Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s only surviving son who is currently under indictment for three gun charges in Delaware, was charged with nine additional tax-related offenses by a federal grand jury in California.
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Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s only surviving son who is currently under indictment for three gun charges in Delaware, was charged with nine additional tax-related offenses by a federal grand jury in California.
- The younger Biden is charged with evading $1.4 million in tax payments from 2016 to 2019, a three-year period where he spent lavishly on drugs and sex workers that also partially overlaps with his father’s time as vice president under Barack Obama.
- Hunter Biden’s latest indictment carries a maximum penalty of 17 years in federal prison. The new charges come as House Republicans are ramping up their impeachment inquiry into his father over the family’s business dealings and the elder Biden prepares to seek reelection.
- The new charges against Hunter Biden have been known to prosecutors for some time, and would’ve been covered under the plea deal that Biden’s attorneys cooked up with the office of Special Counsel David Weiss. After the plea deal’s embarrassing implosion earlier this year, the special counsel’s office had no choice but to bring the new charges against the younger Biden.
- The indictment included numerous unflattering details about Biden’s life in the 2010s, including that he allegedly spent $872,172 on “various women” and “adult entertainment” over a three-year period, and allegedly identified payments to a stripper as business expenses.
- Biden’s other sleazy techniques for avoiding taxes were to allegedly put his sexual partners on his business payroll to claim he was paying them wages to reduce his annual tax bill. He also allegedly used the line of credit he obtained for his business to spend thousands of dollars on strippers.
- CNN broke the news of Hunter Biden’s new charges, and noted that prosecutors referenced Biden’s own 2021 memoir, “Beautiful Things,” in the charging documents. Evidently Hunter was paid $140,000 for a book that is now being used against him in court.
- NBC News profiled Mark Scarsi, the federal district court judge who will be overseeing Hunter Biden’s new trial. Scarsi was nominated to the bench by former president Donald Trump and took office in 2020.
- The New York Times compiled a timeline of Hunter Biden’s “life and legal troubles,” including his resignation from his lobbying job during the 2008 campaign, his resumption of influence-peddling in 2013 while his father served as vice president, and the beginning of his involvement in Burisma.
- The Commentary podcast asked, “How do you solve a problem like Hunter?” They postulate that his legal troubles could insulate Trump from criticism from Biden during the campaign, especially as Biden appears to have turned a blind eye – at best – to his son’s allegedly lawless behavior.
- National Review’s Andy McCarthy called the latest indictment “a disaster for the White House.” “It is impossible to square Weiss’s slamming of Hunter in the new indictment with the blind eye he turned toward Hunter in the failed plea bargain — a submission in which the only narrative was a statement of facts sympathetic to Hunter, the drafting of which was clearly controlled by Hunter’s lawyers, not the agents who investigated the case,” McCarty wrote.
- Fox News talked to legal experts who called the indictment a “nuclear bomb for the Bidens.” Jonathan Turley compared Biden’s denials of involvement in Hunter’s influence-peddling schemes to former President Bill Clinton’s famous non-denial denial during the Lewinsky scandal.
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© Dominic Moore, 2023
