Artist and former first son Hunter Biden finally got a day job, presumably to pay off the legal bills he has racked up in recent years.
Hunter said in an interview released Tuesday that he is now working as the director of development for BASTA Inc., a Los Angeles-based eviction defense organization. Hunter allegedly owes millions of dollars in legal bills. (Subscribe to MR. RIGHT, a free weekly newsletter about modern masculinity)
Bryan Sullivan, a BASTA Inc. co-founder and chief financial officer, previously represented the first son in several failed defamation lawsuits.
“There’s such an opportunity to be of service right now and not in … some kind of melodramatic, you know, way … A lot of people that are getting the shit beat out of them out there right here in LA and, there’s an enormous opportunity for just normal people to do kind of heroic things, whether it’s protecting somebody that’s about to get kidnapped off a street,” Hunter told host Andrew Callaghan.
Hunter went on to claim that BASTA Inc. is the only group “in at least Southern California” that represents illegal migrants, although several organizations in the region offer representation for migrants in labor violation cases or those in custody facing deportation.
“We’re the only group, in at least Southern California, that represents undocumented, and so we don’t take any federal money. And by the way,” he continued, “it’s not just El Salvadorian immigrants. it’s Ukrainian immigrants that came in under duress from what’s going on in Ukraine and find it really hard to find work because of the the fear of employers that they’re going to disrupt their business because of ICE raids and things like that. And then they lose their income. And almost all of these people are families and children. And if you can keep someone in their apartment or their home, you obviously also keeping somebody off the street in homelessness.”
In 2024, Hunter reportedly asked the DNC to foot the legal bills for the federal tax and gun charges. Kevin Morris, Hunter’s longtime ally and financier, told House Republicans in January 2024 that Hunter’s legal tab was around $5 million. Ahead of Hunter’s first trial in June 2024, Morris was running out of money to fund the first son’s legal defense, according to Politico.
“The reason Kevin got involved financially in the first place was that he could see that no one was going to help Hunter,” a source told Politico at the time. “Now, four and a half years later, there’s still no help — and now Kevin is completely tapped out. So just when Hunter is facing two criminal trials starting in a few weeks, he has no resources. It’s pretty dire.”
Hunter received a pardon from his father in December 2024 after he was convicted in June on the gun charges, despite reassurances from the president that he would not do so.
