More than 128,000 emails from Hunter Biden’s laptop are now in a searchable database, courtesy of a former aide to Donald Trump.
And on Thursday, NBC News was the first to publish an analysis of the emails, reporting that Hunter Biden managed to rake in about $11 million total from 2013 to 2018 while his dad served as vice president and shortly thereafter, according to new scrutiny of the first son.
NBC News report shows that Joe Biden’s scandal-scarred son also burned through cash at a rate of more than $200,000 a month from October 2017 through February 2018, spending it on luxury hotel rooms, payments on a Porsche sports car and dental work, as well as making unexplained bank withdrawals.
The younger Biden was making an excessive amount of money off of Burisma, yet never seemed to pay his taxes with it.
Here’s what the Daily Mail reported:
In his memoir Beautiful Things, Hunter admits that the Burisma money bankrolled his bad habits. He writes the extra cash ‘turned into a major enabler during my steepest skid into addiction’ and ‘hounded me to spend recklessly, dangerously, destructively. Humiliatingly. So I did.’
According to a report last week Hunter Biden hired Hollywood attorney Kevin Morris to help him pay off a $2 million tax bill — more than double what was previously reported — as he’s being investigated for tax fraud by a Delaware grand jury.
The investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes began when his father was still serving as Vice President during the Obama administration.
But in 2018 the inquiry was opened up to include potential tax fraud, money laundering and violations of lobbying laws, after it transpired the 52-year-old may have used political leverage to influence business deals.
There are also serious questions about what Hunter did to earn some of this money, particularly when it comes to his business dealings with Chinese firms.
It’s still unclear what exactly he did to earn that money from the Chinese partners and that lack of clarity has led to questions about national security, business, ethics, and possible criminal wrongdoing.
Hunter made $5.8 million, according to NBC, and more than half his total earnings from 2013 to 2018 came from two deals with Chinese business interests, including CFC Chinese energy, a massive oil, and gas company that had financing from a government development bank’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party, according to people who studied the firm.
Hunter had not paid taxes for so many years, despite his lavish earnings, that a former Justice Department Official, Chuck Rosenberg, says paying them could be seen as an admission of guilt at this point.
Instead of paying his taxes, he was pending $200k a month on lavish hotel rooms, prostitutes, illicit drugs, and who knows what else–more than he was making, by the way.
Sources: 100percentfedup, Daily Mail, NBC News