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First son Hunter Biden’s “sugar brother” and lawyer Kevin Morris won’t be disbarred for infiltrating a film project about President Biden’s role in his family’s foreign dealings, The Post has learned.

Morris, 61, was hit with a bar complaint in 2022 by filmmaker Phelim McAleer, who said that the rich Hollywood lawyer unethically misrepresented himself to spy on the production of “My Son Hunter” in Serbia.

“He used deceit to secure such access by not disclosing he was Mr. Biden’s lawyer. Mr. Morris used his cover as a documentary filmmaker to conceal his true purpose: performing legal investigative work on behalf of his client, Mr. Hunter Biden,” McAleer said in his bar complaint.


  Kevin Morris, pictured outside Hunter Biden’s Delaware gun trial this year, has prevailed against a state bar complaint. Ron Sachs – CNP for NY Post Kevin Morris, pictured outside Hunter Biden’s Delaware gun trial this year, has prevailed against a state bar complaint. Ron Sachs – CNP for NY Post

But the state bar association shot down the complaint in a terse one-page Dec. 26 letter to Morris’ attorney and a lengthier six-page explanation to McAleer.

“The State Bar has completed the investigation of the allegations of professional misconduct reported by Phelim McAleer. We have determined that this matter does not warrant further action. Therefore, the matter is closed,” investigator Hannah Calacsan wrote to Morris’s rep.

Morris, whose fortune derives largely from his role repping the creators of “South Park,” is believed to have loaned or given 54-year-old Hunter at least $6.5 million and told the bar association’s investigative team that he wasn’t operating at Hunter’s lawyer when he snooped on the film set.

Instead, Morris claimed, he was working on making his own as-yet-unreleased documentary “under the South Park franchise banner.”

The investigator’s letter to McAleer said that there was a lack of proof that Morris deceived his way into the Eastern European set or that Morris was acting as Hunter’s lawyer at the time.


  Morris was accused of unethically infiltrating the set of an anti-Biden movie being filmed in Eastern Europe. TheImageDirect.com Morris was accused of unethically infiltrating the set of an anti-Biden movie being filmed in Eastern Europe. TheImageDirect.com

“[U]nder California Rule of Professional Conduct 4.1, a lawyer is prohibited from making a false statement of material law or fact to a third person when dealing with the third party on a client’s behalf. Here, while Mr. Morris may have been retained to represent Hunter Biden in the past, in November 2021 when Mr. Morris visited your set in Serbia, Mr. Morris was not actively involved in any legal matters on behalf of Hunter Biden,” Calacsan wrote to McAleer.

“Mr. Morris has asserted that the trip to Serbia was solely for the purpose of working on a documentary film about Hunter Biden. The evidence we obtained in the course of our investigation is consistent with this assertion. 

“In particular, Mr. Morris has a documentary filmmaking company known as Media Courthouse Documentaries, LLC. It appears that the footage and interviews obtained on the set of My Son Hunter were taken for the purpose of a documentary Mr. Morris was creating using this company.

According to Mr. Morris, in addition to his visit to Serbia, he conducted interviews in connection with the documentary including an interview in September 2021 with Ron Susskind and a November 2021 interview with Hunter Biden. We lack clear and convincing evidence to disprove these assertions or to prove that Mr. Morris misrepresented his intention to pitch the documentary for release under the South Park franchise banner. 


  A scene from the movie “My Son Hunter.” "My Son Hunter" The Hunter Biden A scene from the movie “My Son Hunter.” "My Son Hunter" The Hunter Biden

“For all these reasons, we lack clear and convincing evidence to establish that Mr. Morris made a false statement of material law or fact to you when he advised you that he sought access to your set for purposes of his own planned documentary.”

The investigator wrote that the bar association also “lack[s] clear and convincing evidence to prove that Mr. Morris falsely represented to you that he had never met or spoken with Hunter Biden nor had any connection to Hunter Biden.” 

“Mr. Morris has denied making this statement, but does not dispute that, as you claim, he told you that, in connection with the planned documentary, they were hoping to interview Hunter Biden, but had not yet spoken to him,” the investigator wrote. “The statement Mr. Morris asserts he made appears accurate, and we lack clear and convincing evidence to prove that he made any false statement regarding never having met or spoken or having any connection with Hunter Biden.”

Morris became a prominent national power-player by bankrolling the first son’s tax repayments, legal bills and living expenses after meeting him at a late 2019 fundraiser for his powerful dad.

Morris told The Post Monday that he was exonerated by the bar association — while trashing the “nasty movie” he allegedly surveilled.

“This action by Phelim McAleer was just another example of the way extremist right wing activists have behaved over the last number of years,” Morris said.

“They made a nasty movie about the Bidens and were embarrassed that they allowed themselves to be caught in the act. I’m well aware of the rules of professional conduct and have never had a single complaint in my 36 years of practice, yet the publicizing of this frivolous complaint was a hassle and hurtful to my reputation. We did nothing wrong, something they probably understood years ago. It’s unfortunate that these characters can get away with such things.”

McAleer said he will seek to appeal the decision — and leveled fresh allegations against the lawyer.

“It really is nice to be a Biden and a friend of the Biden Golden Circle,” the filmmaker fired back. “The Bar Council has delivered another pardon for those in the Biden circle of influence. The Bar Council seems to have just believed everything they were told and despite taking two years to investigate the complaint never approached me — if they had I could have pointed out the obvious lies they were told.”

McAleer scoffed at the association’s explanations, pointing out that Morris himself testified to Congress this year that “Hunter is my client” and shared a snippet of Morris’ reply to the bar association acknowledging he offered Hunter “legal advice.”

“In the end, Kevin Morris is a sad figure. He has given away $6.5 million to the spoiled loser son of Joe Biden, the biggest loser of them all,” McAleer said.

“He has wasted his money trying to buy his way into a family that has been roundly rejected by the American people.  He will never see his $6.5 million again.”

The Hollywood lawyer insists that he instantly formed a genuine personal bond with Hunter and that he believes he will be repaid — though he’s been coy about exactly how much he’s provided, including when he testified before the House impeachment inquiry in January.

Hunter’s debt, which is due to be repaid beginning in 2025, could be forgiven if he defaults, Morris acknowledged during congressional questioning — even floating the possibility of recouping the debts through car washes from the borrower.

“As any creditor… if they’re in default under the note, yeah, the holder has an option to enforce it,” he said. “You could do any number of things. They can come over and wash your car for the rest of their life.”

Morris has faced other attacks by Republicans, including a California bar complaint filed in January 2024 by the America First Legal Foundation, which was founded by President-elect Donald Trump’s adviser Stephen Miller.

That complaint accused Morris of unethically using marijuana near Hunter, a recovering drug addict, and impermissibly serving as both an attorney and benefactor for the first son.

It’s unclear if the bar association is still reviewing those issues.

The political scandal around Hunter Biden and first brother James Biden’s foreign dealings, in which they often involved President Biden, lost much of its salience when the elder Biden ended his re-election campaign in July.

House Republicans quietly concluded their impeachment inquiry with a report in August.

The retiring president this month issued a blanket pardon for Hunter as he awaited sentencing following a June conviction in Delaware on three gun felonies and his September guilty plea in Los Angeles to $1.4 million in tax fraud between 2016 and 2019.

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