Comer is going after Biden — but a $200K payment to 'his own brother' is a massive 'conflict of interest'

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Kentucky) has not only been attacking President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden — he is also going after James Biden, one of the president's three younger siblings.

James Biden, Comer claims, has been involved in "shady business practices" in the Biden family. And Comer has pointed to two loans that Joe Biden made to James Biden — one for $200,000 and one for $40,000, both of which the president's younger brother repaid, according to the Daily Beast.

The Daily Beast's Roger Sollenberger, in a report published on November 9, emphasizes that if the House Oversight Committee chairman "genuinely believes these transactions clear the 'shady business practices' bar, he might want to consider a parallel inquiry into his own family."

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"According to Kentucky property records," Sollenberger reports, "Comer and his own brother have engaged in land swaps related to their family farming business. In one deal — also involving $200,000, as well as a shell company — the more powerful and influential Comer channeled extra money to his brother, seemingly from nothing. Other recent land swaps were quickly followed with new applications for special tax breaks, state records show — all of this, perplexingly, related to the dealings of a family company that appears to have never existed on paper."

Sollenberger adds, "But unlike with the Bidens, Comer's own history actually borders a conflict of interest between his official government role and his private family business — and it's been going on for decades."

The Daily Beast discussed Comer's activities with Delaney Marsco, senior counsel for Campaign Legal Center and an expert on government ethics.

According to Marsco, "Conflicts of interest can occur when members serve on committees overseeing industries in which they are heavily invested or in which their business interests are intertwined. Voters have a right to know that lawmakers are using their considerable power in the interest of the public, not to game a personal business advantage."

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