First son Hunter Biden’s “sugar brother” and lawyer Kevin Morris won’t be disbarred for infiltrating a film project about President Biden’s role in his family’s foreign dealings, The Post has learned.
Morris, 61, was hit with a bar complaint in 2022 by filmmaker Phelim McAleer, who said that the rich Hollywood lawyer unethically misrepresented himself to spy on the production of “My Son Hunter” in Serbia.
“He used deceit to secure such access by not disclosing he was Mr. Biden’s lawyer. Mr. Morris used his cover as a documentary filmmaker to conceal his true purpose: performing legal investigative work on behalf of his client, Mr. Hunter Biden,” McAleer said in his bar complaint.
But the state bar association shot down the complaint in a terse Dec. 26 letter to Morris’ attorney.
“The State Bar has completed the investigation of the allegations of professional misconduct reported by Phelim McAleer. We have determined that this matter does not warrant further action. Therefore, the matter is closed,” investigator Hannah Calacsan wrote.
Morris, who is believed to have loaned or given 54-year-old Hunter at least $6.5 million, told The Post that he was exonerated — while trashing the “nasty movie” he allegedly surveilled.
“This action by Phelim McAleer was just another example of the way extremist right wing activists have behaved over the last number of years,” Morris said.
“They made a nasty movie about the Bidens and were embarrassed that they allowed themselves to be caught in the act. I’m well aware of the rules of professional conduct and have never had a single a complaint in my 36 years of practice, yet the publicizing of this frivolous complaint was a hassle and hurtful to my reputation. We did nothing wrong, something they probably understood years ago. It’s unfortunate that these characters can get away with such things.”
McAleer said he will seek to appeal the decision — and leveled fresh allegations against the lawyer.
“It really is nice to be a Biden and a friend of the Biden Golden Circle,” the filmmaker fired back. “The Bar Council has delivered another pardon for those in the Biden circle of influence. The Bar Council seems to have just believed everything they were told and despite taking two years to investigate the complaint never approached me — if they had I could have pointed out the obvious lies they were told.”
He added that it’s his understanding Morris was let off the hook because of ambiguity over whether he represented Hunter Biden at the time of the infiltration.
Morris testified to Congress this year that “Hunter is my client,” McAleer noted, while telling the bar association, according to a transcript snippet he shared with The Post, that he offered “legal advice” but that he and Hunter “have had our separate attorneys advise us” during their relationship.
Morris, whose fortune derives largely from his role repping the creators of “South Park,” bankrolled the first son’s tax repayments, legal bills and living expenses after meeting him at a late 2019 fundraiser for his powerful dad.
The Hollywood lawyer insists that he instantly formed a genuine personal bond with Hunter and that he believes he will be repaid — though he’s been coy about exactly how much he’s provided, including when he testified before the House impeachment inquiry in January.
Hunter’s debt, which is due to be repaid beginning in 2025, could be forgiven if he defaults, Morris acknowledged during congressional questioning — even floating the possibility of recouping the debts through car washes from the borrower.
“As any creditor… if they’re in default under the note, yeah, the holder has an option to enforce it,” he said. “You could do any number of things. They can come over and wash your car for the rest of their life.”
Morris has faced other attacks by Republicans, including a California bar complaint filed in January 2024 by the America First Legal Foundation, which was founded by President-elect Donald Trump’s adviser Stephen Miller.
That complaint accused Morris of unethically using marijuana near Hunter, a recovering drug addict, and impermissibly serving as both an attorney and benefactor for the first son.
It’s unclear if the bar association is still reviewing those issues.
The political scandal around Hunter Biden and first brother James Biden’s foreign dealings, in which they often involved President Biden, lost much of its salience when the elder Biden ended his re-election campaign in July.
House Republicans quietly concluded their impeachment inquiry with a report in August.
The retiring president this month issued a blanket pardon for Hunter as he awaited sentencing following a June conviction in Delaware on three gun felonies and his September guilty plea in Los Angeles to $1.4 million in tax fraud between 2016 and 2019.
