Hunter Biden is a hedge fund, venture capital, and private-equity fund investor who formerly worked as a lobbyist, banker, public administration official, and registered lobbyist-firm attorney.
63 Facts About Hunter Biden
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Hunter Biden was discharged from the US Navy Reserve shortly after his commissioning due to a failed drug test.
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Hunter Biden served on the board of Burisma Holdings, one of the largest private natural gas producers in Ukraine, from 2014 until his term expired in April 2019.
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Robert Hunter Biden was born on February 4,1970, in Wilmington, Delaware.
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Hunter Biden is the second son of Neilia Biden and Joe Biden.
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Hunter Biden graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Georgetown University in 1992.
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MBNA's hiring of Hunter Biden was controversial because his father had pushed for credit card legislation which was beneficial to the credit card industry and was supported by MBNA during Hunter Biden's time at the bank.
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Hunter Biden then served at the United States Department of Commerce, focusing on ecommerce policy for President Bill Clinton's administration.
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Hunter Biden was appointed to a five-year term on the board of directors of Amtrak by President George W Bush in 2006.
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Hunter Biden was the board's vice chairman from July 2006 until 2009, was replaced as vice chairman in January 2010, and resigned from the board in February, shortly after his father became vice president.
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Hunter Biden said during his father's vice-presidential campaign that it was time for his lobbying activities to end.
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In 2006, Biden and his uncle James Biden purchased international hedge fund Paradigm Global Advisors; Hunter was interim CEO of the fund for five years, until 2011.
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In September 2008, Hunter Biden launched a consultancy company named Seneca Global Advisors that offered to help companies expand into foreign markets.
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Hunter Biden was a partner in investment vehicles that included the name "Seneca" to denote his participation.
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Hunter Biden held the position of counsel in the law firm Boies Schiller Flexner LLP in 2014.
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Hunter Biden was on the board of directors of World Food Program USA, a 501 charity based in Washington, DC that supports the work of the UN World Food Programme from 2011 to 2017; he served as board chairman from 2011 to 2015.
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Several bank accounts linked to Hunter Biden have received $3.8 million in payments from CEFC China Energy, an oil and gas company with links to the Chinese Communist Party.
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Hunter Biden announced on October 13,2019, his resignation from the board of directors for BHR Partners, effective at the end of the month, citing "the barrage of false charges" by then-US President Trump.
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Chinese records showed Hunter Biden was no longer on BHR's board by April 2020.
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Hunter Biden's attorney said in November 2021 that his client no longer held any direct or indirect interest in BHR.
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Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma Holdings owned by Ukrainian oligarch and former politician Mykola Zlochevsky, who was facing a money laundering investigation just after the Ukrainian revolution, in April 2014.
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Hunter Biden was hired to help Burisma with corporate governance best practices, while still an attorney with Boies Schiller Flexner, and a consulting firm in which Hunter Biden is a partner was retained by Burisma.
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Christopher Heinz, John Kerry's stepson, opposed his partners Devon Archer and Hunter Biden joining the board in 2014 due to the reputational risk.
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Hunter Biden served on the board of Burisma until his term expired in April 2019, receiving compensation of up to $50,000 per month in some months.
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Former President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani claimed in 2019, without evidence, that Joe Hunter Biden had sought the dismissal of Shokin in order to protect his son and Burisma Holdings.
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The Ukrainian anti-corruption investigation agency stated in September 2019 that its current investigation of Burisma was restricted solely to investigating the period from 2010 to 2012, before Hunter Biden joined Burisma in 2014.
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Trump falsely told Zelenskyy that "[Joe] Hunter Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution" of his son; Joe Hunter Biden did not stop any prosecution, did not brag about doing so, and there is no evidence his son was ever under investigation.
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Ukrainian prosecutor general Yuriy Lutsenko said in May 2019 that Hunter Biden had not violated Ukrainian law.
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Johnson said he would release findings in spring 2020, as Democrats would be selecting their 2020 presidential nominee, but instead ramped up the investigation at Trump's urging in May 2020, after it became clear that Joe Hunter Biden would be the nominee.
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Ukrainian lawmaker Andrii Derkach, an associate of Rudy Giuliani with links to Russian intelligence, released in May 2020 alleged snippets of recordings of Joe Biden speaking with Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko during the years Hunter Biden worked for Burisma.
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The recordings, which were not verified as authentic and appeared heavily edited, depicted Hunter Biden linking loan guarantees for Ukraine to the ouster of the country's prosecutor general.
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The recordings did not provide evidence to support the ongoing conspiracy theory that Hunter Biden wanted the prosecutor fired to protect his son.
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Poroshenko denied in June 2020 that Joe Hunter Biden ever approached him about Burisma.
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Two Republicans on a Senate investigation committee in 2020 claimed that Russian businessperson Yelena Baturina, the wife of former Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov, wire-transferred $3.5 million in 2014 to Rosemont Seneca Thornton, of which Hunter Biden had previously been a partner.
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The Senate report cited unspecified confidential documents and gave no evidence that Hunter Biden personally accepted the funds.
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Hunter Biden's attorney denied the report, saying Hunter Biden had no financial relationship with the woman and no stake in the partnership that received the money, nor did he co-found the partnership.
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In December 2020, Hunter Biden made a public announcement via his attorney that his tax affairs are under federal criminal investigation.
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The Wall Street Journal reported that Hunter Biden had provided legal and consulting services that generated foreign-earned income, citing a Senate Republicans' report that says millions of dollars in wire transfers from entities linked to Chinese energy tycoon Ye Jianming were paying for such services.
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Federal investigators have been examining the lobbying firm Blue Star Strategies, which Burisma retained while Hunter Biden sat on its board, for possible illegal lobbying of American officials.
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Blue Star employees said in Senate testimony that Hunter Biden was included in emails about the firm's work but that he was not particularly involved.
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One of the firm's co-founders said Hunter Biden did not direct its work.
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The analysis found that Hunter Biden's firm took in $11 million from 2013 to 2018 and spent the money quickly.
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In January 2023, an anonymous Twitter account posted a rental application found on the laptop, leading to a false claim that in 2018 Hunter Biden had paid $49,910 in monthly rent for his father's Delaware residence where classified documents had been found.
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In February 2020, The New York Times reported that Hunter Biden had been painting as an "undiscovered artist" in his Hollywood Hills home.
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Hunter Biden's paintings were put up for sale for as much as $500,000 per painting.
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At age 43, Hunter Biden was accepted as part of a program that allows a limited number of applicants with desirable skills to receive commissions and serve in staff positions.
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Hunter Biden received an age-related waiver and a waiver due to a past drug-related incident; he was sworn in as a direct commission officer.
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Joe Hunter Biden administered his commissioning oath in a White House ceremony.
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Hunter Biden attributed the result to smoking cigarettes he had accepted from other smokers, claiming the cigarettes were laced with cocaine.
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Hunter Biden did not appeal the discharge, stating that he thought it unlikely the panel would believe his explanation given his history with drugs.
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Hunter Biden stated that he did not appeal due to the likelihood that this would result in the press becoming aware of the discharge itself; however it was ultimately revealed to The Wall Street Journal by a Navy official who provided the information.
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Hunter Biden began a relationship with Hallie Olivere Hunter Biden, widow of his brother Beau, in 2016.
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Hunter Biden has another daughter, born in August 2018 in Arkansas to Lunden Alexis Roberts.
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Hunter Biden initially denied paternity of the child, but a DNA test, conducted as part of a paternity suit filed in May 2019 by Roberts, confirmed paternity.
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The lawsuit was settled in March 2020 after Hunter Biden agreed to pay Roberts a monthly amount of child support and health insurance premiums, as well as other costs.
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The terms of the settlement were initially undisclosed, but a hearing in May 2023 revealed that Hunter Biden was paying $20,000 in monthly child support and had paid a total of $750,000 to Roberts.
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Hunter Biden filed a motion in September 2022 to reduce his child support payments, on the basis of reduced income; Roberts opposed this request and petitioned the Arkansas court to change the child's surname to Biden, so that his daughter might benefit from associations with Biden's family.
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Hunter Biden is represented in the child-support proceedings by attorney Abbe Lowell; an Arkansas judge in May 2023 ordered Hunter Biden to sit for a deposition and provide more details about his financial resources.
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Hunter Biden married South African filmmaker Melissa Cohen in May 2019, within a week after first meeting her.
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Hunter Biden has had a life-long struggle with drug and alcohol abuse and detailed his struggles in his memoir Beautiful Things.
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Hunter Biden believes his addiction can be linked back to trauma from the 1972 motor vehicle accident that killed his mother and sister.
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Hunter Biden released a memoir discussing the trauma of the accident that claimed the lives of his mother and sister and his later addiction struggles, titled Beautiful Things on April 6,2021.