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BumRushDaShow

(129,025 posts)
Wed Mar 27, 2024, 09:09 AM Mar 27

Biden's Son Hunter to Ask Judge to Dismiss Tax Charges as Politically Motivated

Source: US News and World Report/Reuters

March 27, 2024, at 6:03 a.m.



LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - President Joe Biden’s son Hunter will ask a U.S. judge on Wednesday to dismiss the criminal case accusing him of evading $1.4 million in taxes, arguing that prosecutors bowed to political pressure from Republican lawmakers investigating his father.

Hunter Biden’s lawyers will appear before U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi in federal court in Los Angeles to press several legal challenges to the charges, including an argument that he was selectively targeted by prosecutors in response to Republican criticism over alleged earlier lenient treatment.

Hunter Biden, 54, pleaded not guilty to failing to pay $1.4 million in taxes between 2016 and 2019, while spending millions of dollars on drugs, escorts, exotic cars and other big-ticket items. His lawyer has said he paid back the money in full.

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.

Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2024-03-27/bidens-son-hunter-to-ask-judge-to-dismiss-tax-charges-as-politically-motivated

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Biden's Son Hunter to Ask Judge to Dismiss Tax Charges as Politically Motivated (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Mar 27 OP
Why post a freaking headline, "Biden's Son Hunter?" gab13by13 Mar 27 #1
and no one says azureblue Mar 27 #2
It goes a little beyond that. He didn't file returns for several years. Hassin Bin Sober Mar 27 #3
That's exactly what you're supposed to do wolfie001 Mar 27 #7
It is not a secret what the charges are. former9thward Mar 27 #4
Has he threatened the judge's family? twodogsbarking Mar 27 #5
Good! 50 Shades Of Blue Mar 27 #6

gab13by13

(21,348 posts)
1. Why post a freaking headline, "Biden's Son Hunter?"
Wed Mar 27, 2024, 09:19 AM
Mar 27

I just do not get it. Tells me the article is right wing, I certainly will not click on it.

azureblue

(2,146 posts)
2. and no one says
Wed Mar 27, 2024, 10:00 AM
Mar 27

exactly what the charges are? What law did he evade? And why is he being charged when he promptly paid the tax, as soon as he found out? And the GOP still charged him, after the fact.The IRS did not charge him, and that is the tell.

As best as I can figure out, the issue revolved around US tax laws on international income. IOW, it';s a bit murky, if you earn money as a US citizen, from a foreign company or source, and the income goes into a foreign bank, because that is how that business does it. But it's different if you receive money for a US company that has an overseas branch. So it looks like his tax accountant read the law one way, but the IRS read it (right or wrong) another way. I THINK it was "is income received from an out of the US company, earned out of the US, and deposited into an out of the US ban while the person is living overseas, taxable under US law?"

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,328 posts)
3. It goes a little beyond that. He didn't file returns for several years.
Wed Mar 27, 2024, 10:18 AM
Mar 27

Regardless, there should be no criminal prosecution here. He paid his taxes, penalties, and interest. That would be the end of it if his last name wasn’t Biden.

wolfie001

(2,240 posts)
7. That's exactly what you're supposed to do
Wed Mar 27, 2024, 11:45 AM
Mar 27

On Reddit personal finance, you see many posts where people say they haven't paid their taxes for 5-10 years. the advice given is to contact the IRS and set up a repayment plan. Not go to jail for christs' sakes. WTF!!! Repukes and their judicial appointees working their shit cabal together.

former9thward

(32,009 posts)
4. It is not a secret what the charges are.
Wed Mar 27, 2024, 10:18 AM
Mar 27

I don't know why you say "no one says exactly what the charges are." The DOJ has them right on their website:

Grand Jury Returns Indictment Charging Robert Hunter Biden with Three Felony Tax Offenses and Six Misdemeanor Tax Offenses


A federal grand jury returned a nine-count indictment today charging Robert Hunter Biden (Hunter Biden) with three felony tax offenses and six misdemeanor tax offenses.

According to the indictment, Hunter Biden engaged in a four-year scheme in which he chose not to pay at least $1.4 million in self-assessed federal taxes he owed for tax years 2016 through 2019 and to evade the assessment of taxes for tax year 2018 when he filed false returns. As alleged in the indictment, to further this scheme, Hunter Biden:

subverted the payroll and tax withholding process of his own company by withdrawing millions outside of the payroll and tax withholding process;

spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle rather than paying his tax bills;

in 2018, stopped paying his outstanding and overdue taxes for tax year 2015;

willfully failed to pay his 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 taxes on time, despite having access to funds to pay some or all of these taxes;

willfully failed to file his 2017 and 2018 tax returns, on time; and

when he did finally file his 2018 returns, included false business deductions in order to reduce the very substantial tax liability he faced as of February 2020.

https://www.justice.gov/sco-weiss/pr/grand-jury-returns-indictment-charging-robert-hunter-biden-three-felony-tax-offenses

The indictment if you wish to read the whole thing is located at: https://www.justice.gov/sco-weiss/media/1327746/dl

Neither the GOP or the IRS charged anybody. Neither do that. The DOJ charges.

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