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EXCLUSIVE! HUNTER Biden has secret business links to the hotshot lawyer at the center of Twitter’s battle against Meta’s new social network Threads. (https://www.the-sun.com/news/8566820/hunter-biden-business-ties-twitter-lawyer-battle-threads/) ( 1 of 3 )
Attorney to the stars Alex Spiro, 40, on Wednesday sent a letter on behalf of Twitter to Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg threatening legal action and alleging intellectual property theft over its “copycat” app.
Spiro is Twitter chief Elon Musk’s personal lawyer and has also represented celebrities such as Alec Baldwin, Jay-Z and Mick Jagger.
But until now his ties to the business interests of President Joe Biden's troubled son Hunter had remained a secret.
Leaked documents handed to investigative group Marco Polo by a whistleblower and seen by The U.S. Sun appear to show that Spiro took Hunter’s seat on the board of private equity firm Bohai Harvest RST (BHR) in February 2020.
BHR is Chinese Communist Party-backed and Hunter - who last month pled guilty to tax and firearm offenses in Delaware - has been accused of using it to peddle influence in China.
The files also reveal an apparent attempt to cover up Spiro’s involvement with the BHR board, including a letter signed by the company’s CEO Jonathan Li in which he made claims the company knew were false.
The new cache of emails shows that Spiro was first put forward by Hunter’s disgraced business partner Devon Archer as a possible supervisor at BHR in September 2018.
Convicted fraudster Archer and Harvard Law School graduate Spiro are former neighbors who used to live close to each other in Brooklyn.
It is not clear whether the move proposed by Archer to appoint Spiro as supervisor at BHR in 2018 went through.
Then in October 2019, Hunter announced through his lawyer George Mesires that he intended to resign from the BHR board of directors by the end of that month.
Mesires spelled out that he was responding to “significant press attention” to Hunter’s business activities in the months after his dad Joe had been confirmed as the Democratic presidential nominee.
The emails seen by The U.S. Sun show that a few months later, in February 2020, a BHR executive called Heng-Yin Zhang emailed paperwork for Spiro to sign so he could replace Hunter on the board.
An assistant at the Quinn Emanuel (https://www.quinnemanuel.com/attorneys/spiro-alex/#byCountry=1757&byChar=s&byProfileType=&bySearch=&byOffice=&byPracticeArea=&byLawClerk=&byAdp=) law firm where Spiro is a partner sent back the documents with Spiro’s stamp signature and a scan of his passport.
In April that same year, Zhang confirmed to Hunter’s business partners Archer and Jimmy Bulger that Hunter’s director position had been removed from official filing records.
A written board resolution document from April 2020 lists Spiro as a director of the company, while Hunter’s name is no longer anywhere to be found.
Another board resolution document from July 2020 carries Spiro’s stamped signature in his capacity as director.
Despite stepping away from the board, Hunter held on to his 10% stake in BHR through his company Skaneateles LLC.
Skaneateles is currently controlled by Hunter's personal lawyer Kevin Morris and still retains that 10% interest in BHR, business filings show. (https://twitter.com/TheGeorgeHQ/status/1652139294512025600?s=20)
The cache of new emails does not reveal why but in August 2020 moves were suddenly being made for Spiro to resign from the BHR board.
In September that year BHR received an appointment letter stating that Spiro was being removed as director. Then in October, Archer wrote to Spiro: “Please let this email confirm that though we explored the Advisory Board position at BHR the process was reversed and we are longer moving forward with on boarding. Thank you for your consideration.”
Spiro replied: “Devon - thanks for confirming nothing moved forward (as I never agreed for it to move forward).
“For the avoidance of any doubt, no one has or had my permission to use my name, likeness, etc for any purpose. Thank you.”
Following the presidential election in November 2020, Zhang wrote to Archer again to enquire about the status of Spiro’s directorship.