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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Hunter Biden, the US president’s son, appeared in federal court in Los Angeles on Wednesday to answer charges of tax fraud, to the tune of $1.4 million, to which he is the subject.
Joe Biden’s son should ask Judge Mark Scarsi to drop the charges, which he considers motivated by political pressure linked to the impeachment investigation launched by the Republicans of the House of Representatives against his father.
Hunter Biden, 54, is accused of evading the requirement to pay $1.4 million in taxes between 2016 and 2019, while spending millions of dollars on drugs, escorts, luxury cars and other items valuable.
He pleaded not guilty in January to those charges and his lawyer said he had repaid the money in full.
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The trial is scheduled to begin in June, a few months before Americans go to the polls in November for a presidential election that promises to be close between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, who faces four criminal trials.
Hunter Biden is the first child of a sitting president to face criminal charges. He is also the subject of separate proceedings in a federal court in Delaware, the justice accusing him of having acquired a firearm illegally. He also pleaded not guilty and made similar arguments to dismiss the charges in that case.
(Reporting by Chris Kirkham in Los Angeles and Andrew Goudsward in Washington; French version Stéphanie Hamel, editing by Kate Entringer)
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