House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is demanding answers from Joe Biden after new evidence of his family influence scheme came to the surface. Today Comer sent a letter to the White House Counsel’s office calling on President Biden to provide information about the $200,000 check he received from his brother, James Biden. 

Bank records obtained by the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability show that on March 1, 2018, Americore, a financially distressed rural hospital operator, wired a whopping $200,000 into James and Sara Biden’s personal bank account. On the very same day, James Biden wrote a $200,000 check from this same personal bank account directly to Joe Biden. 

The letter to White House Counsel Edward Siskel here.

MAKE NO MISTAKE: House Republicans will continue to follow the facts and evidence wherever they may lead as we continue our impeachment inquiry into President Biden. 

THE FACTS ABOUT EVIDENCE OF DIRECT PAYMENT TO JOE BIDEN (Courtesy of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Republicans): 

• Bank records obtained by the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability have revealed a $200,000 direct payment from James and Sara Biden to Joe Biden in the form of a personal check.
• This summer, Joe Biden said: “Where’s the money?” Well, the Oversight Committee found some.
• The Oversight Committee is still examining evidence subpoenaed from bank accounts belonging to Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, and James and Sara Biden – the brother and sister-in-law of the President. 
  • During the review, the Committee has identified a $200,000 direct payment from James and Sara Biden to Joe Biden in the form of a personal check.
• In 2018, James Biden received $600,000 in loans from Americore—a financially distressed and failing rural hospital operator.
• According to bankruptcy court documents, James Biden received these loans “based upon representations that his last name, ‘Biden,’ could ‘open doors’ and that he could obtain a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections.”
• On March 1, 2018, Americore wired a $200,000 loan into James and Sara Biden’s personal bank account – not their business bank account. On the same day, James Biden wrote a $200,000 check from this same personal bank account to Joe Biden.
• James Biden wrote this check to Joe Biden as a “loan repayment.” Americore —a failing company—loaned money to James Biden who then sent it to Joe Biden. Even if this was a personal loan repayment, it’s still troubling that Joe Biden’s ability to be paid back by his brother depended on the success of his family’s shady financial dealings.
• This check to Joe Biden raises new questions about how he personally benefited from his family’s shady influence peddling of his name and their access to him.
• Given this direct payment, there are several questions President Biden must immediately answer for the American people:
  • Does he have documents proving he lent such a large sum of money to his brother and what were the terms of such financial arrangement?
  • Did he have similar financial arrangements with other family members that led them to make similar large payments to him?
  • Did he know that the same day James Biden wrote him a check for $200,000, James Biden had just received a loan for the exact same amount from business dealings with a company that was in financial distress and failing?
• The House Oversight Committee will soon announce its next investigative actions and continue to follow the money.
• The bank records don’t end here. There is more to come.
• We will continue to deliver the transparency and accountability that the American people demand and deserve.