Federal Prosecutors Resolve Fourth Year of Hunter Biden Investigative
The fourth year of federal prosecutors’ investigation into 2022 is over. Hunter Biden False statements, tax and foreign lobbying violations, and other possible issues.
Hunter Biden is currently under federal investigation since 2018.
Partly, suspicious activity reports (SARs), regarding suspicious foreign transactions, were the basis of the probe. According to sources familiar, those SARs involved funds from “China and other foreign nations.”
Fox News first reported on the existence of an investigation into Hunter Biden’s conduct in October 2020, before the next presidential election. The FBI had a criminal investigation into Hunter Biden. subpoenaed the laptop purportedly belonging in an existing course to Hunter Biden money laundering investigation.
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Democrats and mainstream media outlets characterized the story about the laptop as Russian disinformation. John Ratcliffe, then-Director for National Intelligence, confirmed that the laptop had been stolen. “not part of some Russian disinformation campaign,” But Democrats and the media rejected that claim.
Social media companies such as Facebook or Twitter censored and limited Stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop circulated before the 2020 presidential elections.
Some Republicans believe Hunter Biden’s business transactions can be linked with President Biden.
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Only 2022 was it possible. media outlets like NBC News and CBS News begin accepting the fact and verified that the laptop did belong to Hunter Biden and did hold legitimate records belonging to the president’s son.
Twitter, under the new ownership of Elon Musk, released records surrounding the company’s decisions to block the circulation of the Hunter Biden stories – even though he had been under federal investigation at that point for nearly two years.
Hunter Biden confirmed that the investigation into his conduct was ongoing “tax affairs” After his father’s election as president, he was elected in December 2020.
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The investigation under Trump-appointed Delaware U.S. attorney David Weiss seemed to be close to a conclusion in 2022. critical stage.
Fox News reported in July that the federal grand jury looking into Hunter Biden’s business dealings wrapped up its latest term in June of this year and had expired. Fox News was informed by a source that no charges had been brought against Hunter Biden.
Fox News received a statement from a former Justice Department official stating that the government doesn’t need to have a grand jury active in order to bring charges under stipulations.
Hunter Biden, the son of President Biden, is photographed in Soho on Wednesday.
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Fox News was informed by sources this fall that federal investigators were considering whether Hunter should be charged with tax and foreign lobbying violations, false statements, and other charges.
Hunter Biden could have lied to police about his gun purchase in 2018. This is why a false statement charges may be possible. Fox News reported that in 2018 a Hunter Biden gun was found outside a Delaware market.
A source with knowledge of the Oct. 23, 2018, police report told Fox News that it indicated that Hallie Biden, the widow of President Biden’s late son, Beau, and who was in a relationship with Hunter at the time, threw a gun owned by Hunter in a dumpster behind a market near a school.
A firearm transaction Fox News reported that Hunter Biden bought a gun that month earlier than previously believed.
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, continues to investigate Hunter Biden in the Senate.
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On the firearm transaction report, Hunter Biden answered in the negative when asked if he was “an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?”
Hunter Biden, who tested positive for cocaine in 2014, was discharged by the Navy.
Although the federal investigation does not involve President Trump, congressional inquiries into Hunter Biden’s commercial dealings have sought out to tie Biden to foreign ventures.
Sens. Sens. voluminous evidence “Regarding possible criminal conduct by Hunter Biden & James Biden” and related Hunter’s work for Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma holdings.
Sen. Ron Johnson, R. Wis., claims there is whistleblower evidence that Hunter Biden has committed criminal acts.
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Biden repeatedly denied talking to Hunter about his business dealings. Biden has also denied knowing anything about his son’s business ventures and any involvement with them since 2020.
It is unknown if Grassley will continue his investigation into Hunter Biden. However, Republicans on several House committees have vowed new and more intense investigations into Hunter Biden’s business dealings next Year, when the GOP wins the majority of House of Representatives seats and subpoena powers.
After the midterm election, President Biden wished House Republicans well “lots of luck” If they keep their promises to use a GOP majority for investigation of his son,
“Lots of luck in your senior year, as my coach used to say,” Biden joked. “Look, I think the American public wants us to move on and get things done for them.”
He said, “Look, I can’t control what they’re going to do, all I can do is continue to try to make life better for the American people.”
However, President Biden asserts that Americans don’t want to investigate his son. But polls prove otherwise.
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Fox News’ latest poll of voters revealed this month that all political parties believe it is crucial for the Justice Department investigation into Hunter Biden’s business dealings.
72 percent of voters believe it is important that the Justice Department investigates, a similar percentage to the 72% who believed so in August. This includes majorities for Republicans (88%), Democrats (54%), as well as independents (74%).
Partisans disagree, however, on what investigations into Hunter Biden’s conduct will reveal. Republicans generally think Hunter Biden did something illegal in his business dealings with Ukraine and China (70%), and that President Biden committed a crime related to his son’s activities (63%). The contrary is true for Joe Biden (8%) and Hunter Biden (11%).
39% believe Hunter Biden committed crime, 31% think he did something unethical, but not illegal, and 19% think he did nothing serious wrong.
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These numbers are fairly similar for President Biden35% believe he committed a criminal act, 27% feel he acted unethically, but not illegally, and 31% feel that he did nothing wrong.
Hunter Biden was investigated by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies for tax-related matters. However, voter trust in FBI is dependent on the voter’s party affiliation.
Nearly two-thirds of voters (63%) are confident in the Bureau — but that is down from 70% in September. This decline is mainly due to Republicans (47% more confident now than in September, 59% less). The FBI is a trusted source of information for most Democrats (84%), and 6 in 10 independents (57%).
This report was contributed by Victoria Balara and Dana Blanton from Fox News.
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