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Nine Biden family members who allegedly got foreign money
identified by House GOP
By Steven Nelson, NYPost
May 10, 2023 10:24am Updated
WASHINGTON — House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer identified nine members of President Biden’s family Wednesday who allegedly received foreign income after teasing the bombshell for weeks.
“Since you asked, I’ll tell you,” Comer (R-Ky.) told a rapt room of reporters at the Capitol after laying out new bank record evidence showing first son Hunter Biden received $1 million from a corrupt Romanian businessman while his dad was vice president.
“Joe Biden’s son [Hunter], Joe Biden’s brother [James], Joe Biden’s brother’s wife [Sara], Hunter Biden’s girlfriend or Beau Biden’s widow [Hallie], however, you want to write that, Hunter Biden’s ex-wife [Kathleen Buhle], Hunter Biden’s current wife [Melissa Cohen], and three children of the president’s son and the president’s brother,” Comer said.
The chairman seemed to indicate that only one of Biden’s grandchildren and two of his brother’s children got the foreign funds.
“We’re talking about grandchil — a grandchild,” Comer said at the press conference. “That’s odd, most people that work hard every day’s grandchild doesn’t get a wire from a foreign national.”
James Biden has three children, including daughter Caroline, who pleaded guilty in 2018 to making over $100,000 in charges on a stolen credit card.
She should run for President - she could fix America's budget problems in a hurry.
Emails from Hunter’s abandoned laptop show Caroline turned up her nose at an $85,000 job offer that would have allowed her to serve her probationary period near her beloved cousin in California.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer identified nine members of President Biden’s family who allegedly received foreign income.
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Hunter Biden was one of the Biden family members identified by Comer.
Caroline’s siblings are James Biden Jr. and Nicholas Biden.
The president’s other brother, Frank Biden, has two children, but Comer did not mention him and it’s unclear why Frank’s daughters, who reportedly work for NBC and as a nurse practitioner, would be involved.
A Comer aide told The Post it is possible that additional Biden relatives received foreign money.
Bank records indicate $80,000 transferred from Romanian businessman Gabriel Popoviciu from 2015 to 2017 went to accounts identified only by the name “Biden,” for example — and a March memo from the committee indicated $70,000 from Chinese company CEFC China Energy did as well.
Hunter Biden and first brother James Biden were well-known for years for seeking millions from nations including China, Mexico, Romania, Russia and Ukraine — but the involvement of other family members was only more recently alleged by Comer.
The Oversight Committee issued a memo on Wednesday morning saying that Hallie Biden appears to have received $10,000 in early 2017 from Popoviciu — before receiving another $25,000 later that year as part of Hunter and James Biden’s partnership with CEFC China Energy.
The White House did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
No kidding! They are probably trying to figure out how they can accidentally drop a bomb on the NY Post.
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Rep. George Santos charged with fraud, money laundering,
using donor funds on designer duds
By Priscilla DeGregory and Kyle Schnitzer, NYPost
May 10, 2023 9:28am Updated
Lying Long Island Rep. George Santos surrendered Wednesday as federal prosecutors revealed the charges against him — including that he embezzled $50,000 in campaign money to buy designer clothing and pay personal expenses.
Santos, 34, is also accused of cheating his way to COVID unemployment benefits and lying to Congress on financial disclosure forms in which he claimed to be a millionaire, according to the 13-count indictment against him.
He pleaded not guilty at his first appearance in Central Islip federal court and was released on $500,000 bond.
The openly gay GOP lawmaker — who was elected Nov. 8 to represent New York’s 3rd District in Long Island and Queens — made headlines last year after copping to elaborate lies about his education, work experience, and family history before he was voted in. Santos has since been deemed a pariah by other New York Republicans — many of whom have called for him to step down.
He was arraigned Wednesday afternoon on a 13-count indictment charging him with seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds and two counts of making materially false statements to the House of Representatives.
“This indictment seeks to hold Santos accountable for various alleged fraudulent schemes and brazen misrepresentations,” said US Attorney Breon Peace in a statement.
Rep. George Santos is facing fraud and money laundering charges.
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Prosecutors accuse Santos of “relying on repeated dishonesty and deception to ascend to the halls of Congress and enrich himself,” Peace said.
“He used political contributions to line his pockets, unlawfully applied for unemployment benefits that should have gone to New Yorkers who had lost their jobs due to the pandemic and lied to the House of Representatives,” Peace continued.
According to the indictment, Santos allegedly solicited two separate payments of $25,000 from two people under the pretense that the money would be used for TV advertisements and for other campaign costs in the 2022 race.
But instead, Santos used the funds, which were donated in October 2022, “for his personal benefit, including to make cash withdrawals, personal purchases of luxury designer clothing, credit card payments, a car payment, payments on personal debts, and one or more bank transfers to [Santos’] personal associates,” the filing charges.
Santos allegedly tricked a Queens-based political consultant, “Person 1,” into helping him secure the campaign contributions from the two donors. He told the consultant in a Sept. 12, 2022, text message that “Company 1” — which received the contributions — “existed ‘just to help this race’ and there were ‘no limits'” to the number of contributions he was allowed to receive, the indictment states.
So “Person 1” told “Contributor 1” on Oct. 20 that the money would be spent “to get our advertising up on TV,” the court papers claim.
On Oct. 26, “in reliance upon these emails and text messages, ‘Contributor 1′” transferred $25,000 to be wired to “Company 1,” the indictment states.
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