President Joe Biden’s son spent millions of dollars on items such as adult entertainment and clothing, according to newly disclosed financial information in a court filing.
During those same years, Mr. Biden was listed as paying “various women” more than $683,000, spending nearly $190,000 on adult entertainment, and paying about $72,000 for rehabilitation for drug and alcohol addiction, prosecutors found.
Mr. Biden’s lawyers have not responded to requests for comment on the indictment, including whether he contests any of the figures.
Mr. Biden said in a podcast episode that was released the same day the charges were made public that critics are “in their most illegitimate way, but rational way ... trying to destroy a presidency” and “trying to kill me, knowing that it will be a pain greater than my father could be able to handle.”
- Payments to “various women”: $683,212
- Clothing and accessories: $397,530
- Tuition, education, and extracurriculars: $309,277
- Health products and services: $237,496
- Miscellaneous retail purchases: $236,634
- Food, groceries, and restaurants: $214,923
- Insurance: $203,815
- Mortgage and loan payments: $191,873
- Adult entertainment: $188,960
- Legal and accounting fees: $147,566
- Telephone and utility bills: $118,440
- Rehabilitation: $71,869
- Wells Fargo Advisors: $53,000
- Credit card payments: $58,542
- Home improvement and maintenance: $42,856
- Home help, cleaning, and childcare: $39,801
- Entertainment: $24,445
- Sports and recreation: $23,567
Mr. Biden failed to pay at least $1.5 million across the four years, according to the indictment. He reported making some $7 million during that time from work for Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian company, and other firms. Bank records showed him spending nearly $5 million.
Mr. Biden “spent this money on drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing, and other items of a personal nature, in short, everything but his taxes,“ the indictment states. It said the money went to an ”extravagant lifestyle.”
Child Support
In 2019, Mr. Biden tried to avoid paying child support for a girl he fathered with an Arkansas woman who worked for a period of time as a stripper in Washington. Mr. Biden said the girl was not his daughter. A paternity test, though, proved he was the girl’s father. He then said he couldn’t afford child support. In 2020, a judge ordered him to pay $20,000 a month to Lunden Roberts, the girl’s mother.The case was reopened more recently after Mr. Biden asked for an adjustment to the monthly payments, claiming that his financial situation had changed.
Mr. Biden also agreed to continue the payments until the girl turns 18, marries, dies, or becomes emancipated.
President Biden had previously declined to acknowledge his granddaughter, one of seven, while bragging about his other grandchildren. In a statement in June to People Magazine, he changed his tune and said that the girl is his granddaughter
