大意：
今日美国报导
美国众议会问责与监管委员会，认定拜登儿子从一位商业伙伴
拿了130万美元，这位商业伙伴视为与中国有联系。
民主党党员认定拜登儿子跟任何其他政府官员都没有关连。
这些钱拿到的时间是2015年到2017年
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House GOP: Hunter Biden, others got $1.3M from business
associate linked to China
House Republicans are investigating President Joe Biden
and his family for alleged influence peddling, which
Democrats dismiss as hyper-partisan attacks.Bart Jansen
from USA TODAY
The Oversight and Accountability Committee identified
$1.3 million paid to Hunter Biden, others.
The panel said payments also went to James and Hallie
Biden, and companies associated with Bidens.
Democrats have dismissed the inquiry as a
hyper-partisan attack aimed at President Joe Biden.
WASHINGTON – House Republicans announced Thursday
that President Joe Biden’s relatives received a combined
$1.3 million from a business associate with links to China,
the latest salvo in an investigation the Biden administration
has dismissed as politically motivated.
Hunter Biden, the president’s son; James Biden,
the president’s brother; Hallie Biden, the president’s
daughter-in-law; and a fourth unnamed Biden received the
payments from business associate Rob Walker, according to
the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. The money
was paid out after Walker received a $3 million wire
transfer from a Chinese company, according to the panel.
“It is unclear what services were provided to obtain this
exorbitant amount of money,” said the chairman, Rep. James
Comer, R-Ky.
Comer said he released the memo in response to criticism
from the top Democrat on the panel, Rep. Jamie Raskin of
Maryland, who said the panel was prying into private lives
of Biden family business associates by subpoenaing banking
records.
A White House spokesman, Ian Sams, slammed the "bizarre"
release. Previously, the White House had dismissed the
inquiries into Hunter Biden as hyper partisan and politically
motivated.
Here’s where the investigation stands:
Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chairman of the House Oversight and
Accountability Committee, speaks at a media event at the
National Press Club on Jan. 30, 2023 in Washington, D.C.
What did Comer release?
Comer released figures from banking records from 2015 to 2017,
from Walker’s account to several accounts of President Biden’s
relatives, from a period when he was vice president until just
after he left the Obama administration.
The release doesn't detail the full $1.3 million during that
time period.
But the payments ranged from $5,000 to $300,000, either to Biden
relatives or to companies linked to them such as Owasco PC, First
Clearing LLC, JBBSR Inc. and RSTP II LLC.
When were the payments made?
Comer’s timeline for payments while Joe Biden was vice president:
Nov. 5, 2015, Walker received a wire transfer of $179,837 from an
account the committee continues to investigate.
Nov. 6, 2015, Walker transferred $59,900 to his personal checking
account.
Nov. 9, 2015, Walker wired $59,900 from his personal checking
account to Hunter Biden.
Under Comer’s timeline, the bulk of the payments were made after
Joe Biden left the vice presidency:
March 1, 2017, State Energy HK Limited, a Chinese energy company,
wired $3 million to Robinson Walker LLC. At the time, the account
had a balance of $159,000.
March 2, 2017, Walker wired nearly $1.1 million to European Energy
and Infrastructure Group in Abu Dhabi. Comer said the company is
linked to James Gilliar, a business partner of Hunter Biden.
March 6 and 13, April 21 and May 17: Walker wires a combined $70,000
to an unnamed Biden.
March 20, 2017, Walker wires $25,000 to Hallie Biden.
March 27 and 31 and April 18, 2017, Walker wires a combined $500,000
to Owasco.
March 29, 2017, Walker wires First Clearing $100,000.
April 3, 20 and 24 and May 18, 2017, Walker wires JBBSR a combined
$360,000
April 14, 2017, Walker wires $10,692 to RSTP.
The committee also found a $10,000 payment to Hallie Biden on
Feb. 13, 2017 – before the Chinese wire transfer. Hunter Biden began
dating Hallie, the widow of his brother Beau, in 2016, according to a
New Yorker profile. The two exchanged payments during this period,
according to emails on a Hunter Biden laptop turned over to the FBI.
“After a disgusting attack lamenting that the president’s deceased
son Beau was never prosecuted while he was alive, Congressman Comer
has now decided to go after Beau’s widow," said Sams, the White House
spokesman. "Instead of bizarrely attacking the president’s family,
perhaps House Republicans should focus on working with the president
to deliver results for American families on important priorities like
lowering costs and strengthening health care.”
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., the ranking member of the House Oversight and
Accountability Committee, defends the policies of work-from-home rules
and telework for federal workers during the COVID-19 emergency as the new
Republican majority introduces a bill to limit them, in the House Rules
Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 30, 2023.
How did Democrats on the panel respond?
Raskin, the top Democrat on the committee, said after four years of
investigations in the House and Senate into Hunter Biden, Republicans
found no conection to the president or any other government official.
"It must be frustrating to my GOP colleagues to have even Fox News
commentators rolling their eyes about this tiresome fishing expedition,
but I want to stress that there always remains the possibility of doing
serious bipartisan legislative oversight work together," Raskin said.
Hunter Biden
What comes next?
The release Thursday was part of wide-ranging investigations by House
Republicans into Joe Biden and his relatives, which Democrats dismissed
as politically motivated.
Comer has subpoenaed banking records linked to Hunter and James Biden
and others. Committee investigators will review those Treasury Department
reports to see where they lead.
In response to the banking subpoena, Raskin criticized committee
Republicans for dropping a demand for financial records from former
President Donald Trump's longtime accounting firm, Mazars USA.
“While I concur that the ethics and disclosure laws governing
Executive Branch officials demand reform, as the actions of the
Trump Administration have demonstrated, the actions you have taken
are inconsistent with a good faith interest in this matter,"
Raskin said.