Weiss charged Hunter Biden with three felonies and six misdemeanors in connection with $1.4 million in unpaid taxes.
Hunter Biden is scheduled to testify in federal court in California on Thursday in connection with Special Counsel David Weiss’ inquiry.
Thursday at 4 p.m. ET, 1 p.m. local time, the first son will make his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Downtown Los Angeles.
The hearings will be presided over by Judge Mark Scarsi. The US Marshals Service is scheduled to process Biden following the hearing.
Weiss filed a case against Biden in December, alleging a “four-year scheme” in which the president’s son failed to pay his federal income taxes from January 2017 to October 2020 while simultaneously filing fake tax returns.
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The accusations were brought in the United States District Court for the Central District of California by Weiss.
The accusations are comprised of three felonies and six misdemeanors relating to $1.4 million in unpaid taxes.
According to the indictment, Hunter “engaged in a four-year scheme to not pay at least $1.4 million in self-assessed federal taxes he owed for tax years 2016 through 2019, from in or about January 2017 through in or about October 15, 2020, and to evade the assessment of taxes for tax year 2018 when he filed false returns in or about February 2020.”
Weiss claimed that in “furtherance of that scheme,” the younger Biden “subverted the payroll and tax withholding process of his own company, Owasco, PC.”
Weiss claimed that as part of the “furtherance of that scheme,” the vice president’s younger brother “subverted the payroll and tax withholding process of his own company, Owasco, PC by withdrawing millions” of dollars from the company “outside of the payroll and tax withholding process that it was designed to perform.”
Hunter “spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle rather than paying his tax bills,” according to the special counsel, and in 2018, he “stopped paying his outstanding and overdue taxes for tax year 2015.”
Hunter was said to have “willfully failed to pay his 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 taxes on time, despite having access to funds to pay some or all of these taxes,” as well as that he “willfully failed to file his 2017 and 2018 tax returns on time.”
In October, Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty to federal gun charges presented by Weiss.
Last month, Hunter’s defense attorney, Abbe Lowell, accused Weiss of “bowing to Republican pressure” while speaking to the press about the charges.
“Based on the facts and the law, if Hunter’s last name was anything other than Biden, the charges in Delaware, and now California, would not have been brought,” Lowell said in a written statement.
Hunter’s court appearance in California comes a day after an unexpected appearance on Capitol Hill on Wednesday morning when the House Oversight Committee debated whether to hold him in contempt of Congress.
The House Oversight and Judiciary Committees had subpoenaed Hunter Biden to testify behind closed doors on December 13 as part of the House GOP impeachment investigation into President Biden.
Hunter Biden volunteered to testify publicly, but Republicans declined. Oversight Chairman James Comer and Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan noted the scheduling of previous witness interviews as evidence that Biden would not be treated differently. The chairmen did, however, promise to produce a full transcript of his deposition, as they had done for other witnesses, and promised to arrange a follow-up public hearing.
The House Oversight and Judiciary Committees had subpoenaed Hunter Biden to testify behind closed doors on December 13 as part of the House GOP impeachment investigation into President Biden.
Hunter Biden volunteered to testify publicly, but Republicans declined. Oversight Chairman James Comer and Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan noted the scheduling of previous witness interviews as evidence that Biden would not be treated differently. The chairmen did, however, promise to produce a full transcript of his deposition, as they had done for other witnesses, and promised to arrange a follow-up public hearing.
Hunter Biden came on Capitol Hill on December 13, but not for his deposition. Instead, he defied the subpoena by making a press release.
If the resolution is approved, the House will vote on whether to hold the first son in contempt.
