Hunter Biden’s lead counsel, Abbe Lowell, likely violated legal ethics rules this week by throwing Jared Kushner, a former client, under the bus.
In a letter to House lawmakers Wednesday, Lowell rescinded his previous demands that Republicans allow President Joe Biden’s son to testify publicly after a recent closed-door deposition.
“Your blatant planned-for-media event is not a proper proceeding but an obvious attempt to throw a Hail Mary pass after the game has ended,” Lowell wrote, calling the Republican impeachment inquiry into the Biden family business ventures a “circus act.”
Lowell had, at first, insisted on a public hearing if Hunter Biden were to comply with Republican subpoenas issued in November. Hunter Biden defied the subpoena until January, when Lowell agreed to schedule a deposition for the president’s son and re-upped demands for a public proceeding. But on Wednesday, Lowell reneged on calls that his client appear publicly and, in the process, accused a former client of potential crimes.
In the final page of Lowell’s letter to the House Oversight Committee, he highlighted an excerpt from the transcript of Hunter Biden’s Feb. 28 interview with lawmakers. “Let me remind you of the exchange that occurred,” Lowell wrote, adding quotes from Hunter Biden, who accused lawmakers of a double standard in how they treated him versus Jared Kushner, former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law.
“If you are serious about this oversight purpose in a legitimate and bipartisan fashion,” Lowell added, “you would hold a hearing with relatives of former President
