Special Counsel David Weiss unveiled nine federal tax-related charges against Hunter Biden on Thursday more than four months after a plea deal was derailed by a federal judge.
The Biden son will return to court facing three new felony charges and six misdemeanor counts relating to tax evasion and filing false returns, but he will escape penalties related to foreign influence-peddling that involves his father in the White House.
Unsurprisingly, Weiss refuses to charge Hunter for foreign influence-peddling, registered foreign agent violations, or anything related to the Biden family’s Burisma shakedown when Joe Biden was Vice President.
Weiss pretends to crack down on Hunter while continuing to run… https://t.co/YfI1VlgCh8
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) December 8, 2023
Hunter Biden’s plea deal fell apart in July after confusion over whether Biden would have broad immunity from future potential charges. The initial plea agreement was limited to two misdemeanor tax crimes and a felony firearm charge, the latter of which would have been dismissed if he remained sober and didn’t commit any more crimes for 24 months.
The Biden family, however, raked in upwards of $20 million from foreign oligarchs, including from China, Russia, and Kazakhstan, through a series of shell companies, many of which were established while Joe Biden was vice president. The Biden family’s influence-peddling schemes are now at the center of a congressional impeachment inquiry against the president.
Whistleblowers involved with the federal tax investigation from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) claimed the probe suffered undue
