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Hunter Biden will be permanently stripped of his ability to practice law in the nation’s capital after agreeing to a disciplinary agency’s disbarment recommendation.
The former first son and convicted felon filed an affidavit under seal in the DC Court of Appeals on Tuesday, noting his “consent to disbarment.”
The DC court must accept the disciplinary board’s recommendation to accept the 55-year-old’s consent to disbarment before it becomes official.
Hunter Biden graduated from Yale Law School in 1996 and was admitted to the Washington, DC, bar in 2007.
His license was suspended in June of last year – two weeks after he was found guilty in a Delaware federal court of lying about his drug use to obtain a firearm.
He later pled guilty to nine charges – three felonies and six misdemeanors – stemming from his evasion of $1.4 million in taxes.
Former President Joe Biden issued his troubled son a “full and unconditional” pardon last December, just weeks before leaving office, despite repeated public promises that he would not meddle in Hunter’s legal affairs.
Hunter was awaiting sentencing in both cases at the time the pardon was issued.
The DC Bar’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel initiated the legal proceedings to suspend Hunter’s law license. The DC bar considers any felony as a “serious crime” and prompted the DC court to take action against Hunter.
The court subsequently called on the DC Bar’s Board on Professional Responsibility to “institute a formal proceeding to determine the nature of the offense and whether it involves moral turpitude,” which culminated in his consent to disbarment Tuesday.
Hunter has paid $331 yearly to maintain his membership in the DC bar, though he has never actively practiced law in DC. However, he held an “of counsel” position at the powerful Democrat-linked law firm Boies Schiller Flexner LLP during his father’s vice presidency.
Hunter, who currently lives in Southern California, also has a law license out of Connecticut, which is under an administrative suspension for failure to pay a reinstatement fee, records show.
Hunter’s attorney did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
