OAN’s Avril Elfie
5:53 PM – Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Hunter Biden’s attorney and special counsel David Weiss are scheduled to appear at Wednesday’s court hearing on heavy tax indictments against President Joe Biden’s son.
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Hunter pleaded not guilty in January to six misdemeanors and three felonies related to tax evasion, false declarations and unpaid taxes from 2016 to 2019.
He argued in a court filing last month that the case was “politically motivated” and tainted by two IRS employees who later became whistleblowers. He is currently petitioning a judge to dismiss the case.
“Since its inception in 2018, the investigation into Mr. Biden has been compromised by politics. This case shows that the Justice Department, in direct response to political pressure and its own self-interest, changed its charging decision and released security deposits against Mr. Biden.” This follows nearly six years of record increases,” the president’s son’s lawyers wrote. “For prosecutors to bring charges for purposes unrelated to legitimate prosecutorial review violates the right to due process and equal protection.”
Additionally, Hunter’s attorneys argued that the case should be dismissed because the two IRS agents who worked on his case were suspected of engaging in “outrageous government conduct.”
The IRS agent later became an informant assisting House Republicans in their investigation into the president’s son, according to court documents.
“The government’s actions in this case are egregious. The agents failed to comply with regulators and blatantly ignored numerous federal statutes and regulations designed to prevent the very abuses they were perpetrating. ” Biden’s lawyers argued.
In subsequent court filings, prosecutors have pushed back on claims that the case was politically motivated, calling it a “fictional story.”
“From this extremely mundane series of procedural events, the defendant concocted a conspiracy theory that the prosecutor’s office had ‘raised the deposit’ to appease politicians who had nothing to do with the prosecutor’s office and who were not even members of the current government. “,” the prosecutor said. I have written.
Judge Mark Scalsi is scheduled to preside over a hearing on the tax results, scheduled to begin Wednesday at 4 p.m.
As a result of Special Counsel David Weiss’ investigation, Hunter faces two charges: a tax case in California and three gun-related charges in Delaware, to which he has pleaded not guilty.
He also entered a not guilty plea last year after a plea deal between him and prosecutors fell apart.
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