Kevin Morris, the Deep-Pocketed "Sugar Brother" Who Has Given Hunter Biden At Least $5 Million, Invoked "Attorney-Client Privilege" 17 Times to Avoid Answering Questions

I'd like to know who's funding Kevin Morris. But I'm sure he can't answer, because that would violate "attorney-client privilege."

I'm not saying there is no such privilege or that it can't apply to some questions.

I am very suspicious that he's using "attorney client privilege" as a substitute for "fifth amendment privilege to avoid self-incrimination."

In his deposition last week, Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris and his lawyer invoked attorney-client privilege at least 17 times over questions related to his payments and work for Hunter Biden.

How does attorney-client privilege cover Kevin Morris' payments to Hunter Biden?

According to the transcript of the testimony reviewed by Just the News, Morris said that he began representing Biden about one week after the December 2019 California fundraiser for his father, Joe Biden, who became president in 2020. The details surrounding this meeting were previously reported by Just the News.

Morris' early representation of Hunter Biden allowed him to invoke the privilege frequently, to avoid answering questions about his first meeting with the first son, how he paid Hunter Biden's other attorneys and about the planning for Hunter Biden's defiant speech in front of the Capitol while avoiding complying with his first congressional subpoena.

Specifically, Morris attempted to invoke the privilege regarding his acquisition of one of Hunter Biden's companies after Joe Biden's inauguration.

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According to the transcript, Morris claimed that his legal representation of Hunter Biden was "global and complete" and therefore argued that almost any detail of their relationship is off limits to congressional investigators. Yet despite this, Morris told the committee that he had not represented Hunter directly in the past three years.

In one example, Morris refused to answer how much in loans he provided to Hunter Biden to pay his legal fees.

"So have you paid millions of dollars for Hunter Biden's legal fees via loans?" an investigator asked.

"Mr. Morris only knows that from his attorney-client relationship with Mr. Biden and consequently cannot answer that question," Morris' lawyer answered.

Morris also initially attempted to invoke the privilege when questioned about his acquisition of Hunter Biden's Skaneateles -- a company that owned a stake in Bohai Harvest RST, a Chinese company from one of Hunter Biden's initial deals in the country. Morris acquired Hunter's stake in November 2021, less than a year after Joe Biden was inaugurated.

"How did it come up that you were going to purchase Skaneateles? Or why did you buy Skaneateles of all the companies that Hunter Biden was involved with? Why that one?" investigators asked.

"That's privileged. I am not going to answer that because of attorney-client privilege," Morris responded.

However, after a brief recess from questioning, his attorney convinced him that he had to answer the question and Morris reversed course.

"I did the transaction because, you know, I evaluated it as a businessman, and I thought it was something that could be a very successful investment," Morris said in his new answer.

"[B]ut I did diligence on the assets. I knew what ... Hunter paid for it in the beginning, and I saw, and I still see upside," he continued.

Yet, earlier in the questioning, Morris was apparently not well informed on what Skaneateles was or what investments BHR makes.

"What kind of company was Skaneateles?" the investigators asked. "I mean, I don't know. An LLC, I think," Morris answered.

He obviously bought a nonperforming asset just to have a paper transaction that allowed him to put money into Hunter Biden's accounts. Then he claimed that, somehow, deliriously, "attorney-client privilege" allowed him to refuse to answer about buying this "company."

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