The conservative legal group America First Legal (AFL) is suing Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice (DOJ) for not requiring Hunter Biden to register as a foreign agent during the Obama administration.
According to one report, Hunter Biden was not required to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) when he worked for the Ukrainian energy company Burisma during the Obama administration, so the AFL and Garland were in Washington. I’m filing a lawsuit against the DC Department of Justice. A copy of the lawsuit obtained by the Daily Caller.
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“On March 3, 2023, America First Legal asked defendants to comply with the Act by requiring Mr. Biden to register. If the Department becomes aware that no such registration has taken place despite the And yet, to date, defendants have denied any of these acts,” the complaint reads. (Related: Exclusive: Hunter Biden worked to secure US visa for Ukrainian oligarch allegedly involved in bribery scheme)
“Defendants’ refusal to ask Mr. Biden to register as a foreign agent must be made public under the Foreign Agent Registration Act and denies America First legal information to which it has statutory rights. It will,” the document continues.
Biden has been on Burisma’s board since April 2014, when his father was President Obama’s vice president. received email In a program that the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) AFL reported in March, Hunter Biden told the Office of the Vice President (OVP) that he was Burisma’s general counsel and the firm’s representative legal counsel. He said he was a local attorney.
AFL is legal complaint Shortly after the AFL received an email from NARA as a result of the lawsuit, it filed a lawsuit with the Justice Department against Hunter Biden for failing to register with FARA. (Related: Here are the questions IRS whistleblowers must answer before Congress)
Additionally, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York has indicted U.S.-Israeli national Gal Luft for “willfully” failing to register with FARA, among other charges. Luft’s FARA charges are based on his work at CEFC China Energy, a Chinese energy company with ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Luft’s indictment alleges that he accepted payments from CEFC through his think tank, the Institute for Global Security Analysis, and that he had been paid at least $700,000 since 2015. According to the New York Post, Luft claimed to have attended meetings with Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and CEFC officials shortly after Joe Biden’s term as Vice President ended in 2017. report July 5th.
Hunter Biden allegedly sent CEFC associate Raymond Chao a threatening text in July 2017 saying Joe Biden was in the same room with him, according to an IRS whistleblower. Gary Shapley’s sworn testimony Submitted to the House Ways and Means Committee. Hunter Biden texted another CEFC associate on Aug. 3, 2017, about “how Biden’s policy was done.” [sic] The House Oversight Committee revealed in late June that he was best at doing what his CEFC bosses allegedly wanted him to do. The next day, a subsidiary of CEFC transferred $100,000 to Owasco PC, a company run by Hunter Biden, according to the commission.
On August 8, 2017, a subsidiary of CEFC sent a payment of more than $5 million to Hudson West, a business associate of Hunter Biden. according to Report of the Senate Finance Committee. West then made payments to Owasco of nearly $5 million starting Aug. 8, the Senate report continued.
The House Oversight Committee also released a memo in March regarding payments from another Chinese Communist Party-affiliated energy company that were allegedly sent to the Biden family through Hunter Biden’s business associate Rob Walker.
“The record, as detailed in our complaint, is very clear. Hunter Biden appears to have used its unique access and position to the benefit of multiple foreign principals. An American citizen would have been criminally prosecuted for failing to register as a foreign agent for this act, but not under the Merrick Garland Department of Justice, where President Biden, his family, and We continue to do everything in our power to support our radical liberal allies,” said AFL Vice President and General Counsel Jean Hamilton.
Hamilton added, “The Attorney General has a non-discretionary duty to ensure that Hunter Biden is registered as a foreign agent with FARA and provides transparency to the American public about its activities on behalf of foreign principals.” rice field.
The Justice Department did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller’s request for comment.
