Kevin Morris Is Hunter's Lead Attorney

I don't have a good feeling about this. One of the main narratives we've seen in recent current events has been how Stockton Rush, CEO of Oceangate, brushed aside all counsels of prudence in the design and construction of his Titan submersible, only to succumb with four passengers to what proved to be the predictable outcome. Meanwhile, we're starting to hear of Joe Biden angrily dismissing equivalent warnings of predictable outcomes:

President Joe Biden, who is reportedly “consumed” with his son Hunter’s scandals, allegedly angrily dismisses White House aides who believe Hunter Biden’s controversial history might politically hurt his father.

. . . In recent days, White House aides reportedly tried to speak with Joe Biden about the continual drip drop of damning evidence streaming from Hunter Biden’s foreign business transactions, but NBC News sources report Joe Biden’s response was “outright angry” towards anyone who would challenge him on the subject.

Joe Biden reportedly told one aide, “Hands off my family.”

But at this point, with revelations containing text messages from Hunter claiming to be directly discussing business deals with Joe, both of their cases are joined at the hip. Their legal strategies are, or ought to be, closely coordinated. But now we have a story at Breitbart offhandedly tossing out the following information several paragraphs down:

Kevin Morris, Hunter Biden’s lead attorney, told CBS News that [former one-term Republican congressman Denver] Riggleman consulted with his team in the past months but will now be a staple on the team.

“He is an invaluable resource and we have made tremendous strides in untangling the massive amount of corruption and disinformation involved in this story,” Morris said.

Let's see if we can tease this out. Hunter appears to have been given a highly favorable deal in his federal tax and firearm cases, but his legal troubles are nowhere near over, and serious allegations of influence peddling, money laundering, and potentially even bribery have been developing against both Hunter and Joe as a result of ongoing House Republican investigations. It seems to me that simple prudence would require that both engage highly competent attorneys in fields like white collar criminal defense and constitutional law at minimum.

But now we hear that Keven Morris is Hunter's lead attorney, which says to me that he must have serious input to Joe's legal strategy as well. But what is Kevin's background? He's a Hollywood entertainment lawyer best known for brokering South Park, which debuted in 1997, 25 years ago. His wife is Gaby Morgerman, whom he married in 1991 before he became an influential Hollywood lawyer, and she, a senior vice president at William Morris, is generally characterized as one of the most powerful people in Hollywood.

In fact, I can't escape the impression that he's mainly successful for being Mr Gaby Morgerman. In recent years, he appears almost to have retired from entertainment law to pursue a literary career; Per the New York Post, he characterized himself in a visit to the set of the My Son Hunter film as "a retired lawyer associated with South Park". I've looked more closely at his literary efforts in this post and concluded that he hasn't established a serious literary career, especially one that would make any sort of money, even as a creative writing professor. In fact, in that post, I concluded he's a dilettante.

A dilettante who's acting as Hunter's lead attorney, with no background in constitutional or white collar criminal law. But let's look at his most recent move, in the Breitbart link above, hiring former one-term Republican Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA), who also advised the House January 6 committee on "technical matters", to work with Hunter’s legal team on reducing "technical digital exposure" facing the Biden family. According to Wikipedia,

Denver Lee Riggleman III (born March 17, 1970) is an American businessman and former politician from Virginia who served one term as the United States representative for Virginia's 5th congressional district. A former Air Force officer and National Security Agency contractor, Riggleman opened a craft distillery in Virginia in 2014.

. . . In the 2018 elections, Riggleman was the Republican nominee for the United States House of Representatives election for Virginia's 5th congressional district. . . . [In 2020] The Rappahannock County Republican Party criticized Riggleman after he officiated a same-sex wedding between two of his friends, and in September he was censured by party officials who claimed that he had "abandoned party principles" over fiscal and immigration policy.

. . . The local party leaders of the 5th Congressional District Republican Committee chose to determine the 2020 nominee for the fifth district by a convention instead of a primary election.

In doing so, they declined to nominate him for reelection in the 2020 election, and this ended his political career. Although he was no longer in Congress at the time of the January 6, 2021 events, he claims to have worked with the January 6 House committee, although his actual contributions are unclear, and the main effect of the committee's work has been to end the careers of the Republicans who actually served on it. Kevin Morris's connection with Denver Riggleman appears to stem from Morris's connection with the January 6 committee Republicans. According to the New York Post link,

Last year, Morris gave $50,000 to Americans Keeping Country First, a super PAC set up to pay for the defense of Republican members of Congress who voted to impeach or convict President Donald Trump following last year’s Capitol riots, according to the Federal Election Commission. Ten House Republicans, including Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney and Illinois Rep Adam Kinzinger, were part of that group, and 222 Democrats voted to impeach Trump. Morris gave $2,900 to Kinzinger’s re-election campaign last year [2021] before the congressman announced he was retiring last fall.

Riggleman alienated his Republican base even before the 2020 election and didn't last long enough even to join the likes of Reps Cheney and Kinzinger. The Wikipedia entry indicates that Riggleman has a fascination with Bigfoot, and he has written extensively on QAnon as a conspiracy that destroys families, divides communities, and undermines democracy by spreading a directed stream of algorithmically and group targeted data, or something like that.

In ahort, Denver Riggleman is a flake and a quack, and it sounds like he has Kevin Morris's ear. Although Riggleman isn't an attorney, Morris has added Riggleman to Hunter's legal team. Just as a non-attorney outside observer, I've got to question the legal advice Kevin Morris is giving Hunter. Another quote from the New York Post link says,

Morris is a highly successful lawyer and a self-made businessman, who rose from humble origins in Pennsylvania to launch his own firm, raking in hundreds of millions for his first clients, the creators of “South Park.” Now he’s thrown in his lot with the disgraced, drug-addled son of a president, filming his own documentary about Biden.

“The whole thing is so bizarre,” one Hollywood insider told The Post. “What is a guy like that doing with Hunter Biden?”

Well, for starters, I doubt the "highly successful lawyer" part. I'm convinced he's made his way as Mr Gaby Morgerman, not as Kevin Morris; he's lost interest in his own legal field; his literary career isn't doing well even with his wife to push it along -- but if he's one thing, he's a dilettante, so he's taken up Hunter Biden.

Do they do coke together? I don't think this bodes well for Hunter's future. Kevin Morris is not a serious guy. I even wonder if Abbe Lowell will last much longer as a Hunter lawyer at this rate.