Dirty money, dirty politics, and Hunter Biden
by Jerry Dunleavy, Justice Department Reporter |
October 15, 2022 08:15 AM
There might finally be enough pieces of the Hunter Biden puzzle for the authorities and Congress to put together the full picture of the legal case against the president's son. And the next few weeks will play a crucial role in how this convoluted and salacious story ends.
The federal agents who have been investigating Hunter Biden believe that they have unearthed enough evidence to charge him with crimes related to tax fraud and lying during his purchase of a handgun, according to numerous reports. Republicans in Congress, meanwhile, seek to recapture the majority in early November and turn the investigative committees' attention from the previous president to the current one. The midterm elections will determine whether Republicans get the chance to uncover wider Biden family corruption to go along with possible indictments against Hunter.
Although the Justice Department indicting the son of a sitting president would be a major development, the bigger questions remain whether the DOJ has been considering more significant charges tied to money laundering or foreign lobbying and whether investigators have been looking into the national security implications of Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings, especially his association with businessmen linked to Chinese intelligence.
Hunter controversially held a lucrative position on the board of Ukrainian energy giant Burisma while his father was vice president. He also pursued business deals in China and elsewhere during and after his father’s tenure, raking in millions thanks to these associations.
Hunter Biden’s lawyer, Chris Clark, declared in October that he wanted the Justice Department to conduct a leak investigation in response to stories about his client potentially being charged, arguing, “It is a federal felony for a federal agent to leak information about a grand jury investigation such as this one.”
President Joe Biden said in September that “there's not a single thing that I've observed at all from — that would affect me or the United States relative to my son Hunter.”
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