The records show the financial assistance from Morris to Hunter Biden began during the height of his father's presidential campaign in early 2020 and mushroomed over the years to include many aspects of Hunter Biden's lifestyle, including five-figure monthly rents at California homes, child support payments, some travel, legal bills, and federal and local tax debts totaling over $2 million.
Presidential brother James Biden, Hunter's uncle, told IRS agents and federal prosecutors in a Sept. 29, 2022, interview he did not know why Morris had been so helpful to his nephew, the president's son, who was identified in the IRS interview report by his initials "RHB." "Morris was helping RHB a lot, but James B didn't know why," the IRS summary of the James Biden interview stated.
Another painting, the documents show, was purchased by Liz Naftali, a Los Angeles real estate investor and Democratic donor who has visited the White House since Joe Biden took office and was also appointed by the president to the federal Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad. Morris and Naftali donated significant sums to Joe Biden's presidential campaign efforts.
Naftali gave $5,600 directly to Biden's campaign and thousands in contributions to Democratic campaigns, party organizations, and PACs during the 2019-2020 campaign cycle, including a $50,000 contribution to a pro-Biden PAC. An art sales agreement in October 2020 first secured the partnership between Berges, and Hunter Biden, and listed Hollywood agent and longtime Democratic fundraiser Lanette Phillips as the talent agent who was entitled to a 10% commission on sales of Biden's artwork.
Just the News pieced together the millions in financial assistance from Morris and art buyers to Hunter Biden through federal government records, interviews with vendors, court records from Hunter Biden's high-profile child custody case, FBI and IRS interviews with witnesses such as Hunter Biden's tax accountant as well as evidence released publicly by Congress in Joe Biden's ongoing impeachment inquiry.
Two days later, Hunter Biden and Morris executed a second promissory note totaling $2.6 million that covered Morris' assistance to the first son in 2021, the lion's share of which went to pay off tax debts and penalties to the IRS as well as state and local authorities dating to 2016, the memos show.
Hunter Biden's accountant, who cooperated with the probe, told agents there was an effort during the 2020 election to pay off some of the debts and that it became "Prioritized" for fear that media might get wind of Hunter Biden's tax woes, according to an IRS summary of the agents' interview.
Pdf IRS agents Shapley and Ziegler pitched prosecutors on the idea of bringing a criminal case against the Biden campaign, theorizing that Morris' assistance amounted to a prohibited excessive contribution accepted by Joe Biden's campaign.
The agents' aspiration for a criminal case aside, the sheer amount of money flowing to Joe Biden's son from Democratic supporters - especially after Hunter Biden's foreign business deals came to an end - are certain to become a larger focus in Congress and the impeachment inquiry.
A transcript of a court hearing in Hunter Biden's child paternity case in Arkansas - since settled - as well as records the U.S. Attorney's office in Delaware filed in federal court as part of a now-rejected plea deal made clear references to Hunter Biden's new sources of income.
Agents identified evidence of payments from Morris to pay Hunter Biden's bills that began on or around Feb. 14, 2020, the height of the presidential election primaries, starting with a large payment to Hunter Biden's ex-wife, a large payment to the mother of Hunter Biden's daughter in Arkansas and several legal bills.
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