Hunter Biden was indicted Thursday on nine counts – including three felonies – in part for allegedly evading more than $1 million in taxes while living an “extravagant” life of hard partying over a four-year period.
The three felonies charged against President Biden’s 53-year-old son — who faces a maximum of 17 years in prison if convicted on all charges — include one count of tax evasion for his personal taxes in 2018 and two counts of filing false returns for him. 2018 personal taxes and on corporate income tax returns for his company Owasco, PC.
He has also been charged with six misdemeanor charges of failure to pay and failure to file charges for tax years 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
“Defendant engaged in a four-year scheme to avoid paying at least $1.4 million in self-assessed federal taxes he owed for tax years 2016 through 2019,” Special Counsel David Weiss wrote in a 56-page indictment from the Central District of California.
“In furtherance of the scheme,” Weiss stated that Hunter “changed the payroll and tax collection process of his own company, Owasco, PC by siphoning millions from Owasco, PC” and “spent millions of dollars on a lavish lifestyle instead of paying his tax bills. .”
Biden spent his money on “drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothes, and other personal items, in short, everything except his taxes,” according to the indictment.
Weiss highlighted that Biden used a business line of credit to make more than $27,000 in payments to porn sites, “which in total accounted for one-fifth of all business line credit expenditures.”
The porn payments were among nearly $189,000 the first child spent on “adult entertainment” while not paying taxes, according to Weiss, including a $10,000 payment for a sex club membership that he billed as a “golf club membership.”
He also alleged false deductions for “consulting” that were “actually and in fact” payments to “various women who were either romantically involved or otherwise performed personal services” for Biden
More than $680,000 went to this woman while Biden didn’t pay Uncle Sam.
Hunter Biden is reportedly facing new charges from Special Counsel David Weiss. AP
“When he finally filed his 2018 return, [Hunter] including false business deductions to avoid tax assessments to reduce the huge tax liability he faces as of February 2020,” the special counsel added.
Judge Mark Scarsi, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, has been assigned to the new case.
The scandal-scarred eldest son is already facing three criminal charges related to false statements he made when buying firearms. Weiss brought the charges against him in September, after a June plea deal fell through in a Delaware courtroom.
Biden has pleaded not guilty to all charges. He faces a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison on the firearms charge.
Weiss summoned the Los Angeles grand jury that brought the indictment Thursday against Hunter last month, according to CNN. The special counsel also issued a subpoena to James Biden’s first cousin as part of the five-year investigation into Hunter.
In the failed deal, Biden agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of failing to pay at least $100,000 on more than $1.5 million in income earned in 2017 and 2018.
Weiss convened a grand jury in Los Angeles last month and issued a subpoena to James Biden’s first cousin as part of a five-year investigation into Hunter Biden. AP
At the time, Weiss declined to bring charges against Biden for alleged tax crimes committed in southern California and Washington, DC, after US attorneys in both districts refused to cooperate in his investigation.
IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley alleged that Biden avoided paying taxes on $8.3 million in income he received between 2014 and 2019, a period during which he sat on the boards of Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings and Chinese private equity fund BHR Partners.
During the plea hearing, prosecutors informed US District Judge Maryellen Noreika that the deal did not preclude bringing charges against Biden later for other alleged crimes — such as possible violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
The alleged FARA violations stemmed from Biden failing to register as a foreign agent while engaging in lucrative deals in countries like China and Ukraine that allegedly involved his father and uncle.
The FBI, which is tasked with investigating aspects of the Weiss investigation related to money laundering and FARA violations, does not expect Hunter to be charged in the matter, according to CNN.
New York Post front page from September 15, 2023. csuarez
Federal investigators also raised the possibility of charging Biden with sex-trafficking-related crimes over his communications with numerous prostitutes in which he apparently coordinated their travel across states — a possible violation of the federal Mann Act ban on interstate prostitution — according to IRS whistleblower documents.
The new criminal case against Biden comes as members of the State Legislature prepare to formally authorize an impeachment inquiry into President Biden over alleged corruption.
The resolution, introduced by Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND) on Wednesday, directed the House Judiciary, Oversight and Ways and Means committee to determine “whether sufficient grounds exist” to impeach the president over his alleged role in Hunter and alien James Biden. went into business while being vice president.
Two sources told The Post that the House tentatively plans to vote Wednesday on the legislation.
The Post has reached out to Hunter Biden’s attorney for comment on the new charges.
Hunter Biden leaves the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building in Wilmington, Delaware in July. AFP via Getty Images
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer praised the IRS whistleblowers, Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, after the new charges were dropped, arguing that charges would not have been filed if agents had not come forward with allegations of a Justice Department cover-up in the investigation.
“The Justice Department was caught in its attempt to give Hunter Biden an unprecedented sweetheart plea deal and today’s charges filed against Hunter Biden are the result of Mr. Shapley and Mr. Ziegler’s efforts to ensure that all Americans are treated equally under the law,” Comer said in a statement. “Every American should applaud these men for their courage in revealing the truth.
“Hunter Biden’s corporate entity involved with today’s allegations funneled foreign cash into Joe Biden’s bank account. Unless US Attorney Weiss investigates everyone involved in Biden’s fraud scheme and influence peddling, President Biden’s DOJ is clearly protecting Hunter Biden and the big man,” added the Kentucky Republican.
‘Everything except the tax’
Instead of paying his taxes between 2016 and 2019, the indictment found that the eldest son involved spent his money on:
- $1.64 million in ATM withdrawals
- $683,212 for “payments to various women”
- $397,530 for clothing and accessories
- $309,277 for tuition/education
- $237,496 for health, beauty and pharmacy products
- $236,634 for various retail purchases
- $214,923 for food, groceries and restaurants
- $188,960 for adult entertainment
- $71,869 for drug and alcohol rehabilitation
- $42,856 for home improvements
- $24,445 for entertainment
- $23,567 for sports and recreation
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