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Washington Examiner
3 Jun 2024
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For the beleaguered middle child of President Joe Biden, the personal is both political and material to his looming criminal comeuppance. As Hunter Biden begins his first of two criminal trials while his father embarks on a bruising reelection campaign, the Washington Examiner details the messy timeline of the first son’s personal and professional scandals as they pertain to his legal fate.
| June 1988 | Hunter Biden, then the 18-year-old son of Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), is arrested on charges of illegal drug possession but skirts prison time through a pretrial diversion program for first-time offenders. |
| July 1992 | Hunter Biden and Kathleen Buhle meet while working as Jesuit volunteers in Portland. |
| July 1993 | Hunter Biden marries Buhle, who is pregnant at the time with their first daughter, Naomi, but Buhle pointedly mentions in her memoir that the Bidens were careful not to mention her pregnancy at the time. |
| 1996 | After graduating from Yale Law School, Hunter Biden accepts a job from MBNA, the Delaware bank whose employees had previously donated $200,000 to his father’s Senate campaigns. |
| 1998 | Hunter Biden leaves MBNA to join the Commerce Department under the Clinton administration. |
| 2005 | Hunter Biden rejoins MBNA as his father spearheads a bankruptcy reform bill backed by the bank. |
| 2006 | President George W. Bush appoints Hunter Biden to Amtrak’s board for a five-year term, a nomination Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) defends because “Hunter Biden has spent a lot of time on Amtrak trains.” |
| 2009 | Hunter Biden founds Rosemont Seneca Partners with Christopher Heinz, the stepson of John Kerry and heir to the billion-dollar ketchup fortune, and Devon Archer, who would later testify that Hunter Biden put his father on speakerphone dozens of times throughout his decadelong business relationship with the first son. |
| May 2013 | The Navy admits Hunter Biden as a Reserve with two waivers, one for his advanced age and another for his prior drug arrest. |
| 2013 | Hunter Biden joins the board of Chinese private equity firm BHR Holdings. |
| February 2014 | Hunter Biden is discharged from the U.S. Navy Reserve after testing positive for cocaine. |
| April 2014 | Hunter Biden joins the board of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings. |
| July 2014 | Buhle discovers Hunter Biden’s photos of prostitutes from his business travels abroad while he is in rehab in Mexico. |
| July 2015 | Buhle discovers Hunter Biden’s crack pipe in their home and tells him he cannot stay at the home until he is sober. |
| July 18, 2016 | Emails indicate Hunter Biden began his affair with his brother’s widow, Hallie Biden. |
| Fall 2016 | Despite the evidence indicating otherwise, Hunter Biden only concedes his affair with his sister-in-law began in the autumn of 2016. |
| Sept. 8, 2016 | While in an extramarital affair with Hallie Biden, Hunter Biden exchanges sexts with Elizabeth Secundy, Hallie Biden’s sister. |
| November 2016 | Hunter Biden’s daughters tell Buhle about his affair with Hallie Biden after finding incriminating messages on his iPad. |
| Dec. 9, 2016 | Buhle files for divorce. |
| Feb. 23, 2017 | Buhle files a court motion to freeze Hunter Biden’s assets, alleging he “created financial concerns for the family by spending extravagantly on … drugs, alcohol, prostitutes, strip clubs, and gifts for women.” |
| April 2017 | The courts finalize the divorce of Hunter Biden and Buhle. |
| November 2017 | Hunter Biden claims in his memoir he “essentially moved out” from his home with Hallie Biden. |
| November/December 2017 | Navy Joan Roberts is likely conceived. |
| January 2018 | Hunter Biden moves back in with Hallie Biden. |
| February 2018 | Hunter Biden and Hallie Biden split. |
| April 1, 2018 | Hunter Biden ceases all contact with Lunden Roberts, his former employee after she tells him she is pregnant. |
| June 1, 2018 | Hunter Biden hires an assistant through Owasco PC and photographs her holding his penis, saving the photos to a laptop. |
| July 3, 2018 | Hunter Biden and Elizabeth Secundy sign a lease together on a Greenville, Delaware, home. |
| July 27, 2018 | Hunter Biden texts Hallie Biden to get imminently tested for HIV. |
| Aug. 28, 2018 | Lunden Roberts gives birth to Navy Joan. |
| October 2018 | Hunter Biden lies that he’s not using drugs on the purchase of a handgun in Wilmington, North Carolina. |
| November 2018 | Hunter Biden directs Owasco PC to remove Lunden Roberts from payroll and health insurance. |
| December 2018 | Hunter Biden withdraws $20,000 from his daughter Maisy’s 529 for prostitutes and drugs. |
| January 2019 | The Owasco PC assistant with whom Hunter Biden had a sexual relationship contacts the company to request her late paycheck and inquire about her insurance status. |
| March 2019 | Hunter Biden sends the Owasco PC assistant increments of money over Apple Pay as he asks her to FaceTime nude with “no talk of anything but sex.” |
| April 2019 | Hunter Biden’s term on the Burisma board expires just as Vice President Joe Biden launches his 2020 bid for the presidency. |
| April 2019 | Hunter Biden drops off his laptop at a Delaware computer repair shop and never returns to pick it up, rendering the laptop the legal property of the shop’s owner, John Paul Mac Isaac, after 90 days of his possession. |
| May 2019 | Hunter Biden meets and marries Melissa Cohen in the span of a week, while Lunden Roberts files a paternity and child support suit against him in Arkansas. |
| June 2019 | Buhle, battling colon cancer, brings a motion to a Washington, D.C., court to enforce Hunter Biden’s spousal support that he failed to pay. |
| September 2019 | Former Vice President Joe Biden says, “I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.” |
| October 2019 | Hunter Biden announces he’s stepping down from BHR, while Mac Isaac’s father goes to an FBI branch office in Albuquerque to inquire about the implications of Hunter Biden’s laptop. |
| December 2019 | Hunter Biden meets Hollywood attorney Kevin Morris at a fundraiser with the presidential candidate while the FBI seizes the laptop from Mac Isaac after a previous visit to his home to question him about the laptop’s contents. |
| February 2020 | Morris begins loaning Hunter Biden millions and preparing his tax statements firsthand to curtail “considerable risk personally and politically.” |
| March 2020 | Lunden Roberts settles her child support lawsuit after Hunter Biden agrees to pay $20,000 monthly for Navy Joan. |
| April 15, 2020 | Buhle’s legal team requests that Hunter Biden be held in contempt after he failed to pay a court-ordered, quarter-million-dollars-plus interest. |
| August 2020 | After hearing nothing about Hunter Biden’s laptop from the FBI for over half a year, Mac Isaac tips off the legal team of Rudy Giuliani about the laptop, which Mac Isaac made a copy of before handing the original to the FBI. |
| September 2020 | Steve Bannon connects New York Post reporter Emma-Jo Morris with the laptop copy, while Twitter, which had established a backchannel with the FBI in preparation for the 2020 election, conducted “tabletop exercises” to game out how it would censor a “Burisma” leak about Hunter Biden before his father’s election. |
| Oct. 12, 2020 | The New York Post publishes the first blockbuster expose of Hunter Biden’s laptop, and despite the FBI privately confirming the laptop’s authenticity to Twitter, social media giants around the world unite to censor the story. |
| Oct. 19, 2020 | Dozens of foreign policy and senior intelligence officials, including former CIA Directors John Brennan and Leon Panetta, claim without evidence that the laptop story “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” |
| Oct. 22, 2020 | Former Vice President Joe Biden says, “My son has not made money” in China despite later evidence to the contrary. |
| Jan. 29, 2021 | A Washington, D.C., court determines Hunter Biden owes Buhle more than $1.7 million in alimony, legal fees, and interest. |
| March 2022 | The New York Times reveals that Hunter Biden had been under federal investigation since 2018 for his overseas business dealings and whether they violated federal statutes such as the Foreign Agents Registration Act. |
| September 2022 | Hunter Biden files a motion to reduce his child support payments to Lunden Roberts. |
| October 2022 | The Washington Post reveals that although federal agents determined they had enough evidence to charge Biden criminally for tax and gun crimes, attorney David Weiss had not decided whether to file charges. |
| April 2023 | Buhle’s legal team files a motion claiming that Hunter Biden owed her nearly $3 million. |
| June 20, 2023 | The Justice Department attempts to secure a sweetheart deal in which the first son would plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and enter a pretrial diversion program for gun charges in exchange for blanket immunity from any other future charges, including FARA violations. |
| June 21, 2023 | Hunter Biden moves into the White House with his wife and son. |
| June 22, 2023 | Hunter Biden rubs shoulders with Attorney General Merrick Garland at the White House state dinner. |
| June 29, 2023 | Hunter Biden settles his child support dispute with Lunden Roberts for an undisclosed amount and the promise that Navy Joan cannot adopt the “Biden” surname. |
| July 5, 2023 | Hunter Biden moves out of the White House. |
| July 26, 2023 | Judge Maryellen Noreika declares the deal “unconstitutional” and “not worth the paper it is printed on,” leading Hunter Biden to reverse his “guilty” plea to “not guilty.” |
| August 2023 | Garland approves Weiss’s request to be appointed as a special counsel as Weiss announces the government could not reach a plea agreement with Hunter Biden. |
| September 2023 | Hunter Biden is indicted on tax and gun charges with less than a month remaining on the statute of limitations. |
| May 15, 2024 | With less than a month before the beginning of Hunter Biden’s first criminal trial, Morris reportedly complains that he is running out of money to continue to back Hunter Biden’s legal defense. |
| June 3, 2024 | The first lady joins her stepson on the first day of his first criminal trial. |