In a lawsuit against the Bidens more than a decade ago, a former business associate of Hunter Biden alleged then-Sen. Biden had misgivings about potential conflicts of interest presented by his son's lobbying work ahead of his 2008 presidential campaign.
More than a decade ago, as then-Sen. Joe Biden launched his second presidential campaign, he asked a favor of his youngest son: stop lobbying -- according to claims in a lawsuit filed at the time.
The president and his allies have fixated on Hunter Biden's foreign business activities in Ukraine and China. But court records filed by Hunter Biden's onetime business partner more than a decade ago suggest then-Sen. Biden had misgivings about potential conflicts of interest presented by his son's domestic work as well.
He first worked at MBNA, a Delaware-based credit card company and one of his father's most generous campaign donors. When Hunter Biden was promoted to a senior vice president at the company at age 28, it raised eyebrows. Years later, after Joe Biden was named Barack Obama's running mate, the Obama campaign struggled to defend Hunter Biden's work at the company.
Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen, a nonprofit and nonpartisan advocacy group, said that while it is not uncommon for children of powerful public figures to work in Washington, it can present an ethical conundrum.
Shortly after Lotito connected with Hunter and James Biden, the trio worked with Lotito to acquire a hedge fund called Paradigm. But within months, the deal began to unravel. Lotito filed the lawsuit in New York accusing the Bidens of cutting him out of the Paradigm deal, and the Bidens countered that Lotito had misrepresented the value of the hedge fund they had acquired.
In April of 2014, Hunter Biden and his Rosemont Seneca partner, Archer, landed seats on the board of directors at a Ukrainian oil and gas firm called Burisma. According to banking records reviewed by ABC News, the firm began collecting $166,666 payments each month. Both Bidens have denied any wrongdoing. During an exclusive interview with ABC News earlier this week, Hunter said he exercised"poor judgment" in taking the Burisma board seat, but defended himself against the ethical questions raised about his private ventures.
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