After receiving President Biden’s unconditional pardon, Hunter Biden is now being accused of owing more than $300,000 in unpaid rent to previous landlords.
The president’s son has accumulated large amounts of unpaid rent debts totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to Shaun Maguire, a partner at the venture capital firm Sequoia, who responded to the news of the pardon on social media.
Hunter Biden owes my family over $300,000 in back rent for 2019 and 2020. What will happen to that money? Has that been forgiven? Thank you, Joe,” Maguire wrote on X.
Hunter Biden received a “full and unconditional pardon” from President Biden on Sunday, which covers any federal offenses he may have committed or may have committed between January 1, 2014, and December 1, 2024. Federal charges against Hunter Biden include tax violations and accusations that he lied on a background check form for firearms about his substance abuse problems. This action differs from President Biden’s previous declarations that he would not grant his son a pardon.
We had Hunter as a tenant in Venice, California. For more than a year, rent was not paid. tried using artwork created from his own excrement to pay. The house is on the city’s canals, and Maguire wrote, “Absolute s– bag.” In a follow-up post, he added that the rent was $25,000 per month, according to Fox Business.
Additionally, he claimed that Hunter “used secret service to enforce and changed the locks.” We were unable to enter the property.
In response to a question on social media about whether Maguire and his family had attempted to evict Hunter Biden due to the unpaid rent, Maguire stated that the Bidens are “a scary family to go after.”
A presidential pardon, which only applies to federal offenses, would not affect Maguire’s claims of unpaid rent because they are civil matters. Following an earlier accusation that Hunter Biden neglected to pay a landlord tens of thousands of dollars in rent, Maguire made this claim.
Hunter Biden owed Sweetgreen CEO and co-founder Jonathan Neman $80,000 in back rent, according to a DailyMail.com report from last year that cited people familiar with the matter. That amount is roughly three months’ rent for a $25,000-per-month Venice home.
Joe Biden pardoned his son, but not before harshly denouncing the president’s announcement of the clemency as deceptive. This marked the official end of Hunter Biden’s tax case.
According to a five-page ruling by Trump appointee U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi of the Central District of California, the president’s news release regarding the pardon contained “representations contained” that “stand in tension with the case record.”
The president’s statement offended many public officials, the judge added, so he didn’t agree with it. According to him, hours of inappropriate future behavior without authorization were covered by the pardon itself.
“The President claims that Mr. Biden ‘was treated differently’ from those ‘who were late paying their taxes because of serious addictions,’ suggesting that Mr. Biden was one of those people who paid taxes late because of addiction,” Scarsi wrote. “But he’s not.”
Additionally, he said, Joe Biden’s assertion that his son was “singled out” and “treated differently” gave the impression that Scarsi and the president’s own DOJ employees were among the numerous individuals in the legal system who have committed wrongdoing.
“Two federal judges specifically dismissed Mr. Biden’s claims that the Government brought charges against him due to his familial ties to the President,” Scarsi wrote. The charges were the result of an investigation that was overseen by the President’s own Attorney General and Department of Justice staff. The President believes that this group of federal civil servants, including the undersigned, are irrational.
Ultimately, Scarsi stated that while it was not his responsibility to judge the legality of Joe Biden’s pardon, the president was violating the Constitution by allowing Hunter Biden to escape punishment for subsequent offenses because he signed it on December 1 and included action “through” that same day.
