Hunter Biden, Business Partners Lobbied U.S. Government on Behalf of Romanian Businessman, Prosecutors Say

Hunter Biden and one of his business partners crafted a scheme to dodge U.S. foreign-lobbying laws and shield then–vice president Joe Biden from the consequences of their lucrative agreement to lobby the U.S. government on behalf of a Romanian businessman accused of corruption, federal prosecutors said in court papers filed Wednesday.

Federal prosecutors filed a response to a pre-trial motion from Hunter Biden’s attorneys seeking to exclude political-corruption allegations from his criminal tax trial set to begin next month and laid out the evidence allegedly showing that Hunter Biden acted on behalf of a foreign client to influence U.S. government policy.