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Rep. James Comer, the top Republican on the House Oversight Committee, wrote a letter to Hunter Biden's art dealer questioning the 'ethics' of the hefty price tags on the president's son's art.
Comer, Ky., on behalf of the committee requested all documents and communications between George Berges, the art dealer, and the White House and Hunter. He also asked for a copy of the ethics guidelines and all contracts and agreements related to the deal with Berges' gallery and communications relating to the pricepoint of the art.
Hunter Biden's art work is to be sold for anywhere from $75,000 to $500,000.
The sales will occur 'anonymously' after exhibitions in Los Angeles and at Georges Bergès Gallery New York City's trendy SoHo neighborhood - both attended by Hunter.
'The prices your gallery has set for these pieces by a new, untrained, celebrity artist are unprecedented,' Comer wrote in the letter. 'Given Mr. Biden's previous roles as lawyer, lobbyist and ill-defined executive for an international fossil fuel corporation, the latest chapter in - as you describe it - his 'heroic journey' is subject to skepticism.'
'It is the Oversight Committee's responsibly [sic] to scrutinize Mr. Biden's business activities because he chooses to conduct them in the most murky and corrupt corners of international affairs,' the Kentucky
