• officermike@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    You don’t want your 1.4 million dollars back?

    He has since paid his back taxes, so this isn’t a valid argument.

    "In the year after he disclosed a federal investigation into his “tax affairs” in late 2020, President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, paid off a significant tax liability, even as a grand jury continued to gather evidence in a wide-ranging examination of his international business dealings, according to people familiar with the case.

    Mr. Biden’s failure to pay all his taxes has been a focus of the ongoing Justice Department investigation. While wiping out his liability does not preclude criminal charges against him, the payment could make it harder for prosecutors to win a conviction or a long sentence for tax-related offenses, according to tax law experts, since juries and judges tend to be more sympathetic to defendants who have paid their bills."

    Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/us/politics/hunter-biden-tax-bill-investigation.html