WASHINGTON – Hollywood attorney Kevin Morris today denied that he violated federal election laws by lending millions of dollars to eldest son Hunter Biden – claiming his real motive was to protect Hunter from congressional inquiries linked to the first impeachment of then-President Donald Trump.
Chronological examination, however, reveals holes in that defense.
Morris convened for a closed-door hearing Thursday with the House panel investigating President Biden on corruption allegations — claiming afterward that Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) misrepresented his testimony.
“You stated in a press release that ‘[s]immediately after meeting Hunter Biden at a Joe Biden campaign event in 2019, Kevin Morris began paying Hunter Biden’s tax liability to protect then-presidential candidate Joe Biden from political liability,” Morris’ attorney Bryan Sullivan wrote to Comer.
“This is a misrepresentation of Mr. Morris’s testimony. On the other hand, Mr. Morris is only concerned that people like you do not drag him into things like the impeachment of former President Trump, starting to help Mr. Hunter Biden for that reason, and Mr. Morris testified that he never thought about President Biden’s campaign that he only focused on helping his client Mr. Hunter Biden.”
Attorney Kevin Morris denies that he broke the law by lending millions of dollars to Hunter Biden. Getty Images
However, evidence suggests that Morris expressed interest in the political angle of his assistance after Trump, who was impeached by the House of Representatives in late 2019 for pressuring Ukraine to investigate the Biden family’s dealings there, was acquitted by the Senate on February 5. , 2020.
Two days later, on Feb. 7. 2020 — about two months after Morris met the younger Biden at a campaign fundraiser for his father — the attorney warned a team of accountants that they should speed up their work on Hunter’s tax papers to avoid “significant personal and political risk.” “
The emails were provided to Congress by IRS case agent Joseph Ziegler, a self-identified Democrat who joined his supervisor Gary Shapley last year in alleging the Justice Department shut down to shield Joe and Hunter Biden from scrutiny in an investigation focused on tax fraud, money laundering illegal and unregistered foreign lobbying.
Two days after Trump was acquitted by the Senate of his impeachment, Morris warned a team of accountants that they should speed up processing tax documents for Hunter Biden. Reuters
Morris has given Hunter at least $5 million in loans since becoming his fast friend, and Comer noted Thursday that Morris admitted to visiting the White House three times during the current administration.
Sullivan countered that Morris was only briefly involved with Joe Biden during the visit.
Republicans note that if Morris is motivated by electoral politics, his aid to Hunter Biden may violate the $3,300 per election limit on federal donations to candidates.
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