News outlets zeroed in on the surprising news this morning Hunter Biden He intended to plead guilty to federal charges Tax fraud The case, as the trial was about to begin in Los Angeles.
According to CNN and other outlets, the president’s son will submit an Alford plea, his attorney, Abe Lowell, told the court this morning. Under the terms of that plea, Biden will still maintain that he is innocent, but will accept a guilty verdict.
Biden was charged with three tax felonies and six misdemeanors for failure to pay taxes, tax evasion and filing false returns. Prosecutors claim he failed to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes between 2016 and 2019, when they said he instead “spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle.”
The trial was expected to examine Biden’s years of drug abuse. Those details also emerged last summer in a separate federal trial on gun charges. In June, a Wilmington, DE jury convicted him of three felony counts related to a 2018 gun purchase.
The case likely would have been at the center of the fall presidential campaign, as Republicans have sought to impeach the president for years. Joe Biden for his son’s business dealings. But the relevance of Hunter Biden’s trial has, apparently, been greatly diminished since the president dropped out of the race.
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