Foreign nationals gave Biden family and associates over $17M, IRS whistleblower claims

IRS special agent Joseph Ziegler told the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday that Hunter Biden’s overseas influence peddling operations have enriched the First Family and their business associates to the tune of more than $17 million. 

The funds were raked in through various multimillion-dollar payments made by foreign nationals to Biden family-linked corporations between 2014 to 2019. 

The Biden family’s business dealings involved entities in Ukraine, Romania and China. Roughly half of the $17 million in payments went to first son Hunter Biden, according to the IRS whistleblower, who was unmasked for the first time Wednesday during his congressional testimony. 

“This brings the total amount of foreign income streams received to approximately $17 million, correct?” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) asked Ziegler during Wednesday’s hearing. 

“That is correct,” Ziegler confirmed.

“The purpose of documenting the foreign sources is part of a normal international tax investigation,” Ziegler said. “We have to figure out where the money is coming from.”

Ziegler and IRS agent Gary Shapley came forward to the House Ways and Means Committee earlier this summer alleging a high-level coverup in the government’s five-year-long investigation into tax and gun crimes allegedly committed by President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. 

In Ziegler’s testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee in June he explained that over the course of the investigation it was discovered that Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings Limited paid “everyone involved” approximately $7.3 million. 

Approximate total transfers going to the Biden family and associates from their dealings in Romania came out to about $3.1 million, according to Ziegler, and total transfers to Hunter Biden’s businesses from the Chinese firm CEFC came out to about $6.9 million. 

“So that gives you $17.3 million,” Ziegler testified in June. 

Comer argued Wednesday that the foreign payments were part of an “influence-peddling scheme to enrich the Bidens.”

“Despite creating many companies after the vice president took office, the Biden family used associates companies to receive millions of dollars from foreign companies in China, Ukraine and Romania after foreign companies sent money to business associates companies,” the Kentucky Republican said.

“The Bidens then received incremental payments over time to various different bank accounts. These complicated financial transactions were used deliberately to conceal the source of funds and total amounts. No normal business operates like this.”

Last month, Comer teased that bank records his committee expects to obtain will reveal that the Biden family has accepted as much as $30 million from foreign entities.

“We have more bank records coming in, we’re going to exceed $10 million this week. And I think we’ll get up to between $20 and 30 million,” Comer told Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo. 

Comer has identified nine members of the Biden clan — including first son Hunter Biden, the president’s brother James Biden, his brother’s wife, Sara Biden, the widow of the president’s late son, Hallie Biden, Hunter’s current wife, Melissa Cohen Biden, and Hunter’s ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle — as having allegedly received foreign income.