President Biden’s legally embattled son, Hunter Biden, sat in on last-minute pardon decisions at the White House, a top former presidential aide told House investigators.

Former Biden Chief of Staff Jeff Zients said it was outside of normal White House procedures that the president’s son was “involved” with pardon discussions at the end of Mr. Biden’s presidency and even sat in on several meetings about clemency decisions.

Mr. Zients revealed Hunter Biden’s involvement in a closed-door interview with lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee. The panel is examining Mr. Biden’s cognitive decline while he was president, as well as the administration’s heavy use of an autopen to sign warrants that granted clemency to thousands of criminals and a slew of preemptive pardons for favored lawmakers and administration officials.

The chairman of the committee said lawmakers likely will issue a report soon on their findings.

Lawmakers say they have determined through interviews of former Biden aides and Biden administration emails that Mr. Biden was not closely involved in deciding who would receive pardons, commutations and sentence reductions. Thousands of felons were granted clemency in the final days of Mr. Biden’s presidency, which ended on Jan. 20.

On Dec. 1, Mr. Biden personally signed a pardon for his son, who was facing prison time stemming from two criminal cases.

Hunter Biden was found guilty on June 11, 2024, of three federal gun charges. Three months later, he entered a guilty plea on nine charges in a federal tax fraud case.

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