Successful grifters can smell trouble coming from a mile away.
Though it remains to be seen if Hunter Biden is guilty of influence peddling for his pops and other crimes, it does appear that the GOP is going to draw the curtain back on Hunter’s life. What lies behind the curtain promises to be a sordid affair, judging from Hunter’s notorious laptop from hell.
In an effort to shield himself from the coming drama — as his father, the Democrats and the establishment media have been doing all along — Hunter Biden has now hired Abbe Lowell, former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment attorney, to combat a congressional investigation into the Biden family’s business dealings, according to Breitbart.
Lowell is no stranger to political legal drama. One of the establishment’s top attorneys, he has represented high-profile clients such as Sen. Robert Menendez, former Sen. John Edwards, lobbyist Jack Abramoff and, yes, Bill Clinton. An equal opportunity litigator, Lowell has also represented former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Of course, an attorney of Lowell’s caliber doesn’t come cheap. Odds are that he’s not taking the Hunter Biden case pro bono. Investigative reporter Chuck Ross noted as much and speculated as to how and where Hunter Biden got the money to afford a lawyer like Lowell.
Abbe Lowell ain’t cheap. Wonder how Hunter is paying for this after blowing all of his money on drugs and pros. Must be the art gig. https://t.co/fwphkshxZ5
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) December 22, 2022
And Lowell isn’t the only lawyer whom Hunter is going to have to hide behind. Lowell joins a legal defense cadre that includes lead attorney Kevin Morris along with Chris Clark and Joshua A. Levy.
Lowell’s job will be to defend Hunter from the congressional probe, while Clark and Levy will try to prevent Hunter from being charged by the Justice Department for tax and gun violations, Breitbart reported.
The White House has said the Republicans’ planned investigations are “partisan attacks on the president and his family” and are “rooted in nonsensical conspiracy theories,” according to NBC News.
Incoming House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer disagrees. At a news conference last month, Comer said the committee will focus on whether the Biden family’s business activities “compromise U.S. national security and President [Joe] Biden’s ability to lead with impartiality.”
The investigation will look into potential wire fraud, violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, tax evasion and money laundering.
In the meantime, Morris has compiled opposition research on Tony Bobulinski, Hunter’s former business partner, and computer repairman John Paul Mac Isaac, according to The Washington Post. Nothing like some ad hominem attacks for a defense strategy.
Whatever the outcome, there’s already a lot more to the Hunter Biden case than there was to the Russian collusion hoax leveled at Trump. What goes around comes around — but this time it’s no hoax.
When Hunter Biden told CBS News in a 2021 interview, “I’m absolutely certain, 100 percent certain, that at the end of the investigation, I will be cleared of any wrongdoing,” it was about as convincing as one of his paintings being worth $200,000.
Hunter smells trouble. Will his lawyers be able to paint a picture that can hide him from it?
https://www.westernjournal.com/hunter-biden-lawyers-someone-big-connection-clinton-knows-coming/
Hunter Biden is asking the Federal Government and the Delaware AG to go after individuals who shared personal information from his laptop.
Hunter Biden is going after John Paul Mac Isaac, Rudy Giuliani, his attorney Robert Costello, Stephen K. Bannon, Garrett Ziegler, Jack Maxey and Yaacov Apelbaum.
Hunter Biden lost custody of his computers after he abandoned them at a computer repair shop owned by John Paul Mac Isaac in Delaware in April, 2019.
Associated Press reports:
Lawyers for President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, have asked the Justice Department to investigate close allies of former President Donald Trump and others who they say accessed and disseminated personal data from a laptop that he dropped off at a Delaware computer repair shop in 2019.
In a separate letter, Biden’s attorneys have also asked Fox News host Tucker Carlson to retract and apologize for what they say are false and defamatory claims made repeatedly about him on-air, including implying without evidence that he had unauthorized access to classified documents found at his father’s home.
The request for a criminal inquiry, which comes as Hunter Biden faces his own tax evasion investigation by the Justice Department, has no practical impact and does not commit federal prosecutors to take any action. But it nonetheless represents a concerted shift in strategy and a rare public response by the younger Biden and his legal team to years of attacks by Republican officials and conservative media, scrutiny expected to continue now that the GOP has taken over the House.
It also represents the latest salvo in the long-running laptop saga, which began with a New York Post story in October 2020 that detailed some of the emails it says were found on the device related to his foreign business dealings. It was swiftly seized on by Trump as a campaign issue during the presidential election that year.
The letter, signed by prominent Washington attorney Abbe Lowell, seeks an investigation into, among others, former Trump strategist Steve Bannon, Trump’s longtime lawyer Rudy Giuliani, Giuliani’s own attorney and the Wilmington computer repair shop owner, John Paul Mac Isaac, who received Biden’s laptop in April 2019.
The letter cites passages from Mac Isaac’s book in which he admitted reviewing private and sensitive material from Biden’s laptop, including a file titled “income.pdf.” It notes that Mac Isaac sent a copy of the laptop data to Giuliani’s lawyer, Robert Costello, who in turn shared it with Giuliani, Trump’s close ally, who at the time was pushing discredited theories about the younger Biden.
An article at CBS News includes links to the letters the Hunter team sent out earlier today.
The flurry of letters to the Delaware attorney general, the Department of Justice, the I.R.S. and attorneys for Fox News and Carlson represent an aggressive new strategy for the president’s son, who is facing long-running federal criminal investigations, as well as new probes promised by congressional Republicans, according to a source familiar with Biden’s approach.
“This marks a new approach by Hunter Biden and his team,” the source told CBS News. “He is not going to sit quietly by as questionable characters continue to violate his rights and media organizations peddling in lies try to defame him.”
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