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Robert Hunter Biden (born February 4, 1970) is an American attorney and businessman. Biden has also worked as a hedge fund principal and a venture capital and private equity fund investor. He formerly worked as a banker, a lobbyist, and a legal representative for lobbying firms.
- Neilia Hunter Biden
Neilia Hunter Biden (July 28, 1942 – December 18, 1972) was...
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Neilia Hunter Biden, the first wife of Joe Biden, was born...
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Hunter Biden (born February 4, 1970, Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.) American attorney and businessman and the sole surviving son of Joe Biden, 46th president of the United States. The Yale-educated lawyer has held an array of positions at law firms, financial institutions, and lobbying firms that have raised questions about whether he has profited fro...
Hunter Biden is the second of three children born to Joe Biden and his first wife, Neilia Hunter Biden. On December 18, 1972, Neilia Biden and infant daughter Naomi were killed in a car accident while on the way to pick out a Christmas tree. Hunter and his elder brother, Joseph Robinette (“Beau”) Biden III, who was known as Beau in the family, were critically injured. Among other injuries, Hunter suffered a broken skull and brain injuries. Joe Biden, who had been elected to the U.S. Senate six weeks earlier, took the oath of office in his sons’ hospital room. In 1977 Joe Biden married Jill Tracy Jacobs, who became Hunter and Beau’s stepmother. Jill and Joe Biden have a daughter, Ashley Blazer Biden, who was born in 1981.
Hunter Biden attended Archmere Academy, a Roman Catholic high school in Claymont, Delaware, following in the footsteps of his father and elder brother. He spent his first year of college at the University of Pennsylvania, then enrolled in Georgetown University in 1988, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in history in 1992. After graduation, he moved on to Portland, Oregon, and he served in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, where he met Kathleen Buhle. Three months into their relationship, Buhle became pregnant; the two were married in July 1993, and their daughter Naomi King Biden was born in December. They had two more daughters: Finnegan, born in 1998, and Maisy, born in 2000. To complete his education, Biden enrolled in Georgetown Law. After his first year there, he transferred to Yale Law School, where he completed his degree in 1996.
Hunter Biden and his family returned to Wilmington, Delaware, where he had begun working as a lawyer and consultant with MBNA America, a bank holding company, and he quickly rose to the rank of executive vice president. Like most financial service firms, MBNA donated heavily to politicians of both major political parties, including Sen. Joe Biden.
Hunter Biden’s position with MBNA attracted accusations of impropriety and conflict of interest as Joe Biden backed controversial credit card legislation that was opposed by consumer groups but supported by MBNA during Hunter’s time with the company. Hunter Biden left MBNA in 1998 to serve in the Commerce Department under Pres. Bill Clinton, handling e-commerce policy. In 2001 he cofounded the lobbying firm of Oldaker, Biden & Belair. The firm lobbied on a variety of issues, including online gambling. Hunter Biden stopped lobbying when his father became Barack Obama’s vice presidential running mate in 2008.
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In 2006 Hunter Biden and his uncle James Biden purchased a hedge fund group called Paradigm Global Advisors. During the four years that the Bidens owned the fund, it was connected to several allegations of fraud, including a Texas businessman convicted of running an enormous Ponzi scheme. The Bidens denied wrongdoing, never faced charges, and liquidated the fund in 2010.
Hunter Biden’s business dealings, however, continued to raise questions about the extent to which he used his family name to secure deals. Devon Archer, a former business partner of Hunter Biden’s, testified in 2023 before a congressional committee that the younger Biden used “the illusion of access to his father” to attract potential partners.
Hunter Biden’s struggles with drugs and alcohol have been well documented and date to the early part of the 21st century and his tenure at his lobbying firm. In 2003 he underwent treatment for alcoholism and joined Alcoholics Anonymous. He relapsed several times and in 2014 was discharged from the U.S. Navy Reserve, to which he had received an assignment the year earlier, when he tested positive for cocaine.
In 2015 Beau Biden died of brain cancer, and his death sent Hunter Biden’s life into a downward spiral. Hunter and Kathleen Biden’s marriage had been failing, and in October 2015 they formally separated. They were divorced in 2017.
In 2020 Hunter Biden disclosed that the Justice Department has been investigating him since late 2018. The investigation was led by David C. Weiss, the U.S. attorney in Delaware, and involved potential criminal violations of tax and money-laundering laws. In June 2023 Hunter Biden agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of failing to pay his 2016 and 2017 taxes on time. He also accepted conditions that would avoid his being prosecuted on a felony charge that he lied when he said he was sober when buying a handgun in 2018. But the plea deal collapsed when the judge in the case refused to be what she called “a rubber stamp” on the agreement that some said reflected preferential treatment of the first son.
In August U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that Weiss had been named the special counsel in charge of the investigation, and prosecutors filed court documents saying that they expected the Biden case to go to trial.
Dec 8, 2023 · A Timeline of Hunter Biden’s Life and Legal Troubles. Mr. Biden, 53, has acknowledged a decades-long addiction to alcohol and crack cocaine. His foreign business dealings have led to...
Hunter Biden laptop controversy. In October 2020, a controversy arose involving data from a laptop that belonged to Hunter Biden. The owner of a Delaware computer shop, John Paul Mac Isaac, said that the laptop had been left by a man who identified himself as Hunter Biden.
Aug 15, 2022 · In 2019, I wrote a piece for this magazine about Hunter Biden, the younger son of the current President, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. Hunter, describing his childhood in Wilmington,...
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2013–2014. Rank. Ensign. Unit. United States Navy Reserve. Robert Hunter Biden (born February 4, 1970) is an American lawyer and businessman. He is the son of President Joe Biden and his first wife, Neilia Hunter Biden. [1] In 2009, he co-founded Rosemont Seneca Partners. Biden was on the board of Burisma Holdings from 2014 to 2019.
The Weiss special counsel investigation is an ongoing criminal investigation into Hunter Biden, the son of U.S. President Joe Biden. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the appointment of Delaware United States attorney David Weiss as the special counsel on August 11, 2023, three days after Weiss requested such authority.
