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EXCLUSIVE: New twist in Hunter Biden's Arkansas child support suit as judge recuses himself amid legal bid to put claims about VP's son's Ukraine business deals at center of case
UK Daily Mail ^ | 12/31/2019 | Cheyenne Roundtree

Posted on 12/31/2019 10:08:57 AM PST by DFG

The judge in Hunter Biden's Arkansas paternity case has recused himself today, hours after an attempt to make the businessman's Ukraine dealings the center of the case, according to court documents obtained by DailyMail.com.

Judge Don McSpadden, of Independence County, didn't give an explanation when he announced he was recusing himself at 10.20am.

He had been presiding over the case since Hunter's stripper baby mama Lunden Roberts, 28, filed suit in May for child support for their 16-month-old child. She has been demanding that Hunter hand over his financial records from the past five years.

McSpadden's recusal came two hours after 'defrauded investor' Joel Caplan, who wants to be made a party in the case, filed a witness statement from ex-Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Arkansas
KEYWORDS: arkansas; biden; donmcspadden; hunterbiden; mcspadden; shokin
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To: wastoute

Probably half of the Democratic Party has kids that were employed by Ukraine. That said, I don’t know whether the judge is a Dem or not, but there’s definitely something odd going on. Ukraine connections have clearly become the third rail.

Nobody’s going there...if they value their lives and livelihood.


21 posted on 12/31/2019 12:26:20 PM PST by livius
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To: wastoute

Arkansas connection....

Hmmm.....

Nah... a coincidence, I’m sure.


22 posted on 12/31/2019 12:37:13 PM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: bitt

Thanks for the ping. America’s robed mullahs are so nuanced and sophisticated. They make their ME brethren look like barbarians.


23 posted on 12/31/2019 12:53:17 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: DFG
Will they call in a REPLACEMENT judge who will then sweep everything under the carper?

CRIMES have been committed.

The question remains... "will there ever be INDICTMENTS and PROSECUTIONS for them?"

24 posted on 12/31/2019 1:21:21 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: DFG
The December 23 issue of The New Yorker has a long and involved article about Ukraine and the investigations...naturally the author is anti-Trump and anti-Giuliani and sneers at anyone with "right-wing" associations. I skimmed through it in the library...author seems to mention Hunter Biden just a couple of times but as innocuously as possible, as if Obama, Joe Biden, and Hunter Biden did nothing wrong, and the prosecutor Joe Biden got fired is portrayed in a sinister light. About what you would expect from that magazine.
25 posted on 12/31/2019 1:45:50 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: DFG

A handpicked Lefty judge has already been assigned to take his place.


26 posted on 12/31/2019 1:50:23 PM PST by moovova
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To: Badboo

Yep, he suddenly developed a “conflict” of interest called self preservation. No democrat judge in Arkansas will now touch this. Stripper mama netter hope Trump gets reelected or her child support limo is never going to show up.

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iirc, last month humper’s defense attorney(s) also resigned from the case. one of biden’s counsellors was former Arkansas Attorney General

must be a pretty hot potato no body wants to touch it.


27 posted on 12/31/2019 2:14:15 PM PST by thinden
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Intervener Joel Caplan asked an Arkansas judge to allow him to join in on Lunden Roberts’ suit against Hunter Biden, according to docs filed Monday.

Caplan, who filed papers from Jerusalem, Israel, claimed Biden’s bank records could help solve the mystery of billions that have gone missing in China.

He points to a $1.5bn payment Hunter allegedly received from China while Joe Biden was in office

Joel Caplan is an investor in a China scam unrelated to Hunter-——but he asked an Arkansas judge to allow him to join in on Lunden Roberts’ suit against Hunter Biden, according to docs filed Monday.

It’s a long shot but he’s hoping the investment he lost can be traced to Hunter’s $1.5 billion deal with China.


28 posted on 12/31/2019 2:57:55 PM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: DJ Frisat

The rats will be providing a suitable Judge.


29 posted on 12/31/2019 3:12:26 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: gibsonguy

Protect Hunter / Protect Joe Op in progress.

Nothing more.

This Judge said, submit your Financials and Address, like every case.

Someone suggested on New Year’s Eve, he should step aside.

We all know recusal is a Dem Scam.

The only person in the dark on that is Jeff Sessions.

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30 posted on 12/31/2019 3:16:38 PM PST by AnthonySoprano
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To: Liz

ping


31 posted on 12/31/2019 3:29:35 PM PST by pandemoniumreigns
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To: Freee-dame

Why did the judge recuse himself?

Who knows.

We had a friend, who was being crucified for so called illegal blocking of a dry creek during the rainy season because a red legged frog might have been there.

His out of town/county lawyer keep getting pictures of judges and asst DA’s attending green functions.

The judges whined and so did the asst DAs when they were accused of bias with their past donations and attending green nazi functions.

Finally, when he and his lawyer approached the third judge, the case was put into a legal limbo, and it was dismissed.


32 posted on 12/31/2019 5:24:47 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Lincoln: "The Founders did not make America racist or slaver. They inherited it, that way!")
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To: eyeamok
Obviously the Judge thought it better to recuse himself rather than deal the final death blow to Joe Biden and son thereby facilitating the Judges Suicide 2 weeks later.


33 posted on 12/31/2019 5:26:50 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Lincoln: "The Founders did not make America racist or slaver. They inherited it, that way!")
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To: Chewbarkah

So a spate of wacky attempts to intervene have had the effect of shutting down the case while the impeachment trains runs. Qui bono?


Agree on the multi hundred million dollar fantastical claims. This is no doubt mostly no show job garden variety corruption here.


34 posted on 12/31/2019 5:31:16 PM PST by lodi90
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To: Chewbarkah

So a spate of wacky attempts to intervene have had the effect of shutting down the case while the impeachment trains runs. Qui bono?


Agree on the multi hundred million dollar fantastical claims. This is no doubt mostly no show job garden variety corruption here.


35 posted on 12/31/2019 5:31:17 PM PST by lodi90
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To: Chewbarkah

it’s like getting Al Capone on tax evasion.


36 posted on 12/31/2019 5:51:33 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: DFG
Interesting, but something like this had to happen. Hunter Biden was never going to provide the court with accurate details of his income and expenses.

I wondered how he was going to get out of it. Would he lie? Would he plead the fifth? Would he just live with the consequences of contempt of court?

Was Judge McSpadden threatened? Was he bribed? He should be pressed for an explanation of his recusal.

This is an Epstein moment. When wealthy elites are pressed to the wall, strange things happen to remove the pressure.

37 posted on 12/31/2019 6:03:29 PM PST by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: DFG

Duh Judge don’t want to have an “accident”.....


38 posted on 12/31/2019 6:06:38 PM PST by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: cuban leaf

Actually, it can be over next Monday morning if Hunter gives the woman lots and lots of money for child support


39 posted on 12/31/2019 6:10:18 PM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: bert
Actually, it can be over next Monday morning if Hunter gives the woman lots and lots of money for child support

I'm not sure that is true. The state has its own interest in ensuring that the child will be adequately supported. I doubt that the mother can terminate the case by herself.

40 posted on 12/31/2019 6:21:00 PM PST by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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