A California grand jury has returned a nine-count indictment against Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son, charging him with three felony tax offenses and six misdemeanor tax offenses.
Special counsel David Weiss announced the indictment on Thursday night, which alleges Mr. Biden spent millions on a lavish lifestyle and drugs instead of fulfilling his tax obligations between 2016 and 2019—totaling at least $1.4 million.
Instead of paying his taxes, Mr. Biden “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,” reads the indictment.
According to Mr. Weiss, the charges include three counts of failure to pay taxes for the years 2016, 2017, and 2019, and three counts of failure to file tax returns for the years 2017 and 2018.
“The Defendant spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle at the same time he chose not to pay his taxes,” reads the indictment.
The indictment notes Mr. Biden’s spending during these years, including $1 million in 2016, $1.4 million in 2017, $1.8 million in 2018, and $600,000 in 2019.
Additionally, Mr. Biden faces charges of tax evasion, filing a false return, and filing a false return for his company, Owasco PC, for the tax year 2018.
Mr. Biden’s alleged actions involved a deliberate effort to avoid paying taxes, including subverting his own company’s payroll and tax withholding process by withdrawing millions outside of the established procedures, according to the indictment.
In addition to allegedly claiming false deductions in 2018 to reduce his tax liability, prosecutors allege that Mr. Biden willfully failed to pay his taxes on time between 2016 and 2019 and neglected to file his 2017 and 2018 tax returns on time.
If convicted on all counts, the president’s son could face a maximum penalty of 17 years in prison.
The Epoch Times contacted Mr. Biden’s lawyer, the White House, and the Department of Justice (DOJ) for comment.
The new indictment comes after a plea deal Mr. Biden entered with prosecutors fell apart in July under a judge’s scrutiny.
The deal, revealed in June, involved the president’s son pleading guilty to intentionally failing to pay federal income taxes for 2017 and 2018. It also meant he would have admitted to a felony gun charge as part of a pretrial diversion agreement. Such diversion programs enable defendants to get charges dismissed if they meet certain criteria.
However, at the July hearing, U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika, a Trump appointee, said she couldn’t accept the deal, which linked tax crimes to resolving felony gun charges. He ultimately pleaded not guilty.
Mr. Biden was widely expected to avoid prison time under the defunct plea deal, which raised the ire of Republicans, who alleged that the president’s son was being treated with kid gloves.
Republicans have launched congressional investigations into the DOJ’s handling of this investigation, which whistleblowers say was slow-walked, as well as Mr. Biden’s foreign business dealings and President Joe Biden’s involvement in them.
President Biden has consistently denied involvement in his son’s business dealings.
After the plea deal collapsed, prosecutors filed three federal gun charges against Mr. Biden, alleging he lied about his drug use to purchase a gun that he possessed for 11 days in 2018. Federal law prohibits gun possession by “habitual drug users.”
Mr. Biden’s history with drug abuse was referenced in a draft of the scuttled plea deal, which noted that his substance misuse worsened during part of the period in which he dodged paying his taxes. This period followed the death of his brother, Beau Biden, in 2015.
Between 2017 and 2018, Mr. Biden made over $2.2 million in business and consulting fees from a company he formed with the CEOs of a Chinese business conglomerate and the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, according to prosecutors, who say he did not pay his taxes on a total of about $4 million in personal income during that period.
Eventually, Mr. Biden filed his tax returns between February and October of 2020, according to his indictment, and the back taxes were paid by a “third party” the following year.
Hunter is to Joe, what Hamas is to Iran,,,,,,,just the surrogate,,,,not the head of the snake. Baby snakes can be dangerous, but not as dangerous as the Big Daddy Democrat Reptile as they carry more poisonous venom, like the type that killed our economy and national debt, all the while feeding on it’s prey, the American People.
Democrat Party’s prey, the American People. The fools who support this treasonous Democrat Party enemy are like the rats in the “Piped Piper” story. The rats followed the Democrat Piped Piper to their own destruction and death.
And once pie-eyed piped into indoctrination, never saw their kids again. Just their remains as the walking brain dead.
That sounds more like a Virus or parasite..
Democrat, Socialist,Communist, Party’s President, Joe Biden’s ” DAY IN THE-Sun,” is all over, The Hunter Biden Indictment was Just the Finishing NAIL for Joe Biden and of course the democrat Elite had used Joe Biden-He was like dirty tissue- to be thrown in the trash can.
The party has planned this all out. Get ready for another Dog and pony Show, designed to mess with the American citizens minds again.
ANd you can bet, if it DOES go to trial out in commiefornia, THEY WILL do all they can to HAND PICK 12 Demon-rats to sit on the jury.
Keep your eyes open there will soon to be more charges coming against TRUMP! HAPPENED LAST TIME AS WELL, every time something goes against hunter TRUMP gets even more charges filed against him. That hunter guy really does need to go to jail for a whole lot of years, but you know he will never spend one night in jail. The whole if the byden clan should be in prison of not just crimes against the people but against the country, he has committed so many acts of high treason, and has violated the CONSTITUTION so many times that it can no longer be counted. The party of demons have at every time protected the byden.
Exactly. CAN’T have the big guy ever getting charged, TILL THEY EMPRISON DON.
and this means what?????
the good old boy system in washington dc will not do a dam thing to put these treasonous people in jail.
our federal government is a embarasment and it makes me sick to my stomach.
Very true capricorn1. Rules for thee, no rules for me. And the me here ain’t (sorry a Slo Joe moment) you or me.
In the 1950s, commie slayer Joe “McCarthy never sent a single “subversive” to jail, but, decades later, the spirit of his conspiracy-mongering endures.” In the democrat attacks on Trump while ignoring the real Biden Crime Family secular socialist empowerment.
AND With how rabidly libtard ridden LA is, Does anyone really think they can find 12 conservatives to sit on the jury??
It’s long past time that the Hunter,,,beomes the Hunted. Enter a cleaned and cleansed American FBI and Justice department leadereship
” The2-Tired, Justice System, For Thee, but not for me.!”
Yes, Joe Biden and his entire family are criminals, but the bigger question is how have they escaped justice? The corruption in the Justice Department is the bigger problem here since it was their cover up and shielding that allowed this to continue. There will be no real justice so long as Washington bureaucrats and their agencies are committed to a one-party rule and promoting socialism. Our republic is only as strong as the people we have empowered to protect it and unfortunately that power lies with our dishonorable federal law enforcement agencies.
The slide started when OBAMA was in office, and STACKED IT up with cronies, who won’t do JACK SQUAT TO dems.. SEE HILLARY!