This is a chapter from RealClearInvestigations' Hunter Biden Reader, a collection of news reports on Joe Biden's errant son and other family members.
Selected Articles and Reports on the Hunter Biden Investigations
(In Reverse Chronological Order)
Senators Demand Joe and Hunter Russia-Tied Escort Probe
Jerry Dunleavy, Washington Examiner, July 7, 2022
Two top Republican senators have demanded the Justice Department and FBI launch a full investigation into Hunter Biden's laptop, including the revelation unearthed on Hunter Biden’s laptop by the Washington Examiner that President Joe Biden apparently unwittingly financed his son’s participation in an escort ring tied to Russia.
Biden Admin Accused of Shielding Suspicious Hunter Records
Mark Moore, New York Post, July 6
Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) claimed in a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen that the Biden administration may be preventing the release of suspicious activity reports related to Hunter Biden. The reports, known as SARs, are generated by banks that flag suspiciously large transactions and are meant to guard against money laundering.
DoJ vs. Senators Doubting Hunter Biden Probe Objectivity
Tim Pearce, Daily Wire, June 17
The Department of Justice (DOJ) apparently blocked Republican senators from questioning a U.S. attorney on an ongoing federal investigation into President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter. Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) wrote to U.S. attorney David Weiss of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware in May about potential conflicts of interest and the state of the investigation. The senators received a response from the DOJ, not Weiss, earlier this month.
House Republicans Request Hunter Biden Financial Info from Treasury, Banks
Catherine Herridge, CBS News, May 30
Source: Hollywood Lawyer Fronted Hunter's $2M in Late Taxes
Devine et al., New York Post, May 8
Big-shot Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris reportedly paid off Hunter Biden’s delinquent taxes — which a source told The Post amounted to more than $2 million — as President Biden’s notoriously troubled son awaits the results of a Delaware grand jury’s investigation into his personal finances.
GOP Probe Reveals 150+ Global Biden Family Transactions Flagged by Banks
Catherine Herridge, CBS News, April 7
Hunter Biden Jury Focuses on ‘Big Guy’
Miranda Devine, Bruce Golding, New York Post, April 4
A witness who testified before the Hunter Biden grand jury was asked to identify the “big guy” in the first son’s planned deal with a Chinese energy conglomerate — as calls ramped up to have President Biden included in a conspiracy probe.
Federal Investigation of Hunter Biden Heats up
Evan Perez, Katelyn Polantz, CNN, March 30
Investigators have examined whether Hunter Biden and some of his associates violated money laundering, tax and foreign lobbying laws, as well as firearm and other regulations, multiple sources said.
Hunter Biden Tax Probe Examining Burisma Pay, Drug Use
Viswanatha et al., Wall Street Journal, March 28
A federal tax investigation into Hunter Biden is gaining momentum as prosecutors gather information from several of his associates about the sources of his foreign income, including from Ukraine, and examine President Biden’s son’s relationship with a company that handled some of his finances, according to people familiar with the matter.
Money-Laundering, Foreign-Agent Scrutiny of Hunter Biden
Benner et al., New York Times, March 17
The Justice Department inquiry into the business dealings of the president’s son has remained active, with a grand jury seeking information about payments from around the world.
Hunter Biden Tax Probe: Mom of His Love Child Testifies
Ben Ashford, Daily Mail, Feb. 16
Hunter Biden's baby mama has testified before a federal grand jury investigating him for alleged tax crimes. Lunden Roberts, 30, joins a growing list of former business partners and associates who have been subpoenaed to give evidence in the Department of Justice's secretive three-year probe into Hunter's murky financial affairs.
Claim: State Dept. Protecting Hunter Biden
Joseph Simonson, Chuck Ross, Washington Free Beacon, Feb. 8
Two Republican senators say the State Department impeded an investigation into Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings by "inappropriately" classifying emails about his work in Ukraine.
JP Morgan Subpoenaed in '19 re: Hunter Biden China Deals
Miranda Devine, New York Post, Jan. 30
A grand jury subpoena was issued 17 months before the 2020 election for Hunter Biden’s bank transactions involving the Bank of China, a corruption watchdog has found, raising concerns that damaging material about then-candidate Joe Biden was hidden from voters. The order sent by the Department of Justice to JP Morgan Chase bank asked for the records of any international financial transactions for the past five years involving Hunter, his uncle James Biden and former business partners Devon Archer and Eric Schwerin, according to federal documents.
Congressman Calls for Special Counsel Investigation in Light of Art Sales
House Judiciary Committee Hearing, Oct. 21, 2021
Delaware Prosecutor Held Off Hunter Biden Probe in '20
Ben Schreckinger, Politico, July 16
Veteran U.S. attorney David Weiss, known for his willingness to take on powerful Delaware figures, kept his investigation into Biden’s son out of the 2020 campaign.
Sources: Secret Service Intervened in Hunter Biden Gun Case
Tara Palmeri & Ben Schreckinger, Politico, March 25
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On Oct. 23, 2018, President Joe Biden’s son Hunter and daughter in law Hallie were involved in a bizarre incident in which Hallie took Hunter’s gun and threw it in a trash can behind a grocery store, only to return later to find it gone. Delaware police began investigating, concerned that the trash can was across from a high school and that the missing gun could be used in a crime, according to law enforcement officials and a copy of the police report obtained by Politico. But a curious thing happened at the time: Secret Service agents approached the owner of the store where Hunter bought the gun and asked to take the paperwork involving the sale, according to two people, one of whom has firsthand knowledge of the episode and the other was briefed by a Secret Service agent after the fact.
Hunter Biden Owed IRS Hundreds of Thousands: Email
Rowan Scarborough, Washington Times, Jan. 7
Hunter Biden, now under investigation for suspected tax fraud, owed a substantial amount to the IRS in 2018, apparently for 2017 and prior years when he was receiving regular income from a Ukrainian oligarch and Chinese firms tied to the Communist Party, an email shows.
Attorney General Barr: No Reason to Open Hunter Biden Special Counsel Investigation
Kevin Johnson & Kristine Phillips, USA Today, Dec. 21, 2020
Departing Attorney General William Barr continued to distance himself from President Donald Trump, saying he saw no reason to appoint special counsels to investigate the president-elect's son or unsubstantiated allegations of election fraud.
Hunter Biden Subpoena Has Wide Scope
Michael Balsamo, Associated Press, Dec. 12
A subpoena seeking documents from Hunter Biden asked for information related to more than two dozen entities, including Ukraine gas company Burisma.
Giuliani Material Spurred Separate DoJ Hunter Biden Probe
Goldman et al., New York Times, Dec. 11
As federal investigators in Delaware were examining the finances of Hunter Biden during his father’s campaign for president, a similar inquiry ramped up this year in Pittsburgh, fueled by materials delivered by President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani. The arrangement immediately raised alarms within the F.B.I. and the Justice Department.
Probe of Bidens Wider Than Hunter Let On: Source
Ben Schreckinger, Politico, Dec. 10
The federal investigation into President-elect Joe Biden’s son Hunter has been more extensive than a statement from Hunter Biden indicates. Hunter Biden said he had been contacted about a tax investigation out of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware. In addition, the securities fraud unit in the Southern District of New York also scrutinized Hunter Biden’s finances.
Barr Kept Hunter Biden Probes Quiet
Sadie Gurman, Wall Street Journal, Dec. 10
Hunter’s former business partner sent him an email in 2017 saying he did not disclose on his tax returns $400,000 in income from the Ukrainian natural gas company where he sat on the board.
Breaking: Hunter Biden is under investigation by U.S. attorney in Del. over his "tax affairs."
— Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) December 9, 2020
Statement from Biden-Harris transition says Pres.-elect Biden is "deeply proud of his son," and says he's emerged stronger after fighting "vicious personal attacks."
Full statement: pic.twitter.com/3LcdMSkOaI
Hunter Biden Says He's Being Probed for Possible Tax Crimes
Chuck Ross, Daily Caller, Dec. 9
Federal prosecutors in Delaware are investigating Hunter Biden for potential tax crimes, the president-elect's son said in a statement.
Senate Report: "Hunter Biden, Burisma and Corruption:
The Impact on U.S. Government Policy and Related Concerns"
Majority Staff, Committees on Finance and Homeland Security and Government Affairs, Nov. 18
New records confirm connections between the Biden family and the communist Chinese government, as well as links between Hunter Biden’s associates and the Russian government, and further support the Committees’ Sept. 23, 2020 report’s finding that such relationships created counterintelligence and extortion concerns.
GOP Shows Limited Appetite for Pursuing Biden Probes
Alexander Bolton, The Hill, Nov. 16
Republicans are showing little appetite for aggressively pursuing GOP investigations into President-elect Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden if they keep their Senate majority in 2021.
Biden Laptop Tied to Money-Laundering Probe
Jake Gibson, Fox News, Oct. 22
The FBI's subpoena of a laptop and hard drive purportedly belonging to Hunter Biden came in connection with a money laundering investigation in late 2019, according to documents obtained by Fox News and verified by multiple federal law enforcement officials who reviewed them.
FBI Thwarts Congressional Oversight on Hunter Biden
Tristan Justice, The Federalist, Oct. 8
The FBI is refusing to provide answers to a congressional inquiry pertaining to Hunter Biden's potentially criminal overseas business activity.
Burisma Pressured Biden. Ukraine Prosecutor Gone.
John Solomon, Just the News, Sept. 28, 2020
Hunter Biden and representatives of Burisma Holdings secured at least six high-level meetings with senior Obama administration officials in the weeks just before Vice President Joe Biden forced the firing of the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating the gas company, according to newly disclosed memos and testimony.
GOP Inquiry Finds No Evidence
of Joe Biden Wrongdoing
Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, Sept. 24
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An election-year investigation by Senate Republicans asserted that Hunter Biden traded off his father’s name to close lucrative business deals around the world, and that his work for Burisma Holdings, a corrupt Ukrainian energy company while the former vice president was directing American policy toward Kyiv gave the appearance of a conflict of interest and alarmed some in the State Department. But the 87-page document released by the Senate Homeland Security Committee contained no evidence that the former vice president improperly manipulated American policy toward Ukraine or committed any other misdeed.
Senate Report Finds Potential Biden-Tied Criminal Activity
John Solomon, Just the News, Sept. 24
A year-long Senate investigation concluded that Hunter Biden's efforts to cash in on foreign business deals during his father's vice presidency raised alarm among U.S. government officials, who flagged concerns about possible criminal activity ranging from bribery to sex trafficking.
GOP Probe: Red Flags Over Hunter Biden in '15
Andrew Duehren, Wall Street Journal, Sept. 23
Two Obama administration officials raised concerns to the White House in 2015 about Hunter Biden serving on the board of a Ukrainian natural-gas company while his father, then Vice President Joe Biden, led U.S. policy efforts toward the country, a Senate investigation by Republicans concluded.
