WASHINGTON — One of the most stunning revelations in eldest son Hunter Biden’s latest criminal indictment is that he shelled out more than $1.66 million in cash over a four-year period — during some of which, his autobiography claims, he used drugs almost constantly.
A nine-count indictment filed Thursday in Los Angeles federal court accuses Hunter, now 53, of evading $1.4 million in federal taxes from 2016 to 2019.
A handy table that breaks down the eldest son’s spending over the same period shows he withdrew $1,664,004 from ATMs and cash machines alone — an average of $1,138.95 per day and separate from the $683,212 he spent on “women’s sundry,” $397,530 of which he splurged on clothes and accessories. and $188,960 in “adult entertainment.”
While the cash isn’t 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 Fargo checking account.
On some days, Hunter made as many as seven separate productions.
Hunter Biden cashed out more than $1.66 million over four years. WireImage
Often, the bank account balance is almost empty — as Hunter, a cocaine addict, wrote in his 2021 memoir “Beautiful Things” that he spent money to get high.
In 2018 alone, the indictment shows, Hunter withdrew more than $772,000 in cash — an average of $2,116.57 per day that year.
During that time, Hunter recounts in his book, he was using cocaine “twenty-four hours a day, smoking every fifteen minutes, seven days a week.”
On some days, Hunter made as many as seven separate productions. 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, hillbilly strippers, con artists and various hangers-on, who then invited their friends and friends and the latest relationships. They stuck with me and did not let it go, all with my consent. I never slept. There was no clock. Day turned to night and night to day.”
“Ant trails of dealers and their partners roll in and out, day and night,” Hunter also wrote of this period, during which he bounced between luxury hotels in Los Angeles, in another passage cited by prosecutors.
Hunter tried to write off $388,810 of his expenses from 2018 as “business-related travel, despite having done little or no business that year.” AFP via Getty Images
“They stopped driving late-series Mercedes-Benzes, wearing oversized Raiders or Lakers jerseys and flaunting fake Rolexes,” he added. “Their naked girlfriends invite their girlfriends, who invite their boyfriends. They’ll drink the entire minibar, call room service for filet mignon and a bottle of Dom Pérignon. One of the women even ordered an extra filet for a dog the size of her purse.”
Despite this aimless bacchanalian lifestyle, the feds allege, Hunter tried to write off $388,810 of his expenses from 2018 as “business-related travel, despite having done little or no business that year.”
The Feds continued to twist the knife by writing about Hunter’s associates during this period: “Notably, the Defendant did not write that he conducted any business at any of these luxury hotels nor did he describe any of the individuals who visited him there as doing so for any business purpose.”
Hunter Biden speaks during the USA World Food Program’s 2016 McGovern-Dole Leadership Awards Ceremony. WireImage
Prosecutors have not alleged that any of the disbursed cash flowed to President Biden, who is the subject of a House impeachment inquiry over alleged corruption, which Republicans plan to formally 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 various foreign business dealings involving Hunter and James Biden’s first brother, even though the communications mentioned it directly.
Hunter Biden wrote in a January 2019 message taken from his former laptop that he needed to give “half” of his income to Joe Biden, and the House Oversight Committee in May identified nine members of the Biden family who allegedly received foreign funds from affiliates in China, Romania and Ukraine.
Hunter and James Biden frequently involve their powerful relatives in their foreign business dealings, with photos, email records and witness statements documenting Joe Biden’s interactions as vice president with the couple’s Chinese, Mexican, Kazakh, Russian and Ukrainian contacts.
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