Hunter Biden (left) attends a Medal of Honor Ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on July 3, 2024. (Sipa via AP Images), Mark Geragos (right) (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File).
Just days after filing a lawsuit against Fox News under New York’s “revenge porn” law, well-known attorneys for Hunter Biden will also fight their client’s federal tax prosecution in California, according to court papers filed Wednesday.
Biden, already convicted of felony gun charges in Delaware, is adding high-powered criminal defense attorneys Mark Geragos and Tina Glandian to combat special counsel David Weiss‘s West Coast willful failure to pay taxes case.
Geragos, a celebrity attorney known for representing Michael Jackson, Colin Kaepernick, Scott Peterson, the Menendez brothers, and many more, and Geragos & Geragos firm partner Tina Glandian, who has represented disgraced “Empire” actor and hate crime hoaxer Jussie Smollett, Kesha, Cain Velasquez, Chris Brown, and Andrew Tate, to name a few, each entered appearances Wednesday to defend President Joe Biden’s son in court.
Tina Glandian pictured at Jussie Smollett trial. (Image via Cassella/Pool/Chicago Tribune.)
The filings do not contain details beyond the fact that Geragos and Glandian have been added as Biden’s attorneys.
Hunter Biden has so far been unsuccessful in efforts to toss out the tax case and his challenges of his gun convictions are ongoing, but that (mostly) hasn’t stopped him from also pursuing civil litigation over the alleged “hacking” of his iPhone data and “Biden Laptop Report”-focused “unhinged and obsessed campaign against [him] and the entire Biden family[.]”
Adding to the number of pending lawsuits, Biden on June 30 filed a case against Fox News, claiming the network’s 2022 “mock trial” series “The Trial of Hunter Biden,” taken down in April, “unlawfully publishe[d] numerous intimate images (both still and video) of Mr. Biden depicting him in the nude, depicting an unclothed or exposed intimate part of him, as well as engaged in sex acts[.]”
The “mock trial” series, Biden alleged, was aired to “harass, annoy, alarm, and humiliate him, and tarnish his reputation.”
Glandian threatened to sue Fox News in April and followed through in late June.
The “Intimate Images” shown in the series were “hacked, stolen, and/or manipulated digital material,” the suit claimed.
In response, Fox News said that lawsuit was meritless, “entirely politically motivated,” and the network noted that the series was “removed within days of the [Glandian] letter, in an abundance of caution[.]”
“Consistent with the First Amendment, FOX News has accurately covered the newsworthy events of Mr. Biden’s own making, and we look forward to vindicating our rights in court,” the statement said.
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