Hunter Biden’s art dealer, Georges Bergès, on Thursday refused to provide the House Oversight Committee with information about his art sales to anonymous buyers.
Hunter, a lawyer and former lobbyist under investigation for tax evasion, allegedly sold about 12 paintings to anonymous buyers during his father’s term as President of the United States. The artwork price tags would be $500,000 each.
In January, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) asked Bergès to testify before Congress and turn over relevant information about art sales. Comer told Breitbart News in 2022 that he was 95% sure the buyers of Hunter’s art were Chinese buyers, potentially implicating President Biden.
On Thursday, Bergès, who is used to doing business in China, told Comer through his newly hired lawyer that he would not provide information related to Hunter’s art sales because the sales are intended to be secret – the very issue in which Comer has raised concerns.
“In light of these considerations, providing the documents and information requested in your letter would apparently run counter to Mr. Biden’s and the White House’s efforts to avoid the ‘serious ethical concerns’ you raise,” William said. Pittard to Comer. “Mr. Berges hopes that you and Mr. Biden can resolve this tension.
According to Pittard’s LinkedIn, his legal specialty is “congressional and white-collar investigations.” Pittard is a partner at a Washington, DC law firm, KaiserDillon.
The art market is notorious for its corrupt and shady practices. A Senate subcommittee report in 2020 detailed how the art market serves as a vehicle for money laundering.
“Why would anyone pay Hunter Biden top dollar for worthless artwork? It’s not Pablo Picasso”, Comer said. “Foreign adversaries, including China, have used transactions involving fake art sales to launder money and evade sanctions.”
Hunter’s art scandal comes as the congressman investigates Hunter for violations including wire fraud and money laundering. These investigations led Comer to search Hunter’s bank records in which 150 suspicious wire transfers were reported by US banks regarding business deals with the Biden family in foreign countries, such as China.
In 2018 and 2020, Peter Schweizer, Senior Breitbart Contributor and President of the Government Accountability Institute, published secret empires And Profiles in corruption. Each book reached the top spot in the ranking New York Times bestseller list and revealed how Hunter Biden and Joe Biden flew on Air Force Two in 2013 for China before Hunter’s company signed a $1.5 billion deal with a subsidiary of the Bank of China from the Chinese government less than two weeks after the trip. Schweizer’s work also exposed the Biden family’s other vast and lucrative foreign dealings and cronyism.
The investigative work of Breitbart political editor Emma-Jo Morris at New York Post on Hunter Biden’s ‘cellphone from hell’ also made international headlines when she, along with Miranda Devine, revealed that Joe Biden was intimately involved in Hunter’s business, even appearing to have a 10% stake in a company that scion formed with officials from the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party.
Follow Wendell Husebo on Twitter @WendellHusebo. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.
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