‘I doubt much good comes from doing ketamine while you’re on crack.’
A copy of the Firearms Transaction Record and a receipt for the purchase was first obtained by news site Politico last year.
Lying on gun forms is a felony, punishable by a maximum 10 years prison and a $250,000 fine.
However, not all cases are prosecuted. Of the 478 referrals for ‘lying and buying’ the Justice Department received in 2018, charges were filed for 298 cases, about 60%.
Hunter barely had the gun for a two weeks when a dangerous incident occurred.
His lover and brother’s widow Hallie Biden found it in his truck on October 23 and threw it in a trash can outside local grocery store Janssens, opposite a high school.
It was discovered by a homeless man rifling through the trash. Local police as well as the FBI were called.
Hunter argued about the incident with Hallie in panicked text messages in the following days.
‘The f***ing FBI Hallie. It’s hard to believe anyone is that stupid // so what’s my fault here Hallie that you speak of. Owning a gun that’s in a locked car hidden on another property?,’ he wrote.
‘It was open unlocked and windows down and the kids search your car,’ Hallie replied. ‘I’m scared you would use it hunt … I’m scared for your life hunt.’
Despite the Bidens not having Secret Service protection at the time, USSS agents reportedly showed up and asked the gun store owner, Ron Palmieri, to hand over purchase documents.
Suspecting the case would be covered up, Palmieri refused and instead later gave his papers to agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, according to a March 2021 Politico report.
The Secret Service has denied any involvement. But in texts from Hunter’s laptop he also claimed they had a role in the debacle.
‘She stole the gun out of my truck lock box and threw in a garbage can full to the top at Jansens. Then told me it was my problem to deal with,’ Hunter wrote in a three-way text message with Hallie and his therapist in January 2019.
‘Then when the police the FBI the secret service came on the scene she said she took it from me because she was scared I would harm myself due to my drug and alcohol problem and our volatile relationship and that she was afraid for the kids.’
Transparency organization Judicial Watch is currently suing the Secret Service over its refusal to hand over records relating to the incident under the Freedom of Information Act.
Last year the agency told Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson, who have been investigating Hunter’s potential criminal activity, they weren’t involved.
‘The Secret Service did not provide protection to any member of the Biden family in 2018,’ special agent in charge Benjamin Kramer said in a letter published by the Republican senators.
‘Further, records searches concerning the reported involvement of Secret Service personnel in the alleged incident have yielded no results.’
SHADY BUSINESS DEALS
Hunter’s foreign business dealings have been controversial for years and have come under intense scrutiny since details from his laptop emerged.
Potential charges for alleged undeclared income may focus on his work for allegedly corrupt Ukrainian gas company Burisma, his deals with Chinese financial firms and Beijing-backed oil giant CEFC, or his business schemes hatched with oligarchs from Russia, Kazakhstan and other Eastern European magnates.
Transactions involving Hunter or his family members have triggered more than 150 suspicious activity reports, filed by banks for law enforcement to draw on in future financial crime investigations, according to House Oversight Committee ranking member, Republican James Comey.
Those voluminous reports have been in the hands of the FBI and were part of the evidence used by the Senate Homeland Security Committee for its bombshell 2020 report that flagged ‘millions of dollars in questionable transactions’ and national security concerns over Hunter’s foreign business dealings.
Emails and documents from Hunter’s laptop show he made at least $11million from his overseas deals between 2013 and 2018 – and the total he got from Chinese businesses alone has been estimated as high as $31million.
A bank statement from August 2017 on Hunter’s abandoned laptop shows a wire transfer of $5million to an account for Hudson West III, linked to Hunter in his deal with CEFC. READ THE FINAL PAGE BELOW FOR EMAIL EVIDENCE
