Hunter Biden’s new lawyer Abbe Lowell, a longtime defender of high-profile Democrats, is engaging in a newly-aggressive legal strategy on behalf of the son of President Joe Biden, including asking the Justice Department to investigate those involved in the infamous laptop saga.
Lowell sent letters to DOJ’s National Security Division and the Delaware attorney general last week, pressuring them to launch investigations into a number of figures involved in helping disseminate the contents of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop hard drive, including Delaware computer repair shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
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Representatives for Hunter said last year that he had paid off a roughly $2 million past-due tax bill by taking out a loan from Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris, who had been helping with shaping his media narrative and his legal strategies, which were less aggressive.
Hunter Biden himself has been largely silent on the laptop saga following his 2021 book tour about his memoir Beautiful Things.
The Washington Examiner reported in June 2022 that Hunter Biden spent over $30,000 on escorts, many of whom were linked to “.ru” Russian email addresses and worked with an “exclusive model agency” called UberGFE during a 3 1/2 month period between November 2018 and March 2019. He managed to do so thanks in part to Joe Biden committing to wiring him a total of $100,000 to help pay his bills from December 2018 through January 2019.
“What’s wrong with you?” Hunter told the Washington Examiner in a statement after that story was published.
But the addition of Lowell, who joined Hunter’s legal team in December, signals a marked shift in approach.
Lowell has in the past defended former Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards, current Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, and celebrity clients such as actor Steven Seagal and musician Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs. He also represented Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump during the Trump administration.
On Thursday, the Republican-led House Oversight and Accountability Committee demanded records from Hunter and James Biden, Joe’s brother, related to the duo’s overseas business dealings with Chinese intelligence-linked businessmen.
Rep. James Comer (R-KY) fired off the letters, arguing the men are “key witnesses in our investigation of Joe Biden’s involvement in his family’s international and domestic business schemes.”
Lowell told Comer on Thursday that “rather than engage in back-and-forth letter writing campaigns or any formal proceedings, I would offer to sit with you and your staff, including the ranking member and his staff, to see whether Mr. Biden has information that may inform some legitimate legislative purpose and be helpful to the Committee.”
Last week, Lowell fired off a letter to DOJ’s Matthew Olsen, the assistant attorney general for national security, writing that the “Government Should Investigate the Unauthorized Access, Copying, and Dissemination of Mr. Biden’s Personal Information.”
Lowell also sent a letter last week to Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings, similarly saying that the “State Should Investigate the Unauthorized Access, Copying, and Dissemination of Mr. Biden’s Personal Information That Originated in Delaware.”
Olsen has connections to the Obama administration, while Jennings previously worked under Hunter’s now-deceased brother Beau when he was Delaware’s attorney general. Joe Biden endorsed Jennings in 2018 during her successful run to be Delaware’s top law enforcement officer.
Lowell represented John Edwards when the Justice Department announced in June 2011 that a federal grand jury had handed down a six-count indictment against him “for allegedly participating in a scheme to violate federal campaign finance laws.”
The money was allegedly used to help cover up the affair Edwards was having in 2008 as his wife, Elizabeth, was dying of cancer. The jury deadlocked in May 2012 after more than a week of deliberations.
Lowell also represented Menendez after the Justice Department announced in April 2015 that it had indicted Menendez and Florida ophthalmologist Salomon Melgen in New Jersey “in connection with a bribery scheme in which Menendez allegedly accepted gifts from Melgen in exchange for using the power of his Senate office to benefit Melgen’s financial and personal interests.”
The federal judge overseeing the case declared a mistrial in November 2017 after the jury said it was deadlocked on the charges. A bipartisan Senate Ethics Committee report blasted Menendez in 2018.
Kushner hired Lowell in June 2017 to assist him with legal advice during Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation.
Lowell was still representing Kushner and Ivanka into 2019 during Democrat-led inquiries into the Trump administration.
Decades ago, Lowell was also a special assistant to the attorney general in the Carter administration and went on to be the chief minority counsel during impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton, presenting Clinton’s defense in front of the House Judiciary Committee in 1998.
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“We are not here to defend the president. He, better than anyone, has said that his conduct was not defensible and he has apologized for it,” Lowell said during closing arguments in December 1998. “We are here, however, to strenuously defend the requirements the Constitution poses on all of us before we would even consider the word impeachment.”
Clinton was impeached by the House but then acquitted by the Senate.
