‘Ultimate white privilege guy’ Hunter Biden may be hit with 10 criminal referrals: Comer
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer joked on Thursday that first son Hunter Biden is the “ultimate white privilege guy” after Democrats accused Republicans of appropriating the phrase “two-tier justice system” from the civil rights movement during a congressional hearing on Wednesday.
The Kentucky Republican also revealed that by the time his congressional panel completes its investigation into the Biden family, he expects to file “between six and 10 criminal referrals“ to the Justice Department related to President Biden’s son, including evidence that Hunter Biden violated the Mann Act – a federal law that makes it illegal to transport women across state lines for the purpose of prostitution.
“The Democrats kept saying, ‘Oh, we don’t have any evidence. You don’t have any evidence.’ Well, [Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene] showed them evidence,” Comer said during an interview with Fox Business on Thursday.
“She showed them evidence of the president’s son committing a crime, violating the Mann Act. She showed the plane tickets, she showed the pictures, she showed the evidence. You know, there’s no question he violated it. That’s another thing that he could have been charged with.”
Comer said that the evidence from Taylor Greene would help bring criminal charges against Hunter.
“You know, at the end of the day, when we wrap this report up, Hunter Biden’s gonna have between six and 10 criminal referrals,” the House Oversight Committee chairman declared.
Key quotes from FBI’s Biden family informant file
Excerpts from the FBI’s confidential informant file on the Bidens, describing conversations between the informant and officials from the Ukrainian gas company Burisma:
In late 2015 or early 2016, the informant met with Vadym Pozharsky, chief financial officer of Burisma, who bragged about having Hunter Biden on the board.
“They hired Hunter Biden to ‘protect us, through his dad, from all kinds or problems.’ “
In 2016, the informant met with Mykola Zlochevsky, head of Burisma, shortly after Joe Biden had made a public statement about Ukraine Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin being corrupt, and that he should be removed from office. Asked about Shokin’s investigation into Burisma:
“Zlochevsky replied something to the effect of, ‘Don’t worry Hunter will take care of all of those issues through his dad.’ [The informant] did not ask any further questions about what that specifically meant.“
The informant suggested Zlochevsky hire some attorney for $50,000 to ligate the case. Zlockevsky said:
“It costs 5 (million) to pay one Biden, and 5 (million) to another Biden.”
The informant asked Zlochevsky why he didn’t hire some normal US oil and gas advisers:
“Zlochevsky made some comment that although ‘Hunter Biden was stupid, and his dog was smarter,’ Zlochevsky needed to keep Hunter Biden (on the board) ‘so everything will be okay.’ “
The Bidens pressured him, Zlochevsky said.
“Zlochevsky stated he didn’t want to pay the Bidens and he was ‘pushed to pay’ them. . . . he [said] has many text messages and ‘recordings’ that show that he was coerced to make such payments.”
Asked whether Hunter Biden or Joe Biden told Zlochevsky he should retain Hunter Biden; Zlochevsky replied:
“They both did.”
Asked if he had any proof that he’d be “pressured” to pay the Bidens:
“Zlochevsky said he had a total of ‘17 recordings’ involving the Bidens; two of the recordings included Joe Biden, and the remaining 15 recordings only included Hunter Biden. [The informant] reiterated that, per Zlochevsky, these recordings evidence Zlochevsky was somehow coerced into paying the Bidens to ensure Ukraine Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin was fired.”
Asked about payments:
“Zlochevsky responded he did not send any funds directly to the ‘Big Guy’ (which [the informant] understood was a reference to Joe Biden). . . . Zlochevsky responded it would take them (investigators) 10 years to find the records (i.e. illicit payments to Joe Biden).”
The informant thought the story of the Burisma officials was credible.
“Given the pervasive necessity to bribe government officials in Ukraine and Russia, [the informant] did not perceive Pozharsky or Zlochevsky’s statements to be unusual, self-serving, or pretextual.”
“He violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act. He was money laundering. He was racketeering. He committed wire fraud. He violated the Mann Act. The list goes on and on and on,” Comer said. “But yet he gets a slap on the wrist and the Democrats want to talk about, ‘Oh, the two-tier system of justice is racist in America.’ Well, Hunter Biden is the ultimate white privilege guy here.”
Comer also said that the evidence is “pretty overwhelming” that the 80-year-old president was engaged in a $10 million bribery scheme alleged by an FBI informant in a bombshell document made public for the first time on Thursday.
“The evidence here is pretty overwhelming that Joe Biden did something for the CEO of Burisma. And what the form also says is that investigators would have a hard time – it would take them 10 years to determine how they got the money because of the way they transferred the money through so many different bank accounts,” Comer said.
The congressman went on to explain that the allegations in the informant file of the complexities involved in wiring the alleged bribe to the Bidens “fits a pattern” of what his committee has already uncovered “in Romania in China.”
“The business model was Hunter Biden would go in, he would tell these people, ‘If you need anything for the United States, if you want your foreign aid, if you want some type of sweetheart policy decision that would benefit you at the expense of the United States then you better pay me off because if you pay me off, you’re paying my dad off,’ and that’s how they operated, and more and more evidence comes forward every day to corroborate that,” Comer said.
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