The DOJ is finally catching up to Peter Schweizer…
Multiple media outlets are now reporting that Hunter Biden tried to help a corrupt Romanian client by lobbying US officials during his father’s vice presidency. Special counsel David Weiss’ office officially acknowledged the foreign agent violations in a filing in Los Angeles federal court. Weiss’ office says, however, that FARA violations won’t be part of Biden’s tax evasion case.
(Despite the tax evasion being on income from Chinese, Romanian, and Ukrainian dealings.)
According to the filing Romanian businessman Gabriel Popoviciu, who was convicted of bribery in 2016, hired Hunter Biden “to attempt to influence U.S. government agencies to investigate the Romanian criminal investigation of [Popoviciu], and thereby cause an end to the investigation.”
“Hunter Biden and two business partners drafted a bogus business document to cover their tracks in a bid to avoid triggering the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), which requires registration and disclosure of lobbying on behalf of certain overseas clients,” The New York Post reports.
Hunter’s business partner Rob Walker “structured [the] business relationship in an effort to avoid having to register as a foreign agent,” the filing says.
“In reality, [Walker] and [Popoviciu] agreed that [Walker] would receive compensation for work by [Walker], [Hunter Biden], and [Hunter’s partner James Gilliar], to attempt to influence U.S. government agencies to investigate the Romanian investigation of [Popoviciu], and [Walker] would pass approximately 1/3 to [Hunter Biden] as his compensation and approximately 1/3 to [Gilliar] as his compensation,” Weiss’ filing said.
Despite the evidence of FARA violations, “[t]he introduction of that evidence… does not mean that the government will also reference allegations that the defendant violated FARA and that contacts with government officials were improper; such allegations are not relevant to the charges in this tax case,” Weiss wrote.
Are Hunter Biden’s FARA violations fair game now that President Biden has removed himself from the 2024 presidential race? Will Hunter be held accountable for similar FARA violations for his work with China and Russia? Stay tuned.
Peter Schweizer chronicles much of the Biden family’s work with foreign governments in Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite.
