America First Legal (AFL) is suing Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice (DOJ) after Hunter Biden was not mandated to register as a foreign agent during the Obama administration.
During the Obama administration, Hunter Biden worked for the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma.
AFL is arguing that Biden should have registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
According to the lawsuit, “If the Department of Justice becomes aware that a certain individual is required to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, but that such registration has not occurred, then the Department has a nondiscretionary duty either to require it or to undertake a waiver rulemaking. Nevertheless, to date, the defendants have refused to do either of these things.”
“The defendants’ refusal to require Mr. Biden to register as a foreign agent denies America First Legal information which must be publicly disclosed pursuant to the Foreign Agents Registration Act, and for which it has a statutory right,” the document reads.
“As detailed in our complaint, the record is quite clear. Hunter Biden appears to have used his unique access and position to the benefit of multiple foreign principals,” AFL Vice President and General Counsel Gene Hamilton said.
“Any other American would have been criminally prosecuted for failing to register as a foreign agent for this conduct–but not under Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice, which continues to go out of its way to help President Biden, his family, and his radical liberal allies,” he continued.
Reporting from The Daily Caller:
Biden was a board member of Burisma beginning in April 2014 when his father was vice president for President Obama. Emails obtained in March by AFL from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) show Hunter Biden told the Office of the Vice President (OVP) he was a legal adviser to Burisma and an attorney at the law firm representing the company. ... Hunter Biden in July 2017 allegedly sent a threatening text to [Chinese energy firm] CEFC associate Raymond Zhao, saying Joe Biden was in the same room, according to IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley’s sworn testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee. Hunter Biden texted a different CEFC associate Aug. 3, 2017, about how the “Biden’s [sic] are the best” at doing what his CEFC boss allegedly wanted, the House Oversight Committee revealed in late June. The following day, a subsidiary of CEFC sent $100,000 to Owasco P.C., a firm controlled by Hunter Biden, according to the committee.
