James "Gomer" Comer is of the largest landholders near his rural Kentucky hometown, and he documented nearly all of his landholdings on congressional financial disclosure documents – roughly 1,600 acres. But there are 6 acres that he bought in 2015 and co-owns with a longtime campaign contributor where he transferred his ownership to Farm Team Properties -- a shell company he happens to co-own with his wife. Via the Associated Press:
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, a Democrat, 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.
[...] After this story first published Thursday, Comer responded during an appearance on FOX News, stating that Farm Team Properties “has five different assets and lots of revenue.” He didn’t reveal what those other assets may be. He also falsely claimed that the donor, Darren Cleary, “wasn’t a campaign co...ntributor” at the time the property was purchased. Cleary and his family have donated to Comer’s political campaigns since at least 2010, records show.
WAIT! You mean to say that Gomer is guilty of the same type of scheme for which he's accusing the Bidens? Can you say "projection"?
“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.
“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.
Marsco and other experts were perplexed as to why Comer would place such assets in a shell company, especially since he disclosed his other holdings and does not appear to have taken other efforts to hide his wealth.
All you have to do is follow Gomer's accusations, and you'll end up somewhere in the vicinity of truth.
