Special Counsel David C. Weiss’s Office | Robert Hunter Biden Convicted on Three Felony Tax Offenses and Six Misdemeanor Tax Offenses

Robert Hunter Biden (Hunter Biden) pleaded responsible in federal court docket in Los Angeles this afternoon to all counts in a nine-count indictment, together with three felony tax offenses and 6 misdemeanor tax offenses. There was no plea settlement.

Choose Scarsi accepted the defendant’s responsible plea and scheduled sentencing for December 16, 2024.

In keeping with the indictment, Hunter Biden engaged in a four-year scheme during which he selected to not pay at the least $1.4 million in self-assessed federal taxes he owed for tax years 2016 by 2019 and to evade the evaluation of taxes for tax 12 months 2018 when he filed false returns.  As alleged within the indictment, to additional this scheme, Hunter Biden:

• subverted the payroll and tax withholding strategy of his personal firm by withdrawing tens of millions exterior of the payroll and tax withholding course of;
• spent tens of millions of {dollars} on an extravagant way of life slightly than paying his tax payments;
• in 2018, stopped paying his excellent and overdue taxes for tax 12 months 2015;
• willfully did not pay his 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 taxes on time, regardless of gaining access to funds to pay some or all of those taxes;
• willfully did not file his 2017 and 2018 tax returns, on time; and
• when he did lastly file his 2018 returns, included false enterprise deductions with the intention to scale back the very substantial tax legal responsibility he confronted as of February 2020.

At sentencing, Hunter Biden faces a most penalty of 17 years in jail. Precise sentences for federal crimes are sometimes lower than the utmost penalties. A federal district court docket choose will decide any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Tips and different statutory elements.

Court docket paperwork and data for this case is positioned on the web site of the District Court docket for the Central District of California or on PACER by trying to find Case No. 2:23-cr-00599.