Hunter Biden's Indictment & Trial (Consolidated Thread)

[Midnight]

Hunter Biden suspended from practicing law in D.C. after gun conviction

By Kathryn Watson



June 25, 2024 / 12:34 PM EDT / CBS News


Washington — The District of Columbia Court of Appeals has suspended Hunter Biden from practicing law in Washington, D.C., the court's chief judge said in a filing Tuesday.



The "immediate" suspension, as Chief Judge Anna Blackburne-Rigsby put it, follows Biden's conviction on federal gun charges by a federal jury in Delaware. Federal law prohibits someone who improperly uses controlled substances from purchasing or possessing a firearm. The president's son was found guilty of three felony counts related to his purchase of a gun in 2018 while he was addicted to crack cocaine.



The court said the "serious crimes" warranted the suspension of Biden's ability to practice law in the district.



"[T]he respondent is suspended immediately from the practice of law in the District of Columbia pending resolution of this matter," the order said, referring the matter to the D.C. Bar's Board on Professional Responsibility for further investigation.



Biden is a Yale Law School graduate, although he hasn't been a particularly active user of his law degree recently. He has been licensed to practice law in D.C. since 2007.



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[Honoria]

Hunter Biden's Legal Team Gives Up Push for New Trial, Admits Embarrassing Gaffe



By Jack Davis

July 9, 2024 at 3:31pm


After admitting one of its reasons was bogus, Hunter Biden’s legal team has formally abandoned a call for a new trial on the gun charges against him.



Hunter Biden was convicted last month of three felonies in connection with his application for a handgun in 2018, when he lied on the form and said he was not addicted to drugs.



The decision does not end efforts to appeal the ruling, according to CNN.



Hunter Biden’s attorneys had claimed that U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika did not have authority to conduct the trial because she did not have jurisdiction to do so.

However, a filing from the prosecution showed that the documents issued by an appellate court that threw out Hunter Biden’s appeals aimed at stopping the trial did give her the OK for the trial.



“The defendant’s motion is meritless and is based on his apparent misunderstanding of appellate practice and his failure to read the Third Circuit’s Orders,” prosecutors wrote.



“But both dismissal orders are plainly stamped ‘Issued in Lieu of Mandate’ and provide no basis for this Court to reconsider its earlier rulings with respect to jurisdiction when non-appealable orders are appealed,” the filing said, according to the New York Post.


“While the defendant repeatedly insisted before trial that his appeals divested this Court of jurisdiction, this is the first time he has spun this laughable tale of the mystery of the missing mandates,” the filing continued.



The Monday filings were followed by Tuesday’s decision by Hunter Biden’s lawyers to drop the bid for a new trial.



A separate set of filings from Hunter Biden’s legal team is still alive.



His attorneys claim that a Supreme Court ban on guns for people under domestic violence restraining orders should mean that because Hunter Biden was not covered by such a ban, his Second Amendment rights are intact, according to Newsweek.



His lawyers said that because Hunter Biden never “terrorized anyone with a gun in public, or anywhere else, or used it dangerously in any way,” he should not have been found guilty.

Hunter Biden faces a September trial on tax charges.



No sentencing date has been set for his gun charge convictions.



An AP/NORC poll last month found that overall, 57 percent of those surveyed believed Hunter Biden should face prison time for his convictions. The poll had a margin of error of +/- 4 percentage points.



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[Midnight]

Hunter Biden Seeks Dismissal of Gun, Tax Fraud Cases, Cites Judge Cannon’s Ruling in Trump Classified Documents Case

By Cristina Laila
Jul. 18, 2024 6:40 pm


Lawyers for Hunter Biden on Thursday asked two federal judges – one in California – and one in Delaware – to dismiss the criminal cases against him.



Hunter Biden is currently facing federal tax fraud charges in California.



In December Hunter Biden was hit with a 9-count indictment filed in the Central District of California: Tax evasion, failure to file/pay taxes, and false/fraudulent tax return.



The indictment was handed down by Special Counsel David Weiss after a sweetheart plea deal on tax charges fell apart last summer.



In September Hunter Biden was indicted on federal gun charges. He was indicted in a Delaware court on three counts related to his possession of a firearm while using drugs.



Prosecutors proved that Hunter Biden was smoking crack when he purchased a firearm in 2018.



Last month jurors returned a verdict in Hunter Biden’s criminal gun trial after three hours of deliberations – GUILTY OF ALL THREE FELONIES!



Hunter Biden is facing 25 years in prison in the Delaware gun case.



Hunter’s lawyers filed motions in two federal courts citing Judge Cannon’s ruling on her decision to toss Jack Smith’s classified documents case and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ opinion.



Judge Cannon dismissed Jack Smith’s case based on both unconstitutional elements: The appointment by US Attorney Merrick Garland and the unlimited funding given to Jack Smith – both without the approval of Congress.



Hunter’s lawyers argued that David Weiss, a US Attorney from Delaware, was improperly appointed as special counsel.



CNBC reported:



Lawyers for Hunter Biden on Thursday asked federal judges in California and Delaware to dismiss the criminal cases against him in their courts, citing a recent opinion by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and the related dismissal this week of the criminal classified documents case against former President Donald Trump.



Biden’s lawyers in motions filed in both courts pointed to those two opinions — which questioned the legality of the appointment of special counsel Jack Smith to prosecute Trump — in arguing that the appointment of U.S. Attorney David Weiss as special counsel for prosecutions of the son of President Joe Biden was unconstitutional.



The motions follow the ruling Monday by Florida federal court Judge Aileen Cannon tossing out Smith’s prosecution of Trump over his retention of classified documents after leaving the White House. Cannon ruled that Smith’s appointment as special counsel violated the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution.


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Federal Judge Threatens to Sanction Hunter Biden’s Lawyers for Lying to Court

Nick R. Hamilton
July 27, 2024 - 10:41 am



A federal judge has just dropped the hammer on Hunter Biden’s lawyers after they were caught lying to a California court.



Biden’s legal team is facing financial sanctions over desperate attempts to trick the court into dropping the charges.



The California judge in Biden’s tax evasion case rebuked his lawyers for twisting the facts in their motion to dismiss the charges.



Ironically, Biden’s lawyers tried to have the case tossed out by citing one of President Donald Trump’s legal victories.



To recap, Hunter Biden was found guilty of lying about his drug use in a June gun trial.



He’s also facing charges for tax evasion in California this fall.



Biden has tried to have his cases thrown out on various grounds, including by arguing he is the target of a “witch hunt.”



None of it has worked, so far, however.



In his latest move, Biden cited the bombshell decision against Special Counsel Jack Smith in Trump’s classified documents case.


The judge, Aileen Cannon, found that Smith, a private citizen, was unlawfully appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland.



As a result, Judge Cannon threw out the case.



AG Garland also appointed Special Counsel David Weiss, the Delaware prosecutor going after Hunter.



Biden’s lawyers have cited Cannon’s ruling to push for Weiss’s dismissal.


However, the California judge in Hunter’s tax case, Mark Scarsi, notes there is an important distinction.



While Smith is a private citizen, Weiss was already a full-fledged, Senate-confirmed U.S. attorney when he first brought charges against Hunter.



Hunter Biden claims he wasn’t charged until after Weiss’s promotion.



However, Scarsi said the claims are “not true, and Mr. Biden’s counsel knows they are not true.”



Indeed, Weiss was still a U.S. attorney when he charged Hunter with misdemeanors as part of a notorious plea deal that unraveled last summer.



Weiss later pursued felony gun and tax charges against Biden.



“The misstatements in the current motion are not trivial. Mr. Weiss’s institution of charges against Mr. Biden in his capacity as U.S. Attorney offers a meaningful distinction between this case and the nonbinding district court decision on which Mr. Biden bases his motion,” Scarsi wrote.



“But Mr. Biden’s motion does not engage with this distinction; instead, counsel avoids the issue by misrepresenting the history of the proceedings,” he continued.



The judge added that the court “has little tolerance for lack of candor from counsel.”



It’s just the latest setback for the Biden family.



A pardon is now growing more elusive for Hunter after his dad decided to forgo re-election.

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Hunter Biden’s Lawyers Claim They ‘Never Tried to Mislead’ Court as They Beg Judge to Toss Tax Evasion Case

Nick R. Hamilton
July 31, 2024 - 11:22 am



Layers representing Democrat President Joe Biden’s son are desperately trying to convince a federal judge to drop Hunter’s tax evasion case.



Hunter Biden’s attorneys claimed they “never tried to mislead” the court in a legal motion.



The lawyers claim they used incorrect wording in a motion that conveniently cuts favorably toward their client, The Hill reported.



A federal judge threatened them with sanctions after attorneys used “false statements” in an attempt to get Hunter Biden’s California case tossed, as Slay News reported.



The president’s son is headed for trial in California in the coming months on charges of tax evasion.



Biden is accused of failing to pay his federal taxes, totaling $1.4 million, from 2016 to 2019 and of filing false returns in 2018.



He supposedly used the proceeds to fuel his hedonistic lifestyle fueled by drugs and alcohol during that time and faces misdemeanor tax charges and nine felonies.



In an effort to get Hunter Biden off the hook, his attorneys falsely claimed that their client was never charged until U.S. Attorney David Weiss was appointed special counsel.



This was an effort to have his trial tossed based on Weiss’s appointment, similar to a decision in favor of President Donald Trump with the same rationale.


The judge dismissed Trump’s classified documents case in Florida after finding that the appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith was invalid.



U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi reprimanded Hunter Biden’s legal team for their incorrect assertion about when charges were filed.



Scarsi said they must “show cause why sanctions should not be imposed for making false statements in the motion.”



Biden’s attorneys responded by claiming that they “never tried to mislead” the court.


“Defense counsel, perhaps inartfully, intended this use of the word ‘charges’ to refer to the current charges brought by indictment against Mr. Biden, not the lack of any charges at all. Here, context matters,” his attorneys wrote.



However, it seems clear from their own words that they meant exactly what they wrote in the filing.



“As U.S. Attorney, he had years to bring whatever charges he believed were merited, but he brought no charges until after he received the Special Counsel title that he sought,” they incorrectly wrote about Weiss.



The judge pointed out last week that Weiss had charged Biden before being appointed as the special counsel.



The attorneys for Biden have pledged to change the wording in the motion to reflect “indictments” instead of “charges” to clarify the supposed error.



They pleaded with the court to overlook the error rather than sanction them.



“Nevertheless, there is no basis on which to sanction Mr. Biden’s counsel for using that one word, which was not misleading in the context in which the two prior Informations had been repeatedly addressed with the Court,” the attorneys said in the motion.



It’s difficult to see how Biden’s lawyers could have made such an error about whether Weiss charged him before becoming special counsel.



Before he was appointed, Weiss brokered the infamous sweetheart deal with Hunter Biden, Fox News reported.



In July 2023, Biden was facing felony tax charges and a felony gun charge when Weiss offered him a deal that would include no jail time.



He would be able to go through a diversion program to get the gun charge dropped and just plead guilty to the tax charges.



Biden would have gotten away with it, except that Judge Maryellen Noreika of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware declined to accept the plea deal.



Noreika realized that prosecutors had tried to quietly add a hidden clause that gave Hunter Biden blanket immunity for any and all future charges.



She called it “not standard,” “different from what I normally see,” and unconstitutional.



By August 2023, Weiss was named special prosecutor on Biden’s case.



If unintentional, this kind of oversight in the timeline by Biden’s attorney would be, at the very least, quite sloppy.



Because he’s the son of President Biden, Hunter has been able to escape the consequences of his actions for a long time.



That seems to be coming to an end for him despite the best efforts of his attorneys.

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[Midnight]

Hunter Biden to be Sentenced One Week After Election, Faces Up to 25 Years in Prison

by Cristina Laila
Aug. 3, 2024 5:00 pm

Hunter Biden will be sentenced one week after the presidential election after a jury convicted him on gun charges.



In June jurors returned a verdict in Hunter Biden’s criminal gun trial after three hours of deliberations.



Guilty of all three felonies.



Prosecutors proved that Hunter Biden was smoking crack when he purchased a firearm in 2018.



Joe Biden has repeatedly claimed he will not pardon his son Hunter or commute his sentence.



Fox News reported:



First son Hunter Biden will be sentenced on Nov. 13, the week after the general election, after he was found guilty on charges in the criminal case focused on his purchase of a handgun in 2018.



Judge Maryellen Noreika, in a court order Friday, set the sentencing date for Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 10:00 a.m. at the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building in Wilmington, Delaware. President Biden’s son will learn his fate 8 days after the 2024 presidential election.



Hunter Biden was found guilty in June of making a false statement in the purchase of a gun, making a false statement related to information required to be kept by a federally licensed gun dealer, and possession of a gun by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance.



He faces a total maximum prison time of 25 years for the three charges. Each count also carries a maximum fine of $250,000 and three years of supervised release. Hunter Biden, however, is a first-time offender, making it unlikely he will face maximum penalties.



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Hallie Biden Granted Immunity to Testify in Hunter Biden Tax Trial

Nick R. Hamilton
August 5, 2024 - 9:28 am



Hunter Biden’s legal troubles took a decidedly difficult turn earlier this year when he was convicted on a series of federal gun charges.



However, a judge in California just dealt Democrat President Joe Biden’s son another blow that could impact his fate in another federal case poised for trial.



As Fox News reports, U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi, set to preside over Hunter Biden’s tax trial next month, granted immunity to Hallie Biden to secure her testimony in the criminal proceedings.



Hallie is the widow of Hunter Biden’s late brother, Beau.



She is also the former lover of Hunter Biden.



It was in earlier, pre-trial proceedings that the former sister-in-law/onetime girlfriend of Hunter Biden informed federal prosecutors that she would not testify in the tax case.



They cited “her privilege against self-incrimination.”



At issue in the case are charges against Hunter Biden that allege that he failed to pay upwards of $1.4 million in taxes over the course of three years and that he filed false returns.



During the time at issue, the first son is said to have spent funds that could have been used to pay tax liabilities on things such as escort services, drugs, luxury vehicles, and more.


In response to her prior indication of reluctance to testify at trial, Scarsi issued an order stating that Hallie Biden must “give testimony or provide other information which she refuses to give or to provide on the basis of her privilege against self-incrimination as to all matters about which he may be interrogated in the course of these proceedings.”



Scarsi went on, “It is further ordered that no testimony or other information compelled under this order, or any information directly or indirectly derived from such testimony or information, shall be used against Hallie Biden in any criminal case, except that she shall not be exempted by this order from prosecution for perjury, giving a false statement, or otherwise failing to comply with this order.”



The news that Hallie Biden will be compelled to testify in the tax trial was likely not welcomed by Hunter Biden and his legal team, particularly given her appearance on the stand in his gun case.



As the Associated Press noted at the time, Hallie Biden told jurors in a Delaware courtroom a series of damning details about Hunter Biden’s drug use at the time of the alleged firearms offenses.


Hallie Biden recalled the moment she found the gun at issue in Hunter’s truck.



She explained that she swiftly attempted to discard it without his knowledge for fear he would hurt himself or someone else.



Beau Biden’s widow also testified to having found crack cocaine remnants and other drug paraphernalia in the vehicle.



The jurors likely used this information in rendering their guilty verdict.



When asked directly if Hunter Biden had been using drugs at the time he affirmed under oath on a federal gun purchase form that he was not, Hallie Biden said, “He could have been.”



Adding to Hunter Biden’s legal stress is the fact that his sentencing in the felony gun case has just been set, and it will now take place on Nov. 13, as Reuters reports.



Though federal guidelines suggest that a sentence of between 15 and 21 months in prison is a possibility, legal observers believe that the first son is unlikely to receive a term of incarceration near that length — if any at all.



It remains to be seen whether Hunter’s lame-duck president father will offer a presidential pardon in the gun case or on the tax charges during his remaining time in the White House.



Only time will tell.



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[Midnight]

Evidence In Hunter Biden Case Seems to Corroborate Whistleblower Testimony

Carmine Sabia
August 11, 2024


Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, will be facing a federal tax trial in California, and the evidence against him suggests he was paid by a foreign government to influence policy in the United States.



The evidence corroborates claims that were made by whistleblowers who testified before Congress last year, Just The News reported.



The whistleblowers said that the Department of Justice had evidence that Hunter Biden committed a crime but did not charge him before the statute of limitations expired.



“According to motions filed earlier this week, federal prosecutors are planning to cite evidence at trial that Hunter Biden and his business associates were paid by a Romanian businessman to influence U.S. policy and public opinion,” Just The News reported.



Empower Oversight President Tristan Leavitt, who represents one of represents IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley, was furious with the filing.



“The thing that is infuriating about all of this is that Special Counsel Weiss is demonstrating to a T exactly what SSA Shapley and SA Ziegler blew the whistle on: Weiss’s office had clear evidence of crimes by Hunter Biden that they almost swept under the rug when they allowed the statute of limitations to expire,” Leavitt said.



“Weiss is just using the Romanian payments as evidence of intent to evade taxes. But the evidence (not ‘allegations,’ as the filings point out) shows what Hunter Biden ‘did do for [Gabriel Popoviciu]’–and the fact of the matter is that it violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act,” he said.



“Waiting until after the 5-year statute of limitations ran, without seeking an extension, protected the Bidens. The same pattern was demonstrated with Chinese company CEFC. Yet as SSA Shapley testified to Congress in the transcript excerpt in my post below, ‘We were precluded from doing anything.’ David Weiss and everyone who helped subvert the rule of law to protect the Biden family need to be held accountable,” he said.

House Republicans have claimed that the same pattern emerged in many of Hunter Biden’s business dealings which they have said is part of an “influence peddling” scheme.



In July attorneys for Hunter Biden requested that evidence of “alleged improper political influence” should be excluded from the trial because it would prejudice the jury.



“The government does not intend to reference allegations at trial,” federal prosecutors said in response to the request last week. “Rather, the government will introduce the evidence described above, including that the defendant and Business Associate 1 received compensation from a foreign principal who was attempting to influence U.S. policy and public opinion and cause the United States to investigate the Romanian investigation of G.P in Romania.”



Just The News reported.



According to the filing, the Romanian businessman—Gabriel Popoviciu—was under criminal investigation in his country at the time. In order to combat the investigation, the prosecutors say Popoviciu sought to hire Hunter Biden and his associates in order to “cause an end to the investigation…in Romania.”



According to the court filing, Hunter Biden and his partner—listed as Business Associate 1 in the court filing—“were concerned that lobbying work might cause political ramifications for the defendant’s father,” that is, then-Vice President Biden.



To remedy this concern, prosecutors say, Business Associate 1 signed an agreement with Popoviciu to form a purported management services company for real estate in Romania to serve as a front for the payments which were actually designated for Business Associate 1 and Hunter Biden to attempt to influence U.S. government agencies to “investigate the Romanian investigation” of Popoviciu.



Popoviciu was sentenced in Romania to seven years in prison in 2017 after being convicted of real estate fraud, according to OCCRP.


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[Midnight]

Trump-Appointed Judge Smacks Down Hunter Biden’s Bid to Dismiss Federal Tax Indictment

by Cristina Laila
Aug. 20, 2024 2:40 pm



A federal judge shut down Hunter Biden’s latest bid to dismiss his federal tax indictment.



Lawyers for Hunter Biden last month asked two federal judges – one in California – and one in Delaware – to dismiss the criminal cases against him.



Hunter Biden is currently facing federal tax fraud charges in California.



In December Hunter Biden was hit with a 9-count indictment filed in the Central District of California: Tax evasion, failure to file/pay taxes, and false/fraudulent tax return.



The indictment was handed down by Special Counsel David Weiss after a sweetheart plea deal on tax charges fell apart last summer.



Hunter’s lawyers filed motions in two federal courts last month citing Judge Cannon’s ruling on her decision to toss Jack Smith’s classified documents case and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ opinion.



Judge Cannon dismissed Jack Smith’s case based on both unconstitutional elements: The appointment by US Attorney Merrick Garland and the unlimited funding given to Jack Smith – both without the approval of Congress.



Hunter’s lawyers argued that David Weiss, a US Attorney from Delaware, was improperly appointed as special counsel.



Judge Mark Scarsi, a Trump appointee rejected Hunter Biden’s effort to dismiss the tax charges.



“As he concedes in his notice of the motion, Mr. Biden plainly seeks reconsideration of issues already decided upon his February motion,” Judge Scarsi wrote in a 7 page order.



“The Court declines to reach the merits of the motion because there is no valid basis for reconsideration of the Court’s order denying Mr. Biden’s motion to dismiss the indictment,” the judge said.



Joe Biden has repeatedly stated he won’t pardon his son Hunter or commute his sentence.

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Hunter Biden's Legal Team Appears in California Courtroom



By The Associated Press

August 20, 2024 at 9:21pm


Weeks before Hunter Biden is set to stand trial on federal tax charges, the legal team for President Joe Biden’s son and prosecutors will appear in a California courtroom Wednesday as the judge weighs what evidence can be presented to the jury.



Hunter Biden is accused of a scheme to avoid paying at least $1.4 million in taxes in the case headed for trial in September in Los Angeles. It’s the second criminal trial in just months for the president’s son, who was convicted in June of three felony charges in a separate federal case over the purchase of a gun in 2018.



Prosecutors and the defense have been fighting for weeks in court papers over what evidence and testimony jurors should be allowed to hear. Among the topics at issue is evidence related to Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings, which have been at the center of Republican investigations into the Democratic president’s family.



Prosecutors say they will introduce evidence of Hunter Biden’s business dealings with a Chinese energy conglomerate, as well as money he made for serving on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma. Prosecutors say the evidence will show Hunter Biden “performed almost no work in exchange for the millions of dollars he received from these entities.”



Special counsel David Weiss’ team also plans to tell jurors about Hunter Biden’s work for a Romanian businessman, who prosecutors say sought to “influence U.S. government policy” while Joe Biden was vice president.



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Prosecutors want to call as a witness a Hunter Biden business associate to testify about the arrangement with the Romanian businessman, Gabriel Popoviciu, who was seeking help from U.S. government agencies to end a criminal investigation he was facing in his home country, according to prosecutors.



Hunter Biden and his business associate were concerned their “lobbying work might cause political ramifications” for Joe Biden, so the arrangement was structured in a way that “concealed the true nature of the work” for Popoviciu, prosecutors allege. Prosecutors say Hunter and two business associates split more than $3 million from Popoviciu.



The defense has said evidence about his foreign business dealings is irrelevant to the tax charges and would only confuse jurors. They have accused prosecutors of inappropriately trying to insert “extraneous, politically-charged matters” into the trial.



Hunter Biden has pleaded not guilty, and his lawyers have indicated they will argue he didn’t act “willfully,” or with the intention to break the law. Pointing to Hunter Biden’s well-documented addiction struggles during those years, they’ve argued his drug and alcohol abuse impacted “his decision-making and judgment, such that Mr. Biden was unable to form the requisite intent to commit the crimes he has been charged with.”



Prosecutors have said that while avoiding his taxes, Hunter Biden was living an “extravagant lifestyle,” spending money on things like drugs, escorts, exotic cars and luxury hotels. The defense is urging the judge to keep those salacious allegations out of the trial.



“The Special Counsel may wish to introduce such evidence for the very reason that it is salacious and would pique the interest of the jury, but for the same reasons and because such evidence would distract the jury from the crimes charged, such information would also be highly prejudicial to Mr. Biden,” defense lawyers wrote in court papers.



Hunter Biden was supposed to plead guilty last year to misdemeanor tax offenses in a deal with prosecutors that would have allowed him to avoid prosecution in the gun case if he stayed out of trouble. But the plea deal fell apart after a Delaware federal judge raised concerns about it, and he was subsequently indicted in the two cases.

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Here’s the Real Reason Why Hunter Biden Shocked the Courtroom and Pleaded Guilty in Federal Tax Evasion Case

by Cristina Laila
Sep. 6, 2024 7:20 pm


Hunter Biden shocked the California courtroom on Thursday as he officially entered a guilty plea while jury selection was underway for his federal tax evasion trial.



In December Hunter Biden was hit with a 9-count indictment filed in the Central District of California: Tax evasion, failure to file/pay taxes, and false/fraudulent tax return.



The charges were handed down by Special Counsel David Weiss after a sweetheart plea deal on tax charges fell apart last summer.



The indictment details a “four-year scheme” to avoid the $1.4+ million tax obligations he owed between 2016 and 2019 and to file false returns.



Hunter Biden initially entered an ‘Alford plea’ which allowed him to plead guilty while simultaneously maintaining his innocence.



Federal prosecutors fought back and Hunter Biden ended up entering a standard guilty plea.



Judge Scarsi signed off on the guilty plea which means Hunter Biden will avoid a trial.



Sure, Hunter Biden may have avoided a trial because he knows he can easily get a pardon from his father.



However, according to investigative reporter Paul Sperry, prosecutors filed a “road map” glossary to trial exhibits detailing the Biden Crime family’s China influence-peddling scheme.



Via RealClearInvestigations reporter Paul Sperry: Sources say Hunter threw in towel to avoid trial exposing Biden-China influence peddling, after prosecutors filed “road map” glossary to trial exhibits:”CEFC China Energy””Patrick Ho””Kevin Dong””Mervyn Yan””Ye Jianming””State Energy HK””RosemontSenecaBohai””SinoHawk”

Biden Crime Family whistleblower Tony Bobulinski has repeatedly claimed Joe Biden was involved in Hunter’s multi-million dollar deals with CEFC.



“The Chinese Communist Party through its surrogate, China Energy Company Limited, or ‘CEFC’ — a CCP-linked Chinese energy conglomerate, successfully sought to infiltrate and compromise Joe Biden and the Obama-Biden White House,” Bobulinski previously said.



Recall that Tony Bobulinski, a retired lieutenant in the US Navy, was the CEO of Sinohawk Holdings which was a partnership between the Chinese operating through CEFC/Chairman Ye and the Biden family.



“The Biden family business was Joe Biden, period,” Bobulinski previously said. “It is clear to me that Joe Biden was ‘the Brand’ being sold by the Biden family.”



Rob Walker, another Biden family associate, recounted a time where Joe Biden walked into a meeting with CEFC officials at a Four Seasons.



Hunter Biden will get a pardon and documents exposing Joe Biden’s international influence-peddling scheme will be suppressed.



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