As part of their impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden, House Republicans issued a letter Thursday requesting an interview with an individual central to Hunter Biden’s art career that may have allowed the president’s son to launder bribes.
“The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability … and the House Committee on the Judiciary … are investigating whether sufficient grounds exist to draft articles of impeachment against President Biden for consideration by the full House. … This request is made pursuant to that inquiry,” GOP Reps. James Comer and Jim Jordan wrote.
The individual is Lanette Phillips, an associate of Hunter’s attorney and financer, Kevin Morris, and of Georges Bergès, a New York City art gallerist who sold Hunter’s works. According to Morris’s prior congressional testimony, Phillips introduced Morris and Bergès to the younger Biden at a November 2019 fundraiser for then-presidential candidate Joe Biden. Not long after this meeting, Morris spent “at least $875,000 to purchase art by Hunter Biden through his limited liability company, Kuliaky Art, LLC,” and would later provide “at least $6.5 million in ‘loans’ to Hunter Biden,” the representatives write.
Morris has continued to represent the younger Biden in the latter’s legal scandals.
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Given Hunter’s extensive history of leveraging the Biden “brand” to enhance the family’s foreign influence-peddling scheme, House Republicans are requesting Phillips testify to provide answers on whether Morris’s “substantial financial support for Hunter Biden was intended to benefit, curry favor
