An Arkansas judge warned Hunter Biden could face prison time if he does not appear in court next month in the child support case regarding the child he fathered with a stripper.
Judge Holly Lodge Meyer ordered Biden to hand over information about his finances in the ongoing case.
Lunden Alexis Roberts, the mother of Biden’s four-year-old child, asked the court to hold him in contempt of court for not providing the requested financial information.
Meyer issued an order Monday for Biden to appear at the July 10th hearing to explain “why he should not be held in contempt.”
Biden reportedly could face up to six months in prison if he does not show up to court.
BREAKING: An Arkansas judge is threatening to jail Hunter Biden for up to 6 months if he doesn't show up to answer questions in court about his finances in the child support lawsuit being filed against him by the mother of his 4-year-old daughter.https://t.co/hBqZoRYLJW
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) June 7, 2023
#HunterBiden has been ordered to appear in person before an Arkansas judge in July to explain why he shouldn’t be held in contempt of court and, if the proceedings don’t go his way, he could face time behind bars. https://t.co/EHPsbA8jA2
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The Washington Examiner reports:
The judge said the lawyers for Roberts were seeking, and she would herself consider, “punishment or sanctions” against Hunter Biden, including “incarceration for civil contempt until such time as the defendant fully answers discovery for a period of up to six months” and “incarceration for criminal contempt for a period of up to six months.”
Meyer added that Hunter Biden “is hereby given notice that his ‘ability to pay’ is or may become a critical issue in the contempt proceeding” and that the president’s son “will have an opportunity at the hearing to respond to statements and questions about his financial status.” The judge added that Hunter Biden “is subject to an express finding by the court that he has the ability to pay.”
The child, Navy Joan Roberts, was born in Arkansas in August 2018. The child was conceived while Hunter was in a relationship with Hallie Biden, his deceased brother Beau Biden’s widow, and the child has been living with her mother. Joe Biden has repeatedly ignored the existence of his granddaughter in public statements while president.
According to reports, Hunter Biden claims he can no longer afford to pay $20,000-per-month child support payments.
The Washington Free Beacon noted that the scheduled hearing could impact the investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes and the House Oversight Committee’s probe into the Biden Crime Family.
From The Washington Free Beacon:
Roberts’s lawyer, Clint Lancaster, said in a contempt motion in May that Biden was “playing hide the ball” and has not turned over complete information about his income, assets, and investments. Lancaster said the court should hold Biden in contempt to make him a “believer in the rule of law.”
Biden’s legal team countered that he has complied with discovery to the best of his ability, but he “does not have access to some of the information requested for various reasons.”
The July 10 hearing would be Biden’s second public appearance in the case since it was filed four years ago. His first was last month.
Judge Meyer previously rejected requests by Roberts’s legal team to hold Biden in contempt, most recently in early May. She said at the time that the motion had “not been properly pled.”
However, she also warned Biden at a May 1 hearing that there would be consequences for continuing to withhold financial records, and wrote in a recent order that the court “will not accept cryptic or vague answers to discovery and may treat such answers as a failure to answer.”
Read the full order below:
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