Rep. James Comer, who is leading the House Republicans' impeachment investigation of Joe Biden, has focused on the Biden family’s use of “shell companies.”

Rep. James Comer, a multimillionaire farmer, boasts of being one of the largest landholders near his rural Kentucky hometown, and he has meticulously documented nearly all of his landholdings on congressional financial disclosure documents – roughly 1,600 acres in all.

But there are six acres that he bought in 2015 and co-owns with a longtime campaign contributor that he has treated differently, transferring his ownership to Farm Team Properties, a shell company he co-owns with his wife.

Interviews and records reviewed by The Associated Press provide new insights into the financial deal, which risks undercutting the force of some of Comer’s central arguments in his impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden. For months, the chairman of the House Oversight committee and his Republican colleagues have been pounding Biden for how his relatives traded on their famous name to secure business deals.

  • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    If only, after shattering glass houses, we could get some politicians to build proper ones.

    “I’ll huff, and I’ll puff, and I’ll throw stones into your sorry glass house.”

    But the sixty-third little piggy actually lived a life of honesty, so the wolf had to raise a mob to burn down the good piggy’s house.

    Once he was back in power, the wolf quickly made laws to make it impossible to live other than in a glass house. Then he felt equal again.

    …oops, that story didn’t end up quite as I planned.