SOUTH CAROLINA (WSAV) -- Dick Harpootlian, former State Senator and attorney who represented Alex Murdaugh, will now represent Hunter Biden in a libel suit. Harpootlian will represent Biden, son of Former President Joe Biden, in a federal libel suit against Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne in Los Ange les, Ca. He previously served as defense in the widely publicized 2023 trial in which Alex Murdaugh was found guilty of two counts of murder and two counts of possession of a weapon. The suit argues that Byrne falsely stated that Biden “‘was reaching out to the Iranian government in the fall of 2021′ and offering to have [his] father, President Joe Biden, ‘unfreeze’ $8 billion in Iranian funds ‘in return for $800 million being funneled into a numbered account for us.‘" Biden calls the statements as “outrageous” and argues Byrne “knows his statements are baseless and yet published and republished them anyway.” In 2024, Biden pled guilty to tax and firearms-related charges. President Joe Biden pardoned his son for all the federal offenses before leaving office. WSAV has reached out to Harpootlian's office for request to comment. ...read more read less