The Hollywood Attorney Identified As Hunter Biden’s Financial Benefactor Is Reportedly Helping Pay His Legal Bills
Hollywood attorney Kevin Morris, the man identified as the third party benefactor who paid $2 million of Hunter Biden’s overdue taxes, is reportedly paying a substantial portion of the younger Biden’s mounting legal bills.
Hunter Biden’s legal bills have exceeded $10 million since 2018 and he is struggling to raise money to fund his ongoing legal efforts, CNN reported Wednesday. Morris has covered some of Hunter Biden’s legal bills and encouraged him to aggressively fight ongoing investigations led by House Republicans, an unnamed source close to Hunter Biden told the outlet.
The New York Post and The New York Times identified Morris in May 2022 as the financial benefactor who paid $2 million of Hunter Biden’s delinquent taxes. The younger Biden’s failed guilty plea confirms a third party paid roughly $2 million of his tax burden spread across multiple years but the document does not name the third party.
Morris is known for his legal work on behalf of the creators of comedy show “South Park” and the musical, “The Book of Mormon.”
Hunter Biden’s legal bills are potentially exceeding $1 million per month due to his legal troubles, according to the New York Post. Morris advised Hunter Biden to bring Abbe Lowell onto his defense counsel to handle his legal issues, CNN previously reported. Lowell has written letters to Congress and Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss criticizing Republican House investigators, as well as the two IRS whistleblowers who accused DOJ officials of slow-walking and obstructing the Hunter Biden case.
Hunter Biden’s uncle and business partner, James Biden, thanked Morris for helping Biden “on behalf of the family,” according to an internal IRS memo released Sept. 27 by the House Ways and Means Committee.
“James B thought that the money was significant enough that RHB asked his uncle to say something to Morris and thank him. James B didn’t recall a specific discussion only to say thank you ‘on behalf of the family,'” the document reads.
IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley flagged Morris’ alleged payment in a May 2021 memo describing potential “campaign finance criminal violations” that were allegedly ignored by Delaware Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf. Shapley testified to the Ways and Means Committee in May about Morris’ payment as part of his allegations Hunter Biden received special treatment from Wolf and other DOJ investigators.
“And, then ultimately, in late 2019-2020, a Kevin Patrick Morris comes into the picture. And he was described as meeting Hunter Biden at a campaign finance event. And he paid off several different tranches of tax due and owing, to include Federal and D.C. tax due and owing,” Shapley testified.
Republican Missouri Rep. Jason Smith, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, brought up Morris’ alleged financial support during the first impeachment inquiry hearing into President Joe Biden. Prior to the hearing, the committee released the internal IRS memos as part of a trove of documents substantiating the testimony from Shapley and IRS whistleblower Joseph Ziegler.
Hunter Biden and Morris recently spoke for five hours at Morris’ residence in Los Angeles, Daily Mail reported. Axios reporter Alex Thompson, known for his sources in Biden world, was spotted leaving the property as Hunter Biden walked in, according to Daily Mail.
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