Hunter Biden is facing legal trouble on multiple fronts, but it's been an unorthodox journey to get here. Attorney General Merrick Garland will answer questions this week about the investigation into President Joe Biden's son, where the spotlight will be ultimately on how much Joe knew about his son's business dealings. In this series, Wayward Son, the Washington Examiner will investigate how we got here.
And Hunter Biden never disclosed his work as a lobbyist under the Foreign Agents Registration Act in Romania or Ukraine despite meeting with U.S. officials to advocate both for his Romanian client and for Burisma. On Sept. 28, 2015, Joe Biden met with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis at the White House. That same day, Hunter Biden emailed a partner at Boies Schiller Flexner to ask if he had time to speak about his Romanian client.
By May 2016, Hunter Biden’s associates were scrambling to get an audience with the Romanian DNA, the country’s anti-corruption agency, so they could present their case on behalf of Popoviciu. They planned to argue that authorities should not pursue an investigation against Popoviciu, and the group discussed how to prepare a “persuasive” presentation that highlighted “all the procedural and substantive defects in the indictment/case” against Popoviciu.