Hunter Biden threatened sex worker after 2020 election while embroiled in laptop scandal: new FBI emails
WASHINGTON — Feds were looking into Hunter Biden allegedly threatening a sex worker in a text message that menacingly claimed to know her exact location and revealed his infamous laptop had recorded video of them in action, according to federal documents out Friday.Several days after President Biden’s troubled son publicly acknowledged the feds were scrutinizing his tax filings in December 2020, an unidentified sex worker based in Los Angeles reached out to the FBI to report that Hunter sent her a “text that she perceived as threat [sic],” according to an FBI affidavit.“Don’t forget that I know where you are, you have an ankle bracelet and that the laptop was recording,” Hunter Biden said in the message, per the affidavit, which also noted that the unidentified sex worker said she had “intercourse with RHB in front of the laptop while facetiming with a third party.”The lady of the night alleged that Hunter Biden had, in fact, been the one who “failed to pay for sex” but succeeded in threatening the female “over a period of time” to pay him some of his money back.It’s unclear when the sex worker was allegedly threatened, but the report was discussed in emails between FBI employees in December 2020 — one month after his father defeated President Trump in the general election.Years later during his own court appearances for unrelated charges, Hunter Biden testified that he got sober from drugs and alcohol in June 2019, weeks after he got married to his now-wife Melissa Cohen.“[T]he financial transaction noted in the complaint was verified by the investigative team,” per the affidavit, which was revealed in an unrelated criminal complaint against two ex-FBI senior officials unsealed Friday.Nikki Floris, one of those senior officials, allegedly lied to Congress about their awareness of the details of federal investigations into Hunter Biden while serving on the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF).Floris testified to the House Ju...