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Alan Dershowitz breaks down Hunter Biden’s heart-stopping legal fees: ‘A million dollars a month’

October 1, 2023 | | Print Article

Defending someone like Hunter Biden doesn’t come cheap, but if iconic attorney Alan Dershowitz is right, the first son is forking over a staggering sum to fight his many legal battles.

Considering his ongoing fight against special counsel David Weiss and the four lawsuits his acclaimed attorneys have launched against those he insists illegally disseminated the information gathered from his infamously abandoned “laptop from hell,” Hunter Biden could be paying a staggering $1 million a month to spin the wheels of justice in his favor.

“Today the top, top lawyers in New York and Washington bill at around $2,000 an hour for the main counsel and between $1,000 and $1,800 for other partners and the high hundreds … for young associates,” Dershowitz told the New York Post, adding that Hunter’s lead attorney, Winston and Strawn Partner Abbe Lowell, would probably command top billing.

Doing the math, Dershowitz said, “I would say generally in the area of a million dollars a month.”

“It would be a high rough estimate of what it might run for all those cases together if they were being charged at commercial rates,” he explained.

Targeting those who revealed the contents of the laptop is, after all, an expensive endeavor.

As BizPac Review reported, on Tuesday, Hunter’s attorneys filed a lawsuit against former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, alleging America’s Mayor is “primarily responsible for what has been described as the ‘total annihilation’ of Plaintiff’s digital privacy.”

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Prior to that, the first son launched a suit against former Trump White House aide Garrett Ziegler. According to his lawyers, Ziegler has engaged in a “sustained, unhinged and obsessed campaign” to advance an “extremist” agenda.

Zeigler, they argue, violated California’s computer fraud and data laws when he accessed “tens of thousands of emails, thousands of photos, and dozens of videos and recordings” that belonged to Hunter.

Then there’s Hunter’s lawsuit against the IRS.

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The agency and its whistleblowers, IRS Agents Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, “willfully, knowingly, and/or by gross negligence, unlawfully disclosed Mr. Biden’s confidential tax information,” Hunter’s lawyers claim in the complaint, which was filed earlier this month.

And, of course, there is Hunter’s countersuit against Delaware computer repair shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac, who Hunter’s lawyers claim invaded the first son’s privacy and illegally distributed his personal data.

It begs the question: How is Hunter paying for his legal warriors?

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Text messages recently revealed by those IRS whistleblowers indicate that, by December of 2018, Hunter was flat broke and in need of financial help from his then-Vice President father, Joe Biden.

“I can work when I’m in NYC all day every day for the next 3 months. But I can’t pay alimony w/o Dad or tuitions or for food and gas. Really it’s all gone,” he wrote in a text dated Dec. 29th, 2018.

“I can go make it up in 15/20 days I’m sure, but he’s basically made it clear that he’s not paying alimony b/c Mom made clear that she won’t do it,” Hunter stated.

And, in May, Hunter cried poor and attempted to get his child support payments to Lunden Roberts, mother of the pair’s 4-year-old daughter, Navy Joan Roberts, reduced.

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The duo ultimately settled their years-long paternity dispute with Hunter promising to gift his little girl with an undisclosed number of his paintings and Roberts slashing the support payments from $20,000 a month to $5,000.

“Somebody is taking care of these legal fees …” Rudy Giuliani said, according to The Post. “This is coming out of some hidden fund that the Bidens have.”

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