Here's what to know about the charges, plea agreement, politics and other probes involving Hunter Biden.
The announcement that federal prosecutors have reached a plea deal with President Joe Biden's son Hunter over tax and gun charges marks the likely end of a five-year Justice Department investigation that has dogged the Biden family.
People are also reading… WHAT ARE THE CHARGES?According to a letter filed in U.S. District Court in Delaware, Hunter Biden has been charged with misdemeanor charges of failing to pay federal income tax. Court documents allege that he failed to pay more than $200,000 in federal income taxes for 2017 and 2018.
At the time of that subpoena, Hunter Biden said that he was"confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisors." Biden was charged under an information, a formal document that lays out the charges against him but doesn't require a vote by a grand jury, which would be an indictment.
It is somewhat unusual to resolve a federal criminal case at the same time the charges are filed in court, though it is not totally unheard of. ISN'T THERE ANOTHER PROBE?Yes. Congressional Republicans have been pursuing their own investigations into nearly every facet of Hunter Biden's business dealings, including examining foreign payments and other aspects of his finances.
In the weeks before the 2020 election, Trump supporters used the existence of a laptop they said was connected to Hunter Biden — and the emergence of someone who maintains he had business discussions with him — to raise questions about Joe Biden's knowledge of his son's activities in Ukraine and China. President Biden has said he did not discuss his son's international business dealings with him and has denied having ever taken money from a foreign country.
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