Hunter Biden - report

American attorney (born 1970)

Robert Hunter Biden is an American attorney, businessman and artist. He has also been a hedge fund, venture capital and private-equity fund investor. He formerly worked as a lobbyist, banker, public administration official and registered lobbyist-firm attorney.

2021 2022 2024

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Hunter Biden indicted on 9 new charges, accused of spending on ‘extravagant lifestyle,’ not taxes. Biden is accused of engaging in a scheme to avoid paying at least $1.4 million in taxes on income and instead funding a lavish lifestyle. House Oversight Committee informed Hunter Biden's attorney Tuesday that it would begin contempt of Congress proceedings against Biden.
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House Republicans issued a subpoena to Hunter Biden three weeks ago. Biden’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, issued a statement deriding the subpoena as “yet another political stunt”
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Hunter Biden, 53, is facing three felony charges stemming from his 2018 purchase of a Colt Cobra revolver. He is charged with two counts of making false statements for claiming on forms required for the purchase that he was not using drugs at the time. He faces a third charge, based on the same statements, that he illegally possessed the gun before it was gotten rid of. If convicted on all charges, Hunter Biden could face a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison and fines of up to $750,000.
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Hunter Biden, 53, is accused of buying a firearm while addicted to crack cocaine. Indictment stems from his possession of a Colt Cobra 38SPL revolver in October 2018. A plea deal to resolve the matter without charges collapsed over the summer.
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Biden is expected to be charged with two felony counts related to a gun he purchased in 2018, when he was an admitted drug user. The looming indictment comes after a plea deal he’d struck with prosecutors fell apart in July. It was the first time the justice department had charged the child of a sitting president.
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Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed US Attorney David Weiss as special counsel. The move coincided with the apparent collapse of a plea deal that Weiss had previously reached with the younger Biden over tax and gun charges. Republicans have complained that Weiss was going easy on Hunter Biden because he's the president's son. A gag order hearing will be held Friday at 10 am in Washington, DC.
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Judge said she could not accept Hunter Biden's plea deal. Criminal prosection experts say that the younger Biden went from "a sweetheart deal" to a "real poison pill"
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House Oversight Committee produced $17 million in bank receipts and witness testimony in the Biden Family bribery, corruption, and influence peddling schemes. IRS whistleblowers say Hunter Biden should have been charged with more serious crimes. Republicans argued the president's son was spared from true justice. Democrats argued he was thoroughly investigated.
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House Republicans summon IRS whistleblowers to testify publicly for the first time. They claim Justice Department improperly interfered with a tax investigation into Biden's son. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia displayed lewd photos of Hunter Biden at a House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday.
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Hunter Biden, the president's son, reached a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to two minor tax crimes and separately admit to the facts of a gun charge. The agreement will likely keep Biden out of jail, and it resolves a roughly five-year investigation that began during the Trump administration.
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Hunter Biden will plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors and agreed to a deal involving a felony gun charge. Biden allegedly failed to pay Uncle Sam at least $200,000 on $1.5 million of income between 2017 and 2018. Republicans have been quick to criticize the plea deal between the Department of Justice and Hunter Biden.
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Republicans demand to know if Biden thwarted the criminal investigation into his son Hunter. IRS whistleblower alleges two Biden administration political appointees are working to block charges against Hunter Biden. Rep. James Comer has already launched an investigation into Hunter Biden’s business dealings.
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Rudy Giuliani said that former president Donald Trump once advised him to take secret documents home with him. A video shared on Facebook purportedly shows White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre walking out of a press conference after being asked about classified documents. Republicans call Biden greedy for charging his son $50k monthly to rent a bed in his home.