Monday, September 30, 2019

Hunter Biden: The Most Comprehensive Timeline

Late Summer 2006: Hunter Biden and his uncle, James Biden, purchase the hedge fund Paradigm Global Advisors.

According to an unnamed executive quoted in Politico in August, James Biden declared to employees on his first day, "Don't worry about investors. We've got people all around the world who want to invest in Joe Biden." At this time, Joe Biden is months away from becoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and launching his second bid for president.

According to court records in a lawsuit filed by former business partner Joseph Lotito, Joe Biden wanted Hunter Biden to find a different line of work because his presidential campaign would be greatly complicated if he remained the father of a Washington lobbyist.

August 27, 2008: The Washington Post reports on an unusual loophole in Hunter Biden's refusal to lobby his father: "Sen. Barack Obama sought more than $3.4 million in congressional earmarks for clients of the lobbyist son of his Democratic running mate, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, records show. Obama succeeded in getting $192,000 for one of the clients, St. Xavier University in suburban Chicago." The Post reports that other lobbyists at Biden's firm lobbied his father.

August 19, 2013: New York Times business columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin writes in his column, "In Washington, the line between lobbying and bribery is not clear-cut. Until 2008, R. Hunter Biden, son of then-Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., lobbied Congress regularly."

You know, Hunter Biden and other members of the Biden family are obviously private citizens, and where they work does not reflect an endorsement by the administration or by the vice president or president.

October 2017: After having an unpaid role on the company's board since 2013, Hunter Biden acquired a financial stake in BHR, a 10 percent equity interest that was worth $430,000 as of July 2019, according to Hunter Biden's lawyer, George Mesires.


https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/09/hunter-biden-comprehensive-timeline/

No comments: