Hunter Biden wins $1.7m in suit over Iran bribery claim by ex-CEO of Overstock.com
by Anna Betts from World news | The Guardian on (#76XR9)
Biden sued Patrick Byrne for defamation over claim that he sought bribe to lobby his father to free $8bn in Iran assets
A federal judge on Friday awarded Hunter Biden $1.7m in punitive damages in a defamation lawsuit he filed against former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne.
Biden sued Byrne - a Donald Trump ally who denied the results of the 2020 election and funded efforts to overturn them - in 2023, accusing Byrne of lying in an interview that Biden had previously sought a bribe from Iran's government in the fall of 2021.
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