Hunter Biden Pleading Guilty to Firearm Felony, Tax Misdemeanors
DeSantis: “Looks like Hunter received a sweetheart deal and is not facing any charges on the massive corruption allegations. If Hunter was not connected to the elite DC class he would have been put in jail a long time ago.”
Hunter Biden agreed to plead guilty to three charges: two counts of tax information and “one possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance.”
The firearm felony charge is from 2018. The tax misdemeanor charges are from 2017 and 2018.
The U.S. Attorney in Delaware brought forth the charges:
The U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware David C. Weiss said, according to the tax Information, Hunter Biden “received taxable income in excess of $1,500,000 annually in calendar years 2017 and 2018.”
“Despite owing in excess of $100,000 in federal income taxes each year, he did not pay the income tax due for either year,” Weiss’ office said Tuesday. “According to the firearm Information, from on or about October 12, 2018 through October 23, 2018, Hunter Biden possessed a firearm despite knowing he was an unlawful user of and addicted to a controlled substance.”
Weiss’ office said if convicted, Hunter Biden faces a maximum penalty of 12 months in prison on each of the tax charges– a total of 2 years– and a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison on the firearm charge.
“A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after taking into account the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors,” Weiss’ office said.
“The investigation is ongoing,” the office said in a statement Tuesday.
Hunter entered a “probation agreement on the gun charge.”
The Navy discharged Hunter “in 2014 after testing positive for cocaine.”
It’s a sweetheart deal and everyone knows it:
Rep. James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said Biden’s plea deal revealed a “two-tiered system of justice.”
“Hunter Biden is getting away with a slap on the wrist when growing evidence uncovered by the House Oversight Committee reveals the Bidens engaged in a pattern of corruption, influence peddling, and possibly bribery. These charges against Hunter Biden and sweetheart plea deal have no impact on the Oversight Committee’s investigation,” Comer said. “We will not rest until the full extent of President Biden’s involvement in the family’s schemes are revealed.”
Looks like Hunter received a sweetheart deal and is not facing any charges on the massive corruption allegations. If Hunter was not connected to the elite DC class he would have been put in jail a long time ago. pic.twitter.com/tZcZOY1uST
— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) June 20, 2023
President Biden’s inept son, Hunter Biden, gets a sweetheart deal from the DOJ. What a joke.
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— Justin Wells (@justinbwells) June 20, 2023
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— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) June 20, 2023
CBS: Hunter Biden's plea agreement "likely to be very controversial" as congressional investigations raise "very serious questions about [Biden's] business deals with Chinese nationals, as well as this Ukraine energy firm, Burisma."
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And, this will be the basis to bury everything, as predicted. The family’s massive, felonious tax fraud will hide under this cover with the help of the ministry of propaganda.
The attempt to bury all Hunter Biden related news and issues will definitely be made. He does have a Judge in Arkansas up his ass in his civil case for non payment of child support. That Judge isn’t being very accommodating to Biden as the Plaintiff has been allowed discovery and they want to see the CPU to review for potential places to look for concealed assets or bank accounts.
The judge in Arkansas need to watch his 6.
Disagree thus far. If he sentences Hunter to actual jail time — as if he were a normal citizen and not a well-connected Washington elite — he might have to watch his six.
If he goes forward with a “slap on the wrist”, well … it’s Hunter, not Joe, Billy Jeff, or Hillary. He should be fine.
I haven’t followed the Arkansas case closely. But I’ve assumed that we’ll never get the real story from that case. The Baby Mama wants child support. She needs to prove income without showing that it was all illegal income. If it was illegal, she gets nothing.
If Hunter is not prosecuted for income known to the Feds, doesn’t that make it legal?
She was/is getting child support. Hoovernose wants to reduce the amount. Frankly, she should get every dime she can from him and keep her daughter as far from that family of criminals and degenerates as she can.
The Biden den of thieves should all be prosecuted, bet there has been treason.
Simple and easy game plan: Immediately prior to Biden leaving office, he pardons Hunter and all the rest of the three-generation family (including himself) from all possible Federal crimes, and that’s that, along with a minimum thirty million dollar jackpot. Whatcha you gonna do about it?
Is it normal to have a probation agreement for a felony?
Only with the Department of Just Us
Only if you’re a member of the Biden family. Then the DoJ will do everything in their power to minimize the penalty for the crimes you commit.
The injustness of busted justice is what awakens the guyjones tone of my description of their statements…mendacious.
It is when you are above the law.
Very common.
It is uncommon for a defendant to be granted a plea deal by DoJ with zero jail time when pleading to multiple charges. The zero time for the firearms violation is partially troubling. Allowing him to plead to misdemeanor v felony counts for tax violations might have been ok IF jail time was imposed for the firearms violations.
As it is the whole thing is deviation from the normal practice of the DoJ in seeking the highest sustainable charge. Lots of folks are in federal prison for similar firearms violations.
Add in that there is a 99.9% chance that the judge approves the entire plea deal including the sentences
IANAL, but I would think that this example will get trotted out and cited by every defense attorney representing a client convicted of “possession of a firearm by a prohibited person,” come the sentencing phase.
If the sentencing guidelines can be thrown out the window for Hunter — who was dead-to-rights guilty, having been recorded on video handling a gun while high, and having the 4473 form on file (on which he attested, in writing and under penalty of law [up to another 10 years and $250k], that he was NOT a user of controlled substances) — then they should be relaxed or disregarded for every other person convicted on much less evidence.
Only when you’re related to the pedophile in Chief
Let’s see, deadbeat dad with one Federal felony charge on gun possession, two charges on over a million dollars worth of tax evasion, and I would bet cold, hard cash that he does less time than any random J6 protestor subjected to political prosecution for standing on the lawn of the Capitol, exercising their First amendment right in protesting the election.
Brandon Straka would like some words.
No jail time under this deal; he got an incredibly lenient diversion alternative applied to him.
Annnnd he gets probation, where the rest of us would be spending years in prison with massive fines.
Fuck this DSF.
A tiny broom finds a tiny corner of a massive rug.
A massive broom swept massive charges under a massive rug leaving behind only a few misdemeanors for the tiny broom to cleanup.
Slap on the wrist so it goes away before the election cycle.
Just the beginning. The bribery and money laundering and foreign agent and even use of classified documents is not going away, especially as Comer and Grassley continue slogging forward. The Big Guy is the one that matters.
I’m not alone in believing all of this will go away.
On the federal gun purchase form it states that lying on this form can be a felony with up to 10 years in prison. He gets a misdemeanor charge with no prison time! Deliberately not paying taxes is a felony with prison time and yet he gets to pay the back taxes with no felony or prison time. Somehow, I don’t think any of us would have been treated this way. What happens to the agents who sat on this for three years? Had this not been exposed by the right, they would have never charged him.
I thought tax evasion was a bad thing to do, after all the left is always lecturing us about paying our fair share right!
Turns out not paying taxes is ok, which is good news as everyone else can now evade paying taxes without a care 😂😂
It is rich white boy privilege the left cries about all the time.
Not paying taxes is not a crime in itself. I don’t know what he did that made it a crime. Filing false returns?
I’ve said it so often it’s become a cliche, but …
Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.
And people still think we can vote our way out of this??
I don’t.
It will be a slow death, but the leftards have killed America.
Rust, rot, cockroaches, and entropy always win. Always.
God made locusts seasonal. Marx was not as wise.
Corn Pop says it is all a bunch of malarkey started by a lying, dog-faced pony soldier that was caught letting little black kids stroke the bleached blonde hair on his tanned legs. We all need to go home and play some records.
C’mon, man.
Will we all go home via the Indian Ocean Railroad?
This is the big one! We’re coming, Hamish Harding!
God Bless the Queen, man!!!
Save, not Bless.
Either way, just so she’s okay!
He loves the Queen, especially when Chuck-FM plays “Bohemian Rhapsody” and he gets to gently bob his head like Wayne and Garth.
So how about this from https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/12/deja-taylor-pleads-guilty-gun-crimes/70312544007/
“Deja Taylor was charged last week with illegally using drugs while owning a firearm and making a false statement about using marijuana when she purchased the gun, court records show. Her son used the weapon to shoot first grade teacher Abby Zwerner in January. [in Newport News]
Taylor, who is also charged in state court in connection with the shooting, could have faced up to 25 years in prison on the federal charges, but Taylor’s attorneys settled with prosecutors on an agreement that calls for and [sic] 18- to 24-month sentence. Sentencing is set for October. [emphasis added].
Willful failure to pay tax is an unusual offense,
This typical means that the taxpayer failed to pay a tax shown on a filed tax return.
It does not mean the taxpayer filed a false return or failed to report his income.
It will be interesting to see the sentencing report which should show the amount of tax liability he avoided.
I don’t see a requirement to actually pay the 200k in taxes. Must be nice.
The probability that he doesn’t have to pay the past-due taxes is zero. Even the Joker doesn’t fool around with the IRS. Now I’d be willing to bet his penalties and interest are at or near zero, though. Far better than any ordinary plebe stuck with a tax bill like this.
Lots of Democrats don’t pay their tax bills. A number in Congress got caught not reporting income and I’m pretty sure they never paid, because neither them nor the IRS touted them doing so.
My guess is that he has agreed to community service: providing transportation for local strippers and hookers to church on Sunday mornings. It’s a heavy burden but, fortunately, Hunter already knows their addresses.
This is interesting for Trump’s case. (Not the sock drawer case).
Plaintiffs’ claims implicate the Presidential Record Act (“PRA” or “the Act”), 44 U.S.C. § 2201et seq., which Congress enacted following a controversy surrounding President Richard M. Nixon’s Presidential records. The PRA incorporates an assumption made by Congress (in 1978) that subsequent Presidents and Vice Presidents would comply with the Act in good faith, and therefore, Congress limited the scope of judicial review and provided little oversight authority for the President and Vice President’s document preservation decisions. As a consequence, even though Plaintiffs in this case have identified (through discovery) that the National Archives and Records Administration may have provided the Vice President with document preservation guidance that conflicts with the requirements in the PRA, Plaintiffs cannot obtain relief under the Act as Congress enacted it. To the extent that this case
Citizens for Responsibility Ethics v. Cheney, 593 F. Supp. 2d 194, 198 (D.D.C. 2009)
Someone should ask this
Drug Addict’s treasonous, bribe taking Father if he’s going to Pardon Hunter Biden.
Lets see his inappropriate response, if any, or how quickly the coward walks away.
So? This was predicted over 2yrs ago by about everyone on the right.
As expected the pedophiles crackhead gets off basically scot-free.
“Hunter Biden possessed a firearm despite knowing he was an unlawful user of and addicted to a controlled substance.”
And this is complicated by the Secret Service — or someone pretending to be the Secret Service, as the Secret Service vehemently denies this — sweeping the public area where the gun was discarded, in an effort to clean up the crime scene for the Bidens after the fact.
Even worse he is on video with a firearm while distributing cocaine to his hooker. The firearm related sentencing enhancement for that act alone is up to five years and easily proven; the evidence is on tape.
Even Marion Barry got a six month prison sentence and he didn’t have a firearm in the hotel room with the girl and the drugs.
No doubt the basis for defining terms of the plea deal, was a Biden admin request “don’t put me in a position of having to pardon my own son”.
People always act shocked and outraged when the expected and predicted result occurs.
That disntick is in fact an uptick. I agree.
Downtick.
I caught disntickery on vacation once
Now taking overs/unders on how long it will be before Daddy again dares utter his platitude that “no one is above the law.”
0-1 month is reserved to The House.
No bet.
Catherine Herridge
@CBS_Herridge
Statement fron Weiss on Hunter Biden plea agreement. NOTE paragraph 5. “David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, made the announcement. The investigation is ongoing.”
https://twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/status/1671169072279728129
“Ongoing.” Just like the investigations of Fast & Furious, Epstein Island, Seth Rich, &c.
I don’t understand the “ongoing”part. Is it standard language used before conviction or is part of an effort to keep the records from Congress (because, you know, there’s an ongoing investigation)?
Yes.
Embrace the unifying power of “and”.
Good thing he is under the umbrella of the Deep State and will escape without jail time.
Premise: No one in their right mind helps cover up this sort of massive corruption because they like the president’s policies (including the corruptly influenced ones).
Conclusion: Congress needs to investigate who arranged this deal and subpoena their financial records (and those of their family members) to trace the bribes.
Hunter hit the daily double today, his child support payment goes from 20k a month to 5k a month
Besides the obvious benefits for Hunter, I think the real point of this is to protect Joe. The whole sham investigation into Joe disappears.