Hunter Biden hired a new hotshot criminal defense lawyer last month to help prepare for his upcoming tax fraud trial — as his legal slush fund dries up without a plea deal in sight. Los Angeles attorney Mark Geragos, who has represented both celebrity clients and family members of US presidents in high-profile cases , joined Hunter’s legal team in July, court filings show, which came as the 54-year-old first son had already been facing a “financial crunch,” CNN reported . Plea talks have also broken down between Hunter’s attorneys and special counsel David Weiss, two sources told the outlet.
Hunter’s patron and “sugar brother” Kevin Morris, another high-power Hollywood lawyer, had privately confessed three months before that resources were “ pretty dire ” and he was “completely tapped out.” “The reason Kevin got involved financially in the first place was that he could see that no one was going to help Hunter,” one person close to Morris told Politico in May. After having earned a fortune repping clients in Hollywood like the creators of “South Park,” Morris, who met Hunter at a political fundraiser for his father in late 2019, was able to loan the first son more than $6.
5 million . At least $2 million of that went toward paying off Hunter’s back taxes owed to the IRS. In June, Abbe Lowell, a partner at Winston & Strawn based in Washington, DC, had led Hunter’s defense in his Delaware trial on three felony gun charges related to buying a ha.