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Hunter's lien is the latest in a series of substantial tax problems members of the Biden family:

<><> there's Joe's brother James’s six-figure tax debt in 2015

<><> there were multiple liens filed against Joe's sister Valerie and her husband.

<><> Hunter's high-paying consulting work for companies in Ukraine and China,

<><> Hunter's child support case in which the younger Biden claimed he was in "significant debt" and refused to turn over court-ordered financial records.

Dam Breaks: Establishment Media Zone in on Biden Family’s Culture of Corruption....
BreitBart ^ | 1/29/2020 | HARIS ALIC / FR Posted on 1/29/2020, 1:32:01 PM by caww

Politico published in-depth exposé on financial ties between the former VP'S younger brother, James, and a high-powered D.C. lobbyist.

<><> James Biden and his wife purchased an acre of land in the Virgin Islands for $150,000 in May 2005. A year later, James resold 1/3rd of that acre to Scott Green, a 'national security lobbyist who formerly served a Senate staffer for Joe Biden. Green paid $150,000 for the land, even though tax assessed value was only $38,000. “In effect, m/m Biden got their money back while keeping most of the land—recouping their investment in just 12 months.

Any money that Green may have lost through the deal was offset when Joe Biden became vice president.

<><> In 2010 Green and members of the lobbying firm he founded, "the Lafayette Group," were frequent visitors at the Obama-Biden White House.

<><> Green’s ties to the Biden clan seemed to be especially beneficial. On April 11, 2010, the Lafayette Group was awarded two taxpayer-funded contracts from FEMA worth a total of $5.8 million.ed.

Other members of the Biden family did just as well.

<><> Biden’s brother, Frank, benefited from $54 million in taxpayer-backed loans to Caribbean nations heavily involved in real estate and solar power projects he was pursuing in the region. ...even though he lacked a background in solar energy or international real estate development.

<><> Similarly, Biden's sister, Valerie, received millions in fees during the 2008 election. Valerie, was campaign manager for her brother’s failed presidential campaign that year; she paid her own consulting firm, Joe Slade White & Company, $2.5 million for its services. (More Biden finagling in article.......at breitbart.com)

Biden Faces Pressure From Left Over Influence Industry Ties.
Many aides and close allies are veteran Washington hands who have profited from advising big corporations.
The Sanders-Warren wing of the party is not happy.
New York Times ^ | August 1, 2020 | Kenneth P. Vogel and Glenn Thrush
FR Posted on 8/1/2020, 8:07:53 PM by karpov

WASHINGTON — It was one of the few issues on which President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. disagreed — how far to go in limiting the influence of lobbyists in government.

The vice president privately complained that his boss’s effort to slam shut the revolving door between K Street and the administration would deprive it of experienced talent, and he bristled when Mr. Obama’s aides tried to block him from hiring a well-connected Washington operator who had lobbied for pharmaceutical and insurance companies, credit agencies and others.

Eight years later, that same confidant, Steve Ricchetti, is helping to run Mr. Biden’s presidential campaign. Also involved to varying degrees are other advisers, operatives, fund-raisers and allies with deep connections to Washington’s lucrative lobbying, communications and strategic consulting industry.

That puts Mr. Biden at odds with powerful elements of his party’s liberal base. Increasingly, they are expressing concern that the military contractors, Wall Street banks and other major corporations that paid members of Mr. Biden’s inner circle while they were out of government could hold disproportionate power in a Biden administration.

Politically, it could limit Mr. Biden’s ability to cast himself as the antidote to the anything-goes access peddling that has proliferated in President Trump’s administration. Under Mr. Trump, lobbyists and campaign donors have not only enjoyed access to the highest levels of the administration, but have been tapped to lead cabinet departments and have exerted remarkable influence over policies of intense interest to their former employers.

“It’s worrisome, broadly speaking, that a Biden administration could end up abiding by the unfortunate bipartisan norms of putting people in posts where they oversee industries or employers they just left,” said David Segal, co-founder of the liberal group Demand Progress.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...

There's at least nine "incidences" among Joe Biden’s close family, and followed incidents involving his brother Frank, his son Hunter and his daughter Ashley. The cases - ranging from felony theft to drug possession - were all either thrown out, or resulted in light sentences with no jail time, according to a Post review of public records and published reports.

<><> The trouble for Ashley Biden, 39, started with a pot bust when she was a student at Tulane University in 1999. New Orleans police confirmed the possession arrest of the daughter of the then-Delaware senator, but no conviction was recorded in court records.

<><>Ten years later, during her father’s vice-presidency, video circulated showing a woman resembling Ashley snorting what appeared to be cocaine at a party. Joe Biden refused to comment on the reports, and there were no legal consequences.

<><> A second misdemeanor arrest for the Biden daughter was reported in 2002 after she allegedly attempted to obstruct a police officer - making “intimidating statements” - after a bottle-throwing brawl outside a Chicago bar. The charges were dropped.

RYAN PARRY WEST COAST EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 16:03 EDT, 11 June 2020

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8406427/Joe-Bidens-brother-Frank-just-29-bank-account-despite-owing-dead-mans-family-1M.html

EXCLUSIVE: Joe Biden’s brother wriggles out of $1M he owes to car crash victim’s family by having just $29 in his bank account - despite life of luxury as a law firm’s frontman
Joe Biden’s brother Frank, 66, owes the family of Michael Albano $1M, stemming from a car crash in 1999 where the single father died

Biden, then 43, was riding shotgun when he shifted the 290hp car into manual and told the driver to ‘punch it,’ just before hitting Albano

Biden fled California leaving a trail of unpaid bills and never even turned up in court when Albano’s family sued him, according to court documents

Despite earning a hundreds of thousands of dollars from executive positions he’s held at firms, he hasn’t paid the family a cent

He lives with partner Mindy in a $600k home in a gated community in upmarket Atlantis, Florida and drives a $40,000 Range Rover

But when an attorney for the Albano family garnished Biden’s Wells Fargo bank account in February, he found it just had $29.16

Recently filed court docs are the first step in compelling Biden to subject to a debtor’s examination, which have him testify to his full income and assets

Biden’s campaign has committed to issuing an executive order on his first day in office to “address conflicts of interest of any kind,” and has repeatedly said he and his family have never discussed private business interests. (cue laugh machine here)

Kinship-as-currency is hardly a new phenomenon in Washington. But as Joe Biden makes his third run at the nation’s highest office, he has already confronted a sustained political attack on the decision by his son, Hunter, to accept a position on the board of directors for a Ukrainian energy firm – a decision that has figured prominently into the debate over President Trump’s impeachment. The president has repeatedly called the Bidens “crooked,” particularly with regard to Hunter Biden’s business activities.

The presidential candidate has also faced questions about endeavors by another brother, James Biden, who is fighting a lawsuitin which he stands accused of feigning interest in investing in a medical device company as a ploy to steal the company’s business model.

According to plaintiffs, James Biden said during investment negotiations that the firm’s “psychiatric care model would be used by Joe Biden as part of his campaign for President of United States.” A spokesperson for James Biden called allegations in the lawsuit “a seriously misleading version of the events,” meant to “[take] advantage of Jim Biden’s public profile as the brother of a presidential candidate,” adding that “[Frank Biden] does not, and has never, discussed his business ventures with his brother.” The lawsuit remains ongoing.

And now the issue is resurfacing once more with the former vice president’s younger brother, Frank.

Frank Biden declined to be interviewed for this report, but over the past decade, during the years he was involved in the charter school business in Florida and afterward, he has spoken frequently in public about his prominent family ties. In an interview with The Washington Post in late 2011, Frank Biden said of his last name, “I enjoy automatic acceptance or at least listening to what I have to say.” Several press releases put out by Mavericks in Education advertise “brother of Vice President Joe Biden” as one of his credentials.

For his part, Joe Biden’s campaign for president does not support government funding for for-profit charter schools, setting him at odds with his brother’s work with Mavericks.

Biden sought to avoid conflict of interest before 2008 campaign: link to Court records. Biden ‘out front’ for the company – in presidential seal cufflinks

Frank Biden’s chance encounter in 2009 with a Mavericks executive launched his years-long effort to place the for-profit business in several Florida school districts. Charter schools are heavily regulated and depend on approvals by school boards and other government officials to operate, so convincing school board members of the company’s viability was a critical step for nascent charter management outfits. That was Frank Biden’s job for Mavericks.

As the project’s public face and biggest advocate, Frank Biden undertook efforts to win over school board members who were responsible for approving charter school applications. He did so, in both media interviews and school board meetings, in part by invoking the name of his brother, who was vice president at the time.

“Joe is my hero. My older brother is the best man I know,” Frank Biden said during a 2016 promotional interview, adding, “Barack ain’t bad either, trust me.”