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Hunter Biden: El Tesoro dará a la Supervisión de la Cámara acceso a los informes de actividades sospechosas, dice Comer
Por Brooke Singman
Publicado el 14 de marzo de 2023
El Departamento del Tesoro está dando a la Comisión de Supervisión de la Cámara de Representantes acceso a los informes de actividades sospechosas (SAR) relacionados con Hunter Biden y los negocios en el extranjero de la familia Biden , dijo el martes el presidente James Comer.
Comer, republicano de Kentucky, escribió en enero a la secretaria del Tesoro, Janet Yellen, solicitando información sobre las transacciones comerciales de la familia Biden y sus asociados señaladas por los bancos estadounidenses. Esta semana, la agencia informó a la comisión de que facilitará a los legisladores "acceso a puerta cerrada" a los informes solicitados.
"After two months of dragging their feet, the Treasury Department is finally providing us with access to the suspicious activity reports for the Biden family and their associates’ business transactions," Comer said. "It should never have taken us threatening to hold a hearing and conduct a transcribed interview with an official under the penalty of perjury for Treasury to finally accommodate part of our request."
Hunter Biden ha estado bajo investigación federal desde 2018 por sus asuntos fiscales, una investigación que se basó, en parte, en informes de actividad sospechosa sobre algunas transacciones en el extranjero. Esos informes de actividad sospechosa se referían a fondos procedentes de "China y otras naciones extranjeras", dijeron fuentes familiarizadas con la investigación a Fox News en 2020.
El portátil deHunter Biden estuvo en el centro de una campaña de censura de las Grandes Tecnologías en 2020. Kevin Reuters)
Comer has been pressing Treasury for weeks to comply with his request for information. In February, Comer contacted the Treasury Department again to discuss the agency’s "lack of accommodations."
Earlier this month, Comer called on Treasury Department official Jonathan Davidson, who serves as assistant secretary for legislative affairs, to appear before the committee for a transcribed interview "to explain why" the agency had not provided the requested information.
Now that Treasury has agreed to provide access, Davidson’s interview has been postponed, Comer said.
Comer noted that for more than 20 years, Congress "has had access to these reports but the Biden administration changed the rules out of the blue to restrict our ability to conduct oversight."
But earlier this month, Davidson wrote a letter to Comer, obtained by Fox News Digital, which laid out the Treasury Department's process to ensure that the "law enforcement sensitive material is identified and handled appropriately," but said the process was "well underway" to respond to the committee's request.
"The Department has been working to complete all necessary review, including consultation with law enforcement agencies," Davidson wrote in the March 3 letter to Comer. "These processes ensure that sensitive material extraneous to the Committee’s inquiry is not inadvertently disclosed and that law enforcement sensitive material is identified and handled appropriately."
Davidson explained that "review of law enforcement sensitive materials is a standard aspect of the process of providing Congress with access to BSA-protected information."
"All of these processes—which are designed to ensure proper protection of potential or ongoing investigations and other law enforcement interests—are already well underway for your request, but they take time," Davidson wrote. "The Department is working to complete these processes as soon as possible and consistent with the timeframes for processing similar requests in the past, including requests received from committee chairs in the prior Congress that took months to complete."
El representante James Comer, republicano de Kentucky y presidente del Comité de Supervisión y Responsabilidad de la Cámara de Representantes, habla durante una audiencia en Washington, D.C., el miércoles 8 de febrero de 2023. (Fotógrafo: Anna Rose Layden/Bloomberg vía Getty Images)
The House Oversight Committee has already collected documents and records relating to the Biden family’s business dealings. Comer subpoenaed Bank of America for more than a decade of financial records belonging to three of Hunter Biden’s business associates. One of the associates’ records being turned over to the committee belong to Rob Walker.
Walker trabajó con Hunter Biden , el hermano del presidente Biden, Jim, su socio James Gilliar y Tony Bobulinksi en una empresa conjunta llamada Sinohawk Holdings, que pretendía ser una asociación con la empresa energética china CEFC.
"Según los documentos bancarios que ya hemos obtenido, sabemos que una empresa propiedad de un socio de Biden recibió una transferencia de 3 millones de dólares de una empresa energética china dos meses después de que Joe Biden dejara la vicepresidencia", declaró Comer el martes. "Poco después, cientos de miles de dólares en pagos fueron a parar a miembros de la familia Biden ".
La secretaria del Tesoro de EEUU, Janet Yellen, el 19 de julio de 2022. Chung Sung-Jun/Pool vía REUTERS (Chung Sung-Jun/Pool vía REUTERS)
Comer vowed to "continue to use bank documents and suspicious activity reports to follow the money trail to determine the extent of the Biden family’s business schemes, if Joe Biden is compromised by these deals, and if there is a national security threat."
Comer warned. "If Treasury tries to stonewall our investigation again, we will continue to use tools at our disposal to compel compliance."
Fox News first reported in 2020 that the federal investigation into Hunter Biden’s "tax affairs" began amid the discovery of SARs regarding funds from "China and other foreign nations."
El Presidente Biden y su hijo, Hunter Biden , bajan del Air Force One, el sábado 4 de febrero de 2023, en la Base de la Guardia Nacional Aérea de Hancock Field en Siracusa, Nueva York. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
At the time, a Treasury Department official, who did not comment on the investigation, told Fox News that SARs are filed by financial institutions "if there is something out of the ordinary about a particular transaction."
Fox News informó por primera vez de la existencia de algún tipo de investigación que implicaba a Hunter Biden en octubre de 2020, antes de las últimas elecciones presidenciales. Se supo entonces que el FBI había citado al ordenador portátil supuestamente perteneciente a Hunter Biden en el curso de una investigación existente sobre blanqueo de dinero.
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Hunter Biden confirmed the investigation into his "tax affairs" in December 2020, after his father was elected president.
The investigation is being led by Trump-appointed Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss.
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