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Anna Betts

Hunter Biden wins $1.7m in suit over Iran bribery claim by ex-CEO of Overstock.com

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Hunter Biden, pictured in 2024, was accused of seeking an $800m bribe to unfreeze Iranian assests. Photograph: Eric Thayer/AP

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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