The IRS investigation was concluded in 2021 with a recommendation to charge Hunter Biden with tax fraud felonies. These are very serious charges that carry prison time. The government attorneys took no action. Although he has since backtracked, at an October 7, 2022 meeting the Delaware US Attorney David Weiss told the IRS it was not his call to prosecute. That Mr. Shapley noted was his "red line," namely to allow the President's political appointees to decide. Ultimately nothing happened and the statute of limitations was allowed to expire on Hunter Biden's earlier 2014 and 2015 tax returns even though prosecutors could have sought an extension.
But as they say, there is more. Hunter Biden had to fill out federal Form 4073 to purchase a firearm. "Knowing he was an unlawful user of and addicted to a controlled substance" in the words of the US Attorney's Office, he still lied on the form to obtain the gun as a prohibited person.
Part
of his plea deal allows him to enter a pre-trial diversion agreement at
a procedure to be scheduled by the assigned US District Court judge.
Such an agreement diverts him out of the criminal justice system into a
supervised release or probation. All of this has to be approved by the
judge and then he has to be
sentenced. Probation and likely fines, yes, but he has escaped prison.
The tax charges alone could have given
him a year in jail and the firearm violations up to 10 years.
Has Hunter Biden had problems? That's for sure! Sympathy for a crack head? People will have differing opinions.
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