Hunter Biden’s alleged efforts to write off payments to suspected prostitutes as business expenses caught the attention of investigators at banks and law enforcement agencies.
Gelfound said he never viewed documentation to verify that thousands of dollars Hunter Biden sent via Venmo were actually business expenses.A heavily redacted excerpt of an interview with at least one woman involved in those transactions appears to show that the payments were for escort services. When Hunter Biden showed a photo of his father and President Barack Obama to one of the women whose services he had procured, she became afraid of him, according to the excerpt.
Joseph Ziegler, one of the IRS whistleblowers, had testified about that letter, known as a representation letter, before Congress, telling lawmakers that “the accountants didn't feel comfortable with the information being provided by Hunter.” During this interview, according to a summary memo, Gelfound said he did not realize Hunter Biden’s daughter attended Columbia University when he signed off on a tax return that wrote off her $30,000 tuition as a business expense.
Some of those transactions appeared to be payments to women linked to an Eastern European sex trafficking ring.