Attorneys indicated on Wednesday that jurors may hear possibly inflammatory details of Hunter Biden’s personal life when the president’s son goes on trial next month in downtown Los Angeles on federal tax charges. President Joe Biden’s son faces nine tax-related counts, including three felony counts and six misdemeanor counts of failure to pay taxes. Hunter Biden, 54, of Malibu, “spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle rather than paying his tax bills,” the indictment alleges.
Evidence of the younger Biden’s partying during a period when he was admittedly using crack cocaine and allegedly willfully failing to pay more than $1.4 million in taxes may become part of the trial, attorneys said. A pretrial hearing in the case Wednesday in L.
A. federal court dealt with motions and questions of evidence to be resolved before jury selection is expected to begin Sept. 5.
Hunter Biden did not attend the hearing. On Monday, U.S.
District Judge Mark Scarsi, a Donald Trump appointee who is presiding over the trial, rejected the defendant’s bid to toss the case after the president’s son sought to argue that David C. Weiss, the special counsel overseeing the prosecution, was improperly appointed. The U.
S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals previously rejected the younger Biden’s request to revive a bid to have the charges against him dismissed. Hunter Biden’s lawyers wrote in legal filings that they believe the case was brought “in direct response to political p.