Preliminary hearing planned in LA for Hunter Biden in tax case

A status conference on the federal tax case against Hunter Biden is scheduled for Wednesday in downtown Los Angeles. The president's son is accused of failing to pay more than $1.4 million in taxes.

President Joe Biden's son is scheduled to go on trial next month on nine tax-related charges, including three felony counts and six counts of failure to pay taxes.

Hunter Biden, 54, of Malibu, “spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle instead of paying his taxes,” the indictment says.

Donald Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi, who is presiding over the trial, this week rejected the defendant's request to dismiss the case after the president's son argued that the special counsel prosecuting the case had been improperly appointed.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had previously rejected the younger Biden's request to revive the charges against him.

Hunter Biden's lawyers wrote in their lawsuit that they believe the case was brought “in direct response to political pressure.” His lawyers wrote that the defendant has since paid his tax debt and fines to the state.

Hunter Biden is not expected to attend Wednesday's hearing.

As for the tax charges, the 56-page indictment filed in federal court in Los Angeles alleges that between 2016 and October 15, 2020, the defendant “spent this money on drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing and other items of a personal nature – in short, everything except his taxes.”

In June, the president's son was found guilty in a separate federal case in Delaware of three felony counts related to a gun purchase in 2018. Hunter Biden was found guilty of lying on a mandatory gun purchase form by stating that he was neither an illegal drug user nor addicted to drugs – although he later admitted to being addicted to illegal narcotics at the time.

According to court documents, the verdict against Hunter Biden in the Delaware gun trial is scheduled for November 13, the week after the presidential election.

Hunter Biden is described in the indictment as a Georgetown and Yale-educated lawyer, lobbyist, consultant and businessman. At the time of the tax charges, he sat on the board of a Ukrainian industrial conglomerate and a Chinese private equity fund.

“He negotiated and entered into contracts and agreements for business and legal services that resulted in millions of dollars in compensation for himself and/or his domestic companies, Owasco PC and Owasco LLC,” the tax evasion indictment states.

Preliminary hearing planned in LA for Hunter Biden in tax case

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