Court Trial Against Robert Hunter Biden
Robert Hunter Biden is an American attorney and business. Federal prosecutors have filed tax charges against him on Thursday as a special counsel investigation into the business dealing of President Joe Biden’s son build up against the backdrop of the threatening 2024 election
The nine-count indictment says he schemed to evade at least $1.4 (1.1M euro) in federal taxes from 2016-19. The three felonies and six misdemeanors include failure to file and pay taxes, false tax return and evasion of assessment. Mr Biden, 53 was indicted in September on federal firearm charges in Delaware in 2018.
His lawyer said on Thursday night the new charges are politically motivated. President Joe Biden is not mentioned in the denunciation and the White House has not yet commented on it. It comes as congressional Republicans place Hunter Biden’s business dealings at the centre of an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, who is seeking re-election next year.
Us Department of Justice Special Counsel David Weiss has been investigating the Yale-educated lawyer and recovering crack cocaine addict since 2019.
In a 56-page indictment filed in California, prosecutors allege Hunter Biden “spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle rather than paying his tax bills,” and same as 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.”
They say the president’s son “individually received more than $7 million in total gross income” between 2016 and 2020, but “willfully failed to pay his 2016-2019 taxes an amounting to $1.4 M on time, despite having access to funds to pay some or all of these taxes”.
If convicted in the tax case, Hunter Biden could face up to 17 years in prison. The special counsel probe remains open, Weiss said.
The White House declined to comment on Thursday’s indictment, referring questions to the Justice Department or Hunter Biden’s personal representatives.
No evidence has emerged so far to prove that Joe Biden, in his current or previous office, abused his role or accepted bribes, though questions have arisen about the ethics surrounding the Biden family’s international business.
