It’s taken far longer than anyone would have expected, but one expert says that it seems the legal walls may finally be closing in the Biden family.
Hunter Biden may finally face the music seven years after a federal investigation opened into his activities.
An investigation into Hunter Biden for tax fraud began all the way back in 2014, when his father was still vice president of the United States under Barack Obama. That’s the same year Hunter began working with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, pulling down a cool $50,000 a month.
The investigation seemed to disappear while his old man was running for president in 2020, but now it’s back—and there’s been a big break in the case.
“I expect him to be indicted,” said Clint Lancaster, the lawyer for Lunden Alexis “Dallas” Roberts, the Arkansas stripper who gave birth to Hunter Biden’s child.
Lancaster revealed that he turned over “a significant amount of Hunter’s financial records” to the FBI during an interview with CNBC last Thursday.
“Just based on what I saw in his financial records, I would be surprised if he’s not indicted,” Lancaster told the network.
When asked how many electronic records he gave the feds, Lancaster wasn’t sure—because the haul was so enormous. “Oh, hell, it was a bunch,” he told CNBC. “I would estimate it was anywhere from 10 gigs of data.”
Hunter Biden paid his client, Roberts, child support from May until November 2018…and the company he used was receiving payments from Burisma. Then the payments stopped. She settled the case out of court in January 2020.
Roberts testified before a grand jury last month under subpoena…and it looks like she let her ex have it.
And now, she’s let the FBI have all the records she has.
“I’m not making any statements about what was in the tax records, whether he paid taxes, or whether he didn’t pay taxes,” said Lancaster—but he opened up on the fact that the financial information in those e-records will be “problematic” for the 52-year-old president’s son.
“I had his Burisma pay records. I had records of ultimately what Burisma paid into the United States,” Lancaster said.
Yes, that could definitely be a problem for Hunter—and for his old man. Hunter Biden’s importance has always been that he was “holding” part of his earnings for his father, who set the deals up. His father—who is now the president—would then grant those people special favors in office, the allegation says.
If Hunter goes down, his father could probably follow him.
What is clear is that Hunter Biden takes the charges seriously enough that he’s paid back over $1 million in back taxes that he owes the IRS, the issue that touched off this investigation.
“The up-to-date tax bill could make it harder for prosecutors to convict President Joe Biden’s 52-year-old son however, and hinder their ability to win a lengthy sentence if he was convicted,” reported the New York Post.
But the charges that investigators uncovered since then—about Burisma and other crony deals he hammered out under his father’s patronage—could still land him in jail.
That actually doesn’t make Lancaster, or his client, happy.
Hunter’s ex-girlfriend and the daughter they have together “don’t want Hunter to go to jail,” Lancaster told the cable network.
“It’s not my goal, much to the unhappiness of many people in the Republican Party,” Lancaster said.
He revealed that Hunter Biden has never seen, or expressed any interest in seeing, his three-year-old daughter.
When Joe Biden set out a Christmas stocking to represent each of his grandchildren at the White House last December, he left Hunter’s baby—whose paternity has been confirmed by a DNA test—out in the cold. Hunter is following the old man’s lead.
“It’s sad, because the baby looks like him, with blond hair,” Lancaster told CNBC.
Maybe they can set up prison visitation?
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”