony Bobulinski\n\nRead More:\n\nBiden Family Investigation", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:01:09Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://comer.house.gov/2023/11/comer-issues-subpoenas-to-biden-family-associates"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.438615843653679, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}