Posted on 12/08/2023 5:30:22 AM PST by gattaca
Joe Biden made cracking down on tax-cheating millionaires a centerpiece of his presidency, even securing the funds to hire new IRS agents and auditors. On Thursday, his Justice Department branded first son Hunter Biden as a quintessential tax cheat who chose to underwrite an "extravagant lifestyle" with millions in foreign monies rather than pay his debts to Uncle Sam.
In a sweeping grand jury indictment that levied three felony and six misdemeanor charges that carry 17 years in prison, Special Counsel David Weiss markedly increased the legal peril for Hunter Biden while also placing a dark cloud over the president's own political fortunes just weeks before the start of the presidential primary elections.
Weiss' indictment, unsealed in federal court in California, laid out in meticulous detail how Hunter Biden engaged in a four-year scheme to evade $1.4 million in taxes, claiming in some years he didn't even file tax returns while in others he cheated by not claiming all of his income or using illegal deductions. The charges are in addition to three gun felonies Weiss secured against the first son in federal court in Delaware earlier this fall.
"Rather than pay his taxes, the Defendant spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle," the indictment charged.
It added: "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. In short, everything but his taxes."
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Likely that Joe has cheated as well. It is likely he has not reported all his bribe income.
Nobody is above the law! Right FJB?
BTTT
He's in no peril at all, Joe's simply going to pardon him on his way out the door.
The dems and the media will act outraged and demand reforms to the pardon process right before Trump is seated.
If I were in Hunter’s position I may have done they same thing.
No on in their right mind likes to pay taxes.
The reason we do is that we fear the consequences.
Hunter had every reason to expect that he would never face jail time for doing so.
His father is a very powerful man that could protect him.
Even now Hunter can expect that the worst that will happen to him is that he will pay the taxes and penalties.
Is it fare that the son of a president gets different justice than the common man? No.
But that is the reality we live in and it always has been.
Will Joe be charged too?
Leverage.
Oh boy though the DOJ tried to bury it. Without the whistleblowers this case is lost in the wind.
Spot on. This is the typical entitled mind of the liberal elite.
Joe Biden made cracking down on tax-cheating millionaires a centerpiece of
his presidency, even securing federal funds to hire new IRS agents and auditors.
Now Biden’s DOJ branded sonny-boy Hunter “a quintessential tax cheat who chose to underwrite
an “extravagant lifestyle” with millions in foreign monies rather than pay his debts to Uncle Sam.”
A grand total of three felony and six misdemeanors increase the legal peril for Hunter
placing a cloud over Biden’s own political fortunes as the presidential primary revs up.
Pathetically ridiculous in our banana Republic. Where’s our bananas?
Has Hell frozen over?
When you are in the White House and your Justice Department indicts your son there is a word for it.
Coup.
Trump is the Peoples’ man, America’s man . . . . and there are still Americans IN the system that will have the clout to affect the lie that democrats perpetrate,
Joe has not read the signals correctly; thus they have increased the visibility of those signals. This being one such example.
Waiting for FJB’s indictment.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
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