“Low level porn star”: Biden’s son’s bad excesses from strippers to drugs revealed

Much of the recovering crack addict’s alleged illegal activity took place while his father was vice president of the United States under Barack Obama, the BBC recalls.

“As Joe Biden completed his final year as vice president, his son Hunter Biden was cooking crack and starring in porn in anticipation of the family’s most lucrative deal,” the conservative Fox News Channel commented on the actions of the father and son.

“He spent lavishly on strip clubs, adult video sites and prostitutes,” Fox News quoted Judge Jeanine Pirro as saying. “As a low-level porn star, he frequently filmed his wild sex life and uploaded the footage to his Pornhub account.”

However, the current US President himself is not accused of wrongdoing and is not even mentioned in the latest indictment. But his son, a Yale-educated lawyer, faces up to 17 years in prison if convicted. Hunter Biden was already indicted on separate federal charges in September on gun charges.

The indictment says the president’s son spent his money on “drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing and other personal items, in short, on everything except his taxes.”

His expenses totaled about $1 million in 2016, $1.4 million in 2017, $1.8 million in 2018 and $600,000 in 2019, according to his payroll. Between 2016 and 2019, he withdrew $1.6 million from ATMs alone.

During the same period, prosecutors said, he spent more than $683,000 on “payments to various women,” another $188,960 on “adult entertainment,” $397,530 on clothing and accessories and $237,496 on health care, beauty and pharmacy expenses.

The case file lists many of the luxury hotels that Hunter Biden stayed at during the years when he decided not to have a permanent residence. Most of them were in Los Angeles, New York and Washington. He used the hotels “for constant partying,” prosecutors said.

Other funds went towards leasing a Lamborghini, which he used after moving to the West Coast while waiting for his Porsche to be shipped.

The payments included $1,500 to an exotic dancer at a strip club, $11,500 to an “escort” who was paid “to spend two nights with him,” $27,316 in payments to an online pornography website and $10,000 “for purchasing a membership to a sex club.”

Hunter Biden told BBC News that his father “saved” him several times when he was in difficulty due to his battle with addiction.

To avoid higher tax bills, prosecutors say the younger Biden claimed numerous personal expenses as business deductions. According to the indictment, the luxury car and hotel rental business was declared to be a “travel, transportation and other” business.

He deducted academic tutoring for his daughter as “professional legal assistance and consulting” and claimed payments to escorts and dancers as “office expenses and miscellaneous.”

In 2018, Hunter Biden directed a personal assistant to “payroll and provide health benefits to three women with whom he had romantic or sexual relationships and a fourth woman who was a relative of one of those women.”

The Arkansas woman with whom he had a child was among those he hired, the BBC notes.

In the throes of a crack and cocaine addiction, the younger Biden “claimed extensive business travel in 2018 when he had none.”

Prosecutors say Hunter Biden’s memoir, “Beautiful Things,” lays out exactly what the indictment alleges – that he did not have numerous business deals in 2018, but instead spent his money on months-long drug and alcohol benders.

Working with California accountants in 2018, he reported expenses including $388,810 in business travel, despite writing in his book that the year was “dominated by crack use” twenty-four hours a day, smoking every fifteen minutes , seven days a week.”

Prosecutors say if accountants had known about the drug use, they would have looked more closely at “his claims of hundreds of thousands of dollars in business expenses.”

Beginning in April 2018 and over the next several months, Hunter Biden surrounded himself with a crew of “thieves, drug addicts, small-time dealers, visiting strippers, con men and assorted hangers-on,” he wrote in his memoir.

The luxury hotels named in the indictment correspond to “the same hotels that the defendant identified by name in his memoirs as the setting for his months of drug and alcohol use,” court documents say.

Hunter Biden talks about staying at “Sunset Tower, Sixty Beverly Hills and the Hollywood Roosevelt” and a list of other California hotels. He describes his entourage as “sparkling with fake Rolexes” and bringing with them “their stripper girlfriends.”

“They drank the entire minibar, ordered filet mignon and a bottle of Dom Perignon to the room,” prosecutors say in part of the defendant’s memoirs.

They point out that “defendant did not write that he conducted any business at any of these luxury hotels, and did not describe any of the persons who visited him there as doing so for any business purpose.”