Abbe Lowell, the attorney for Hunter Biden, has rejected a House Oversight Committee request to produce documents related to his business dealings.
Rep. James Comer, the new chair of the House Oversight Committee, sent a letter to Hunter Biden, along with his business associate Eric Schwerin, and uncle James Biden, asking for a number of communications documents relating to his foreign business deals and finances, and any classified documents he may have.
“The Committee is investigating President Biden’s knowledge of and role in these foreign business deals to assess whether he has compromised our national security at the expense of the American people,” Comer wrote in the letter, adding in a later statement that the “Biden family business model is built on Joe Biden’s political career and connections”:
“Biden family members attempted to sell access around the world, including individuals who were connected to the Chinese Communist Party, to enrich themselves to the detriment of American interests. If President Biden is compromised by deals with foreign adversaries and they are impacting his decision making, this is a threat to national security.”
Comer added that they were looking at legislation to “strengthen federal ethics laws regarding public officials and their families… [and would ] make recommendations regarding federal laws and regulations to ensure that financial institutions have the proper internal controls and compliance programs to alert federal agencies of potential money laundering activity.”
In a response, Abbe Lowell, the attorney for Hunter Biden, claimed that the letter fails to demonstrate “legislative purpose” necessary for the Oversight Committee to investigate Hunter and his business dealings, as their “scope of oversight is limited when dealing with private persons” like Hunter.
“Peddling your own inaccurate and baseless conclusions under the guise of a real investigation, turns the Committee into ‘Wonderland’ and you into the Queen of Hearts shouting, ‘sentence first, verdict afterwords,'” Lowell continued.
Hunter Biden attorney rejects House Oversight request for records https://t.co/OCKrkWlOqY pic.twitter.com/ltcAjRHMGX
— The Hill (@thehill) February 10, 2023
He argued that the idea that an investigation into Hunter Biden would help the Oversight Committee to draft the ethics legislation was an “attempt to invent a legislative purpose that is thinly veiled, at best.”
Lowell said that he would be willing to sit down with Comer and ranking member Rep. Jamies Raskin, “to see whether Mr. Biden has information that may inform some legitimate legislative purpose and be helpful to the Committee.”
In a statement, a spokesman for the Oversight Committee GOP completely dismissed the letter. “It’s no surprise that Hunter Biden is trying to stonewall Congress’ oversight and hide information about Joe Biden’s involvement in his family’s suspicious business practices,” the spokesman said.
“The American people demand transparency and oversight, not political coverups,” the statement added. “The Oversight Committee will continue its oversight and use all tools at its disposal to gather information critical to our investigation and to inform legislative solutions.”
Earlier this month, Lowell wrote letters to the Department of Justice and the Delaware Attorney General demanding that they investigate a number of top Trump allies, including Steve Bannon, Rudy Giuliani, Garrett Ziegler, along with John Paul Mac Isaac, the Wilmington computer repair shop owner, for sharing information from Hunter’s laptop.
These letters were published only a few days after Hunter was slapped with a $1,500,000 defamation suit by Mac Isaac after he was tracked down by a private investigator to Culver City, California.
daniel sullivan
February 11, 2023 at 3:27 pm
send in the clowns – oh the bidens are all ready here – unfortunately a good lawyer can save any asshole – ask OJ
Grizz Mann
February 11, 2023 at 5:12 pm
Apparently you do not know who his dad is. C’mon man! Arkancide is real.
B. Clinton
February 12, 2023 at 5:05 pm
Joey sticks his head up his “Biden” and tells the Fake News Media that all is well and the P O S SWOON
DrBillLemoine
February 12, 2023 at 6:09 pm
The clowns are all those GOPers who are still trying, so far vainly, to smear the President and his family.
DrBillLemoine
February 12, 2023 at 6:10 pm
Where is my original comment challenging this witch hunt comment?
Dr. Reverend BigBoa
February 11, 2023 at 4:18 pm
So will they do like what was done to Peter Navarro and Bannon? Put them in manacles and head him to prison?
DrBillLemoine
February 12, 2023 at 6:12 pm
If this is tit for tat, GOP is baying at the moon–again, like Benghazi. The repeated smear won’t work–ala Clinton, who emerged smelling like a rose.
CPO Bill
February 11, 2023 at 4:26 pm
The only good biden wears prison stripes!
DrBillLemoine
February 12, 2023 at 6:14 pm
No sense trying to put prison stripes on a Biden–to equate Dems and Bidens with insurrectionists from Jan. 6th. It’s not going to work.
Evangeline
February 11, 2023 at 4:33 pm
Take Hunter Biden into custody and water board him to get the truth, then do the same for the FRAUD president Biden!!
DrBillLemoine
February 12, 2023 at 6:16 pm
You must be another anarchist. Waterboarding is still illegal for Americans. Or, are you a Russian troll?
Coolmeadow Kid
February 11, 2023 at 5:12 pm
Quote from above:
““Peddling your own inaccurate and baseless conclusions under the guise of a real investigation, turns the Committee into ‘Wonderland’ and you into the Queen of Hearts shouting, ‘sentence first, verdict afterwords,’” (Abbe)Lowell continued.
Oh, so the Left DOES know what the Jan 6 Committee was. Interesting. Hunter’s lawyer is taking all sorts of previously labeled ‘Conspiracy Theories’ andshowing they are indeed FACT. First one they admitted to was that the laptop the FBI has is TRULY Hunter’s. Now they point out that the Jan 6 Committee was a partisan farce. More of the, as Dan Bongino says, ‘stupid smart people’ saving Conservatives a lot of leg work to make their points!!!!!! Thanks, Lefties!!!
DrBillLemoine
February 12, 2023 at 6:18 pm
No sense even trying to equate Insurrection with Hunter Biden ordinary work efforts. The GOP doesn’t recognize the difference–is it poor education, weak minded conspiracy thinking, or just stupidity?
Paul4756
February 11, 2023 at 5:27 pm
Arrest then EXECUTE. This country will not be safe, until all the traitors are brought to justice.
DrBillLemoine
February 12, 2023 at 6:19 pm
Written like a true anarchist–or Russian troll. Which is it? We have laws and rules in this country, Comrade.
Rick Love
February 13, 2023 at 8:45 am
true anarchist–or Russian troll? Seems to be a common thread in your posts Bill, kind of like the efforts of a one trick pony. Are you the self-appointed spin doctor of the Biden family, or are you interviewing for Karine Jean-Pierre’s job in the White House.
Cute but insulting the writers of posts that don’t fit your agenda isn’t really accomplishing anything except to demonstrate your desperation. They must be getting close, aren’t they? Sweating a bit, are we? Worried the Biden house of cards is about to be tumbling down?
m
February 11, 2023 at 5:32 pm
If Hunter Biden refuses to honor the subpoena, then arrest him
The committee only has so much time. Hunter has had his chance & the american people are fed up, fed up, tired of him, his crime family.
The american people have every right to have some answers. If Wray & Garland won’t honor their subpoenas, then should also be arrested.
There may be a media storm but who cares??
akashara
February 12, 2023 at 6:56 am
What’s Hunter afraid of? We already know the Biden’s are corrupt. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of those billions of dollars, Biden has given to the Ukraine, winds up back in Biden’s wallet.
CPO Bill
February 12, 2023 at 5:12 pm
Put him in solitary with the protesters that did nothing wrong!
April
February 12, 2023 at 7:55 pm
WE THE PEOPLE demand justice. We want the TRUTH to come forth.
The BIDEN CRIME FAMILY need to be STOPPED.
Drosack
February 12, 2023 at 8:37 pm
This will help AAAAHHHhahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaha
Bon Bon
February 12, 2023 at 9:15 pm
just throw the clown in prison where he belongs.
Victor Anderson
February 13, 2023 at 7:35 am
WTF ?! Repubes’ fecklessness in normalizing Bidets’ 0BVI0US CRIMINALITY !! FUCKING Send in the Sergeants-at-Arms with subpoenas, arrest and Bring DEM IN !!! F00L$ !!!!
Old wolf
February 13, 2023 at 11:55 am
once again we see democrats Refusing to up hold our law, or to obey them. why do the Republicans refuse to force our laws on them. fight fire with fire. how long is this going to play out ???