Secret Service agents protecting Hunter Biden at his Malibu mansion spent more than $4.5 million of taxpayers’ money in a year while maintaining 24-hour surveillance, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.
According to newly obtained data, between 2021 and 2022, more than $2.8 million in transactions were recorded on a government credit card and $1.12 million was spent on various expenses, including hotel rooms.
DailyMail.com obtained the list of financial transactions through a Freedom of Information Act request.
It showed that $632,071 was spent on rental cars used by the agents who surveilled the president’s scandal-ridden son while he stayed at a $20,000-a-month property.
Secret Service agents protecting Hunter Biden at his Malibu mansion spent more than $4.5 million of taxpayers’ money in a year while maintaining 24-hour surveillance, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal. The president’s son is seen holding a member of his hand in 2023
At the time, the presidential bodyguards were spending $30,000 a month to rent a property next door to Hunter’s, where he lived with wife Melissa Cohen and son Beau.
The Spanish-style ocean view villa had six bedrooms, a swimming pool, tasting room, gym, spa, built-in barbecue and ‘castle-like tower’. It was valued at $6 million.
It took the Secret Service two years to provide the data to Dailymail.com. During that time, Hunter’s legal troubles have dominated headlines.
He faces a federal tax charge, and on Friday a judge rejected a bid to drop charges that he lied about his drug addiction when he bought a gun — a saga involving the Secret Service.
The data covers a 16-month period between February 2021 and June 2022.
The total spent in that time frame was $4,596,747 – that doesn’t include officer salaries, which are also paid by taxpayers.
Presidential bodyguards spent $30,000 a month to rent a property next door to Hunter’s, where he lived with his wife Melissa Cohen and son Beau.
House of the Secret Service: The Spanish-style ocean-view villa had six bedrooms, a swimming pool, tasting room, gym, spa, built-in barbecue and “castle-like tower.” It was valued at $6 million
Some receipts were included in the documents, including for items that were redacted, from Home Depot, Best Buy, Staples and Amazon.
There were two orders – one for $1,930 and another for $1,658.43 – from a video and camera store in New York.
It was not clear why a New York store was used when the agents protected Hunter Biden on the West Coast.
One of the camera store orders claimed by officers was marked “exterior materials.”
Other expenses include $145 spent at Home Depot in Venice, California, and $40 at an Amazon Hub safe at a Ross Dress For Less budget clothing store, also in Venice.
In August 2023, Hunter and his wife Cohen moved into a new $15,800-a-month home, as DailyMail.com exclusively reported at the time. The couple is pictured in July winning son Beau
Another claim was $132 for five hours of parking at Reagan National Airport, just outside Washington DC
A receipt for a stay at the Marriott hotel in Marina del Rey, not far from Malibu, worth $1,132.47 is ALSO included in the tranche of documents.
It is unclear how many officers stayed there and for how long.
The spending record begins a month after Hunter’s father Joe Biden was inaugurated as president, when members of the first family are said to have been given full security details.
A Secret Service property listing where the expenditures took place describes “picturesque gardens,” a “sunken living room around a huge fireplace” and “hand-carved doors, artisan tiles, [and] antique style bar with stained glass inlay.
A property listing for the Secret Service pad where the spending took place describes “picturesque gardens,” a “sunken living room around a huge fireplace”
The agent described it as ‘A magical Mediterranean resort style home with ocean views.’
It was originally built in 1958 for actress Linda Lavin, star of the 1970s sitcom Alice.
“With many outstanding achievements, Linda Lavin has made this home a perfect reflection of her talent,” said the gushing real estate agent.
The data ends in June 2022, meaning a similar amount could have been spent in the eighteen months since.
When asked about the data, a Secret Service spokesperson said the agency does not go into details about spending and operating procedures.
“The primary mission of the U.S. Secret Service is to ensure the continuity of the U.S. government,” the spokesperson told DailyMail.com
“We do this by using advanced protection methods, including using advanced technology and highly trained special agents and mission support teams to be with our protected individuals and their families.
The gates of the Malibu home where Hunter’s Secret Service agent lived while they protected him between 2021 and 2022
“For operational security reasons, the Secret Service does not discuss the specific means, methods, resources, or costs used to carry out these protective responsibilities.
In August 2023, Hunter and his wife Cohen moved into a new $15,800-a-month home, as DailyMail.com exclusively reported at the time.
His Secret Service handler had to follow him and move into a $16,000-a-month house across the street with an ocean view and a hot tub.
Secret Service agents have previously done their jobs to provide protection for President Joe Biden’s wayward son.
Texts from Hunter’s laptop from 2018 show that a recently retired senior USSS officer was about to break open the door of Hunter’s hotel room to look at him after he failed to come out following a days-long drug and alcohol fueled binge with whores.
And the same year, when Hunter’s sister-in-law and former lover Hallie Biden dumped his gun in a grocery store trash can in Wilmington, Delaware, Secret Service agents allegedly intervened in the subsequent police investigation.
Biden’s family isn’t the first to saddle taxpayers with huge bills to protect their families.
USSS requested an additional $60 million to pay for protection of Donald Trump and his family in the first year of his presidency, according to documents obtained by the Washington Post.
Trump was criticized for ordering the agency to house agents who protected him and his family at Trump hotels and properties around the world, including $650 a night for a room at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club and $17,000 per month for a cottage at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey.
President Biden also rented his Delaware home to agents for $2,200 a month while they protected him, federal records show.
An Obama family trip to Martha’s Vineyard in 2016 cost the Secret Service $2.7 million, including $2.5 million on hotels and $90,000 on rental cars.
