First daughter Ashley Biden has been no stranger to scandals while growing up with her father Joe’s political career, watching him serve for nearly five decades in the Senate and eventually become vice president and president of the United States.
The 42-year-old is now back in the news after it was revealed on December 18 that she owes $5,000 in income taxes dating back to 2015.
The Pennsylvania Department of Revenue in Philadelphia County notified the young Biden that “the amount of such unpaid taxes, interest, additions or penalties is a lien in favor of the State of Pennsylvania on the property of the taxpayer (real, personal or both). ) as the case may be,” according to a recent tax lien filing obtained by The Post.
Here’s what we know about Ashley Biden.
Early life
Ashley Biden is the only child of Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden, and is the half-sister of Hunter Biden and the late Beau Biden.
He was born on June 8, 1981, and attended Wilmington Friends School, a private high school run by the Religious Society of Friends in Delaware.
Ashley Biden, the only daughter of President Joe Biden and first lady Dr. Jill Biden, owes $5,000 in income taxes dating back to 2015. POOL/AFP via Getty Images
Ashley Biden received a bachelor’s degree in cultural anthropology from Tulane University in New Orleans in 2003 and graduated from the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania with a master’s degree in social work in 2010.
Ashley originally said she wanted to become a therapist, but instead followed in her father’s footsteps and went into public policy.
“The one thing my parents always told me was, ‘Follow your passion,’” Biden told Elle magazine in March.
Ashley Biden was born on June 8, 1981, and attended high school at Wilmington Friends School, a private school run by the Religious Society of Friends in Delaware. AP
“There was never any pressure to go into service, but I saw my mother, a teacher, and my father, who was working on issues that concern Americans.”
Biden served as executive director of the Delaware Center for Justice from 2014 to 2019, when she left to work on her father’s presidential campaign.
Marriage
Biden married Dr. Howard Kerin in an interfaith Catholic-Jewish wedding in 2012. The couple had been created by Beau Biden.
Kerin is an otolaryngologist and plastic surgeon at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals in Philadelphia.
The drug scandal
In 2009, a man claiming to be a “friend” of Ashley Biden was trying to sell a video that allegedly showed her snorting cocaine at a house party, The Post reported exclusively at the time.
Biden married Dr. Howard Kerin in an interfaith Catholic-Jewish wedding in 2012, after her brother Beau set her up. AP
An attorney representing the unidentified man showed the Post about 90 seconds of the 43-minute tape, saying it was obtained legally and that Ashley knew she was being filmed.
The Post refused to pay for the video, which appeared to show Biden removing a red straw from his mouth, leaning over a desk, inserting the straw into his nostril and snorting lines of white powder.
The dialogue is difficult to discern, but the woman makes repeated references to drugs, said the attorneys, who said they watched the tape about 15 times.
“At one point, she’s practically complaining that the line isn’t big enough,” said one of the attorneys who showed the video to the Post, but declined to identify himself. “And she talks about her father.”
Ashley Biden was previously embroiled in a drug scandal. EPA
It was later revealed that Biden had been arrested for marijuana possession while at Tulane, but was never charged.
They steal his diary
During Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign against Donald Trump, the contents of Ashley’s diary came into the hands of Project Veritas, a controversial conservative media outlet that rose to prominence by conducting undercover sting operations against Democratic groups such as Planned Parenthood and advocacy organizations. traditional media.
The website, then run by James O’Keefe, did not publish excerpts from Ashley Biden’s diary, but another conservative website published dozens of handwritten pages on October 24, 2020, before the presidential election, according to a New York Times. report.
The diary’s publication drew attention to a passage in which Ashley wrote about taking “showers with my dad” as a child and that they “probably weren’t appropriate.”
Biden resigned from her position as executive director of the Delaware Center for Justice to help with her father’s presidential campaign. AFP via Getty Images
Project Veritas obtained the diary from a whistleblower at another news organization that refused to publish information about it.
The outlet claimed it knew the whereabouts of the real diary and that the complainant had an audio recording of Ashley admitting it belonged to her.
Last year, Aimee Harris and Robert Kurlander pleaded guilty to stealing the newspaper.
As part of his plea deal, Kurlander agreed to cooperate with federal investigators who are investigating how Project Veritas bought the newspaper, prosecutors said.
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