Hunter Biden Playing Games in Child-Support Case. Here’s what we know so far:
First son Hunter Biden has defied an Arkansas state court order.
It requires him to hand over discovery documents in his child-support case.
The New Hunter Biden Drama
Hunter Biden has been trying to get the Arkansas court to reduce the $22,000 monthly he has to pay former stripper Lunden Roberts for their daughter Navy Joan Roberts.
Hunter Biden was ordered by the court in 2020 to provide the child support after a paternity suit proved he was the child’s father. Biden entered a motion in September asking the court to reduce his payments, claiming he was financially destitute.
A Showdown is Brewing
“Mr. Biden does not want to disclose his income and assets, says that he is somewhat financially destitute, while he lives on a mountain overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Malibu, has Secret Service protection, and enjoys his time abroad (which he has also lied about in discovery),” Roberts’ lawyer Clinton Lancaster wrote in court papers Friday.
Roberts has objected to Biden’s poverty claim, noting that he continues to live a lavish lifestyle in Malibu.
“Taxable income only represents the income for a given time period and is highly susceptible to manipulation,” her legal team added. “Additionally, the defendant fails to account that income for tax purposes is not the same as income for child support purposes.”
Biden Lawyers Fight Over Roberts Use of Muckraker as Expert Witness
Wrangling has gone back and forth over former Trump aide turned muckraker Garrett Ziegler’s qualifications as an expert witness in the case.
Ziegler’s group Marco Polo has obtained countless financial records related to Biden that appear to show what many experts says looks like an almost mafia-like scheme to hide monies through a network of shell companies.
Lancaster claimed in his motion that unless Roberts’s legal team gets access to the financial documents, Ziegler will not have adequate information to use in his deposition.
This has also caught the attention of congressional Republicans, who released a report about the web of Biden LLCs earlier this month.
His group compiled an in-depth report on the contents of Biden’s infamous laptop.
Biden’s attorneys claimed that Ziegler lacks proper credentials.
“Ziegler’s only notable work experience was as a White House aide in the now defunct Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy (OTMP) under Peter Navarro (currently pending trial for charges of criminal contempt of Congress) during the Trump administration, where he wrote reports on election fraud, domestic manufacturing, the “plandemic response” (insinuating that the COVID-19 pandemic was a conspiracy), counterfeit goods, and trade. He has no work experience as an accountant or finance expert of any kind,” Biden attorney Brett Langdon wrote in a court filing obtained by The Washington Free Beacon.
Langdon continued: “Ziegler has never testified (not even likely served) as an expert witness in any other proceedings. With respect to the public record, he has never testified as an expert witness in any other proceedings. He has otherwise only testified as a fact witness in one other proceeding, the July 18, 2021, hearing in front of the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capital, for his role in a December 28, 2020, White House meeting.”
Ziegler is due to be deposed on Monday by Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell.
A pre-scheduled pre-trial hearing is scheduled for Tuesday. The trial will take place July 23-24.
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John Rossomando was a senior analyst for Defense Policy and served as Senior Analyst for Counterterrorism at The Investigative Project on Terrorism for eight years. His work has been featured in numerous publications such as The American Thinker, The National Interest, National Review Online, Daily Wire, Red Alert Politics, CNSNews.com, The Daily Caller, Human Events, Newsmax, The American Spectator, TownHall.com, and Crisis Magazine. He also served as senior managing editor of The Bulletin, a 100,000-circulation daily newspaper in Philadelphia, and received the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors first-place award for his reporting.
