Hunter Biden

Robert Hunter Biden (born February 4, 1970) is an American attorney and businessman. The second son of U.S. President Joe Biden and his first wife, Neilia Hunter Biden, Hunter was two years old when a car crash killed his mother and one-year-old sister, Naomi, and seriously injured both him and his older brother, Beau. In his memoir, ''Beautiful Things'', Biden wrote of his struggles with drug and alcohol abuse, which escalated after Beau's 2015 death from brain cancer.

After graduating from Yale Law School in 1996, Biden worked as a banker, lobbyist, and legal representative for lobbying firms. He later worked as a hedge fund principal and a venture capital and private equity fund investor. Biden was a founding board member of BHR Partners, a Chinese investment company, in 2013, and later served on the board of Burisma Holdings, one of the largest private natural gas producers in Ukraine, from 2014 until his term expired in April 2019.

Since early 2019, Hunter and his father Joe have been the targets of false allegations of corrupt activities concerning Ukraine. The ''New York Post'' published an article in October 2020 about a laptop computer that had belonged to Hunter Biden, which Donald Trump attempted to use to hurt Joe Biden's campaign by using it to claim that while in office, Joe Biden has acted corruptly regarding Ukraine to protect Hunter.

Biden's tax affairs have been under federal criminal investigation since late 2018. He first pled guilty, then pled not guilty to the tax-related charges including tax evasion, and is scheduled to face trial for the charges in September 2024. During Biden's initial guilty plea on tax charges, he had admitted to "illegally owning a gun while a drug user" because he knowingly denied drug use when applying for a gun purchase permit. Biden was later indicted on and convicted of three federal firearms-related felony charges in June 2024. Provided by Wikipedia