Hunter Biden’s legal team has sent a letter warning of an imminent lawsuit against Fox News regarding the purported “unlicensed commercial exploitation” of the president’s son, a report on Monday said.
Mark Geragos, an attorney for the younger Biden, warned Fox Corporation and Fox News Digital of their preparation to seek damages over the network’s alleged “conspiracy and subsequent actions to defame [Hunter] Biden and paint him in a false light, the unlicensed commercial exploitation of his image, name, and likeness, and the unlawful publication of hacked intimate images of him,” according to NBC News. But so far, no suit has been filed.
NBC News reports that the April 23 letter is signed by Tina Glandian, a partner at the Geragos and Geragos law firm handling the matter. The firm set an April 26 deadline for Fox News to respond, yet reportedly, the network has not replied.
According to NBC News, President Biden’s son’s legal team has been planning to sue Fox News for over a year for relentlessly attacking their client for good ratings and “financial gain.”
“For the last five years, Fox News has relentlessly attacked Hunter Biden and made him a caricature in order to boost ratings and for its financial gain,” Geragos said in a statement. “The recent indictment of FBI informant Smirnov has exposed the conspiracy of disinformation that has been fueled by Fox, enabled by their paid agents and monetized by the Fox enterprise. We plan on holding them accountable.”
NBC reported that the letter references Fox News’ coverage of the Biden bribery allegations made by Alexander Smirnov. He informed the FBI that executives at Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, discussed paying millions of dollars to Hunter and his father to leverage the elder Biden’s political influence to safeguard the company. However, the FBI charged Smirnov for purportedly fabricating the story involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and Burisma, where Hunter served on the Board of Directors from 2014 to 2019.
According to the outlet, the letter accused Fox News of deliberately branding the allegations as “highly credible” despite the information being unverified.
The letter demanded retractions and corrections from several anchors, including Sean Hannity, Maria Bartiromo and Jesse Watters, who the legal team said participated in this practice while covering the Smirnov allegations, according to the outlet.
