Hunter Biden
American businessman and lobbyist
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| 2025 | Hunter Biden dropped his IRS lawsuit. |
| 2025 | NPR's CEO Katherine Maher acknowledged the organization's past handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story as 'a mistake', admitting they should have covered it more aggressively and sooner. |
| March 2025 | Secret Service detail for Hunter Biden was withdrawn on the direction of Donald Trump, despite previous presidential protection ordered by Joe Biden. |
| March 2025 | Hunter Biden moves to dismiss his lawsuit against Garrett Ziegler due to lack of funds, and Judge Hernán Vera subsequently dismisses the suit with prejudice. |
| March 2025 | Hunter Biden sought to dismiss the Marco Polo lawsuit due to worsening personal financial situation and inability to continue paying for legal representation. |
| March 2025 | End of period from December 2023 to March 2025, during which Biden sells $36,000 of art. |
| January 20 2025 | Donald Trump issued an executive order revoking the security clearances of the 51 intelligence officials who signed the letter about Hunter Biden's laptop, accusing them of manipulating the political process. |
| January 2025 | Former Politico reporters Marc Caputo and Tara Palmeri revealed that editors had previously instructed them not to write, talk, or tweet about the Hunter Biden laptop story. |
| January 2025 | Fox News reported that a senior administration official said Trump plans to suspend security clearances for the 51 intelligence officials who signed the letter. |
| January 2025 | Hunter Biden's rental home was damaged in the Palisades Fire, leaving him without stable housing and experiencing homelessness. |
| 2024 | Biden filed a lawsuit against Fox News for airing images from his laptop, which he initially dropped, then revived three months later in state court. |
| December 2024 | Receives a pardon from his father Joe Biden for all federal offenses committed between 2014 and 2024, including potential undiscovered offenses. |
| December 16 2024 | Hunter Biden was scheduled for sentencing, with potential prison time of up to 17 years, though legal experts expected a sentence of fewer than five years. |
| December 1 2024 | President Biden issued a full and unconditional pardon for his son Hunter, covering all federal offenses committed between January 1, 2014 and December 1, 2024, including tax and gun charges. The pardon was notably broad, covering Hunter's entire tenure on the Burisma board and his international work. |
| December 1 2024 | Hunter Biden was pardoned by his father, President Joe Biden, before his scheduled December 12 sentencing. |
| December 1 2024 | President Biden issued a full and unconditional pardon for his son Hunter, covering all federal offenses committed between January 1, 2014 and December 1, 2024, including tax and gun charges. The pardon was unusually broad, comparable only to Richard Nixon's pardon. |
| September 2024 | The D.C. District Court dismissed Hunter Biden's IRS lawsuit under the Privacy Act. |
| September 2024 | Pleads guilty to all tax charges under federal criminal investigation. |
| September 30 2024 | Delaware Superior Court Judge Robert Robinson Jr. dismisses both Mac Isaac's defamation claims and Biden's counterclaims. |
| September 5 2024 | Hunter Biden's defense lawyer Abbe Lowell initially proposed changing his plea from not guilty to guilty in the federal tax case, involving three felony charges and six misdemeanor charges. The initial plea offer was not accepted by the prosecution. |
| September 5 2024 | Hunter Biden ultimately pleaded guilty to all nine charges during a court hearing, responding 'Yes' when Judge Mark C. Scarsi asked if he agreed he committed every element of the indictment. |
| September 5 2024 | Biden pleaded guilty to tax evasion and related charges in a U.S. criminal tax case. |
| August 21 2024 | A pre-trial hearing was scheduled involving prosecutors' allegations that Biden agreed to lobby on behalf of a Romanian businessman while his father was vice president. |
| June 2024 | Supreme Court rejects claims of government coercion in social media content moderation in Murthy v. Missouri, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett noting social media companies acted independently. |
| June 2024 | Hunter Biden agrees to drop the lawsuit against Giuliani and his associates. |
| June 2024 | Convicted of three federal firearms-related felony charges after admitting to illegally owning a gun while a drug user. |
| June 2024 | After Joe Biden's poor presidential debate performance, Hunter began actively helping with speech preparation and joined meetings with the president and his staffers, increasing his involvement in his father's presidential administration. |
| June 2024 | Federal prosecutors used the laptop as evidence in a criminal case against Hunter Biden, including testimony from an FBI agent who authenticated the laptop. |
| June 25 2024 | A U.S. House subcommittee led by Jim Jordan released a report alleging CIA contractors colluded with the Biden campaign regarding the intelligence officials' letter. |
| June 11 2024 | Biden was found guilty on three felony gun charges, becoming the first child of a sitting U.S. president convicted in a criminal trial. His law license in Washington, D.C. was subsequently suspended. |
| June 3 2024 | Hunter Biden's federal gun trial began, charging him with unlawfully possessing a gun as a drug user, lying on a federal form, and making a false statement to a gun dealer. |
| May 24 2024 | Final pre-trial hearing for gun charges held, with Judge Maryellen Noreika making key rulings about what evidence could be presented at trial. |
| April 2024 | Republican House Oversight committee investigation released, finding no wrongdoing by Joe Biden related to Ukraine and his son's business dealings. |
| February 28 2024 | Hunter Biden was deposed by the House Judiciary and Oversight committees, discussing emails found on the laptop. During the deposition, Biden stated he did not recall sending the laptop for repairs. |
| January 2024 | Federal prosecutors confirmed possession of Hunter Biden's laptop and verified that its files matched cloud backups from his Apple account. |
| January 11 2024 | Biden pleaded not guilty to the California tax charges, with the trial initially scheduled for June 20, 2024, and later delayed to September 5, 2024. |
| 2023 | Biden sued Garrett Ziegler's Marco Polo organization for invasion of privacy after the group published 128,000 of his emails from his recovered laptop computer. |
| December 2023 | Beginning of period from December 2023 to March 2025, during which Biden sells $36,000 of art. |
| December 2023 | End of period where Biden sells approximately $1.5 million of his artwork, as documented in court filings. |
| December 2023 | Concluded a period of art sales of approximately $1.5 million, with subsequent sales from December 2023 to March 2025 totaling $36,000. |
| December 7 2023 | Biden was indicted in California on nine tax charges, including three felony and six misdemeanor offenses, alleging a four-year scheme of not paying $1.4 million in federal taxes from 2016 to 2019. |
| September 2023 | Hunter Biden filed a lawsuit against the IRS, alleging unlawful disclosures of his tax return information by two IRS employees to members of Congress. |
| September 2023 | Hunter Biden files a civil lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani, his companies, and attorney Robert Costello, accusing them of hacking, tampering, and disseminating private data from his personal devices. |
| September 14 2023 | Biden was indicted on three federal firearms-related charges in Delaware, including two for making false statements on a firearm application and one for prohibited firearm possession. |
| August 8 2023 | David Weiss requested and was granted special counsel status in the Biden investigation by Attorney General Merrick Garland. |
| July 26 2023 | Federal prosecutors revealed the ongoing investigation could involve potential Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) charges. The initial plea deal was rejected by the judge, and Biden changed his plea to 'not guilty'. |
| June 2023 | Biden and Roberts settled their dispute, with Biden agreeing to give paintings to his daughter and pay an undisclosed monthly child support until she turns 18, and assist with college tuition. |
| June 20 2023 | Biden agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and enter a pretrial diversion program for a felony gun charge. |
| May 2023 | No public evidence had surfaced to support claims that the laptop was part of a Russian disinformation scheme. |
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