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Hunter Biden, son of Democrat President Joe Biden, is expected to face tax fraud charges, said the attorney for the mother of Hunter’s 3-year-old daughter.
Lunden Alexis Roberts, the mother of Hunter’s daughter, testified to a Delaware grand jury in the criminal investigation of Hunter this week, according to Clint Lancaster, her attorney. Former stripper Roberts had once been employed by Hunter Biden’s consulting firm, according to the New York Post.
The authorities have already received a substantial amount of Hunter’s financial records from Lancaster.
“I expect him to be indicted,” Lancaster to a CNBC reporter. “Just based on what I saw in his financial records, I would be surprised if he’s not indicted.”
Lancaster revealed he showed the records to the Arkansas child support court as part of a case against Hunter Biden.
According to him, he saw “a lot of information” as being “problematic” for Hunter, without stating specifically what he saw.
A report in the New York Times this week stated that Hunter Biden was also under criminal investigation for his lobbying work outside the United States:
Mr. Biden’s extensive work with foreign businesses came under scrutiny from prosecutors looking into whether he should have registered with the Justice Department as a foreign agent. Investigators have examined Mr. Biden’s relationships with interests in Kazakhstan, a Chinese energy conglomerate and Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company, according to people familiar with the investigation.
They said prosecutors had investigated payments and gifts Mr. Biden or his associates had received from foreign interests, including a vehicle paid for using funds from a company associated with a Kazakh oligarch and a diamond from a Chinese energy tycoon. Prosecutors also sought documents related to corporate entities through which Mr. Biden and his associates conducted business with interests around the world.
When Hunter Biden was living with the widow of his deceased brother, he attempted to claim he was not the father of a child with Roberts in the child support case in Arkansas. Nonetheless, a DNA test reportedly confirmed Hunter Biden’s fatherhood.
“DNA testing has established, ‘with scientific certainty,’ that Hunter Biden is the father of an Arkansas baby, according to a motion filed Wednesday in Independence County on behalf of the child’s mother, Lunden Alexis Roberts,” according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. “Hunter Biden, who initially denied having sexual relations with Roberts, eventually agreed to take a DNA test, according to documents filed by Roberts’ attorney, Clint Lancaster.”
When Lancaster was asked if Hunter Biden had ever seen his 3-year-old daughter, he replied, “No, he has not.”
Meanwhile, it was revealed last Friday that the State Department has agreed to turn over Hunter’s emails to the New York Times next month. The Times sued the department for allegedly delaying the release of the documents.
‘The State Department has started identifying records responsive to The Times’s FOIA requests,’ a Times attorney, Mr. David McCraw, wrote in a letter to the judge presiding over the case on Friday. ‘It has agreed to begin processing records for production as it continues to identify the remaining responsive records.’
Earlier this year, the paper sued the State Department for allegedly refusing to hand over emails allegedly related to Hunter Biden and his business partner Tony Bobulinski.
In two Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, Times reporter Kenneth Vogel sought emails spanning from 2015 to 2019. According to Politico, when the Times asked when the State Department would process their request, it was told to expect a response on April 15, 2023.
According to the request, the correspondence concerned ‘the possible improper use of federal government resources.’
As part of Vogel’s request, he sought records on former FBI director Louis Freeh, who gave Biden a $100,000 gift, Rudy Giuliani, who was tasked by Trump to uncover dirt on the Biden family abroad, and Devin Archer, a friend of Hunter who was recently sentenced to prison for fraud, among others.
As part of the investigation, the reporter also sought records from Mark Gitenstein, President Biden’s ambassador to the European Union who was U.S. Ambassador to Romania at the time.
While the federal government denied that it was holding up the release of the documents, it agreed to submit the first batch of records to officials by April 28, just ahead of a hearing on the lawsuit scheduled for March 17.
According to McCraw, the court date ‘may not be necessary’ because of the agreement.
‘The parties are still negotiating the number of pages to be processed in and the frequency of each production. The parties respectfully propose to provide a status report to the Court on March 25, 2022, informing the court of the results of this negotiation,’ the letter states.
An Italian land tycoon convicted in 2016 of bribery hired Hunter Biden.
Early that year, Gabriel Popoviciu hired Hunter to influence anti-corruption prosecutors to cut a deal or drop the case, and Hunter represented him in meetings with top U.S. officials – according to emails on Hunter’s laptop.
Source: The Republic Brief