{"id":1468423,"date":"2022-05-09T07:30:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T11:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1468423"},"modified":"2022-05-09T07:31:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T11:31:19","slug":"hollywood-lawyer-reportedly-paid-off-hunter-bidens-delinquent-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hollywood-lawyer-reportedly-paid-off-hunter-bidens-delinquent-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood Lawyer Reportedly Paid Off Hunter Biden\u2019s Delinquent Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhollywood-lawyer-reportedly-paid-off-hunter-bidens-delinquent-taxes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1468423&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>A bigshot Hollywood lawyer reportedly paid off Hunter Biden\u2019s delinquent taxes \u2014 which a source told The Post amounted to more than $2 million \u2014 as President Joe Biden\u2019s notoriously troubled son awaits the results of a Delaware grand jury\u2019s investigation into his personal finances.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Morris, an entertainment attorney and novelist who earned a fortune representing the co-creators of \u201cSouth Park\u201d and won a Tony award as the co-producer of \u201cThe Book of Mormon,\u201d footed Hunter Biden\u2019s overdue taxes totaling over $2 million \u2014 more than twice that which was previously reported, a source familiar with conversations between the two told the Post.<\/p>\n<p>Morris, whom Hunter Biden\u2019s friends call his latest \u201csugar brother,\u201d has also been funding the 52-year-old\u2019s lifestyle in Los Angeles \u2014 including his rent and living expenses, the source said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The attorney has also been advising the president\u2019s son on how to structure his <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/30\/hunter-bidens-art-exhibit-in-nyc-draws-few-visitors\/\">art sales<\/a>, according to the source.<\/p>\n<p>When the Post attempted to contact Morris at his Malibu residence to ask about his dealings with Hunter Biden, his wife slammed the door in the reporter\u2019s face and refused to answer questions.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/AP22113595726632-e1652067244686.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>Hunter Biden has been under investigation for failing to pay taxes since his father was vice-president.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP\/Andrew Harnik<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hunter Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/17\/hunter-biden-paid-off-tax-bill-in-2021-but-investigation-continued-report\/\">took out a loan<\/a> to settle up his significant 2021 tax bill after he announced he was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/12\/09\/hunter-biden-under-federal-investigation-for-possible-tax-fraud\/\">under investigation<\/a> for defrauding the Internal Revenue Service.<\/p>\n<p>His up-to-date tax bill could make it more difficult for prosecutors to convict Hunter Biden and hinder their ability to win a lengthy sentence if he was convicted, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/16\/us\/politics\/hunter-biden-tax-bill-investigation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The New York Times reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>Tax prosecutors would typically argue that paying an overdue balance wouldn\u2019t affect a fraud case because the evasion still occurred. However, a judge and jury may be more sympathetic towards someone who eventually footed their bill.<\/p>\n<p>Morris is a founding member of the firm Morris Yorn Barnes Levine in Los Angeles, which has represented A-list Hollywood celebrities such as Matthew McConaughey, Ellen Degeneres, Scarlett Johansson, Liam Hemsworth and Chris Rock. He no longer works at the firm.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, he published a collection of short stories titled \u201cWhite Man\u2019s Problems,\u201d and in 2016 published his debut novel \u201cAll Joe Knight,\u201d which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/All-Joe-Knight-Kevin-Morris\/dp\/0802125786?tag=nypost-20&#038;asc_refurl=https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/08\/hollywood-lawyer-kevin-morris-paid-off-over-2m-of-hunter-bidens-taxes\/&#038;asc_source=web\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">listed <\/a>as Amazon Best Book of the Month in Literature and Fiction in December 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden has been under investigation for failing to pay taxes since his father was vice-president, but in 2018 investigators began probing his international business dealings intersected with President Biden\u2019s political career.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/495501055.jpg\"><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bigshot Hollywood lawyer reportedly paid off Hunter Biden\u2019s delinquent taxes \u2014 which a source told The Post amounted to more than $2 million \u2014 as President Joe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}