[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 652 Introduced in House (IH)]
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118th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. RES. 652
Impeaching Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., President of the United States,
for high crimes and misdemeanors.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
August 11, 2023
Mr. Steube submitted the following resolution; which was referred to
the Committee on the Judiciary
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RESOLUTION
Impeaching Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., President of the United States,
for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Resolved, That Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., President of the United
States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the
following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the United States
Senate:
Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives
of the United States of America in the name of itself and of the people
of the United States of America, against Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.,
President of the United States of America, in maintenance and support
of its impeachment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors.
article i: abuse of power, bribery, hobbs act extortion & honest
services fraud
Robert Hunter Biden (Hunter Biden) and James Biden sold access to
then Vice President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., (Joe Biden) while he
was in office from 2009 to 2017 and sold promised access to a future
Biden Presidential Administration while he was out of office from 2017
to 2021. Hunter and James Biden appear to have promised official
actions by Joe Biden in return for payments and business opportunities
from foreign and domestic business partners. Joe Biden assisted by
making appearances, phone calls, meeting with the business partners,
and knowingly allowing his family members to promise access to him and
actions by him in furtherance of these schemes.
Hunter Biden threatened business partners that official actions
could be taken against them if they did not meet terms or make
payments. In at least one instance, Hunter implied that Joe Biden was
aware of these threats and willing to assist in enforcing the threats,
potentially through official actions. Hunter Biden attempted to enrich
himself and the Biden family by threatening official actions from his
father, who he claims was willing to assist in these schemes.
These acts are abuses of power as well as the following Federal
crimes or conspiracy to commit the following Federal crimes: Bribery of
Public Officials, 18 U.S.C. 201; Hobbs Act Extortion ``Under Color of
Official Right,'' 18 U.S.C. 1951; Honest Services Fraud relating to use
of official position, 18 U.S.C. 1346.
(1) According to reports released by the U.S. House of
Representatives Oversight and Accountability Committee
(Oversight Committee) James Biden promised access to a future
Biden Administration and ``the highest levels of government''
and that his brother Joe Biden had been made aware of his
business dealings, which would be made profitable when it could
become part of the Biden platform. James Biden would often
explain over the phone that Joe Biden was in the room with him,
and James Biden had been explaining the deal to him.
(2) Also, according to reports released by the Oversight
Committee, Hunter Biden, James Biden, Hallie Biden, and an
unknown ``Biden'' and their companies collectively received
$1.3 million in payments from accounts related to Rob Walker, a
Biden family associate. On March 1, 2017, less than two months
after Vice President Joe Biden left public office, State Energy
HK Limited, a Chinese company, wired $3 million to Rob Walker's
company. The next day, the company wired $1,065,000 to a
company associated with James Gilliar, another Biden family
associate. Afterwards, the Biden family received approximately
$1,065,000 in payments over a 3-month period in different bank
accounts. From the bank records, it appears that the Biden
family received approximately one-third of the money obtained
from wires from China.
(3) Previously, in a 2011 email, Hunter Biden described his
value to Chinese investors as ``everything to do with my last
name''. In another correspondence with Chinese investors,
Hunter said ``we should be able to achieve a great deal. Just
give me my marching orders''.
(4) In 2014 Russian oligarch Elena Baturina paid a company
connected to Hunter Biden over $3 million. Also in 2014, Elena
Baturina attended a dinner with Hunter Biden and Joe Biden in
the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC. Notably, Elana
Baturina, one of Russia's wealthiest individuals, has not been
included in the Treasury Department sanctions against many of
Russia's other wealthiest people.
(5) Additionally, the Biden family received improper
payments from Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Hunter Biden
received millions of dollars in payments from Burisma from
serving on its board. These payments were made entirely based
on Hunter Biden's connections to Joe Biden and promised access
to Joe Biden.
(6) In 2015, then Vice President Joe Biden attended a
dinner in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC, with
Burisma executives and Hunter Biden. At the time, Hunter was
receiving over $80,000 a month from Burisma based on no other
reason than access to his father.
(7) Several officials in the Obama Administration
specifically flagged these payments from Burisma to Hunter
Biden as corrupt. In early 2015, the former Acting Deputy Chief
of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, George Kent,
raised concerns to officials in Vice President Joe Biden's
office about the perception of a conflict of interest with
respect to Hunter Biden's role on Burisma's board. In October
2015, senior State Department official Amos Hochstein raised
concerns with Vice President Biden, as well as with Hunter
Biden, that Hunter Biden's position on Burisma's board enabled
Russian disinformation efforts and risked undermining U.S.
policy in Ukraine.
(8) In an August 2023 interview, Devon Archer, a business
partner of Hunter Biden, said claims that Joe Biden was not
involved in Hunter's business deals with foreign partners were
false.
(9) In testimony before Congress, Devon Archer admitted
that Burisma would have likely gone out of business had it not
been for the Biden brand being attached to it. He also
testified that Biden was routinely put on conference calls with
Hunter Biden's foreign associates to ``sell the brand''.
article ii: obstruction of justice
According to testimony from IRS whistleblowers, members of the
Biden campaign colluded with Justice Department (DOJ) officials to
improperly interfere with investigations into tax crimes alleged to
have been committed by Hunter Biden.
These acts constitute an abuse of power as well as Obstruction of
Justice, 18 U.S.C. 1505, 1510, 1512.
(1) After Joe Biden became the presumptive Democrat Nominee
in 2020, career DOJ officials began stalling the Hunter Biden
investigations in Delaware. This continued into the Biden
Administration.
(2) DOJ took unusual steps such as removing Hunter Biden's
name from warrants and court filings.
(3) DOJ refused to pursue search warrants or evidence
contained at Joe Biden's guest house.
(4) DOJ refused to pursue search warrants in general
against Hunter Biden even though legal requirements had been
met.
(5) FBI and IRS agents prepared for interviews with
multiple subjects including Hunter Biden on December 8, 2020.
These were to be unannounced interviews where the agents showed
up and asked questions if the subjects were willing to answer.
FBI or DOJ officials tipped off the Biden transition team. As a
result, Hunter Biden's attorney became involved and most of the
interviews did not proceed as planned.
(6) DOJ made decisions relating to formal actions, such as
venue and filing charges, and related to internal review
processes that were out of the ordinary during the Hunter Biden
case. The IRS whistleblower indicated these actions were unlike
actions taken in any other case he had worked on. He indicated
that these unusual steps all began after Biden became the
presumptive 2020 Democrat nominee.
article iii: fraud
James Biden recruited ``investors'' for business ventures that
ultimately failed. There is evidence to suggest that these investment
opportunities were sold to investors based on false and fraudulent
pretenses and promises. Access to Joe Biden and indications that Joe
Biden supported these schemes were used to lure investors into the
schemes.
These acts constitute fraud or conspiracy to commit fraud in
violation of 18 U.S.C. 1943, 1949.
(1) Specifically, in 2019 an American business, Americore
Health, LLC, partnered with James Biden to help lead the
company and develop business through his political connections.
Americore was in the business of purchasing and improving the
efficiency of rural hospitals. James approached various
businesses in the medical field around the country to enter
into business partnerships with him and/or Americore Health in
return for expanding the size and reach of those businesses.
According to one witness, James allegedly promised both
Americore and investors millions of dollars that he claimed
variously to be coming from the Middle East, Russia, or China.
However, the business owners were cut out of the deals as James
gained knowledge of their operations. James deceived investors
and attempted to abscond with proprietary processes to enrich
himself by delivering the information to Turkish investors.
(2) Without the ``Biden Brand.'' promise of access to Joe
Biden, or the appearance of Joe Biden's support of this
venture, James Biden would not have been able to secure
investors or business partners for this venture. Joe Biden
routinely allowed and actively assisted his family in using his
name and the promise of access to him to secure business for
the family. Furthermore, Joe Biden mixed and comingled his
finances with the rest of his family during this time period
and likely financially benefited from this scheme.
article iv: financial involvement in drug and prostitution activities
Joe Biden and Hunter Biden have a long history of comingled and
intertwined finances. Between 2010 and 2019 thousands of dollars of
Biden family money was spent on illegal drug transactions and
prostitution.
These acts constitute violations of or conspiracy to violate
federal drug laws at 21 U.S.C. 841, 842, 843, 846 and federal
prostitution laws at 18 U.S.C. 2421, 2421A, 2422.
(1) 2010 emails between Hunter Biden and business associate
Eric Schwerin reference Hunter paying bills on behalf of Joe
Biden and managing Joe Biden's finances.
(2) 2018 texts between Hunter Biden and his daughter
referenced Hunter Biden sending half his salary to Joe Biden
and paying much of the family's bills.
(3) A 2018 text from Hunter Biden references a shared bank
account with Joe Biden.
(4) Hunter Biden routinely received money from and sent
money to Joe Biden.
(5) Both Hunter and Joe Biden had their finances largely
managed by business associate Eric Schwerin, who would write
checks from one Biden on behalf of the other and routinely
intermingled their finances.
(6) Between November 2018 and March 2019, a Florida student
named Anna Dekhtiar received over $274,873 in payments flagged
as suspicious activity by a Suspicious Activity Report. The
money came from eight senders, including Hunter Biden's company
Owasco, P.C. Additionally, two of the other depositors were
women that text messages found on Hunter Biden's laptop suggest
were prostitutes that he hired. Some of these funds were then
sent onto ``Moreva,'' a company that Hunter Biden paid to hire
prostitutes.
(7) Between November 2018 and March 2019, Hunter Biden
appears to have spent at least $30,000 dollars on prostitutes.
(8) In December 2018, Hunter Biden booked train tickets for
three prostitutes from Boston to New York where he was staying.
(9) In 2018 Hunter Biden attempted to write off payments to
prostitutes and a sex club as tax deductions.
(10) In May 2018, Hunter Biden wired a prostitute $25,000.
He received a text from an ex-Secret Service agent who he and
his father had hired for private security asking about the
transaction. The agent alerted Hunter that he was getting calls
``from DC'' about the transaction and that there was ``a link''
to his father's account.
(11) Hunter Biden has on numerous occasions admitted
routine drug use between the years of 2010 and 2018. There are
numerous images, videos, and electronic communications that
support this claim. His drug use necessitated the routine
purchase of large dollar amounts of illegal drugs.
(12) In a recorded phone call between Hunter Biden and
Hallie Biden (his sister-in-law turned lover) drug purchases
were discussed and strategized.
(13) In other electronic communications, previous drug
purchases are referenced.
(14) Given the intermingled finances of Joe Biden and
Hunter Biden, Joe Biden financially supported and should have
been aware of these drug transactions and prostitutions
transactions. Many of these transactions would have occurred
using accounts with a nexus to Joe Biden.
In all of this, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., has undermined the
integrity of his office, has brought disrepute on the Presidency, has
betrayed his trust as President, and has acted in a manner subversive
of the rule of law and justice, to the manifest injury of the people of
the United States.
Wherefore, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., by such conduct, warrants
impeachment and trial, and removal from office and disqualification to
hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United
States.
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