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“We’ve identified about 20-plus shell companies that the Bidens have created to launder the money they were receiving from foreign nationals down to their personal bank account.”
James Comer Member of Congress (R-Ky.). Interview on Fox Business. Claim dated 11 May 2023.
Washington Post rated thisThree Pinocchios

What Washington Post found

Most of these companies are not shell companies

Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.

In short

James Comer (Member of Congress (R-Ky.)) made this claim around 11 May 2023. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 17 August 2023, 98 days later. Its rating was “Three Pinocchios”.

James Comer has 9 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 4 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 0 true.

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