
(IntegrityTimes.com) – Hunter Biden’s criminal tax trial in California will start on September 9, according to a federal judge presiding over the court case. The president’s son is charged with allegedly neglecting to pay $1.4 million in taxes from 2016 to 2019. Hunter has been accused of spending the money on an extravagant lifestyle of escorts, drugs and cars instead. Hunter has been charged with six misdemeanors and three felonies.
The trial was due to begin on June 20, but Hunter’s request to delay the trial was granted in May by Judge Mark Scarsi. Prosecutors questioned Scarsi’s decision, stressing that it was a straightforward tax trial. Prosecutors have reportedly gathered 30 witnesses to testify against the president’s son regarding the alleged tax evasion.
Hunter’s ex-wife Kathleen Buhle testified against him in his Delaware gun trial, in which he was found guilty on all three charges. Buhle claimed in 2017 that her then-estranged husband had been squandering the couple’s assets on alcohol, drugs and prostitutes since 2015.
Hunter’s legal team is attempting to have the charges against him, including his conviction in the gun trial, thrown out. His attorneys have argued that the same process was followed by the Attorney General to appoint a special counsel in both Hunter’s legal battles and in Trump’s classified documents trial, which was thrown out in July. One of Hunter’s lawyers, Abbe Lowell, argued that if the appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith in Trump’s classified documents trial was invalid, then so was the appointment of the special counsel in Biden’s legal battles.
The indictment filed against Hunter in 2023 alleges that the president’s son spent $872,000 on porn, prostitutes and sex club memberships in addition to spending on luxury cars, expensive clothing, rental properties and “anything but his taxes”. The charges relate to the period between 2016 and 2019, when Hunter was addicted to crack cocaine and, as the Delaware court ruled, lied about his drug addiction status when applying for a firearm. The president’s son withdrew more than $1.6 million from cash machines during the same period.
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