House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) demanded proof on Thursday that the $200,000 payment James Biden sent his brother was, in fact, to repay a loan, as writing on the memo line of the 2018 check indicated.
“If Joe Biden did personally loan James Biden an amount that was later repaid by the $200,000 check, please provide the loan documents, including the loan payment, loan agreement, and any other supporting loan documentation,” Comer wrote in a letter to White House counsel Edward Siskel on Thursday.
James Biden sent the $200,000 payment to his brother the same day in March 2018 that he received $200,000 from Americore, a rural hospital operating company. That company later went bankrupt and sued James Biden over wire transfers it had sent him in 2018, claiming he misled the company into paying him $600,000 he had listed as loans.
“Defendant never repaid the Loans to Americore Health, including during the time that Debtors were strapped for cash,” Americore’s legal team complained in a July 2022 document in the lawsuit it filed against James Biden.
James Biden eventually settled the lawsuit by paying back a little more than half of what Americore said it loaned him.
Two other healthcare companies sued James Biden and other individuals associated with Americore over what they saw as alleged fraud.