Hunter Biden was charged in an indictment released Dec. 7 on nine federal tax charges for allegedly refusing to pay his taxes, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Biden, 53, of Malibu, “spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle rather than paying his tax bills,” the indictment alleges. His attorney, Abbe Lowell, said in a statement that “based on the facts and the law, if Hunter’s last name was anything other than Biden, the charges in Delaware, and now California, would not have been brought.”
Between 2016 and Oct. 15, 2020, “the defendant spent this money on drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing, and other items of a personal nature, in short, everything but his taxes,” according to the 56-page indictment. Hunter Biden faces as many as 17 years in prison if convicted of all the charges. He faces three felony counts, including tax evasion, and six misdemeanor counts of failure to pay taxes. It is not known if he will be asked to enter a plea at his initial court appearance next month in downtown Los Angeles.
Hunter Biden is also under indictment on federal gun charges in Delaware federal court. In July, he had agreed to plead guilty there to two misdemeanor tax counts and acknowledge a firearms violation without a conviction, receiving no jail time. But the deal collapsed when a federal judge questioned its terms and refused to sign off on it.
“Now, after five years of investigating with no new evidence — and two years after Hunter paid his taxes in full — the U.S. Attorney has piled on nine new charges when he had agreed just months ago to resolve this matter with a pair of misdemeanors,” Lowell said after the Los Angeles charges were announced. Described in the indictment as a Georgetown- and Yale-educated lawyer, lobbyist, consultant and businessperson, Hunter Biden served on the board of a Ukrainian industrial conglomerate and a Chinese private equity fund during the time of the tax allegations.
“He negotiated and executed contracts and agreements for business and legal services that paid millions of dollars of compensation to him and/or his domestic corporations, Owasco PC and Owasco LLC,” according to the indictment.
In addition to his business interests, Hunter Biden was an employee of a multinational law firm, the document states. At the time of the now-defunct plea deal in Delaware, Biden said he had forgotten to pay his taxes during a period when he was in the grip of drug addiction.
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iconoclast says
The President’s family is protected by the Secret Service. What happens if he is sent to prison?
Clean House says
It would be so nice if the Trumps and Bidens would just go away.
Frenjamin Branklin says
Congress has shrugged off its obligation to the people for way way way too long. Presidents are powerful because we have let Executive Orders take the place of active, responsible congressional representation of the people.
Though we have spent much blood a treasure, none of the military activity since WWII has bee a “war’…it has all been XO activity…essentially we have allowed a new type of king or royal position emerge…one that we have to reappoint every 4 years.
It’s no wonder it seems to both partisan divisions, right and left, accuse the other of authoritarian manipulation, fascism, and overreach.
Congress has neglected its duty to us. Our current inactive representation has become the least effective EVER…in the entire history of our nation.
It is only if we make both the executive branch and the representatives on their irresponsible roles in the charade that we will ever return to the originally intended framework of our nation, as defined by our founding documents, and by our best efforts to advance those ideas over the years.
Wish us luck, wish each other luck, but be active and become militant against partisanship that enables our undesirable return to regal hegemony and confounds our actual power in a democratic spirit true to our founding principles.
NYAG L. James says
“spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle rather than paying his tax bills”
The Orange pot is calling Hunter Biden orange. That’s hilarious.
Lock ’em both up.
Felony Counts says
Paddy scum.
Tim Scott says
That’s a next level bigot throwback right there. Impressive.
Reeeeeee! says
Imagine being a grown man and calling other folks ‘bigots’
What a puss
Tim Scott says
LOL…a bigot is a bigot. Is there some reason they shouldn’t be called out for it?
Cringey takes per usual says
What’s next, your gonna call someone out for their ‘white privileged’?
Or are you gonna lead the revolt against the ‘patriarchy’’
Cringe us some more turdmaker
Tim Scott says
Nah. I’m gonna call you out for being so stupid that you don’t even know that the comment “Felony Counts” barfed out there was an ethnic slur. So stupid, in fact, that even when it was pointed out you still didn’t get it. In the navy we had a term for people who were so stupid that they didn’t even recognize the right answer when told, but it would get moderated.
Non offended paddy says
It the navy you most likely had a ween in ur bum
Tim Scott says
And the usual one off screen name drops another zero credibility personal attack.