Hunter Biden will be sentenced in December for both his gun purchasing charges and tax fraud charges.
On December 12, Biden, 54, will be sentenced in Delaware after he was found guilty of three felonies stemming from purchasing a gun while using drugs in October 2018.
Biden could face up to 25 years in prison for his gun conviction, although it is believed he will not serve time as he is a first-time and nonviolent offender.
Before Hunter’s conviction in June, his father, President Joe Biden, claimed he would not pardon his son.
Hunter Biden, the son President Joe Biden, attends an event to celebrate the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic teams on the South Lawn of the White House on September 30.
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“I am not going to do anything,” President Biden said in June, shortly after a jury found Hunter Biden guilty of three felony gun charges. “I will abide by the jury’s decision.”
On December 16, Biden will be sentenced on federal tax-related charges in Los Angeles after pleading guilty in September and avoiding a trial.
Biden faces up to 17 years in prison when he is sentenced for the tax offenses.
Hunter Biden is the first child of a sitting US president to be convicted of a crime.
Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, on June 10, 2024 in Wilmington, Delaware. Biden is suing a former Trump official for allegedly posting 128,000 of Biden’s emails online.
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Hunter Biden’s Gun Conviction
Newsweek was in the Wilmington, Delaware, courtroom in June when Hunter Biden did not react to a jury finding him guilty in his federal gun trial.
Biden pleaded not guilty to charges of illegally buying a gun while using drugs, specifically crack cocaine, and lying on a government form about his drug use when he made the purchase in May 2018.
Hallie Biden, Hunter’s former girlfriend and widow of his brother Beau Biden, was one of many people to testify under an immunity agreement. She spoke about using drugs with Hunter Biden and her finding and discarding the gun in question at a Delaware grocery store in October 2018.
Hunter Biden’s Tax Fraud Conviction
According to the indictment, Hunter Biden engaged in a four-year scheme in which he chose not to pay at least $1.4 million in self-assessed federal taxes he owed for tax years 2016 through 2019 and to evade the assessment of taxes for tax year 2018 when he filed false returns.
Biden’s defense attorneys previously filed a motion for his tax case to be dismissed on similar grounds as former President Donald Trump’s tossed classified documents case. That was denied.
President Joe Biden embraces Hunter Biden during the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on Aug. 19, in Chicago, Illinois.
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Trump Reveals Whether He’d Pardon Hunter Biden
Former President Donald Trump has long criticized both Hunter and President Joe Biden but recently told the radio host Hugh Hewitt that he hasn’t sworn off pardoning Hunter if he were to win the 2024 presidential election.
“I wouldn’t take it off the books,” Trump told the conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt in an interview. “See, unlike Joe Biden, despite what they’ve done to me, where they’ve gone after me so viciously … And Hunter’s a bad boy.”
“There’s no question about it. He’s been a bad boy,” Trump added. “But I happen to think it’s very bad for our country.”
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