Did you know that Hunter Biden is a member in good standing of the DC and Connecticut Bars?
In addition to being such a fabulous and successful artist, Hunter Biden is indeed a Bar member:
First reported by the Daily Caller, Biden told the judge during his first appearance in a Wilmington, Delaware federal court, in which his expected plea deal ultimately collapsed, that he was a member of the D.C. and Connecticut Bars.
According to the D.C. Bar website, Biden remains a member in “good standing,” despite the rules of professional conduct stating that it is misconduct for a lawyer to “commit a criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer’s honesty, trustworthiness, or fitness as a lawyer in other respects.”
In connection with the fact that Hunter is actually a lawyer – and a graduate of Yale Law School, no less – he seems to have gotten a rather hefty paycheck from a man named Ho in 2018 for supposed legal services. Margot Cleveland wonders about the following, which was a portion of the Statement of Facts contained in Hunter’s court pleadings and read into the record at his recent court hearing:
On or about March 22, 2018, [Hunter] Biden received a $1 million payment into his Owasco, LLC bank account as payment for legal fees for Patrick Ho, and $939,000 remained available as of tax day. Over the next six months Biden would spend almost the entirety of this balance on personal expenses, including large cash withdrawals, transfers to his personal account, travel, and entertainment.
I’m not sure which thing seems more noteworthy – that someone was paying drug-addled Hunter that kind of money for supposed legal work, or that Hunter managed to blow it so quickly. Or maybe it’s this:
…[T]he overwhelming evidence indicates that was a lie and that the money, at best, represented payment for influence peddling and, at worst, was a bribe…
First, there’s the problem that the $1 million payment on March 22, 2018, was made not to Hunter Biden’s law firm, Owasco PC, but to Owasco LLC. And if you are going to pay $1 million for legal representation, you kinda want to pay the law firm supposedly providing those services.
Second, not only did Ho not pay Hunter’s law firm, Owasco PC, Ho didn’t even pay Owasco LLC. Rather, Ho paid Hudson West III LLC $1 million on Nov. 2, 2017 — mere weeks before federal prosecutors charged Ho with bribing foreign officials to advantage the Chinese communist energy company CEFC…
Then there is the Attorney Engagement Letter reportedly recovered from Hunter Biden’s laptop, dated September 2017, between Patrick Ho and Hunter Biden, which provided for a $1 million retainer for legal representation. Significantly, this agreement was not entered into between Ho and any of the Owasco entities, but with Hunter Biden personally. Yet on Wednesday, Biden told Judge Noreika his law firm was doing the work for Ho. But what law firm that was, Biden seemed not to know.
Of course, Hunter didn’t know because no “legal” representation was provided to Ho and none was expected. Yet that’s precisely what the government and Hunter Biden represent as true in the Statement of Facts, and they may have gotten away with the deception had Judge Noreika accepted the plea agreement without question.
I don’t see anyone in the press discussing this except for Cleveland, a lawyer who writes for The Federalist.
The scope and breadth of the possible deceptions and corruption of Hunter Biden and many of the rest of the Biden family members is quite extraordinary, but even more extraordinary is the intensity of the efforts of the government to cover it up. And if the payments from Ho actually were on the up and up, I wonder if we’ll ever learn what work Hunter did for him to merit such a huge transfer of money – although, then again, to Hunter a million dollars was just six months’ worth of entertainment funds.
Hmm. Usually he’s the one paying the Ho’s.
According to various reports, one of Hunter’s masterpieces was purchased by Elizabeth Hirsh Naftali, a wealthy donor to the Democrats, who is close to Pelosi and friendly to the senile buffoon. To which museum will she be donating this no doubt magnificent painting in her will? One does wonder whether H’s greatest talent is art or writing or business or, perhaps, even the law, but he is certainly a “Renaissance Man” of our time.
Hunter is not a member in good standing of the Connecticut bar. His licensure was administratively suspended in 2021 for not paying his annual due ($75) to the state’s Client Security Fund, which ironically exists to reimburse clients who are victims of dishonest attorneys for damages.
https://www.jud.ct.gov/attorneyfirminquiry/JurisDetail.aspx
Gee whiz, somehow the Seattle Times has managed to overlook such a fine analysis of H. Biden’s get-out-of-jail-free adventure in the Wilmington Federal Court. No wonder that Democrats rule in Seattle.
Queen of Mien:
Glad to hear it.
In court, however, he said he is a member of the Connecticut Bar. Interesting.
Older_and_Wheezier:
Yes, I was trying to work a pun like that into the piece. I was going to write, “This Ho was paying Biden” – but then I somehow got sidetracked.
The jokes write themselves!
Also, there is no way that idiot got into Yale under his own steam much less produced value (other than indirectly) worth much of anything.
Over the next six months Biden would spend almost the entirety of this balance on personal expenses, including large cash withdrawals, transfers to his personal account, travel, and entertainment.
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…to Hunter a million dollars was just six months’ worth of entertainment funds.
It is all quite astonishing. However, we don’t know the divisions within in the six months of spending. If Hunter is the bag man for the Biden family pay-to-play, bribery, and extortion enterprise, then one might expect that very large cash withdrawals would be utilized for bribery, or other nefarious purposes.
The other incredible news item are these new DOJ charges against Devon Archer just before he is to testify in front of congress. The Democrat machine isn’t even trying to cloak their sleezy operations at this point. Unless you are a LIV, and then the attitude is, “What sleezy operations?”
In court, however, he said he is a member of the Connecticut Bar. Interesting. — neo
Remember, this is the guy who was so drug addled that he left his laptop loaded with incriminating data at a computer repair shop, and forgot about it. You can just imagine Hunter thinking, “I missed a $75 payment and they suspended my license??”
Hunter Biden transferred to Yale Law from Georgetown. I wonder how that worked? Did Senator Smilin’ Joe have someone from from Bill Clinton’s inner circle give a call to the dean?
Someday someone will take a hard look at that. Is it important that transfer students after the first year have no impact on the US News statistics, so they are viewed as easier admits? Zlochevsky’s dog is smarter than Hunter Biden.
Amadeus 48:
But Georgetown is a top law school as well.
ever since they let sandra fluke in, I tend to doubt it,
“In court, however, he said he is a member of the Connecticut Bar. Interesting.”
Translation: he’s made the grand tour of every bar in New Haven, which explains his loss of “standing.”
miguel cervantes:
Hunter Biden attended in the 1990s, prior to that.
Of course, his dad was already a senator.
These payments to the Biden Crime Family are a game of 3 card Monty to find
so is that lawyer who falsified statements for the fisa warrant, kleinsmith