Are you kidding? I know people who are criminally charged for less.
Posted on 12/09/2023 11:47:45 PM PST by Libloather
Hunter Biden's attorney has spoken out to slam the tax evasion charges against the president's son, claiming that nobody similarly situated would be criminally charged.
'Where's the fairness, justice and decency in this?' attorney Abbe Lowell said in an interview with CNN on Friday, after Hunter was hit with nine new charges carrying a penalty of up to 17 years in prison.
The 56-page indictment filed by Special Counsel David Weiss accuses Hunter of scheming to avoid $1.4 million in taxes he owed from 2016 through 2019, while spending lavishly on drugs, prostitutes, and an extravagant lifestyle.
'The charges in this new tax indictment talk about a period where Hunter was at the lowest ebb of his addiction,' said Lowell.
'And like people in that regard, and I know everybody in America either has somebody in their family or friends who suffer from addiction, he certainly did things that he's not proud of.'
But wait, what happened since?' Lowell continued. 'He got himself sober in 2019. And he paid all the taxes that are owed in this indictment more than two years ago with interest and penalties.'
'Nobody in that position would be charged the way he was yesterday, nobody,' the lawyer argued.
Hunter already faces separate firearm charges in Delaware, raising the possibility he could be headed toward trial in two different cases as his father, President Joe Biden, campaigns for re-election.
The charges against Hunter could add to the political complications for his father, President Joe Biden, who looks likely to face a close presidential race where Donald Trump is the leading contender for the GOP nomination.
Criminal tax cases generally are very rare, Beverly Moran, a tax law expert at Vanderbilt University, told the Associated Press.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I think Hunter’s lawyer is full of 0bama.
I’m sure the prosecution could cite numerous similar cases if they were of a mind to debunk that claim.
Tell Wesley Snipes that.
tax evasion is a crime, no matter if you striped your shorts, or not!
Sounds like “No reasonable prosecutor would bring a case” Comey.
The next speaker...Hunter made millions...only because his name is Biden.
go after al sharpton too
Hah! If his name WASN’T Biden her would have been indicted four years ago over his 2014 tax escapades. Weiss let the statute of limitation run out.
Makes Biden’s “Pay your fair share” sound empty.
Should be a bumper sticker!
Hunter will never see a day behind bars. The indictment gives him an excuse to not testify before Congress. His lawyers will time the trial, and make a half-assed effort to defend him, so that he is convicted sometime in the last three months of the year. Then Sloe Joe will pardon his son as he exits the White House. The fix is in.
And that’s the point.
Except we all know the crime here is not merely avoiding paying taxes on millions of dollars of unreported income; it is how he got the income in the first place, and how much more came from the same sources and flowed into Joe’s coffers as well as the Democratic machine. By only bringing him up on tax charges we avoid the indictment of Joe, and he faces a few years in jail instead of the firing squad.
Nobody else would have been indicted in the same way for the same infractions for which Hunterboy is being brought up on. The indictment would have been MUCH more severe for just about anybody else. Has Hunterboy voluntarily offered to pay the undeclared unpaid taxes and all penalties?
Didn’t think so.
Rich people really should pay their fair share, you know. Doesn’t Hunterboy even LISTEN to his daddy?
Hunter’s lawyers say he would not have been charged had his name not been Biden.
<><>That’s so true;everybody deducts prostitutes and sex club memberships from their taxes
<><>the IRS smiles benignly on this common everyday practice.
Hunter’s lawyers argue that Hunter did so pay his taxes.
<><>No, he didnt....Hollywood sycophant Kevin Morris paid Hunter’s taxes
<><>the kindly gracious IRS considers that “income not reported.”
In that sense, the indictment itself is a marvel of evasion.
There are glaring omissions in Hunter’s indictment,
that tend to shield critical payments like Burisma,
and shields conduct that implicates Joe Biden.
Was Al Capone indicted and tried for murder, robbery, prostitution, bootlegging, bribery, narcotics trafficking, and protection rackets?
Nope. He was tried for tax evasion, but he didn’t have a presidential get-out-of-jail-free card to save him.
The NY Post’s ace reporter, Miranda Devine cited the Hunter escapades in her best-selling expose,
“Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide.”
Hunter Biden’s estranged wife was furious, he had left his young family penniless. Devine reported. “Your spending is documented and irresponsible,” Kathleen Buhle emailed him on Feb. 20, 2017. The couple were in bitter divorce negotiations. “I am sick of trying to figure out how you are hiding the money,” Buhle continued in the email.
Hunter abandoned his wife......she was left to support Hunter’s three children......he had left them penniless.
His ex-wife wrote he had spent $122,000 in two months on himself — and at the same time cut monthly payments to Buhle and their three young daughters from $17,000 to $1,700.
Hunter “rarely” gave anything to his penniless family, his abandoned wife charged. Yet Hunter was blowing hundreds of thousands of dollars on his pleasures: alcohol, strip clubs,
gifts to other women, and travel — sometimes charging multiple hotel rooms for the same night.
...
Hilariously, he reveals he “accidentally” paid a Russian
prostitute $25,000 from his dad Joe’s bank account.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/3139863/hunter-biden-accidentally-paid-russian-prostitute-25k-laptop/
And Joe said, “bless you my son.”
Are you kidding? I know people who are criminally charged for less.
“’Nobody in that position would be charged the way he was yesterday, nobody,’ the lawyer argued.”
‘No Democrat in that position would be charged the way he was yesterday, nobody,’ the lawyer argued.
Fixed it.
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