Hunter Biden received money from a foreign business magnate to influence U.S. policy and lied about the nature of his services for his father’s sake, prosecutors stated in court after years of investigations.
Hunter Biden “received compensation from a foreign principal who was attempting to influence U.S. policy and public opinion,” prosecutors say in documents filed last week in the trial of the president’s son over $1.4 million in unpaid taxes.
Yet the younger Biden failed to register as a lobbyist for a foreign power to spare his father political embarrassment, falsely labeling his business as real estate management advice.
In 2015, Romanian real estate tycoon Gabriel Popoviciu faced bribery charges in his native land. Popoviciu hired Hunter Biden, then the son of sitting Vice President Joe Biden, to prompt the Obama-Biden administration to “investigate the Romanian criminal investigation into Gabriel Popoviciu and thereby cause an end to the investigation of Gabriel Popoviciu in Romania,” stated court filings from special counsel David Weiss.
At the time, the senior Biden handled the Eastern European portfolio for the Obama administration.
Since he was attempting to change U.S. policy toward the Romanian government, Hunter Biden should have registered with the U.S. government as the agent of a foreign citizen under the terms of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA.
Yet the younger........