Hunter Biden will seek to dismiss felony tax charges at Los Angeles hearing Wednesday
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Attorneys for Hunter Biden and special counsel David Weiss are set for a courtroom showdown Wednesday over the future of his felony tax indictment.
Attorneys for Hunter Biden and special counsel David Weiss are set for a courtroom showdown Wednesday over the future of his felony tax indictment. Weiss charged President Joe Biden’s son in December with nine tax offenses. Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty, and his lawyers have since lodged several bids to throw out part or all of the charges, which will be argued in front of a federal judge in Los Angeles. The eventual decision from US District Judge Mark Scarsi on the fate of the tax charges could have an impact on the 2024 election, where Joe Biden is currently locked in a tight race against former President Donald Trump, who faces his own criminal trials this year. (Scarsi is a Trump appointee who was confirmed in a bipartisan Senate vote.) Federal prosecutors say Hunter Biden repeatedly failed to file his taxes on time, missed deadlines to pay his IRS debts, and engaged in a criminal tax-evasion scheme over several years by filing false tax returns and cooking the books on his company’s payroll. While Hunter Biden is accused of dodging taxes on income from China and Ukraine, nothing in the indictment backs up Republicans’ assertion that he and his father corruptly earned millions overseas together. Those claims were on display last week at a hearing in the House GOP impeachment inquiry, which has now all but sputtered out. Even so, Hunter Biden still needs to grapple with the criminal charges, and his team has seized on the impeachment effort to argue that the case should be tossed.