WASHINGTON — One of the most surprising revelations in the latest criminal indictment against his first son, Hunter Biden, is that he withdrew more than $1.66 million in cash over a four-year period, during some of which, his autobiography, he used drugs almost continuously.
The nine-count charge sheet filed Thursday in federal court in Los Angeles accuses Hunter, now 53, of evading $1.4 million in federal taxes between 2016 and 2019.
A handy table breaking down the first son’s expenses during the same period indicates that he withdrew $1,664,004 from ATMs and teller machines alone—an average of $1,138.95 per day, and aside from the $683,212 he spent on “various women”, $397,530 were spent on clothing and accessories. and $188,960 in “adult entertainment.”
While the cash cannot be easily traced with a paper trail, dozens of individual withdrawals are documented in files on Hunter’s abandoned laptop, some of which show withdrawals of between $800 and $2,000 per transaction from his Wells checking account. Fargo.
Some days, Hunter made up to seven separate withdrawals.
Hunter Biden withdrew more than $1.66 million in cash over a four-year period. wire image
Often the bank account balance was almost empty; as Hunter, a crack addict, wrote in his 2021 memoir “Beautiful Things” that he was wasting money to get high.
In 2018 alone, the indictment shows, Hunter withdrew more than $772,000 in cash, an average of $2,116.57 each day that year.
During that time, Hunter recounts in his book, he used crack “twenty-four hours a day, smoking every fifteen minutes, seven days a week.”
Some days, Hunter made up to seven separate withdrawals. The Washington Post via Getty Images
After moving to California in April 2018, the first son continued, he surrounded himself with “thieves, junkies, petty dealers, out-of-control strippers, con artists, and assorted hangers-on, who would then invite their friends and most recent associates and connections. They held on to me and wouldn’t let go, all with my approval. I never slept. There was no clock. The day turned into night and the night into day.”
“An ant trail of traffickers and their cronies went in and out, day and night,” Hunter also wrote about this period, during which he hopped between luxury hotels in Los Angeles, in another passage extracted by prosecutors.
Hunter attempted to write off $388,810 of his 2018 expenses as “business-related travel, despite having done little to no business that year.” AFP via Getty Images
“They stopped at state-of-the-art Mercedes-Benzes, wearing oversized Raiders or Lakers jerseys and displaying fake Rolexes,” he added. “Their stripper girlfriends invited their girlfriends, who invited their boyfriends. They drank the entire minibar, called room service to order filet mignon and a bottle of Dom Pérignon. One of the women even ordered an extra steak for her purse-sized dog.”
Despite this directionless, bacchanalian lifestyle, the feds claim, Hunter attempted to write off $388,810 of his 2018 expenses as “business-related travel, despite having done little to no business that year.”
The feds continued to twist the knife by writing about Hunter’s associates during this period: “In particular, the defendant did not write that he conducted any business at any of these luxury hotels nor did he describe any of the people who visited him there as if they were doing business in any of these luxury hotels. so for any commercial purpose.”
Hunter Biden speaks during the US World Food Program’s 2016 McGovern-Dole Leadership Award ceremony. Wire image
Prosecutors do not allege that any of the withdrawn cash flowed to President Biden, who is the subject of a House impeachment inquiry into alleged corruption, which Republicans plan to officially authorize with a vote next week.
However, IRS agents Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler have alleged a cover-up in which federal prosecutors blocked their attempts to determine Joe Biden’s involvement in several foreign businesses involving Hunter and his first brother James Biden, even as the communications mentioned it directly.
Hunter Biden wrote in a January 2019 message recovered from his old laptop that he had to give “half” of his income to Joe Biden, and the House Oversight Committee identified nine members of the Biden family in May. who allegedly received foreign funds from associates in China and Romania. and Ukraine.
Hunter and James Biden regularly involved their powerful relative in their foreign business relationships, with photographs, email records and witness testimony documenting Joe Biden’s interactions as vice president with Chinese, Mexican, Kazakh, Russian and Ukrainian contacts of the couple.
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