On Hunter Biden:

Ng Han Guan

FI:LE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013 file photo, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, left, waves as he walks out of Air Force Two with his granddaughter Finnegan Biden and son Hunter Biden at the airport in Beijing, China. On Friday, Oct. 25, 2019, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly asserting that Hunter Biden got $1.76 million from taxpayer-funded Amtrak. The son of Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President, was paid $32,850 during a 31-month tenure on Amtrak’s board of directors. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, Pool)

CLAIM: Hunter Biden got $1.76 million from taxpayer-funded Amtrak

THE FACTS: Articles and tweets circulating online wrongly suggest that Biden was paid $1.76 million by Amtrak, a passenger rail service that has received billions of dollars in federal subsidies. They also suggest that Amtrak paid Biden’s lobbying firm for work.

Hunter Biden, son of Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden, was in fact paid $32,850 during a 31-month tenure on Amtrak’s board of directors. President George W. Bush nominated Biden to Amtrak’s board and he was confirmed by the Senate in July 2006, according to congressional records. He served on the board until February 2009. During that time, Amtrak paid Biden a total of $32,850, which represents per diem fees paid for attending 43 board meetings, according to Amtrak records. Amtrak said in an email that it has “no record of any contract” with Biden’s former lobbying firm, Oldaker, Biden and Belair. Biden, who mainly represented colleges while working with the firm, resigned as a federal lobbyist in 2008, when his father ran for vice president on the ticket with Barack Obama, the AP reported at the time.