Rep. James Comer, a multimillionaire farmer, boasts of being one of the largest landholders near his rural Kentucky hometown, and he has meticulously documented nearly all of his landholdings on congressional financial disclosure documents – roughly 1,600 acres in all.
But there are six acres that he bought in 2015 and co-owns with a longtime campaign contributor that he has treated differently, transferring his ownership to Farm Team Properties, a shell company he co-owns with his wife.
Interviews and records reviewed by The Associated Press provide new insights into the financial deal, which risks undercutting the force of some of Comer’s central arguments in his impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden. For months, the chairman of the House Oversight committee and his Republican colleagues have been pounding Biden for how his relatives traded on their famous name to secure business deals.
In particular, Comer has attacked some Biden family members, including the president’s son Hunter, over their use of “shell companies” that appear designed to obscure millions of dollars in earnings they received from shadowy middlemen and foreign interests.
Such companies typically exist only on paper and are formed to hold an asset, like real estate. Their opaque structures are often designed to help hide ownership of property and other assets.
The companies used by the Bidens are already playing a central role in the impeachment investigation, which is expected to gain velocity after House Republicans voted Wednesday to formally authorize the probe. The vote follows the federal indictment last week of Biden’s son Hunter on charges he engaged in a scheme to avoid paying taxes on his earnings through the companies.
https://apnews.com/article/comer-shell-company-biden-hunter-impeachment-6fde28673d5dced307b95cab8425c7ba
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But as Comer works to “deliver the transparency and accountability that the American people demand” through the GOP’s investigation, his own finances and relationships have begun to draw notice, too, including his ties to prominent local figures who have complicated pasts not all that dissimilar to some of those caught up in his Biden probe. Comer declined to comment through a spokesman, but has aggressively denied any wrongdoing in establishing a shell company. After Democrats blasted him for being a hypocrite following the Daily Beast ’s disclosure of the company last month, Comer countered by calling a Democratic lawmaker a “smurf” and saying that the criticism was the kind of thing “only dumb, financially illiterate people pick up on.” The AP found that Farm Team Properties functions in a similarly opaque way as the companies used by the Bidens, masking his stake in the land that he co-owns with the donor from being revealed on his financial disclosure forms. Those records describe Farm Team Properties as his wife’s “land management and real estate speculation” company without providing further details. It’s not clear why Comer decided to put those six acres in a shell company, or what other assets Farm Team Properties may hold. On his most recent financial disclosure forms, Comer lists its value as being as much as $1 million, a substantial sum but a fraction of his overall wealth. Ethics experts say House rules require members of Congress to disclose all assets held by such companies that are worth more than $1,000. “It seems pretty clear to me that he should be disclosing the individual land assets that are held by” the shell company, said Delaney Marsco, a senior attorney who specializes in congressional ethics at the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center in Washington.
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>>1245693 You forgot the article link. This is the reverse of what I do.
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>>1245699 >what I do Why do you do it?
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>>1245700 I don't trust what people paste here, so I'm not going to paste stuff here either. Also I don't post stuff behind paywalls, everything is able to be read.
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>>1245699 I see the article link now, I dont know what's wrong with my brain today. Maybe it's too early.
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>>1245701 That doesn't make any sense and I'm pretty sure you do it just to troll. Either way, enjoy having the rest of the board continually scream at you to paste the article.
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>>1245709 >enjoy having the rest of the board continually scream at you to paste the article. It's 1-2 Canadians max who sperg out about it as a form of gatekeeping. They're utterly powerless to do anything but cope and scream like pissbaby children while everyone else ignores them.
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>>1245709 Consider if someone changes a few details in the article and no one actually reads the link, then we'd all be slap fighting on faulty premises. Also the articles often times are updated, cause editors make mistakes.
Another thing, the reading experience is worse. Copy pasted articles have no html obviously. So you get no headers, no lists, no links, etc. And often times there are pictures that go along with the articles so you're missing those too.
If you're really a retard who doesn't like clicking on links for whatever stupid reason, then just read the article through the web archive.
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>>1245717 >Consider if someone changes a few details in the article and no one actually reads the link, then we'd all be slap fighting on faulty premises You mean like how every agitprop thread on this board made by the resident leftist Canadian shills has a misleading and inflammatory headline that sometimes outright lies about the article being posted?
Clearly though the issue is that people aren't spamming threads by posting article text to keep them up on the first page longer
Biden:''i may be old but i aint no wimp''
Biden:''i may be old but i aint no wimp'' Thu 14 Dec 2023 16:11:55 No. 1245738 Report Quoted By:
>>1245705 One can't post on this board without a link.
Getting old aint for wimps
'Oliver Wendell Douglas' has a lot of "Green" acres
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>>1245729 I edit the articles I post to annoy resident rightist American shills
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>>1245716 >It's 1-2 Canadians max I'm pretty sure it' s much more than that.
>form of gatekeeping If you're here to kneejerk over the headline you came to the wrong board.
>>1245717 No one does this. You're inventing a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
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>>1245744 >No one does this. That you're aware of. I don't trust any of you fuckers.
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>>1245716 >It's 1-2 Canadians max who sperg out about it as a form of gatekeeping Holy shit this is Russian levels of copium ahahahahahahahahahahaha
American here, kill yourself immediately. Or actually, wait until you realize how much of a delusional faggot you are. That would be funnier. Thanks for the laugh!
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>>1245845 Canada has assisted suicide and it's a leading cause of death.
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>>1245744 >no one does this ive seen entire articles transposed to pidgin english on this shithole board, but yes people should poast article text on principle, because giving rawstory and their ilk any hits is cringe of the highest caliber
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>>1245851 people who want to leave should be shown the exit
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>>1245875 >Let insane people be insane Sounds like the liberal way. Not shocking to see that attitude.
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>>1245874 Pidgin poster has been here since the beginning.
>Transposed The BBC prints it that way newfag. lurk more.
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>>1245912 insane people cause problems for the people around them. you're the one who wants to live around them.
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>>1245701 The article is actually a lot longer than what I pasted here but I didn't feel like pasting the whole thing and I know the people who are actually interested in reading it will be willing to go to the website and read the whole thing. It's a pretty good article.
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AP:>The laptop still isn't real >All the information about Hunter and Joe isn't real >Here's some useless information about the guys investigating Hunter and Joe AP isn't a news source any more.
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>disclosing all finances to include a small corporation is the same as receiving bribes from foreigners and then not reporting those taxes at all Smurf is not an adequate insult.
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>>1246122 Physician heal thyself
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>>1246116 No they won't and you should feel bad
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>>1246116 Use archive like the kiwis you fucking mong. Just further proof this board is nothing but brain dead boomers and shills.
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>>1246155 Or he could just paste the article like everyone else and stop being a crying bitch about it
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>>1246132 >House rules require members of Congress to disclose all assets held by such companies that are worth more than $1,000.