Hunter Biden’s counsel argued that he is currently “finding it difficult to make a living” in a Wednesday legal filing seeking to dismiss a lawsuit the former president’s son brought against Garrett Ziegler, an ex-Trump White House aide who published the contents of Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop to the internet.
The details about Hunter Biden’s financial difficulties are included in a 19-page filing submitted by his attorneys in court explaining their client’s rationale for wanting to drop his suit against Ziegler, one of several lawsuits filed against critics who have published or aggressively covered the laptop’s contents and alleged Biden family influence peddling. Hunter Biden, as well as his family members and business associates, raked in millions of dollars from dealings with overseas oligarchs during the years Joe Biden served as vice president and in the lead up to his 2020 presidential run, but the flow of cash seems to have dried up for the former president’s son.
“This application is being made on the basis that good cause exists to grant this Application because Plaintiff does not have the resources to continue to litigate this matter. Plaintiff has suffered a significant downturn in his income and has significant debt in the millions of dollars range,” the filing states, referring to Hunter Biden.
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GAO report details up to $500 billion in annual fraud
Until the Government Accountability Office report, there had never been a comprehensive, government-wide review of fraud since the nation’s founding
The federal government is not the most effective steward of the taxpayer’s money, and there have been myriad investigations and reports about waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement. But until the Government Accountability Office released its April 16 report, “Fraud Risk Management,” there had never been a comprehensive, government-wide review of fraud since the nation’s founding. No private entity could survive 248 years without knowing how much fraud affects its operations.
The report examined instances of fraud between fiscal years 2018 and 2022 and concluded that “the federal government could lose between $233 billion and $521 billion annually to fraud.” The most conservative estimate of $233 billion in fraudulent payments per year means fraudsters stole at least $1.165 trillion from taxpayers over the five-year period studied. According to GAO Forensic Audits and Investigative Service Director Rebecca Shea, “the top of our range is greater than the budget for all but the top five agencies and the bottom of our range is larger than the ninth-largest federal agency.”
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Intel officials say CCP leadership corruption report is on the way after Biden admin delay
he Office of the Director of National Intelligence says that it is working on fulfilling a directive from Congress to produce a public report exposing the corruption and wealth of senior Chinese Communist Party officials following the Biden administration’s failure to release it.
In the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, Congress directed the Director of National Intelligence in cooperation with the State Department to produce the report on senior CCP officials, including Chairman Xi Jinping, but the Biden administration officials failed to meet the deadline established by lawmakers, Just the News reported last week.
The ODNI, now under the leadership of DNI Tulsi Gabbard, says that it is currently working to fulfill the directive from Congress in response to an inquiry from Just the News and renewed congressional pressure last week.
“ODNI is working to fulfill this requirement,” an ODNI spokesperson told Just the News on Wednesday.
The report would serve as a powerful tool to confront the communist regime, experts say.
“This is an existential threat to the Chinese regime, because you have leaders with tens of millions—billions, in some cases—of funds outside of China. And if the Chinese people knew the extent of this, there probably would be a revolution,” Gordon Chang, a lawyer and China commentator who lived and worked in Shanghai and Hong Kong for decades, previously told the “Just the News, No Noise“ TV show.
In the past, efforts to expose the finances of senior CCP officials have been met with quick censorship and stern denials by the Chinese regime, Just the News previously reported. The reactions suggest that such a report could provide significant leverage to the United States in negotiations with the Chinese.
“While reporting requirements from Congress to federal agencies are standard fare, the eventual release of this report will carry far greater implications; it will probably highlight that General Secretary Xi Jinping and his top cadres are not ‘scrapping by’ on legally prescribed nominal salaries–indeed, they are more than likely bona fide billionaires,” four lawmakers wrote to DNI Gabbard last week.
“Conversely, there are about 600 million People’s Republic of China (PRC) citizens living on $5 a day. So much, it would seem, for the supposed benefits of Communism,” they continued.
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