House Oversight Chairman James Comer on Friday called on the incoming attorney general to hold presidential brother James Biden accountable after accusing him last year of lying to Congress during his testimony in the impeachment probe into President Joe Biden. 

The committee previously referred James Biden to the Justice Department last June, but the agency currently under Democratic control has not pursued any charges. Yet, President-elect Donald Trump will be inaugurated on Monday and has nominated a new, Republican AG who may be more inclined to pursue the case. 

“On December 1, 2024, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. issued a written statement announcing ‘A Full and Unconditional Pardon’ for his son, Robert Hunter Biden,” wrote Chairman Comer in a letter to AG nominee Pam Bondi. 

“However, I write to remind incoming Department of Justice leadership of Hunter Biden’s main accomplice in his influence peddling schemes (aside from Joe Biden himself), whom the House Committees on Oversight, the Judiciary, and Ways and Means (the Committees) previously identified to Attorney General Merrick Garland as having misled Congress regarding Joe Biden’s participation in his family’s influence peddling and deserving of prosecution under federal law: James Biden, the President’s younger brother.”

You can read the letter below:

House Republicans referred both Hunter and James Biden to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution last June, accusing the pair of making false statements to Congress during the impeachment inquiry. 

Hunter, who received an expansive pardon from his father shortly after Thanksgiving last year, cannot face any prosecution for the alleged lies. But James Biden, who has not been pardoned by his brother, could face penalties for lying to Congress, the committee says. 

The committee argued that James Biden lied in his deposition when he claimed he did not meet with Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski while the group pursued a deal with CEFC China Energy, one of the Chinese companies with connections to the Chinese Communist Party at the center of the impeachment inquiry. Hunter Biden contradicted his uncle's statements in his own testimony, claiming James Biden was present at a meeting with him and Bobulinski.