A top House Republican investigator is seeking information on Hunter Biden’s suspicious activities flagged by U.S. banks from the financial adviser for President Joe Biden’s son.
Rep. James Comer (R-KY), the ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, demanded the information on Wednesday as part of his broader effort to gain access to the suspicious activity reports tied to Hunter’s finances. Comer has accused the Biden Treasury Department of blocking access to the potentially explosive information.
“Information reviewed by Committee Republicans reveals you were advising Hunter Biden on financial transactions when U.S. banks were flagging suspicious activity by the Biden family,” Comer told investment director Edward Prewitt in a new letter.
“As Hunter Biden’s financial adviser, you are in a unique position to know how these transactions originated and why they were flagged by U.S. banks. As such, we request information regarding Hunter Biden’s financial transactions, including any documents related to SARs.”
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Comer asked Prewitt to hand over all information “related to SARs flagged by U.S. banks connected to Hunter Biden” or to his family or associates, all transaction records from Hunter Biden that were flagged, all information on Hunter Biden’s businesses, and all communications between the firm and Hunter Biden, his business associate Eric Scherwin, his uncle James Biden, and Joe Biden.
Prewitt is a managing director for investments at Prewitt Mahler Tucker Private Wealth Management Group. Comer claimed other records “show transactions connected to Hunter Biden’s accounts were flagged by Wells Fargo Corporate Compliance for further scrutiny, and you brought this fact to Hunter Biden’s attention in an email.”
The House Republican said documents show Prewitt’s firm “managed financial accounts” for Hunter’s businesses, Owasco PC, Owasco LLC, Skaneateles, and Rosemont Seneca Advisors. He also said the firm “was also at least aware of transactions” made by Hudson West, another Hunter Biden company, “which has been used in transferring millions of dollars to Hunter and James Biden” from CEFC, a since-defunct Chinese government-linked energy conglomerate.
Hunter had been trying to work out deals with CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming and his top lieutenant Patrick Ho during a time frame in which the Chinese company pursued business opportunities in the United States and around the world. CEFC eventually sent millions of dollars to Hunter and his businesses.
Ye has since disappeared in China after Chinese state media linked him to a corruption case in 2018, which led CEFC to go bankrupt.
Ho was sentenced to three years in prison in March 2019 for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by trying to bribe the president of Chad with $2 million in order to secure unfair business advantages for CEFC. The case against Ho revealed that some evidence had been obtained through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Hunter referred to Ho as the “f***ing spy chief of China” in May 2018.
Prewitt reportedly worked in President Bill Clinton’s White House, and his LinkedIn says he worked in the Education Department and Commerce Department in the 1990s, joining Wells Fargo Advisors in 2001.
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The Treasury Department claimed in May that it “provides SARs to Congress in a manner that enables robust oversight and that is consistent with how other sensitive law enforcement information is produced” and that it “has made SARs available for every request we’ve received, regardless of party, and will continue to do so.” Comer said that was not true.
The call comes after a Washington Examiner investigation found Hunter disclosed in text messages to a woman named Eva, the go-between who served as his primary point of contact for UberGFE, that his accounts were temporarily frozen at one point because his attempted payments to her “girls” with Russian email accounts were too much of a “red flag” for his bank.
The president’s son spent over $30,000 on Russian escorts linked to Eva and UberGFE between Nov. 26, 2018, and March 10, 2019. Eva directed him to make payments to bank accounts linked to “.ru” Russian email addresses at least 11 times during that time frame.
