In The Shadow Of Mt Hollywood

Just to inject a note of realism here, I want to suggest a correction to a Breitbart story : Hunter Biden is reportedly weighing the creation of a legal defense fund to cover the charges of his high-powered attorneys, which experts estimate to cost at least $100,000 per month. . . . The attorneys are a formidable front against congressional staffers and public servants. Hunter’s lawyers are lead attorney Kevin Morris, a high-profile entertainment lawyer, and Abbe Lowell, who represents high-profile individuals engulfed in political scandals, along with Chris Clark and Joshua A. Levy. These are all partner-level lawyers, with Abbe Lowell and Joshua A Levy in particular having established track records of getting crooked politicians like Bill Clinton and Bob Menendez out of very hot water with dismissals, acquittals, and hung juries. They don't come cheap. This story says , "Nationally, the average rate billed by partners last year stood at $728 per hour. . . according...

The divorce between Hunter Biden and his first wife, Kathleen Buhle, has lready been the subject of supposed tell-all books from both parties, but their accounts are both heavily sanitized and leave out more than they reveal. For instance, this Vanity Fair story on Kathleen's book, If We Break , quotes this on Hunter's alcoholism and addiction: Buhle shares that she first began noticing Hunter's drinking might be a problem around 2001 after the birth of their second child when he took a job as a partner at a lobbying firm in Washington, D.C. which led to a lot of late nights and long periods away from their home in Delaware. “I watched his drinking spiral from social to problematic,” she writes. “Watching how much he could consume scared me…For the first time, I didn’t trust my husband.” By the fall of 2003, Hunter entered rehab for the first time and, when he returned, the author says their marriage “felt stronger than ever.” But after seven years of sobriety, Hunter r...