Hunter Biden Hit with Second Federal Indictment, Now Faces Charges of Tax Evasion

• The nine-count indictment alleges that he attempted to evade over $1.4 million in federal taxes.
• Hunter Biden, 53, already faced federal firearm charges in Delaware in September.
• His lawyer claims the new charges are politically motivated.

Federal prosecutors have brought tax charges against Hunter Biden, marking the second criminal case against the son of the U.S. president.

The nine-count indictment alleges that he attempted to evade over $1.4 million in federal taxes from 2016 to 2019. The charges include felonies such as failure to file and pay taxes, false tax returns, and evasion of assessment, along with six misdemeanors. Hunter Biden, 53, already faced federal firearm charges in Delaware in September.

His lawyer claims the new charges are politically motivated. Notably, President Joe Biden is not mentioned in the indictment, and the White House has not yet responded.

The development comes amid congressional Republicans focusing on Hunter Biden’s business dealings in an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, who is running for re-election next year. If convicted in the tax case, Hunter Biden could potentially face up to 17 years in prison.

The U.S. Department of Justice Special Counsel David Weiss has been investigating Hunter Biden since 2019, looking into the Yale-educated lawyer’s background, which includes struggles with drug addiction.

In a 56-page indictment filed in California, prosecutors allege he spent his money 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”.

They say the president’s son “individually received more than $7 million in total gross income” between 2016 and 2020, but “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”.

Hunter Biden’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, responded to the new charges by saying that “if Hunter’s last name was anything other than Biden, the charges in Delaware, and now California, would not have been brought”.

“Hunter Biden Repaid Taxes and Fines in 2020 with Assistance from Personal Attorney

According to the indictment, “Hunter Biden settled his outstanding taxes and fines in 2020 by securing a loan from his attorney. A detailed breakdown in the document reveals that between 2016 and 2019, he allocated more than $188,000 for ‘adult entertainment’ and over $683,000 for ‘payments to various women.”

The indictment notes he made said that “substantial income, including from a company he formed with a Chinese business conglomerate, the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, and an unnamed Romanian businessperson.”

As his income increased, so did his expenditures on an “extravagant lifestyle”, says the indictment.

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