By Bruno Matarazzo Jr.
New Haven Register, Conn.
(TNS)
(Nov. 28) WATERBURY — A Connecticut Judicial Branch office that handles attorney misconduct is seeking to have Hunter Biden, son of former President Joe Biden, disbarred in Connecticut following his convictions on federal firearms and tax-related charges last year, according to court filings.
Hunter Biden, 55, has been a member of the bar in Connecticut since 1997, a year after graduating from Yale Law School.
Arguments will be heard Dec. 15 at state Superior Court in Waterbury. A status conference will be held Monday.
Ross Garber, an attorney representing Biden for the bar discipline case, is not opposing the disbarment, according to court filings.
Garber could not be reached for comment on Friday.
The action by the Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel, along with two grievances filed against Biden, are in response to Biden’s convictions on gun charges, in which a jury found him guilty of lying on a mandatory gun-purchase form by saying he was not illegally using or addicted to drugs, according to The Associated Press.
Months later, Biden pleaded guilty to three felony tax offenses and six misdemeanor tax offenses related to tax evasion and filing false tax returns, according to the Department of Justice.
Following his guilty pleas, two grievances were filed against Biden in Connecticut: one by Paul M. Dorsey of West Hartford and another by Daniel R. Suhr with the Center of American Rights in Chicago.
Dorsey said in an interview that he filed his complaint after Biden’s guilty pleas on the tax charges and the pleas being accepted by a judge.
“At that point, there was no doubt in my mind,” said Dorsey, a registered Republican. “I gave him the benefit of the doubt.”
Weeks before Hunter Biden’s sentencing, his father pardoned him.
The sweeping pardon not only covered the gun and tax offenses against Hunter Biden but any other “offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024,” according to the pardon.
Last May, Biden agreed to his disbarment from the bar in Washington, D.C., where he lives, according to court documents.
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