Jury selection begins Thursday in California for his criminal tax trial, which stems from special counsel David Weiss's years-long investigation into his eldest son, Hunter Biden.
Judge Mark Scarci of the United States District Court for the Central District of California will preside.
Biden's tax trial was scheduled to begin in June, but his lawyers asked for it to be postponed until September, and Scalci approved the request.
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Hunter Biden and his wife, Melissa Cohen Biden, leave the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building in Wilmington, Delaware, on June 7, 2024. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Weiss charged Hunter Biden with three felony and six misdemeanor counts over $1.4 million in back taxes that had already been paid. Weiss alleged a “four-year scheme” in which the president's son did not pay federal income taxes and filed false tax returns.
Biden has pleaded not guilty.
In the indictment, Weiss alleged that from approximately January 2017 until about October 15, 2020, Biden “engaged in a four-year scheme to avoid paying at least $1.4 million in self-assessed federal taxes due for tax years 2016 through 2019, and in or about February 2020, filed a false tax return to evade paying taxes for 2018.”
Weiss said Biden “in furtherance of his scheme” subverted the payroll and withholding processes of his own firm, Owasco PC, and “withdrew millions of dollars outside the payroll and withholding processes the firm was designed to perform.”
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The special counsel alleged that Biden “spent millions of dollars on a lavish lifestyle instead of paying taxes” and that in 2018 “stopped paying his unpaid and delinquent taxes for fiscal year 2015.”
Special Counsel David Weiss charged Hunter Biden with three felony counts and six misdemeanors relating to $1.4 million in unpaid taxes that have already been paid. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Weiss alleged that Biden “willfully failed to timely pay his 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 taxes even though he had the funds to pay some or all of those taxes” and “failed to timely file his 2017 and 2018 tax returns.”
This is the second time Biden has gone on trial this year on charges stemming from Weiss' investigation.
Biden was discovered Judge Weiss charged him with making a false statement when purchasing a firearm, making a false statement regarding information required to be kept by a licensed firearms dealer, and possession of a firearm by an unlawful user or addict of a controlled substance, and found him guilty of all charges in Delaware.
Hunter Biden watches the Democratic National Convention at the United Center, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024, in Chicago. (Getty Images)
A sentencing date has not yet been set for these charges. Combined, the charges carry a maximum prison sentence of 25 years. Each charge carries a maximum fine of $250,000 and three years probation.
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President Biden has vowed not to pardon his son.
Jury selection in California is scheduled to take place on Thursday and Friday, with Weiss and Biden's lawyers scheduled to make opening statements on Monday.
