Treasury blocks House Oversight committee from Hunter Biden records: Refuses to provide House Republicans any suspicious activity reports it may have on foreign banking and other business transactions

Shortly after the new Congress was seated, Congressman James Comer, Chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, wrote to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen with a records request. He wanted his committee to review any “suspicious activity reports” the Treasury might have related to Hunter Biden’s financial transactions over the years. This was meant to be part of the “Biden Incorporated” investigations that recently began. Yesterday, the Treasury’s Legislative Affairs chief, Jonathan Davidson, responded to Comer, telling him to basically go pound sand. His letter wasn’t quite that blunt, but he declined to provide any records, saying that the Treasury would need to know more details about why the committee would need such “highly sensitive” information. His justification for declining the request doesn’t appear to be very substantial, however. (Yahoo News)

The US Treasury Department refused Wednesday to provide House Republicans any suspicious activity reports it may have on foreign banking and other business transactions by Hunter Biden and other members of President Joe Biden’s family.
Jonathan Davidson, Treasury’s legislative affairs chief, told House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer in a letter that he needs more details about why the panel is seeking such “highly sensitive” information.
Comer wrote on Jan. 11 to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen for any so-called suspicious activity reports — used by banks to flag what they deem dubiously large transactions — as part of his panel’s probes into overseas business and other dealings by the president’s son.

The response may have come from Jonathan Davidson, but you can rest assured that he wouldn’t make that sort of decision without Janet Yellen signing off on it. And it’s a safe bet that the President was flagged in advance as well.

It’s also fairly obvious that the Treasury was scrambling to come up with some sort of rationale to block the Oversight committee from conducting, well… oversight. The best they were able to come up with was a claim that the “improper disclosure” of those types of records might “undermine the executive branch’s conduct of law enforcement, intelligence, and national security activities.”

I’m sorry, but… what? What are they talking about? The records in question involve Hunter Biden. He holds no elected office and has no responsibilities involving law enforcement, the intelligence community, or anything to do with national security. (Aside from possibly having undermined national security with some of his shady deals.)

Or at least his records shouldn’t involve anything like that unless some of the transactions showed significant payments to his father. Is that what Yellen is sitting on? If any potential records include all of the data related to suspiciously large transactions, it might potentially involve that joint bank account that Hunter and Joe Biden shared, as testified to by one of Hunter’s business partners.

The very existence of that account should have been enough to raise questions. It’s not all that unusual for parents to open a joint account with a minor child, particularly if they’re trying to help them build up a college tuition fund. But how many grown men maintain and actively use a joint account with one of their parents after they have supposedly grown up and set out in the world on their own? A shared account is probably a useful way to obfuscate precisely who is depositing and withdrawing funds. (But why would Hunter Biden need to do that, right?)

This entire exchange stinks on ice. There has been a growing body of evidence, primarily from Hunter’s infamous laptop from hell, that he was involved in very questionable deals in both Ukraine and China. And “the Big Guy” very likely was getting a cut of the action. Hunter’s bank records could provide valuable insight into precisely what was going on. And the Oversight Committee should have all of those records that were requested.

h/t Liz - had it all laid out here months ago in one comprehensive easy to read post.

here’s a copy so you won’t have to scroll up to OP:

1/27/2023, 1:00:48 PM · 28 of 43
Liz to All

Lawsuit: DOJ Concealing Records of Biden Family Payoffs with China and Russia

<><>In June 2020, SS records showed that, for the first 5 1/2 years of the Obama/Biden admin,
<><>Hunter Biden traveled extensively while receiving a tax paid Secret Service protective detail.
<><>During that time period, Hunter Biden took 411 separate domestic and international flights,
<><>he went to 29 different foreign countries.
<><>Hunter visited China five times.
<><>Judicial Watch is suing DHS for SS records on Hunter Biden’s travel and security costs,
<><>>suing the State Dept for messages sent thru the SMART system that mention Hunter Biden.

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The voluminous report of Hunters 459 crimes sent to Congress reviewed his laptop’s
<><>emails, videos, calendar items, photographs, phone records, financial documents, and more,
<><>provided context and explanation,
<><>serves as a “Rosetta Stone of crime under the patina of ‘the Delaware Way,’
<><>WRT a convoluted network of people leading the charge for global governance,
<><>including shell companies and middlemen

Crimes Hunter Biden allegedly committed include
<><>serving as an agent for foreign entities without disclosing it,
<><>tax fraud,
<><>falsifying business documents
<><>prostitution,
<><>non-consensual pornography,
<><>and distribution of narcotics.Lawsuit: DOJ Concealing Records of Biden Family Payoffs with China and Russia

Salon.com

<><>DOJ looking into why Hunter Biden was financially tied to a Chinese energy company
<><>New evidence indicates Hunter got $4.8M from CEFC China Energy
By KELLY MCCLURE
Nights & Weekends Editor
PUBLISHED MARCH 30, 2022 6:34PM (EDT)

The investigation into Hunter Biden’s financial dealings is ramping up, with potentially condemning new evidence discovered that ties President Biden’s son to a Chinese energy conglomerate named CEFC China Energy.

In a review published by The Washington Post today they detail that over the course of 14-months CEFC China Energy paid $4.8 million “to entities controlled by Hunter Biden and his uncle.” Evidence to this fact was landed upon with the use of government records, court documents, newly available bank statements and emails pulled from a copy of a hard drive from a laptop believed to have once belonged to Hunter Biden, according to The Washington Post.

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Although the new evidence does not indicate that President Biden was personally involved in these CEFC dealings, or that he benefitted from them in any way, there is evidence that Hunter Biden leveraged his father’s influence, and contacts President Biden has made over the years, for his own financial gain.

Among the newly discovered materials is a $1 million legal retainer signed by Hunter Biden for the representation of a CEFC official named Patrick Ho “who would later be charged in the United States in connection with a multimillion-dollar scheme to bribe leaders from Chad and Uganda,” according to The Washington Post.

Hunter Biden has been under federal tax investigation since 2018, specifically in relation to income obtained from business deals with China, but nothing solid has come from it until around 2020.

Along with the large sum of money received from CEFC, evidence has revealed that Hunter Biden was also gifted a 2.8-carat diamond from Chinese energy tycoon Ye Jianming. The diamond, which Hunter claimed was only worth around $10,000, but is actually valued at more along the lines of $80K, was brought up in the divorce proceedings between Hunter and ex-wife Kathleen Buhle, according to The New Yorker.

The diamond was reportedly given to Hunter in 2017 when Hunter met with Jianming in Miami hoping to get his donation to the World Food Program USA nonprofit that Hunter was a board member of. During a dinner that took place on that trip, Hunter offered to use his contacts to nail down investment opportunities for CEFC China Energy and Jianming was so pleased with this, according to The New Yorker, he sent the diamond to Hunter’s hotel room as a gift of appreciation.

“I knew it wasn’t a good idea to take it. I just felt like it was weird,” Hunter said to The New Yorker, claiming to have handed it off to an associate.

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