House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) on Tuesday requested Serbian politician Vuk Jeremić provide information on the Biden family’s business dealing with CEFC China Energy Co.
The request represents Comer’s ramped up efforts to ascertain whether President Joe Biden is compromised by the Chinese Communist Party to design legislation preventing influence peddling.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-KY) is seen in front of a newspaper page with a photograph of Hunter Biden and his father President Joe Biden during the Protecting Speech from Government Interference and Social Media hearing with former Twitter employees before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability at the Rayburn House Office Building on Wednesday February 08, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
If Jeremić cooperates with Comer’s demand, the House Oversight Committee would have key data points further linking the Biden family to CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming, who paid Hunter a $1 million retainer fee for legal services in 2017. Hunter also received a large diamond from Ye worth an estimated $80,000 in February 2017.
According to the “Laptop from Hell,” Hunter and James had negotiated a deal with CEFC whereby Joe Biden (Big Guy) would receive a ten percent equity stake in the joint venture with CEFC. Hunter’s former business partner Tony Bobulinski has confirmed the “Big Guy” is Joe Biden.
Joe Biden has repeatedly denied being involved in the family business.
In a letter to Jeremić, the former diplomat who served as the president of the United Nations General Assembly from 2012 to 2013 and as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia from 2007 to 2012, Comer asked for information related to Hunter’s dealings with CEFC in which a court document redacted a name Comer believes could be Hunter Biden’s.
The sought information pertains to a past court proceeding related to Hunter’s former business partner Patrick Ho, former head of CEFC, who was convicted of international bribery and money laundering in 2018.
“The Committee is investigating whether President Biden knew of or was involved in certain foreign business ventures that included the same CEFC officials who participated in the schemes described in United States v. Patrick Ho,” Comer wrote Jeremić. “Evidence shows that you developed a business relationship with Hunter Biden and his associates and communicated with them about Chairman Ye and CEFC.”
“Based upon your trial testimony, the Committee believes that you possess communications with CEFC employees regarding Hunter Biden,” Comer wrote. “For instance, you testified about an email — between you and Patrick Ho — where you were organizing a dinner between Chairman Ye and another person in Washington, D.C. on December 6, 2015.”
“Outside the presence of the jury, the DOJ prosecutor requested the court redact the name of the individual who you were ‘willing to bring to a dinner with the [C]hairman Mr. Ye’ because it ‘could introduce a political dimension to this case that we [DOJ] don’t think is worth dealing with,'” Comer quoted Jeremic’s previous statement to authorities.
Comer has also requested Hunter and James Biden turn over any communications or bank records with Jeremić. While James has apparently not responded, Hunter denied Comer’s request, citing no legislative bases for the request.
In February, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) stated that whistleblowers have told him FBI “point man” Timothy Thibault “improperly” “shut down” a probe into Hunter’s laptop that is likely unrelated to the ongoing criminal probe concerning reported tax fraud by the president’s son.
It is unknown if Justice Department prosecutors will have the opportunity to charge Hunter with any alleged crimes with “voluminous evidence” found on the laptop.
In 2018 and 2020, Breitbart Senior Contributor and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer published Secret Empires and Profiles in Corruption. Each book hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and exposed how Hunter Biden and Joe Biden flew aboard Air Force Two in 2013 to China before Hunter’s firm inked a $1.5 billion deal with a subsidiary of the Chinese government’s Bank of China less than two weeks after the trip. Schweizer’s work also uncovered the Biden family’s other vast and lucrative foreign deals and cronyism.
Breitbart Political Editor Emma-Jo Morris’s investigative work at the New York Post on the Hunter Biden “laptop from Hell” also captured international headlines when she, along with Miranda Devine, revealed that Joe Biden was intimately involved in Hunter’s businesses, appearing even to have a 10 percent stake in a company the scion formed with officials at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party.
Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.