Congressional Oversight Committee Presses Hunter Biden’s Art Dealer for Information

Georges Bergès has repeatedly refused to turn over ‘critical’ information about Biden’s art sales

Hunter Biden’s art dealer is being pressed by the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability to surrender. “critical” information from the committee’s investigation into the first son’s domestic and foreign business dealings.

James Comer (R. Ky.), chairman of the committee, sent Another letter Monday to Georges Bergès, the owner of the Georges Bergès Gallery, requesting information related to Biden’s anonymous, high-priced art transactions. Even after four previous requests from Comer’s committee over the last two years, Bergès still refuses to disclose any information on the purchasers of Biden’s art.

“Mr. Bergès is completely refusing to cooperate with the committee’s requests. He has chosen to obstruct in an apparent effort to shield Mr. Biden and/or the purchasers of Mr. Biden’s art from congressional oversight,” Comer Write to Bergès’s lawyer, William Pittard.

The committee is demanding transparency in its investigation into foreign business dealings between Biden and President Joe Biden. The ethics watchdogs are Be concerned Hunter Biden’s work is a way for foreign buyers to gain favor with the White House. In 2022, the Treasury Department encouraged more safeguards against. “the use of high-end art as a means to launder money along with other potential illicit financial transaction,” According to Comer.

The White House tapped Bergès, who spent time in jail for making “terrorist threats,” The move caused more concern among critics.

Bergès’s “arrangement with Mr. Biden raises obvious ethical red flags and Mr. Bergès’s purported ‘safeguards’ are insufficient and troubling,” Comer stated.

Walter Shaub (Operation of Government Ethics) was also a concern during Obama’s administration. “basically outsourced government ethics to a private art dealer and they’re depending on unknown art purchasers to help keep the secret.”

Pittard maintained that anonymity of buyers is essential to avoid ethical concerns. “Providing the documents and information requested in your letter seemingly would defeat the efforts of Mr. Biden and the White House to avoid the ‘serious ethics concerns’ that you raise,” Pittard Write In response to Comer’s January 2023 request.

“The committee is reviewing legislative solutions that address the ethics and money laundering issues raised by certain high-end art deals, and your information is critical to our investigation,” Comer wrote the following in his March 13th letter. “Notwithstanding his tenuous legal arguments, Mr. Bergès mischaracterizes the purpose of our investigation and fails to acknowledge that the committee’s requests are ‘related to, and in furtherance of, a legitimate task of the Congress.'”