Biden's son also charged with tax offenses
A president's son who may not have paid taxes for years. A court in Los Angeles brings another charge against Hunter Biden. The case should come in handy for the Republicans.
The son of US President Joe Biden, Hunter, has now also been charged with tax offenses. According to the indictment filed in Los Angeles by special investigator David Weiss, the 53-year-old is accused of nine charges, including failing to pay taxes for several years. Hunter Biden had already been charged with illegal possession of firearms in mid-September.
The US judiciary has been investigating Hunter Biden for years. The president's son actually admitted to illegal possession of a revolver and tax offenses back in June as part of an agreement with the Delaware Attorney General's Office. In return for a guilty plea in both cases, he was only to receive a lenient sentence and would also have been spared a trial.
However, the deal collapsed in July after the judge responsible questioned its content. In August, US Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed David Weiss, the Delaware federal prosecutor who had already been investigating Hunter Biden since 2019, as a special investigator.
He first brought charges against Biden in Delaware in mid-September for illegal possession of firearms - and has now brought charges in a federal court in Los Angeles, California, for tax offenses. Biden, a lawyer and businessman who now works as an artist, has lived in Los Angeles since 2018.
Hunter Biden is also being targeted by the opposition Republicans. They accuse him of having exploited his father's important position as Barack Obama's Vice President (2009 to 2017) for business deals in Ukraine and China in the past. The allegations serve as the basis for the Republicans' efforts to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Biden. They accuse him of being involved in his son's foreign business dealings and of lying to the public.
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Hunter Biden's tax offenses charges extend beyond Delaware, as he now faces nine counts, including tax evasion, in a federal court in Los Angeles, USA. Despite the ongoing investigations, President Joe Biden's son has remained a focus of criticism by the opposition Republicans, who accuse him of leveraging his father's former position as Vice President of the USA to secure business deals in Ukraine and China.
Source: www.ntv.de
