{"id":143130,"date":"2023-06-20T13:28:42","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T17:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=143130"},"modified":"2023-06-20T13:28:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T17:28:42","slug":"hunter-biden-plea-deal-on-tax-and-gun-charges-likely-to-avoid-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=143130","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Biden plea deal on tax and gun charges; likely to avoid jail"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hunter Biden has agreed to a plea deal involving tax crimes and gun possession. He will plead guilty to the tax crimes, considered as misdemeanors, and admit to the gun charge. The plea deal involves his being handed a probation sentence, as well as Biden’s agreeing to go through a “diversion program” for the gun charge. Successful completion of this diversion program, plus associated requirements, would lead to the gun charge being removed from his record.<\/p>\n

From the Washington Post:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The younger Biden’s attorney said the deal means the long-running criminal investigation involving the president’s son “is resolved.” But Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, the lead prosecutor in the case, said the investigation “is ongoing,” suggesting that matters beyond the tax and gun issues are still under scrutiny.<\/p>\n

The probe was opened in 2018, during the administration of President Donald Trump. Since 2020, Republican politicians have repeatedly accused Hunter Biden of broad wrongdoing in his overseas business deals, and predicted the Biden administration would be reluctant to pursue the case. The terms of the proposed deal — negotiated with Weiss, a holdover from Trump’s administration — were quickly dismissed Tuesday by congressional Republicans, who vowed to continue investigating the Biden family.<\/p>\n

Papers filed in federal court in Wilmington on Tuesday indicate Biden has tentatively agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges of failure to pay in 2017 and 2018. A court document says that in both those years, Biden was a resident of Washington, D.C. and received taxable income of more than $1.5 million, for which he owed more than $100,000 in income tax that he did not pay on time. Prosecutors plan to recommend a sentence of probation for those counts, according to people familiar with the negotiations who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe elements of the case that are not yet public. Biden’s representatives have previously said that he eventually paid the IRS what he owed.<\/p>\n

The second court filing is about the gun charge. In that case, the letter says, “The defendant has agreed to enter a Pretrial Diversion Agreement with respect to the firearm Information.” Handling the gun charge as a diversion case means Biden will not technically be pleading guilty to that crime. Diversion is an option typically applied to nonviolent offenders with substance abuse problems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Washington Post has additional information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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