{"id":7855,"date":"2022-05-10T15:58:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T15:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7855"},"modified":"2022-05-10T15:58:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T15:58:11","slug":"how-much-legal-jeopardy-is-hunter-biden-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7855","title":{"rendered":"How much legal jeopardy is Hunter Biden in?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“The main legal questions appear to be whether Hunter violated tax laws, committed money laundering, or acted as an unregistered foreign lobbyist.”
…
“There is nothing inherently illegal about accepting money and gifts from foreign interests if you are a private citizen and your dad is a famous, powerful person. But you do have to pay taxes on it. And according to the New York Times<\/a>, a federal inquiry into whether Hunter had properly paid his taxes began back during the Obama administration. Then, in 2018, the tax inquiry became<\/a> a broader criminal investigation into Hunter, conducted by the US attorney\u2019s office in Delaware, examining possible money laundering and whether he was an unregistered foreign agent.”  
,,,
“Hunter is also under scrutiny for potential money laundering \u2014 basically, bringing foreign funds into the US financial system in connection with some sort of crime. Various financial institutions filed \u201csuspicious activity reports\u201d to the US government about movements of funds in and out of Hunter\u2019s accounts, including to his uncle James Biden<\/a>.
Though the term \u201cmoney laundering\u201d may bring to mind drug trafficking or something of the sort, prosecutors can also charge it in connection with more prosaic crimes, such as acting as an unregistered foreign agent<\/a>. (Manafort was charged with conspiring to launder money for this purpose.)”  
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“The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) requires<\/a> people doing political, public relations, or lobbying work for foreign clients to register with the government as foreign agents. Ordinary business work for foreign clients does not require FARA registration. But when that work moves from the business realm to the political realm \u2014 or, importantly, to the public relations realm \u2014 that obligation may kick in.
So the question is what kind of work Hunter really did.”   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/23012186\/hunter-biden-investigation-tax-fara<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The main legal questions appear to be whether Hunter violated tax laws, committed money laundering, or acted as an unregistered foreign lobbyist.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“There is nothing inherently illegal about accepting money and gifts from foreign interests if you are a private citizen and your dad is a famous, powerful person. But you do have to pay taxes on it. And according to the New York Times, a federal inquiry into whether Hunter had properly paid his taxes began back during the Obama administration. Then, in 2018, the tax inquiry became a broader criminal investigation into Hunter, conducted by the US attorney\u2019s office in Delaware, examining possible money laundering and whether he was an unregistered foreign agent.” <\/p>\n

,,,<\/p>\n

“Hunter is also under scrutiny for potential money laundering \u2014 basically, bringing foreign funds into the US financial system in connection with some sort of crime. Various financial institutions filed \u201csuspicious activity reports\u201d to the US government about movements of funds in and out of Hunter\u2019s accounts, including to his uncle James Biden.<\/p>\n

Though the term \u201cmoney laundering\u201d may bring to mind drug trafficking or something of the sort, prosecutors can also charge it in connection with more prosaic crimes, such as acting as an unregistered foreign agent. (Manafort was charged with conspiring to launder money for this purpose.)” <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) requires people doing political, public relations, or lobbying work for foreign clients to register with the government as foreign agents. Ordinary business work for foreign clients does not require FARA registration. But when that work moves from the business realm to the political realm \u2014 or, importantly, to the public relations realm \u2014 that obligation may kick in.<\/p>\n

So the question is what kind of work Hunter really did.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[835,200],"class_list":["post-7855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-hunter-biden","tag-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7856,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7855\/revisions\/7856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}