Hunter Biden pleads not guilty to tax charges

Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty in his preliminary look in federal courtroom Thursday, after being charged with tax crimes out of Special Counsel David Weiss’ investigation. 

The first son arrived to courtroom to make his preliminary look in U.S. District Court in Downtown Los Angeles Thursday forward of the listening to set at 4 p.m. ET, 1 p.m. native time.

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Judge Mark Scarsi presided over the proceedings. Biden was processed after the listening to by the U.S. Marshals Service.

Hunter Biden, middle, and his attorneys Abbe Lowell, proper, and Kevin Morris, left, go away the House Oversight and Accountability Committee markup titled “Resolution Recommending That The House Of Representatives Find Robert Hunter Biden In Contempt Of Congress,” in Rayburn Building on Wednesday, January 10, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc through Getty Images)

Weiss charged Biden in December, alleging a “four-year scheme” when the president’s son did not pay his federal revenue taxes from January 2017 to October 2020 whereas additionally submitting false tax studies.

Weiss filed the charges within the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. 

The charges break down to three felonies and 6 misdemeanors regarding $1.4 million in owed taxes which have since been paid.

In the indictment, Weiss alleged that Hunter “engaged in a four-year scheme to not pay at least $1.4 million in self-assessed federal taxes he owed for tax years 2016 through 2019, from in or about January 2017 through in or about October 15, 2020, and to evade the assessment of taxes for tax year 2018 when he filed false returns in or about February 2020.”

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Weiss stated that, in “furtherance of that scheme,” the youthful Biden “subverted the payroll and tax withholding process of his own company, Owasco, PC by withdrawing millions” from the corporate “outside of the payroll and tax withholding process that it was designed to perform.”

Special Counsel David Weiss (Department of Justice)

The particular counsel alleged that Hunter “spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle rather than paying his tax bills,” and that in 2018, he “stopped paying his outstanding and overdue taxes for tax year 2015.”

Weiss alleged that Hunter “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,” and that he “willfully failed to file his 2017 and 2018 tax returns on time.”

Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty in October to federal gun charges introduced by Weiss.

Hunter’s protection legal professional Abbe Lowell attacked Weiss over the charges final month, accusing the particular counsel of “bowing to Republican pressure” when speaking to the press.

Hunter Biden, middle, and his attorneys Abbe Lowell, proper, and Kevin Morris, left, arrive for the House Oversight and Accountability Committee markup titled “Resolution Recommending That The House Of Representatives Find Robert Hunter Biden In Contempt Of Congress,” in Rayburn Building on Wednesday, January 10, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc through Getty Images)

“Based on the facts and the law, if Hunter’s last name was anything other than Biden, the charges in Delaware, and now California, would not have been brought,” Lowell stated in an announcement.

HUNTER BIDEN MAKES SHOCKING APPEARANCE AT HIS OWN CONTEMPT HEARING

Hunter’s courtroom look in California comes a day after the House Oversight Committee and the House Judiciary Committee handed resolutions to maintain Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress for defying a congressional subpoena as a part of the House impeachment inquiry towards President Biden, organising a full vote on the House flooring within the coming days that will suggest the primary son for prosecution.  

Hunter made a shock look on Capitol Hill Wednesday morning, because the House Oversight Committee thought of the decision.

The House Oversight and Judiciary Committees had subpoenaed Hunter Biden to seem for a closed-door deposition, scheduled for Dec. 13, as a part of the House GOP impeachment inquiry towards President Biden.

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Hunter Biden provided to testify publicly, however Republicans rejected the request. Oversight Chairman James Comer and Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan cited the setting of different witness interviews, saying Biden would not obtain particular therapy. The chairmen did, nevertheless, vow to launch a full transcript of his deposition, as they’d for earlier witnesses, and agreed to schedule a subsequent public listening to.

On Dec. 13, Hunter Biden appeared on Capitol Hill, however not for his deposition. Instead, he delivered an announcement to the press, defying the subpoena.