Hunter Biden ordered to testify in child support case

Monica Showalter:

In an apparent trashy side story, Joe Biden's son Hunter has an Arkansas judge after him for failing to comply, for the third time, to submitting a financial statement so as to determine how much side support he need to pay for the child that came of his congress with an Arkansas stripper.

The judge is angry:

On Tuesday, an Arkansas judge ordered Hunter Biden, the youngest son of former Vice President Joe Biden, to appear in court and explain why he should not be held in contempt for violating numerous court orders to provide financial information in his Arkansas paternity case.

In the case, Lunden Alexis Roberts, a former Washington, D.C., stripper, has reportedly been awarded full custody and is seeking child support after a November DNA test confirmed that Roberts' son — born in August 2018 — was indeed Hunter Biden's child. Biden has refused to hand over financial records, despite a December 6 order to do so, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. He missed deadlines on December 12 and December 19, and most recently on January 16.

While questions about Hunter Biden's finances — particularly his employment history at the notoriously corrupt Ukrainian gas firm Burisma and his father's efforts to get the prosecutor investigating Burisma fired — feature in the Trump impeachment battle, Roberts' lawyer insisted that the paternity case has nothing to do with impeachment.

Baby-daddy Hunter has been told to show up in Arkansas to explain to the judge just why he won't turn in his financial statements. He argues it's all political, but the judge says it's all to determine how much child support he has to pay. And he agreed to accommodate Hunter by sealing the records.

 

It's been all for naught. Hunter made a litany of excuses even then and now the judge is sick of it.

 

Which raises questions about just what Hunter might be hiding. 

 

Alana Goodman at the Washington Examiner reports that while Hunter says he's 'unemployed' with no income, he's somehow living in $12,000 a month rented Hollywood Hills mansion with million-dollar views on four sides of the spread.

 

Here's the house. Here's the neighborhood.

 

She dug deeper to find that Biden's China interests are registered right at the residence, too:

 

One of Biden’s businesses, Skaneateles LLC, is registered to the Hollywood Hills address, according to corporate records. Biden used the company to purchase a 10% equity stock in Chinese investment fund BHR Equity Investment Fund Management Co. in 2017, according to his attorney.

Biden’s business dealings in China have faced scrutiny during his father's presidential campaign. Hunter Biden said he would step down from the board of the BHR investment fund in October, although he has not said whether he would divest his shares in the company. He is still the director at Skaneateles LLC, the company he used to purchase equity in the Chinese fund, the Daily Caller reported in October.

The implicit suggestion from it, given that Biden doesn't work for a living, is that the Chicoms might just be paying for it. Or maybe the Ukrainians of Burisma. He seems to be on someone's string.

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There is more.

What are the Democrats trying to cover-up by refusing to call Hunter as a witness?  In it seems pretty clear that his employment in a company of questionable repute must be inexplicable or he would be eager to clear the air and help his father's campaign.  At this point, it looks like the Bidens' have decided that silence is their best alternative.