https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4349018-h****r-biden-indicted-on-tax-charges/

H****r B***n has been charged with tax crimes in California, his second indictment from special counsel David Weiss as he faces mounting scrutiny over his financial dealings.

Biden will face three felony tax charges in relation to tax evasion and filing a false return, as well as six misdemeanor charges for failure to pay taxes between 2016 and 2019.

“H****r B***n engaged in a four-year scheme in which he chose not to pay at least $1.4 million in self-assessed federal taxes he owed for tax years 2016 through 2019 and to evade the assessment of taxes for tax year 2018 when he filed false returns,” prosecutors wrote in a Thursday night press release.

Weiss’s office also alleges that Biden withdrew millions from his company, subverting the payroll and tax withholding process, and also “spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle rather than paying his tax bills.”

Court documents also accuse Biden of failing to pay back taxes for 2015 beginning in 2018, and for not paying his 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 taxes on time, “despite having access to funds to pay some or all of these taxes.”

Court filings say he made $7 million between 2016 and 2020.

“Between 2016 and October 15, 2020, the Defendant spent this money on drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing, and other items of a personal nature,” prosecutors wrote.

“In short, everything but his taxes.”

The filing also notes he failed to pay taxes “well after he had regained his sobriety.”

H****r B***n’s attorney dismissed the charges as part of a broader case that would not have warranted a prosecutor’s attention without the scrutiny brought by the GOP.

“Based on the facts and the law, if H****r’s last name was anything other than Biden, the charges in Delaware, and now California, would not have been brought,” Abbe Lowell said in a statement.

Together, the charges carry up to 17 years in prison upon conviction and come as Biden is facing congressional scrutiny over his business dealings and a subpoena for a deposition next week in connection with their impeachment inquiry.

The House Oversight Committee has demanded his testimony in a Dec. 13 closed session. Biden has offered to testify only in a public setting, citing concerns of House Republicans misrepresenting his testimony and irritating lawmakers who say he cannot dictate the terms of his appearance.

The charges follow the evaporation of a plea deal earlier this year in which Biden was set to plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges of willful failure to pay taxes as well as enter a diversion program in connection with a gun crime.

But the deal fell apart as Weiss and attorneys for Biden came before a Delaware judge who would need to approve the deal, at odds over the extent the president’s son would be immune to further prosecution.

Weiss, also the U.S. attorney for Delaware, has since filed charges in that state on three counts related to Biden’s purchase of a firearm while denying drug use he later acknowledged publicly, speaking in his book and elsewhere about his battles with addiction.

Lowell also cited that saga and the GOP interest in the case in his response.

“First, U.S. Attorney Weiss bowed to Republican pressure to file unprecedented and unconstitutional gun charges to renege on a non-prosecution resolution. Now, after five years of investigating with no new evidence – and two years after H****r paid his taxes in full – the U.S. Attorney has piled on nine new charges when he had agreed just months ago to resolve this matter with a pair of misdemeanors,” Lowell said in the statement.

The charges for Biden come as the House is preparing to take a v**e next week to formalize its impeachment inquiry into president Biden.....

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4349018-h****r-biden-indicted-on-tax-charges/

H****r B***n has been charged with tax crimes in California, his second indictment from special counsel David Weiss as he faces mounting scrutiny over his financial dealings.

Biden will face three felony tax charges in relation to tax evasion and filing a false return, as well as six misdemeanor charges for failure to pay taxes between 2016 and 2019.

“H****r B***n engaged in a four-year scheme in which he chose not to pay at least $1.4 million in self-assessed federal taxes he owed for tax years 2016 through 2019 and to evade the assessment of taxes for tax year 2018 when he filed false returns,” prosecutors wrote in a Thursday night press release.

Weiss’s office also alleges that Biden withdrew millions from his company, subverting the payroll and tax withholding process, and also “spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle rather than paying his tax bills.”

Court documents also accuse Biden of failing to pay back taxes for 2015 beginning in 2018, and for not paying his 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 taxes on time, “despite having access to funds to pay some or all of these taxes.”

Court filings say he made $7 million between 2016 and 2020.

“Between 2016 and October 15, 2020, the Defendant spent this money on drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing, and other items of a personal nature,” prosecutors wrote.

“In short, everything but his taxes.”

The filing also notes he failed to pay taxes “well after he had regained his sobriety.”

H****r B***n’s attorney dismissed the charges as part of a broader case that would not have warranted a prosecutor’s attention without the scrutiny brought by the GOP.

“Based on the facts and the law, if H****r’s last name was anything other than Biden, the charges in Delaware, and now California, would not have been brought,” Abbe Lowell said in a statement.

Together, the charges carry up to 17 years in prison upon conviction and come as Biden is facing congressional scrutiny over his business dealings and a subpoena for a deposition next week in connection with their impeachment inquiry.

The House Oversight Committee has demanded his testimony in a Dec. 13 closed session. Biden has offered to testify only in a public setting, citing concerns of House Republicans misrepresenting his testimony and irritating lawmakers who say he cannot dictate the terms of his appearance.

The charges follow the evaporation of a plea deal earlier this year in which Biden was set to plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges of willful failure to pay taxes as well as enter a diversion program in connection with a gun crime.

But the deal fell apart as Weiss and attorneys for Biden came before a Delaware judge who would need to approve the deal, at odds over the extent the president’s son would be immune to further prosecution.

Weiss, also the U.S. attorney for Delaware, has since filed charges in that state on three counts related to Biden’s purchase of a firearm while denying drug use he later acknowledged publicly, speaking in his book and elsewhere about his battles with addiction.

Lowell also cited that saga and the GOP interest in the case in his response.

“First, U.S. Attorney Weiss bowed to Republican pressure to file unprecedented and unconstitutional gun charges to renege on a non-prosecution resolution. Now, after five years of investigating with no new evidence – and two years after H****r paid his taxes in full – the U.S. Attorney has piled on nine new charges when he had agreed just months ago to resolve this matter with a pair of misdemeanors,” Lowell said in the statement.

The charges for Biden come as the House is preparing to take a v**e next week to formalize its impeachment inquiry into president Biden.....