President Joe Biden's brother Jim worked with Qatari government officials to secure funding for his health care ventures in the United States, according to testimony from his former business partner that Politico reported on Sunday.
Fund manager Michael Lewitt's testimony revealed closer than previously known ties between the first brother and officials from the oil-rich Middle Eastern nation, Politico reported. The Qatari government has funded and sheltered terrorists across the Middle East, including senior Hamas leaders who were responsible for the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
Lewitt said that "members of the Qatari government" partly owned two companies with which Biden worked to raise money for the struggling hospital chain Americore Health.
The Platinum Group USA "partnered directly with Jim Biden in the multi-year fundraising efforts," while Obermeyer Engineering Consulting "provided financial backing for a series of loans that a hospital chain paid Jim Biden to arrange," according to the report.
The president's brother also boasted of the Biden family's political connections in a letter to an official at the Qatar Investment Authority, the country's sovereign wealth fund.
"My family could provide a wealth of introductions and business opportunities at the highest levels that I believe would be worthy of the interest of His Excellency," Jim Biden said in the letter. "On behalf of the Biden family, I welcome your interest here."
Lewitt is set to face questions about his testimony against Biden in an upcoming interview with House impeachment inquiry investigators, although the date of the interview has not been announced.
"If substantiated, the alleged arrangements would constitute some of the closest known financial links between a relative of President Joe Biden and a foreign government," Politico noted in the report.