{"id":4166,"date":"2022-08-13T00:32:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T18:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=4166"},"modified":"2022-08-13T00:32:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T18:32:17","slug":"joe-hunter-biden-staying-for-free-at-20-million-south-carolina-mansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/national\/2022\/08\/13\/news\/4166\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe, Hunter Biden staying for free at $20 million South Carolina mansion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The excursion is a Biden family getaway, with son Hunter Biden joining as well.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

WASHINGTON, Broadcasting News Corporation : President Biden and his family, including disgraced first son Hunter, are spending their summer vacation at a $20 million beachfront mansion in South Carolina, The Post has learned \u2014 and they\u2019re not paying a dime. The president recently asked prominent Democratic donor Maria Allwin \u2014 the widow of hedge fund founder James Allwin \u2014 if he could stay at her nine-bedroom Kiawah Island estate, a source close to the family told The Post. \u201cThey stayed here before and they\u2019re not paying,\u201d the source said. \u201cThey\u2019ve never paid. They\u2019re just friends.\u201d The property features a large swimming pool on two acres and is surrounded by palm trees and other lush vegetation for privacy. The White House frustrated reporters by offering little transparency about Biden\u2019s South Carolina trip, which is expected to last through early next week. The Associated Press emphasized Wednesday that the White House \u201cdid not respond to requests to provide details on Biden\u2019s vacation schedule, activities or when he planned to return to Washington, nor did it provide information on the residence where he was staying.\u201d However, the Federal Aviation Administration\u2019s website indicates \u201ctemporary flight restrictions for VIP Movement\u201d will be in place over Kiawah until 9:15 p.m. Tuesday. The Bidens have often stayed at Allwin\u2019s mansion, which was listed for sale earlier this year \u2014 including as early as 2009, while Joe Biden was vice president. Maria Allwin has contributed to an array of mostly Democratic political campaigns, but her most recent donations are to Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and a PAC supporting her effort to beat back a primary challenge by Donald Trump-endorsed Harriet Hageman.
\nAhead of the 2020 election, Allwin generously supported Biden, sending a $35,000 check that September to the Biden Victory Fund and the Democratic National Committee, according to Federal Election Commission records.
\nThe source said, however, that the Allwins and the Bidens are not engaged in business dealings together \u2014 and added the family is not directly linked to Hunter Biden, whose foreign business deals are under federal investigation. The first son recently paid about $2 million to the IRS in a bid to avoid tax fraud charges. Maria Allwin has known Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden socially for more than a decade, according to the source.
\nThe Allwin family\u2019s firm, Aetos Capital, is currently run by Maria Allwin\u2019s son, Chris. The firm\u2019s holdings include California-issued carbon credits. Biden has stayed at the homes of other wealthy benefactors before. In November, his family spent Thanksgiving at billionaire private equity investor David Rubenstein\u2019s compound on Nantucket, drawing raised eyebrows from ethics experts. \u201cJust a friendly reminder, [Biden] will have to pay fair market value for the stay on Nantucket or disclose the gift of free lodging in his annual disclosure in May 2022. I\u2019m not suggesting he wouldn\u2019t, just reminding not to let it slip through the cracks,\u201d Walter Shaub, director of the US Office of Government Ethics under former President Barack Obama, tweeted at the time. Shaub added regarding that stay, \u201cThere\u2019s a disclosure exception for personal hospitality, but that only applies if the head of the Carlyle Group is staying there with the Bidens. I suspect the WH is all over compliance with the rule \u2014 and oblivious to the ethical optics.\u201d The Allwin family declined to comment and the White House did not immediately respond to The Post\u2019s inquiry. Biden also has yet to comment on the FBI raid on Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago estate, which reportedly dealt with the ex-president\u2019s possession of records that may contain classified information. White House aides say Biden had no advance knowledge of the raid, which Republicans say demonstrates a double standard compared to the FBI\u2019s investigation of the Biden family finances. News collected from NEW YORK POST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON, Broadcasting News Corporation : President Biden and his family, including disgraced first son Hunter, are spending their summer vacation at a $20 million beachfront mansion in South Carolina, The Post has learned \u2014 and they\u2019re not paying a dime. The president recently asked prominent Democratic donor Maria Allwin \u2014 the widow of hedge fund …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4168,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions\/4168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}