Former Biden family business associate Jason Galanis told lawmakers last month that Joe Biden was used repeatedly to get deals “across the finish line.”
On Monday, the House Oversight Committee released the transcript of lawmakers’ interview with Jason Galanis, who was a colleague of Hunter Biden and Devon Archer between 2012 and 2015. Their goal, Galanis said, “was to make billions, not millions.”
Access to Vice President Biden, according to House testimony, was one of their primary products sold to foreign businessmen.
“Our business included the acquisition of an 85-year-old Wall Street firm, Burnham and Company, the $1.5 billion surviving division of Drexel, Burnham, Lambert, and, combining that with other businesses in insurance and wealth management we owned and acquired,” Galanis explained. “Burnham was the focal point for integrating a, quote, Biden family office into a large-scale financial company with international influence.”
Hunter Biden and Devon Archer, Galanis said, relied on Biden, then vice president, to grow their business.
“I recall being with Hunter Biden and Devon Archer at the Peninsula Bar in New York where Hunter took a call from his father,” Galanis said. Hunter Biden explained the need for “help getting across the finish line” on a deal related to a $300 billion Chinese financial services company “closely connected to the Chinese Communist Party.”
“It was not the only time I’ve heard Hunter call his father regarding business matters,” Galanis said. “I was present when Hunter called his father on a cell phone and put the
