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Hunter Biden, the son of US President Joe Biden, is scheduled to appear in court on January 11 in connection with a tax fraud case. The case accuses Hunter of evading paying over $1 million in taxes while spending lavishly on luxury hotels, exotic automobiles, drugs, and other items.
At the hearing in US District Court in Los Angeles, the first son is anticipated to be charged with three felonies and six misdemeanors related to taxes.
The 53-year-old Biden was charged earlier this month with two felonies: one related to filing a fraudulent return for his personal taxes from 2018 and the other to his corporate taxes filed on behalf of his business, Owasco, PC. He was also charged with one count of tax evasion for his personal taxes.
The six misdemeanors he faces are failure to pay and failure to file charges for the 2016 through 2019 tax years.
The US President Biden’s son “engaged in a four-year scheme to not pay at least $1.4 million in self-assessed federal taxes he owed for tax years 2016 through 2019,” special counsel David Weiss wrote in the 56-page indictment out of the Central District of California filed on Dec. 7.
Hunter Biden allegedly “spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle rather than paying his tax bills,” Weiss said in the court papers.
He blew the cash 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,” according to the indictment.
The scandal-clad first son used about $189,000 — on “adult entertainment” including more than $27,000 in payments to a porn site that he used a business line of credit to secure as well as $10,000 on a sex club membership he wrote off as a “golf club membership,” the court documents stated.
Biden tossed away another $680,000 in payments to various women “who were either romantically involved with [him] or otherwise performing personal services” to the first son.
He did all this while dodging tax payments to the government, according to the indictment.
Biden faces up to 17 years in prison if convicted of all the charges.
He has already been charged with three felony counts related to false statements he made when buying a firearm and faces a maximum of 15 years in prison in that case. He has pleaded not guilty to all three charges in the gun case.
The charges were brought against Biden after a plea deal fell apart over the summer in a Delaware courtroom.
