Hunter Biden Arrives At Court To Enter Plea In LA Tax Case

Topline Hunter Biden arrived at a federal court in Los Angeles Thursday where he is expected to plead not guilty to tax fraud charges, putting him back in the spotlight a day after a contentious showdown with House Republicans on Capitol Hill. Hunter Biden and his attorneys Abbe Lowell, right, and Kevin Morris, left, attend a House Oversight ...

[+] Committee hearing Wednesday, Jan. 10, on Capitol Hill. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) Key Facts Hunter Biden will be arraigned before U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi on nine charges alleging he failed to pay at least $1.4 million in federal taxes between 2016 and 2019. The charges include three felony and six misdemeanor counts, including failing to file and pay taxes, tax evasion and filing false tax returns, charges that carry a maximum sentence of up to 17 years in prison.

Biden, who has since paid the back taxes, instead spent the money on an “extravagant lifestyle,” including “drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing and other items of personal nature,” prosecutors wrote in the indictment. Key Background Biden was charged by Special Counsel David Weiss’ office in December after a plea deal his lawyers negotiated with the Justice Department unraveled last year over a disagreement about future immunity in their long running investigation into his foreign business dealings that was expanded to encompass his taxes.

He was also charged in federal court in Delaware with purchasing a firearm while he was using drugs. He has pleaded not guilty in that case. Tangent Biden made a surprise appearance Wednesday at a House Oversight hearing on Capitol Hill, where Republicans who have been investigating President Joe Biden for influence peddling attacked him for refusing to testify behind closed doors before Congress.

Biden has instead offered to testify in public. After the showdown—in which Rep. Nancy Mace (R S.C.) accused him of “white privilege” and having “no balls to come up here”—the Oversight and Judiciary Committees voted to hold him in contempt of Congress over his refusal to testify, advancing the resolution to the floor for a vote..