Hunter Biden to plead guilty to federal tax charges brought by special counsel David Weiss

Hunter Biden intends to plead guilty to federal tax charges brought against him by special counsel David Weiss after previously pleading not guilty.

Abbe Lowell, the First Son's attorney, said in federal court on Thursday that Hunter Biden intends to change his plea and plead guilty.

The trial began on Thursday in Los Angeles with jury selection.

Weiss charged Hunter Biden with three felonies and six misdemeanors related to $1.4 million in owed taxes that have since been paid. Weiss alleged there was a “four-year conspiracy” in which the president's son failed to pay his federal income taxes while also filing false tax returns.

Biden initially pleaded not guilty.

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In the indictment, Weiss alleges that Biden “participated in a four-year conspiracy to fail to pay at least $1.4 million in self-assessed federal taxes for tax years 2016 through 2019, from about January 2017 to about October 15, 2020, and to evade tax assessment for the 2018 tax year by filing false tax returns in about February 2020.”

Weiss said that to “further this plan,” Biden “subverted the payroll and tax withholding process of his own company, Owasco, PC, by siphoning millions” from the company “outside of the payroll and tax withholding process for which it was designed.”

Hunter Biden arrives with his wife Melissa Cohen Biden on June 11, 2024, at the federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, where he was eventually convicted in a gun trial. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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The special counsel alleged that Biden “spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle instead of paying his tax bills” and that in 2018 he “stopped paying his outstanding and delinquent taxes for the 2015 tax year.”

Weiss alleged that Biden “willfully failed to pay his taxes for 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 on time, despite having the means to pay some or all of those taxes,” and that he “willfully failed to file his tax returns for 2017 and 2018 on time.”

This is the second time this year that Biden has been put on trial on charges stemming from Weiss' investigation.

President Biden hugs his son Hunter Biden during the Democratic National Convention, Monday, August 19, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Biden was found In Delaware, he was found guilty on all counts after Weiss charged him with making false statements in the purchase of a firearm, making false statements regarding information required to be kept by a licensed firearm dealer, and one count of possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of, or dependent on, a controlled substance.

A sentencing date for these charges has not yet been set. Combined, the maximum prison sentence for all of the charges could be up to 25 years. Each count carries a maximum fine of $250,000 and three years' probation.

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President Biden has vowed not to pardon his son.