Indicted! Hunter Biden!
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Different case, but
Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to federal tax charges Thursday, heading off a trial that was expected to further shine an unflattering light on his past business dealings and freewheeling lifestyle.
Biden’s surprise plea capped a whirlwind morning in Los Angeles federal court, where jury selection was set to begin for Biden’s tax trial.At the outset of Thursday’s court proceedings, Biden’s lawyer proposed an unusual deal where President Biden’s son would maintain his innocence while conceding that the evidence was sufficient for a guilty verdict.
Prosecutors said they were shocked by the proposal of a so-called Alford deal and wouldn’t support any plea without an admission of guilt. “Hunter Biden is not innocent. Hunter Biden is guilty,” prosecutor Leo Wise told U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi, a Trump appointee presiding over the case.
Later Thursday, a lawyer for Biden came back from a break and told Scarsi his client would abandon the Alford plea and plead guilty without any negotiated deal with prosecutors working under special counsel David Weiss.
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"To avoid
the jury hearing what was exposed in discoverya trial"Sentencing in December?
How much time, if any, will get at Club Fed?
Remember the laptop that was "Russian disinformation" was used as evidence in this trial.
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Joe will pardon him after the election. No question. At which point we will officially be a banana republic.
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Alford Plea:
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I'm gonna miss the public records on the discovery phase...
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@Jolly said in Indicted! Hunter Biden!:
I'm gonna miss the public records on the discovery phase.
Yup - I said that a while ago.
There's speculation that Hunter took the easy road (pleading guilty to a tax crime) so as to avoid disclosure of OTHER crimes that were revealed to the defense (China, Ukraine, influence peddling, implicating The Big Guy, etc).
"I did it to avoid trauma to my family."
No doubt.
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Hunter Biden owes tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid legal bills to the white-shoe law firm that represented him in his Delaware gun trial and other federal investigations.
Winston & Strawn LLP filed a lawsuit against the younger Biden on June 20 for over $50,000 in unpaid legal bills tied to the gun trial and other matters. The lawsuit was filed in Washington, D.C. Superior Court and accuses Biden of ignoring the firm’s “repeated” attempts to collect the legal fees.
“Although a portion of those fees have been paid, Mr. Biden presently owes [Winston & Strawn] substantially in excess of $50,000 in fees and interest that are due and payable,” the lawsuit reads.
