Hunter Biden

2022 - 10 - 7

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US President's son Hunter Biden in the dock for gun purchase and ... (Livemint)

US President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden has been under the Federal scanner for alleged tax and gun-purchase crimes. Now a report on The Washington Post ...

Feds Think They Have Evidence to Charge Hunter Biden: Report ... (gvwire.com)

The Washington Post reports that federal agents believe they have enough evidence to support charging Hunter Biden with tax crimes.

[The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/10/06/hunter-biden-tax-gun-charges/) or [ at CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/06/hunter-biden-case-feds-believe-evidence-supports-tax-and-gun-charges.html). In a statement to NBC News, Chris Clark, Hunter Biden’s lawyer, said: “It is a federal felony for a federal agent to leak information about a Grand Jury investigation such as this one. Any agent you cite as a source in your article apparently has committed such a felony.

FBI sends Hunter Biden tax, gun purchase evidence to U.S. Attorney (CBS News)

Agents months ago gathered what they believe is sufficient evidence to charge the president's son with crimes related to taxes and making a false statement ...

He had been acting head of the Delaware office at the time and received the endorsements of the state's U.S. Biden said in October 2020 at a presidential debate. A federal subpoena from that year, obtained by CBS News, sought Hunter Biden's bank records dating back to 2014, when Joe Biden was vice president. A December 2020 subpoena requested documents as far back as January 2017, "regarding (Hunter) Biden's income, assets, debts, obligations, and financial transactions… Biden's team believes the bureau is trying to pressure prosecutors to act. That is the job of the prosecutors," Clark said.

What's going on with Hunter? An explanation of the Biden tax ... (The News Journal)

Federal agents investigating Hunter Biden believe there is enough evidence to charge the president's son with tax crimes.

He was appointed under the Trump administration. The Washington Post on Thursday What is the latest on the investigation?

Will Hunter Biden be indicted? (Vox)

“Federal agents investigating President Biden's son Hunter have gathered what they believe is sufficient evidence to charge him with tax crimes and a false ...

In October 2016, more and more people inside the FBI were starting to harbor serious doubts about decisions made above them, and they were starting to talk. A Trump appointee likely wouldn’t kill a strong case to protect the Biden family — and if there was interference from elsewhere in DOJ or the administration, he could make that known. [ wrote a book](https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Beautiful-Things/Hunter-Biden/9781982151126) about it), he bought a gun. Indeed, one of the reporters who broke the Thursday story — Barrett — landed a similar scoop in October 2016 for the Wall Street Journal. That wouldn’t get him off the hook for past criminal conduct, and the [Wall Street Journal reports](https://www.wsj.com/articles/prosecutors-advance-tax-probe-of-hunter-biden-11648465200) prosecutors are examining whether Hunter “moved funds in a way to obscure his tax liability.” This seems to be an open-and-shut crime — he said on the form he wasn’t a drug user, but he was. Then, in 2018, the [tax inquiry became](https://www.wsj.com/articles/barr-worked-to-keep-hunter-biden-probes-from-public-view-during-election-11607653188) a broader criminal investigation into Hunter, conducted by the US attorney’s office in Delaware, examining possible money laundering and whether he was an unregistered foreign agent. It does reveal, though, that they think the evidence is strong enough to charge Hunter in two areas. (US Attorney David Weiss of Delaware, a Trump appointee, is overseeing the investigation.) However, agents do not get to make the decision about filing charges — prosecutors in the Justice Department do, and the story contains no details about their current thinking. [ at least this spring](https://www.vox.com/23012186/hunter-biden-investigation-tax-fara). The news here is that agents investigating the case think they’ve assembled a case worth charging.

Hunter Biden to be prosecuted as federal authorities have evidence ... (Economic Times)

Reports citing people close to the investigation claim that investigators made up their minds months ago that Hunter Biden was the subject of a solid ...

Emails and other documents relating to the transactions were discovered on a laptop Hunter left at a Delaware repair shop in 2019 and never retrieved. The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). According to reports, which cited people familiar with the inquiry, agents decided months ago that they had constructed a credible criminal case against Hunter Biden. Hunter Biden himself said in December 2020 that his tax issues were being probed by federal officials in Delaware and that he was certain that a professional and impartial investigation of these concerns would show that he conducted his business lawfully and responsibly. The investigation began in 2018 when authorities began looking into whether Hunter and his business colleagues broke different tax and money laundering rules while conducting business in The probe, which began with a focus on Hunter's foreign business connections exposed in a series of exposes by The Post in the autumn of 2020, has switched to whether he declared all of his revenue from foreign deals, according to the reports.