The president’s son, Hunter Biden, had his bid to dismiss federal tax charges rejected by a federal court on Monday.
U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi of Los Angeles rejected the defendant’s claims that prosecutors were pursuing the charges of over $1.4 million in tax avoidance in response to political pressure from Republicans. Mr. Biden’s attorneys also argued that he had immunity from a plea deal he had previously negotiated.
Mr. Biden, 54, in January pleaded not guilty to the three felony and six misdemeanor charges related to his business dealings and for failing to pay $1.4 million in taxes between 2016 and 2019. At the time, he was allegedly spending millions of dollars on drugs, escorts, exotic cars, and other big-ticket items.
During the years in question, Mr. Biden reported making about $7 million from work for Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian firm, and other companies, including the Chinese firm CEFC China Energy.
He allegedly spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on “various women,” another $190,000 on adult entertainment, and about $400,000 on clothes, according to financial information by Mr. Weiss’s team. In total, he spent nearly $5 million while failing to pay at least $1.4 million in federal taxes, according to the indictment.
Abbe Lowell, one of Mr. Biden’s attorneys, has said in media interviews that Mr. Biden ultimately paid the taxes and is only being prosecuted because he is part of the Biden family.
However, Judge Scarsi said he doesn’t see factual evidence to back claims that the charges are politically motivated.
The trial is due to start in June, a few months before Americans vote in a November presidential election that looks set to be a close and deeply divisive contest between Joe Biden, himself the subject of an impeachment probe, and Donald Trump, who faces four criminal trials.
The trial is tentatively scheduled to begin June 20 with jury selection. Mr. Biden faces up to 17 years in prison if convicted on all charges.
He also faces separate criminal charges in a federal court in Delaware over his alleged purchase of a handgun while he was using illegal drugs. He has pleaded not guilty and made similar arguments to dismiss the charges in that case.
He has pleaded not guilty and made similar arguments to dismiss the charges in that case. That trial could begin as soon as June 3.
Jill McLaughlin and Reuters contributed to this report.
Does anybody think that any Joe Biden or Hunter Biden will ever be held accountable for their crimes?
Was Hillary Clinton former Democrat Secretary of State held accountable even after she admitted to destroying evidence against her?
Was Eric H. Holder Jr. Former Democrat United States Attorney General held accountable for his Drugs and Arms crimes?
Was Democrat Lois Lerner, formerly of the Internal Revenue Service held accountable when it discriminated against applicants for tax exemptions based on their viewpoints and political party?
“pursuing the charges of over $1.4 million in tax avoidance in response to political pressure from Republicans.:,,,,,,is no more excuse for robbing WE THE PEOPLE of our just tax revenues, than excusing an aged-brain depleted President from being prosecuted, fined and jailed for the crimes he willingly committed while in full control of his faculties. These excuses may play well in the un-sobering world of emotionally and socially dependent Hillary Clinton sob-sisters, but in the real world of manhood virility, that demands living lives of self-governing and self-accountability, it does not play well for even an academy award for worst actor, in a rewarding real world play, where men are men and only the gender bender socially shorn sheep get nervous, not kept from the well-earned confinement slaughter pens where the mad cow infected Trump derangement disobedient lost black sheep should become first to get eaten.
Hell will freeze over, AND OUR sun will go nova, before EITHER of those two, face a single day in prison.
Most of the afore mentionedcomments in other comment piece I agrees that those people were acquitted of their crimes because of the Democratic / Swamp brotherhood within the WashingtonDC, environment. This would change if Trump was elected which is one of the many reason they fear Trump becoming President again.
And the fear of Trump getting re-elected and exposing their crimes against American humanity is the very origin of their Trump derangement debilitations. These deranged Demonic Democrats are showing the same loss of reality as Hitler displayed during his last drugged out days in the Fuhrer bunker, knowing that full weight of his own crimes against humanity, and HIS OWN PEOPLE were just days, if not hours, away from coming home to roost in a similar self-created Coupe filled with chicken littles and rotten eggs. Only a secular national socialist self-god is fit to take the life of a self-designed and proclaimed National Socialist self-god, most way too cowardly to face the very Wagnerian musical ending they composed for a bombed-out nation. I am really surprised we have not witnessed more suicides where I hear Hillary in 2016 came close. When Trump gets re-elected we may see a chorus of establishmen follower suicides,,,that is if we are lucky. I doubt the nation could survive another round of well-earned Democrat party Nuremburg trials, which seemed to get the job done right.
EVEN IF trump wins, TILL HE TOTALLY Excommunicates every libtard in the dept of injustice, FBI etc, NOTHING will i fear, change.