Hunter Biden will soon learn his legal fate. Federal prosecutors’ investigation into the president’s son is nearing its conclusion, recent reports claim, and an indictment is a real possibility.
There are four possible charges in the mix, according to CNN. Two of these are misdemeanor charges about Hunter’s failure to file taxes, and a third is a felony tax evasion charge that would allege he over-reported business expenses. The fourth potential charge is about a false statement on a federal form Hunter filled out when buying a gun in 2018 (he claimed he was not a drug user).
The charges grew out of a years-long investigation that focuses on Hunter Biden’s well-compensated work for foreign interests over the past decade or so, particularly for businesses or tycoons in Ukraine, China, and Kazakhstan. Ethical questions have long swirled about this work, which he began as his father was set to become vice president and continued amid tumultuous years for Hunter as he struggled with addiction. This investigation from the US Attorney’s Office in Delaware (headed by a holdover Trump appointee, David Weiss) explored whether Hunter had broken foreign lobbying or money laundering laws.
But the investigation eventually “narrowed” and no charges are expected on those fronts, per NBC News. And while Republicans have argued for years that Hunter’s foreign work implicated Joe Biden somehow, by all accounts this investigation has remained focused on Hunter, not the president.
Naturally, some in the GOP are already complaining that the potential indictment won’t go far enough — House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer said on Fox News this month that “what they’re looking at charging Hunter Biden on is a slap on the wrist.”
Some FBI and IRS agents involved in the investigation, meanwhile, have been unhappy with the Justice Department’s handling of it, making allegations it has been slow-walked or politicized both to reporters and to
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