Prosecutors claim Hunter Biden once agreed to lobby US on behalf of Romanian businessman
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Federal prosecutors alleged in a new court filing Wednesday that Hunter Biden agreed to lobby US officials on behalf of a Romanian businessman facing criminal investigations back home.
Federal prosecutors alleged in a new court filing Wednesday that Hunter Biden agreed to lobby US officials on behalf of a Romanian businessman facing criminal investigations back home. The new accusation came from special counsel David Weiss, who is prosecuting Hunter Biden for alleged tax evasion. The case, scheduled for trial in September, touches on many of Hunter Biden’s controversial foreign business dealings, sometimes while his father was in office. However, prosecutors haven’t charged Hunter Biden with any foreign lobbying crimes, though they investigated him for years on that front. They signaled in the new filing that they want to introduce new testimony about the alleged lobbying agreement as evidence in the tax case. Weiss’ team said Hunter Biden “agreed to attempt to influence U.S. public policy” by lobbying US agencies and officials to look for improprieties with the Romanian government’s investigation of a wealthy Romanian businessman identified in the filing by the initials G.P. Weiss further claimed Hunter Biden “did reach out to government officials” in the US, including at the State Department, though prosecutors did not elaborate on the details of those communications. Prosecutors say one of Hunter Biden’s business partners is prepared to testify at trial that they “were concerned that lobbying work might cause political ramifications” for Joe Biden, so they “concealed the true nature of the work” and claimed it was real estate management instead of lobbying.
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