A full page of spinning spew.

IF charges are referred to the DOJ and IF the DOJ does its job without political fuckery for once this is a far better course for America.
1) Criminal charges would be against the entire criminal enterprise, not just brandon.
2) IF brandon was impeached, the best outcome would be a not guilty out of the senate. Otherwise, we'd then have to contend with Harris.
3) the spector of SERIOUS criminal charges against Brandon and his crew would negate the trumped up (pun intended) charges against trump.
4) an actual series of high visibility trials would not be as subject to political skullduggery as a senate trial.
5) the irony of a brandon perp walk would cause mass twirling among the trump haters. And strokes. Lots of strokes.

So lets watch american hater keep trying to spin this as a cowards way out for conservatives.
It will be fun to watch.

 

[QUOTE="shootersa, post: 15174229, member: 461701" IF brandon was impeached/QUOTE]

Well what are the repukes waiting for.

Maybe its due to a complete lack of evidence, eh

 

Uh oh.
Now, full disclosure; Shooter usually tries to ignore stories filled with sources identified as "a source familiar with the situation" or that rascal "anonymous".
And this one he was going to skip over until he saw the name "Americore".
Shooter happens to know quite a lot about Americore.
None of it good.
Bunch of creepy thieves, in Shooters opinion.
One of the few companies he declined to deal with in the day.
Just, you know, creepy.
And crooked.
So anyway, Shooter is thinking there is a lot to this story.
Anonymous sources not withstanding.​

Feds recently sought information about Jim Biden’s business dealings in 2 cases (msn.com)

Feds recently sought information about Jim Biden’s business dealings in 2 cases
Story by Ben Schreckinger

Federal investigators in South Florida recently probed transactions linked to Jim Biden as part of a criminal investigation, according to two people familiar with the matter. The investigation remains open, according to one of them.

Meanwhile, Justice Department officials prosecuting an ongoing Medicare fraud case in Pennsylvania were seeking information about the activities of President Joe Biden’s brother as recently as last year, according to a third person familiar with that case. All three were granted anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.

The revelations add to the potential legal minefield surrounding the first family at a time when House Republicans are pursuing an impeachment inquiry aimed at the Biden family’s business dealings and Hunter Biden faces federal tax charges in California and gun charges in Delaware.

Both investigations have scrutinized a troubled hospital chain, Americore, that Jim Biden worked with in the years after President Joe Biden left the Obama administration.

In Pennsylvania, where a health care entrepreneur has pleaded guilty to his role in the alleged fraud scheme, prosecutors say an Americore hospital received tens of millions of dollars in improper Medicare reimbursements.

In Florida, the dealings said to be under investigation were part of an effort by Jim Biden and his business partners to land investments from sources in the Middle East to finance Americore and other ventures in the U.S.

Investigators in Florida sought information about an agreement that Jim Biden was a party to, according to one of the people familiar with that case. They have also focused on a series of loans made to Americore by an investment fund run by a Jim Biden associate, according to the other. Jim Biden told Congress last month that he was paid to arrange some of those loans.

But a previously unreported lawsuit alleges that the payments Jim Biden received were improper. In a complaint filed in Palm Beach County in 2022, investors in the Third Friday Total Return Fund allege that the money manager in charge of the fund looted millions of dollars from it by making sham loans to Americore, then diverted roughly $600,000 of the embezzled funds to Jim Biden.

Jim Biden transferred $200,000 of the disputed money to Joe Biden in a transaction that he and the White House have said was a loan repayment.

Several of the loans have an additional, previously unreported, link to the Bidens. An email obtained by POLITICO shows that a lawyer who has worked for Jim and Hunter Biden, George Mesires, represented the lender in some of the transactions being scrutinized. Mesires did not respond to requests for comment.

Jim Biden is not named as a defendant in the Palm Beach suit, and it is not clear whether his activities are a focus in either criminal investigation.

The White House referred a request for comment to Jim Biden’s representatives. Through a spokesperson, Jim Biden’s lawyer, Paul Fishman, said “Jim Biden is not being investigated by federal law enforcement in Florida or Pennsylvania,” and that he was unaware of any ongoing or recent executive branch investigations of his client. He did not respond to a follow-up question about how he knows that Jim Biden is not being investigated in the Florida or Pennsylvania cases.

The South Florida Office of the Justice Department declined to comment, and the Western Pennsylvania office did not respond to a request for comment.

POLITICO investigation. It found that Jim Biden leveraged President Joe Biden’s name to promote the hospital chain, Americore, and that several members of the former vice president’s inner circle worked for the company or participated in meetings with its representatives in the years leading up to his 2020 presidential run. The investigation did not find that Joe Biden involved himself in the company.

As part of the venture, Jim Biden worked with a group of Florida-based business partners to seek investments for Americore and other companies from sources in the Middle East.

But Americore did not receive the investment funding that its executives expected. The company went bankrupt in 2019, and has been at the center of legal and political controversies ever since.

‘A brazen scheme’ in Florida
In 2017, Jim Biden began working with a money manager and a business development entrepreneur based in South Florida in an effort to land tens of millions of dollars to invest in the U.S. health care sector, POLITICO’s investigation found.

The money manager, Michael Lewitt, ran a popular investing newsletter as well as the Third Friday fund. Amer Rustom, the CEO of a business development company, the Platinum Group, boasted of ties to leaders in the Middle East.

The Platinum Group did not respond to requests for comment. A person answering the phone at a number associated with Rustom said that Rustom was out of the country, and Rustom did not respond to a request for comment left with the person. The Florida law firm Cohen Norris, which has represented Rustom, also did not respond to requests for comment.

Jim Biden, Lewitt and Rustom worked to secure investment funding from overseas investors with a focus on potential investment sources in Qatar.

In early 2018, as the group continued to seek long-term funding, Lewitt’s Third Friday fund began making a series of bridge loans to Americore to tide the company over.

The first loan on Jan. 12 coincided with a $400,000 payment from Americore to Jim Biden’s company, the Lion Hall Group. In his prepared statement for his impeachment inquiry interview, Jim Biden said that payment and a subsequent one he received for $200,000 were made partly as compensation for arranging the loans.

On the same day Jim Biden received the $200,000 payment, March 1, he or his wife, Sara Biden, made out a $200,000 check to Joe Biden from their joint account, describing it as a loan repayment on the memo line.

The White House has also characterized it as a loan repayment in statements to media outlets. POLITICO previously reviewed bank records that show a $200,000 payment to Jim Biden from an account that appeared to belong to Joe Biden made several weeks earlier.

The loans from Third Friday have another connection to the Bidens, a previously unreported email shows. On July 30, 2018, Mesires, an attorney who represented both Hunter and Jim Biden in the past, wrote to Americore’s outside counsel, Christopher Anderson, notifying him that “We represent Third Friday Total Return Fund in connection with several loans made to Americore Health and Americore Holdings.”

In the email, part of a cache of internal Americore documents obtained by POLITICO, Mesires seeks several copies of documents related to the loans. Anderson did not respond to requests for comment.

A few weeks before Mesires’ email, Jim Biden had cut ties with Americore’s CEO. But he continued to work with Lewitt and Rustom to identify health care investments.

In 2019, two health care companies sued Jim Biden, Lewitt, Rustom and others in federal court in Tennessee, alleging that they engaged in a “classic fraudulent bait-and-switch.”

The companies alleged a scheme to drive them into bankruptcy and steal their business model by holding out the prospect of imminent investment from overseas, including the Qatar Investment Authority, that never arrived.

Jim Biden and his co-defendants’ denied wrongdoing in that case, which ultimately settled on undisclosed terms.

After the case attracted media attention, one of the plaintiffs, Tennessee businessperson Michael Frey, reported receiving a threat: A package delivered to his home that included the currency of an unspecified Middle Eastern country that appeared to be covered in blood along with a message that referred to “torture.” The FBI opened an investigation of the package, according to a December 2019 report in the Knoxville News Sentinel.

Meanwhile, over the course of 2019, Lewitt’s fund lent Jim Biden’s company, Lion Hall Group, an additional $225,000.

The current status of that loan remains in dispute: In the years since, Lewitt’s fund has faced financial strains as Americore’s bankruptcy made it unlikely that the fund would collect on its loans to the hospital chain and some of Lewitt’s investors have found themselves unable to withdraw their funds from Third Friday. Despite these financial problems, Jim Biden told congressional investigators that Lewitt forgave the $225,000 loan.

Lewitt contested that, telling POLITICO earlier this month that Jim Biden’s debts were assumed by a third-party benefactor whom he declined to name, and remain unpaid.

The financial problems at Lewitt’s funds also drove a rift between the money manager and several of his investors.

In 2022, some of those investors, led by prominent short-seller David Rocker, sued Lewitt and his fund, alleging that they had engaged in “a brazen scheme of fraud, illicit self-dealing, and looting,” by embezzling the fund’s money through Americore and refusing to honor investor redemption requests.

According to their complaint, Lewitt diverted roughly $20 million out of the fund by making sham loans to Americore, embezzled some of the money by diverting it from Americore to himself and his associates, and misled his investors about it.

The complaint does not name Jim Biden. Instead it alleges that one of Lewitt’s “Platinum Group partners” received payments from Americore that were embezzled from Third Friday. The details of those payments make it clear they refer to payments made to Jim Biden.

Lawyers for Lewitt and the investor plaintiffs did not respond to requests for comment. Lewitt, who also did not respond to requests for comment for this story, denied wrongdoing and has counter-sued some of the investors in a related action for breach of contract. The cases remain ongoing.

But the loans to Americore have come under federal scrutiny. This past September, the Securities and Exchange Commission sued Lewitt and his fund for fraud, alleging that the loans violated the fund’s policies. Lewitt has denied wrongdoing and that case remains ongoing.

The FBI has been probing some of the same dealings at issue in the SEC case, according to one of the people familiar with the case.

And last year, a federal grand jury in south Florida sought information on related dealings involving Jim Biden, Lewitt and Rustom, according to the other.

Among the officials involved in the investigation is Assistant U.S. attorney Eli Rubin, according to one of the people. Rubin did not respond to a request for comment. A review of Justice Department press releases shows that recent cases prosecuted by Rubin have pertained to money laundering and bribery, sanctions evasion, and pandemic relief fraud.

For his part, Jim Biden has distanced himself from Lewitt, telling congressional investigators he had not been aware of some of the impropriety alleged by the SEC.

“I was absolutely shocked,” Jim Biden said. “Michael Lewitt was a refined — he was just a nice guy. And up until last week, I thought that he was that same nice guy.”

Medicare fraud in Pennsylvania
In Pennsylvania, a federal criminal probe of activity at Americore has advanced further.

For the past four years, DOJ investigators in Western Pennsylvania have pursued a conspiracy to defraud Medicare in which they say an Americore hospital outside of Pittsburgh paid kickbacks to a businessman who provided the hospital with lab testing specimens for which it improperly billed the government.

Investigators pursuing that case sought information about Jim Biden as recently as last year, according to the person familiar with that case.

Jim Biden’s involvement with Americore stemmed from his relationship with Joey Langston, a disbarred trial lawyer from Mississippi, and the man’s son, Keaton Langston.

 

Google "americor".

 

Huh.
We knew silty had issues, but who knew she doesn't know how to do a google search?

 

So shooter, on what evidence did repukes in congress back Trump's attempt to overturn a free election?

14th Amendment no one can serve in Congress “who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress … to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same.”

Cite cases and judges rulings.

 

'None of that is true': James Comer fact-checked over letter begging for cash

M.L. Nestel
March 26, 2024 7:04PM ET



Rep. James Comer, (R-KY) (Mandel Ngan / AFP )




Going after the "Biden Crime Family" is costing House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) and his family dearly — so he's passing around a figurative collection plate in the form of an email to raise support.

“I ask you to take the time to read this email in its entirety,” writes Comer, who along with Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH), have been spearheading an impeachment inquiry hinged on the theory that Biden laundered international bribes through his son Hunter's foreign business dealings.

“I spent a lot of time writing it and did my best to make every word count. ... If you don’t read it, nobody will.”

The Washington Post's columnist Philip Bump did read it, then knocked Comer for its "broad strokes" to claim "he’s fighting the good fight against nefarious foes and suffering damage that can only be treated with the soothing balm of cash."

Bump focuses on Comer's platitudes to win over readers, with the congressman going so far as to say that he and his family are "being put through this," without explaining "what the 'this' is.”

Moreover, despite Comer's findings being sparse so far, he claims in the letter that he's nailed the Bidens.

ALSO READ: A criminologist explains why Judge Cannon must step away from Trump trial immediately

“I’ve presented mountains of evidence confirming Joe Biden’s involvement in his family’s influence-peddling scheme," his email reads. "And I just had a group of the Biden family’s business confidants publicly testify about the first family’s criminal activity.”

But Bump fact-checked Comer.

"None of that is true, including the part about the 'group' of 'confidants'," he wrote.

Bump states Comer merely "chaired a hearing involving two people who had worked briefly with members of Biden’s family."

And yet, Comer's taking victory laps.

“At any other time in history,” his email adds, “that would have been the final nail in the coffin of the Biden Crime Family’s reign of corruption.”

Again, Bump injects sobriety: "If what he wrote had been true, perhaps," he writes. "But it wasn’t."

Comer shames Democrats for supposedly choosing "their party over their country and the truth at every turn."

“That’s why I am preparing criminal referrals as the culmination of my investigation,” he adds.

To do so, Comer is already hedging the next White House occupier.

“When President Trump returns to the White House it’s critical the new leadership at the DOJ have everything they need to prosecute the Biden Crime Family and deliver swift justice.”

Bump needles Comer's suggestion that he's banking on the next administration since Biden's DOJ hasn't proven supportive, writing, "It’s a clever pivot, from throwing up his hands at the inevitable inaction of the Biden Justice Department to making his efforts part of Donald Trump’s broader pledge of retribution."



https://www.rawstory.com/james-comer-impeachment-2667608350/

 

It's stating to look like the way they will go. Let him slide on the impeachment because it's becoming a pointless waste of time with elections so near and just do a criminal referral and build a case to jail the whole lot of them.

 

We are not going to see a criminal referral any more than impeachment. And if we do it will going to be a bigger joke.

If they don't have evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors what evidence if crimes do they have?

What are they going to tell the DOJ? We think crimes have been committed. It should be easy to check out. Just ask our witnesses you already have under indictment and/or already in coustody.

 

Medicare fraud is a pretty big deal, wouldn't you agree, american hater?
Americore and biden.
Google it.

 

So shooter, when will Biden's impeachment begin?

Huh?

 

Comer Spins Bizarre Theory About Why News Outlets Keep Saying ‘There’s No Evidence’ Against Biden

Tommy ChristopherMar 27th, 2024, 11:02 am


Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Rep. James Comer (R-KY) spun the wild conspiracy that Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Deep State are coordinating with the media to “indoctrinate” people into thinking there’s “no evidence” to impeach President Joe Biden by reporting that they have no evidence against Biden.

Last week, the House Oversight Committee held another hearing in an impeachment inquiry that is widely seen as faltering, even among conservative-leaning media outlets and Republicans. The hearing featured testimony from witnesses like Tony Bobulinski and Lev Parnas, and fireworks from the parties.


All along, Comer’s probe has been dogged by headline after headline featuring journalists, news anchors, legal experts, Newsmax hosts, Mediaite founders, and even a parade of his fellow Republicans pointing out there has been “no evidence” of crimes or misconduct by the president.

On Monday’s edition of Fox News Radio’s Fox Across America with Jimmy Failla, Comer chalked that up to a coordinated effort, directed by Garland in concert with the media and the Deep State, to “indoctrinate” people to believe there’s no evidence:



JIMMY FAILLA: Well, what’s so crazy about this is there’s this counter effort being made to try to sell the American public on the idea that you guys haven’t found anything, and I think we’re dealing here with actual living, breathing business partners testifying on the contrary, to quite an extent. So what do you liken this to? Is this Garland just trying to be a human shield for the president? Like what? What is this?

REP. JAMES COMER: Well, Garland’s working with the Deep State who’s working with the liberal mainstream media to try to indoctrinate into people’s minds that there’s no evidence.

JIMMY FAILLA: Yeah.

REP. JAMES COMER: Here’s the evidence, Jimmy. There’s ten different Biden family members that received incremental payments through 20 shell companies that received wires from, from at least five foreign countries that were for services that we have yet to determine. For nearly $30 million. And then according to the Irish whistleblowers, they didn’t pay any taxes on it.

But this all revolves around Joe because not only have we proven Joe got $250,000, a quarter of $1 million of that money.

The payment he’s referring to was the subject of several direct confrontations with reporters who pointed out there’s documented evidence the $250K was a loan repayment.


Comer then went on to lay out the same evidence that people have been pointing out does not prove wrongdoing by the president.

Comer also ranted about Gucci-slipper-wearing reporters swarming his hometown to investigate him:

COMER: It is a clown show, it is a clown show. And it’s just like, every day the media attacks me. I live in a little town, 2,500 people, I’m the biggest tourist attraction in that town Jimmy, because of all the reporters and the opposition research, and they stand out like a sore thumb, they can tell when they get out of the car and see their little Gucci slippers that they’re not from my red wing boot wearing hometown and they, they waddle in there, tiptoe in there to the court, and they do all these open records requests and they won’t do anything on Biden, they just want to investigate me, and it’s like you can investigate me all you want because at the end of the day what did the Bidens do to receive $30 million dollars from our enemies around the world, and why did Joe Biden lie about it? That’s the summary of our investigation.


https://www.mediaite.com/news/comer...keep-saying-theres-no-evidence-against-biden/

 

House GOP eyes new Biden probes in apparent admission that impeachment 'whiffed': report

Adam Nichols
April 3, 2024 9:54AM ET




WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 13: (L-R) Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Rep. James Comer (R-KY) and Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) arrive to speak to reporters after the House voted to formally authorize the impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Joe Biden. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)




The House GOP is targeting dozens of new inquiries into President Joe Biden’s administration in an apparent admission that its attempt to impeach him "whiffed," according to a new report.

Politico revealed more than 50 oversight requests have been sent out in just the past month as Republicans seek something that might “trip up” Biden as the election nears.

The “scattershot” lines of attack focus on several agencies and topics, the report claimed.

“The flurry of new oversight requests can also be read as an admission that House GOP leaders whiffed on their bigger target,” Politico reported.

The new inquiries include looking into Biden’s handling of the Chinese Communist Party; his investigation of Covid’s origins; and if mistakes were made when John Podesta was named the new climate envoy.

ALSO READ: No, Donald Trump, fraud is not protected by the First Amendment

It’s a move away from the months-long impeachment inquiry which has so far failed to find evidence linking Biden to allegations that he took bribes from Ukrainian businessmen.

Despite repeated claims that the proof is there, even many Republicans have suggested the impeachment effort should end, saying it has overturned no conclusive proof. It’s also been hit by missteps, including promoting a key witness who was then arrested and accused of acting with Russian intelligence to lie to the FBI.

Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) told Politico, “Since January 2023, we’ve launched investigations into President Biden’s border crisis, energy crisis, federal pandemic spending, federal agency telework policies, abuse of power at the FTC, the Bidens’ corrupt influence peddling schemes, the federal government’s efforts to combat CCP influence, and more.”

He said the new probes, “Will culminate in reports with our findings and recommended solutions to prevent government waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement.”

A GOP aide who spoke to Politico said the party doesn’t consider the new oversight inquiries as a replacement to the impeachment push.

“But there is significant political pressure on the party to produce results after months of promising it would uncover evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors involving Biden,” the report stated. “The months-long impeachment inquiry into Biden appears to be wrapping up without a blockbuster vote. While the Oversight Committee says that such a finale is '100% still on the table,' Comer has hinted otherwise.”



https://www.rawstory.com/alexander-smirnov-2667669131/

 

Dumb and dumber. But what do you expect from those two Trumptard clowns.

 

And treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans are as dumb as they are for believing they would or could impeach President Biden.

 

CIA says whistleblower allegation touted by GOP in Joe Biden impeachment probe is 'false'
Ken Tran, USA TODAY
Fri, April 5, 2024 at 2:59 PM MDT·2 min read
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WASHINGTON – In a blow to House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into the president, the CIA refuted a whistleblower’s allegations that the agency sought to block a federal investigation into President Joe Biden’s son,Hunter Biden, on Thursday.

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., and House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, sent a letter to the CIA in March saying a whistleblower informed them the CIA blocked the Department of Justice and IRS investigators from interviewing a benefactor of Hunter Biden.

The CIA called the allegation “false” in a letter obtained by USA TODAY and sent to the chairs on Thursday.

“Without confirming or denying the existence of any associations for communications, CIA did not prevent or seek to prevent IRS or DOJ from conducting any such interview. The allegation is false,” CIA director of congressional affairs James Catella wrote.

CNN first reported the letter on Friday.

A troubled investigation
The CIA’s response is another setback for House Republicans’ sprawling impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden as the probe faces questions over its credibility. A confidential FBI source the GOP repeatedly touted during the investigation was charged in February for lying to the FBI about an alleged corruption scheme involving Joe Biden and Hunter Biden. The source, Alexander Smirnov, also said he had “extensive foreign ties” according to prosecutors.

House Republicans are standing by the whistleblower's allegations. Russell Dye, a spokesperson for the House Judiciary Committee said in a statement “the allegation is not false.” A spokesperson for the House Oversight Committee said the same.

The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., sent a letter to Comer on Friday morning pressing him to allow Democrats to review the new whistleblower’s allegations.

Comer’s refusal to allow Democrats to vet the whistleblower, Raskin said in the letter, “creates the unavoidable implication that this information ... cannot withstand even the most cursory scrutiny by the committee’s Democratic members.”


US House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, (L), Republican of Kentucky; speaks with House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio; during the testimony of Special Counsel Robert Hur before a House Judiciary Committee hearing on his probe into US President Joe Biden's alleged mishandling of classified materials after serving as vice president, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, March 12, 2024.
Raskin also noted that the witness, Kevin Morris, who the whistleblower alleged the DOJ and IRS blocked from being interviewed, already testified in January that he cooperated with law enforcement. An IRS agent also told investigators he was allowed to interview Morris.

House Republicans have been conducting an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden over allegations he personally benefited from his family’s foreign business affairs. Investigators have yet to turn up evidence directly implicating the president.

As the probe sees setback after setback, GOP lawmakers have expressed doubts as to whether House Republicans would move to impeach the president without substantial evidence.

As a result, Comer has been searching for exit strategies when the inquiry concludes and has suggested he will make criminal referrals to the DOJ for a possible future Donald Trump administration to follow up on.



https://www.yahoo.com/news/cia-says-whistleblower-allegation-touted-205908882.html

 

The CIA says it's false?
Well, why didn't you say so before!
If the CIA says it, then it has to be true, right?


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CIA fast-tracked letter that falsely suggested Hunter Biden laptop was Russia op (nypost.com)
CIA fast-tracked letter that falsely suggested Hunter Biden laptop was Russia op
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Published May 9, 2023
Declassified documents reveal CIA has been sweeping up information on Americans | CIA | The Guardian


Declassified documents reveal CIA has been sweeping up information on Americans

Shooter knows this much;
If the CIA says it's so, then it's time to really start digging for the truth.
Because the CIA lies to America all the time.

And if american hater posts it here, its a sure bet that its lies, propaganda or both.
Because american hater lies to us all the time.​

 

James Comer threatened with ethics probe after hawking impeachment book

Carl Gibson, AlterNet
April 9, 2024 4:41PM ET




James Comer (C-SPAN/screen grab)




The GOP-led House Oversight Committee's effort to impeach President Joe Biden is effectively over after its chairman, Rep. James Comer (R-KY), failed to find any smoking gun evidence directly tying Biden to any crime.

Now, a Washington-based ethics watchdog group is accusing Comer of capitalizing on his unsuccessful impeachment saga.

In an official letter to the Office of Congressional Ethics, a nonprofit anti-corruption group is requesting an update on whether the Kentucky Republican followed the law and requested prior approval for a book deal currently being negotiated with publishers.

"Throughout his entire investigation, Representative Comer has used his role as Chairman of the House Oversight Committee for personal and political gain. He has been a frequent guest on conservative news channels pushing conspiracy theories and lies about his investigation and has used this impeachment inquiry to fundraise for his campaign," read the letter from Congressional Integrity Project executive director Kyle Herrig.

"The new reporting about a potential book deal is troubling as it appears Representative Comer is planning on using his unique position as Oversight Chair to turn a profit."

READ MORE: 'Not remotely reasonable': House GOP impeachment efforts suffer yet another setback

Herrig noted in his letter that under House Rule 25, members of Congress have to first have any members receive authorization from the Ethics Committee before they can reap financial rewards from copyright royalties like those for a typical book publishing contract.

"As Representative Comer continues to hold hearings and attempts to build the case to impeach President Biden, the American people deserve to know the extent to which he is benefiting financially," the letter continued. "It is clear already that he has a political motive to impeach the President and it should be revealed if he has a financial motive as well."

The New Republic reported that Comer has admitted that actual articles of impeachment are not likely from his committee, and that the most Republicans could expect would be a criminal referral to the Department of Justice. And while DOJ special counsel David Weiss is already investigating Biden's son, Hunter, for alleged tax-related crimes, an additional indictment of Biden himself is unlikely to emerge from any referral by the Oversight Committee.

"Recent reporting revealed that Representative Comer has been in talks with at least one publisher regarding a book on his impeachment inquiry into President Biden," Herrig wrote in his letter, adding that "Representative Comer and his Republican colleagues have spent the past 15 months relentlessly investigating the president and his family and failed to find any evidence of wrongdoing by President Biden let alone anything impeachable."

READ MORE: 'This is a show': Democrat demands Comer hold 'fake faux' Biden impeachment vote

Comer's attempt to have Biden impeached was largely based on allegations within an FBI informant report in which Biden and his son were said to have solicited $10 million in bribes from the Ukrainian government. However, the author of that report, 43-year-old Alexander Smirnov, was later indicted for lying to the FBI about those allegations.

Smirnov was also subsequently indicted for attempting to flee prosecution. The disgraced former FBI informant was alleged to have had contact with "high-ranking" members of Russian intelligence agencies who sought to sow disinformation ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

Former Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colorado), who left Congress last month after a surprise early retirement announcement, admitted Smirnov's indictment essentially rendered the GOP's efforts to impeach Biden fruitless.

"We were warned at the time that we received the document outlining this witness' testimony — we were warned that the credibility of this statement was not known," Buck told CNN host Caitlan Collins. "And yet, people — my colleagues — went out and talked to the public about how this was credible, and how it was damning. And how it proved President Biden's — at the time, Vice President Biden's — complicity in receiving bribes. It appears to absolutely be false and to really undercut the nature of the charges."

READ MORE: 'We were warned': GOP rep says Smirnov indictment 'really undercuts' impeachment efforts


https://www.rawstory.com/james-comer-threatened-with-ethics-probe-after-hawking-impeachment-book/