Hunter Biden’s Hollywood Attorney Now Controls His Stake in Chinese Private Equity Firm

According to Hunter Biden, he’s a struggling artist living on a budget. But recent revelations suggest otherwise. Business records and emails indicate that his attorney, Kevin Morris, controls his valuable assets as he argues in court that he can’t come up with the child support payments for his four-year-old daughter.

The Chinese Connection

Business records reveal that Biden’s stake in a Chinese private equity firm called BHR is now controlled by Morris, who is paying for one of Biden’s cars, according to court proceedings on Monday. This casts doubt on the first son’s claim that he divested from his foreign business interests after his father, President Joe Biden, pledged that his family members would do so.

• Biden’s legal team told the New York Times in November 2021 that he “no longer holds any interest, directly or indirectly, in either BHR” or in his own firm, Skaneateles.
• Morris’s control of Skaneateles, which holds Biden’s 10 percent stake in the Chinese private equity firm, also raises the possibility that the first son handed off his piece of the firm as payment for legal representation as he engages in a bitter court battle over custody payments to the young daughter he has worked to disclaim.

The Lavish Life

Biden was in court on Monday working to reduce his child-support obligations to his onetime mistress, Lunden Alexis Roberts, after telling the Arkansas court he cannot afford the payments. Roberts’s lawyer on Thursday cast doubts on the claim, making a motion to have Biden disclose who funds his “stable of American super lawyers.”

“Mr. Biden claims to be nothing more than a Yale-educated attorney/artist who is somewhat financially destitute and needs his child support adjusted,” Roberts’s attorney, Clint Lancaster, wrote in the filing. “However, for an artist living on meager means, Mr. Biden is living lavishly.”

• A Democratic donor and big-time Hollywood attorney whose clients include Chris Rock and Matthew McConaughey, Morris reportedly pays Biden’s rent and living expenses in Los Angeles and has loaned him over $2 million to help pay his overdue taxes, according to the Daily Mail.
• Known among Biden’s inner circle as his “sugar brother,” Morris has also advised Biden on how to structure his art sales, according to the New York Post.

The Chinese Connection, Continued

Records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show an amended joint venture contract for BHR Partners that identifies Morris as the managing member of Biden’s LLC. It is not clear when the transfer of interest from Hunter Biden to Morris occurred. While the contract revealing the transfer is undated, BHR executive Heng-Yin Zhang on April 20 emailed longtime Biden associate James Bulger with “signing instructions” for a contract stipulating that Morris controlled Biden’s 10 percent share in BHR.

BHR Partners is co-owned by the Beijing-controlled Bank of China and manages $2.1 billion in assets. The BHR Partners amended joint venture contract was first obtained by the nonprofit investigative group Marco Polo. Morris did not return a request for comment.

The Bottom Line

Despite his claims of financial hardship, it seems that Hunter Biden is living a lavish lifestyle thanks to the support of his attorney, Kevin Morris. And with Morris now controlling Biden’s stake in a Chinese private equity firm, questions are being raised about the first son’s business dealings and potential conflicts of interest.

Only time will tell how this all plays out in court and in the court of public opinion.