Hunter Biden’s lawyers now want Marjorie Taylor Greene investigated for ‘human trafficking’ claim
Hunter Biden lawyers now want Marjorie Taylor Greene investigated for ‘falsely’ claiming he was ‘on crack with prostitutes’ and involved in ‘human trafficking’
- His attorney Abbe Lowell fired a letter to the House Office of Congressional Ethics
- It flagged her attacks and claimed the Biden family was involved in ‘human trafficking’
- Calls her ‘constant verbal attacks, defamatory statements’
Attorneys for Hunter Biden have sent an angry letter to a congressional ethics body demanding an investigation into Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s repeated comments linking the president’s son to “human trafficking.”
The letter, released Monday by Biden attorney Abbe Lowell, is part of an aggressive legal action as Hunter grapples with a government investigation into his tax finances amid a multiple scrutiny by House Republicans.
The pushback comes days after the Georgia Republican viewed “stunning” Special Activity Reports at the Treasury Department and then recorded a video of her claimed the “Biden crime family participated in human trafficking.”
The pressure also comes days after Greene was shut down by Republican colleagues following comments at a hearing in which she said Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell had sex with a Chinese spy and called Homeland Security Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas a “liar” – a development Biden’s team notes in the letter.
A lawyer for Hunter Biden wants the Office of Congressional Ethics to launch an investigation into Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene over her attacks on Hunter Biden, including a statement saying “The Biden crime family participated in human trafficking”
The letter cites Greene’s “ongoing verbal attacks, defamatory statements, publication of personal photos and data, and promotion of conspiracy theories about and against Robert Hunter Biden.”
It includes an all-encompassing house rule stating that all members must conduct themselves in a matter that “shall be a creditable reflection of the house.”
Lowell wrote to the Office of Congressional Ethics, which can review outside complaints and forward them to the bipartisan House Ethics Committee, which reviews member conduct and issues reports recommending sanctions.
The letter says that her attacks on Hunter Biden “sound and read like schoolyard insults rather than the work of a congressman, and do not uphold the integrity and dignity expected of members of the House of Representatives,” outlines then a series of them.
The letter also references an image Greene posted of Hunter driving his father’s classic Corvette with his niece and her nephew and commenting on Truth Social.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has become a powerful ally of Speaker Kevin McCarthy
Biden attorney Abbe Lowell wrote to the Office of Congressional Ethics asking for an investigation
The pushback comes after years of revelations about Hunter’s infamous laptop
A separate letter calls for an investigation of former Trump White House official Garett Ziegler over Special Activity reports saying he obtained “illegally”
“In summary, the baseless verbal abuse and ad hominem attacks against Mr. Biden are but a microcosm of Representative Greene’s numerous ethical violations and repeated errors in ethical judgment, all of which warrant a review of her conduct,” Lowell writes.
The letter arrived one day when Hunter’s team also wrote the Treasury Department IG alleges that former Trump White House official Garrett Ziegler “illegitimately obtained Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) from JP Morgan Chase Bank” regarding Hunter Biden.
The letter cites public statements that Ziegler obtained the reports by collaborating with a bank employee, and includes a link to a DailyMail.com story based on reports leaked to the MarcoPolo website showing Hunter Biden could be sued for allegedly transporting people across the state. lines for prostitution purposes.