In his transcribed interview, Shapley described the general theory of the newly-disclosed campaign finance allegations as relating to the payment of Hunter Biden's significant tax debts, which reportedly totaled more than $2 million just to the IRS and were extinguished by a third-party by October 2021, according to a document filed by prosecutors in the now-scuttled plea deal between Hunter Biden and prosecutors in Delaware.
File Hunter Biden's plea agreement with the Justice Department 7.26.23 Kevin Morris, a successful Hollywood lawyer and novelist, has been identified by The New York Times and others as the person who provided the money for Hunter Biden to pay his overdue taxes.
NBC News has reported that Hunter Biden and his ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle, received an earlier tax lien from the IRS in November 2019 - about the time Morris and Biden reportedly met - and paid the lien off in the amount of $112,805.
The news organization noted that Hunter Biden made the payment despite claiming in an Arkansas paternity case at the time that he had "No discernible income." Congressional investigators want to know how Hunter Biden afforded paying off those two pre-2020 election tax liens given his publicly acknowledged financial difficulties and whether Morris or another supporter provided any loans or assistance then.
Morris' support for the Biden family - including donating more than $50,000 to Joe Biden's campaign and a super PAC supporting him in 2020 and providing legal advice to Hunter Biden - was first flagged in a letter to the Hollywood lawyer from House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer a year ago.
"Your sudden patronage of the President's son, enormous financial contributions to President Biden, and outsized role you are taking in defending against both congressional and criminal investigations raise serious concerns about whether you are providing in-kind contributions to President Biden's re-election efforts," Comer wrote in June 2022.
"Committee Republicans request documents and information regarding your actions to shield Hunter Biden and, ultimately, President Biden from congressional oversight." File Letter-to-Kevin-Morris-06122022.
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