Catherine Rusoff
Washington – The Republican leaders of the three House committees leading the President Biden’s impeachment inquiry sent criminal referrals to the Justice Department on Wednesday, recommending charges against Hunter Biden and James Biden for making false statements to Congress.
The Republican chairmen of the Judiciary, Oversight and Ways and Means panels alleged that lies by Hunter Biden, the president’s son, and James Biden, his brother, implicate Mr. Biden’s role in trade negotiations while he was vice president.
The president has denied any wrongdoing and the House GOP investigation has not yet produced any evidence of misconduct by Biden. The Justice Department declined to comment on the referrals.
“Hunter Biden and James Biden made demonstrably false statements to the Oversight Committee and the Judiciary Committee about key aspects of the impeachment inquiry in what appears to be a conscious effort to prevent the investigation from focusing on President Joe Biden,” said President Joe Biden. Oversight Committee, James Comer. , Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith wrote in a Letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Special Counsel David Weiss.
Weiss was named special counsel last August to oversee the Justice Department’s investigation into Hunter Biden. He filed tax and gun charges against the president’s son, and Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty. A trial in the case arising from Hunter Biden’s purchase of a firearm while he was a drug user started this week in Delaware.
The Republicans’ criminal references arose from a transcribed interview the lawmakers conducted with James Biden on Feb. 21 and a deposition with Hunter Biden on Feb. 28.
Republicans alleged that Hunter Biden “falsely distanced himself” from a company called Rosemont Seneca Bohai, LLC, and lied about whether he held positions there. They said the committees received documents showing Hunter Biden was the company’s corporate secretary. Republicans also alleged that the president’s son told lawmakers a “completely fictitious account” of text messages he sent to a Chinese business partner, mentioning that his father was present with him at the time the messages were written.
The referral to the president’s brother stems from his alleged testimony that Biden did not meet with one of Hunter Biden’s business partners in 2017, which Republicans alleged was contradicted by the business partner, Tony Bobulinski, as well as Hunter Biden .
“The nature of these false statements does not go unnoticed by the Committees: each case implicates Joe Biden’s knowledge and role in his family’s influence peddling,” Comer, Jordan and Smith wrote.
They claimed that the allegedly false testimony is part of a “conscious and calculated effort to isolate Joe Biden from the duly authorized impeachment inquiry.”
Republicans have been investigating alleged wrongdoing by the president and his family for more than a year, but their impeachment inquiry, which the GOP-led House voted to formalize in December, has all but stalled.
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