His criminal history has led Hunter Biden to consent to surrender his license to practice law in Washington, D.C.
Former President Joe Biden’s son announced the decision in a series of files made public this week, according to the D.C. Bar’s Board on Professional Responsibility, which supervises lawyer disciplinary actions.
The voluntary choice to accept disbarment spares perhaps lengthy litigation on whether Hunter Biden’s two previous criminal charges called for him to lose his legal license. He was found guilty in June of lying on a gun-purchase form regarding his drug usage and of owning a pistol while using illicit narcotics. In September, he also entered a guilty plea to tax evasion and other tax offenses.
In December, his father absolved him of all those offenses.
The board kept Biden’s decision specifics under secret under what its members called usual practice. The board advised the D.C. Court of Appeals, which has last say on all attorney disciplinary concerns, to accept Biden’s voluntary disbarment.