- The Department of Justice has filed nine new criminal charges against U.S. President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter
- The scandal-hit first son already faces a weapons charge in Delaware
- The new indictment filed Thursday in California alleges Hunter Biden spent millions on ‘drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars [and] clothing’ while not paying his taxes
- Between 2016 and 2020 Hunter allegedly spent more than $683,000 on ‘various women’ and almost $400,000 on ‘clothing and accessories’
- It also alleges that he spent $188,000 on ‘adult entertainment’ in that period
By ALICE WRIGHT FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 19:37 EST, 7 December 2023 | UPDATED: 21:53 EST, 7 December 2023.
The Department of Justice has filed nine new criminal charges against U.S. President Joe Biden‘s son, Hunter, in California on Thursday.
All nine charges relate to tax, including two felony charges for filing a false return, a felony charge for tax evasion, four failure to pay charges, and a further two charges for failure to file. The charges span the 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 tax years.
Prosecutors allege the president’s son spent millions on an ‘extravagant lifestyle’ while avoiding paying taxes for years.
The indictment states that despite receiving millions in personal income and financial support from a friend, Hunter Biden ‘spent this money on drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing, and other items of a personal nature, in short, everything but his taxes.’
‘The Defendant engaged in a four-year scheme to not pay at least $1.4 million in self-assessed federal taxes he owed for tax years 2016 through 2019,’ the indictment states. 
The Department of Justice has filed new criminal charges against Hunter Biden 
Special Counsel David Weiss (pictured) brought those charges against Hunter Biden after an earlier proposed plea deal unraveled under questioning from a judge
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It also alleges Hunter attempted ‘to evade the assessment of taxes for tax year 2018 when he filed false returns in or about February 2020.’
As well as failing to file and pay his taxes he has also been accused of including ‘false business deductions’ in his 2018 returns to reduce his tax bill.
Investigators are set to argue that Hunter ‘spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle rather than paying his tax bills’ the documents state.
‘The Defendant spent approximately $1 million in 2016, $1.4 million in 2017, $1.8 million in 2018, and $600,000 in 2019’ the indictment alleges.
Hunter is said to have made more than $7 million in gross income between 2016 and 2020, according to the documents.
In addition, prosecutors allege Hunter receives around $1.2 million ‘in financial support to fund his extravagant lifestyle’ in 2020 alone.
The documents argue that none of this financial assistance was used to pay ‘any of his federal individual income tax liabilities for 2016-2019.’
Adding: ‘Between 2016 and October 15, 2020, the Defendant spent this money on drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing, and other items of a personal nature, in short, everything but his taxes.’
Between 2016 and 2020 the indictment argues that Hunter spent more than $683,000 on ‘various women’ as well as almost $400,000 on ‘clothing and accessories’.
It also alleges that he spent $188,000 on ‘adult entertainment’ throughout that period. 
Hunter Biden – seen above with his wife Melissa Cohen – offered to testify in public before Congress in December
Melissa Cohen and Hunter Biden with President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden in Nantucket over the Thanksgiving holiday
The president’s son has spoken publicly about his battle with drug addiction, and how it has affected his decision making.
However, prosecutors allege that Hunter continued to evade federal taxes after getting sober.
‘Notably, in 2020, well after he had regained his sobriety, and when he finally filed his outstanding 2016, 2017, and 2018 Forms 1040’ the indictment reads, ‘the Defendant did not direct any payments toward his tax liabilities for each of those years.’
Earlier this week an IRS whistleblower claimed Hunter received a staggering $4.9 million from his ‘sugar brother’ Kevin Morris who helped him settle his tax bill.
Lawyer Kevin Morris allegedly loaned the president’s son millions of dollars after the pair met at a campaign fundraiser in December 2019.
IRS agent Joseph Ziegler declared the shocking figure with additional documentation on Tuesday with the House Ways & Means Committee.
Financial support from an unnamed entertainment lawyer is detailed in the indictment’
According to the indictment the lawyer, a ‘personal friend’ provided Hunter with approximately $200,000 to rent a lavish house on a canal in Venice, California; $11,000 in payments for his Porsche; and other individual items.’
‘In total, the Defendant had Personal Friend pay over $1.2 million to third parties for the Defendant’s benefit from January through October 15, 2020’ the indictment reads.
It comes as House Republicans near an expected vote to authorize an impeachment inquiry into President Biden for his alleged role in Hunter’s foreign dealings.
Ziegler, who investigated Hunter’s taxes for five years before he was removed from the case this year, provided legislators with further documents including an email on Tuesday dating to February 2020.
IRS agent Joseph Ziegler declared the shocking figure with additional documentation on Tuesday with the House Ways & Means Committee
Morris (pictured), a Hollywood lawyer who made a fortune from a South Park TV deal, has been dubbed Hunter’s ‘sugar brother’
Morris pictured alongside celebrity friends actor Courtney Cox and songwriter Johnny McDaid
The communication reportedly reveals how less than two months after they met, Morris was contacting accountants on Hunter’s behalf and warning them to work quickly to avoid ‘considerable risk personally and politically.’
Ziegler claimed Hunter’s income from Morris, at least some of it described as loans, reflected Hunter’s alleged practice of trying to avoid paying taxes on other income by describing it as loans.
Special Counsel David Weiss has been investigating whether the younger Biden can be charged for tax law violations for months.
He employed a grand jury in Los Angeles to seek documents and possible testimony from multiple witnesses as part of the federal investigation of Hunter Biden´s business dealings.
Hunter Biden in October pleaded not guilty to charges that he lied about his drug use while buying a handgun, in the first criminal prosecution of a sitting U.S. president’s child.
Weiss brought those charges against Hunter Biden after an earlier proposed plea deal unraveled under questioning from a judge.
The fresh indictment filed on Thursday also touched on the two civil lawsuits brought against Hunter, claiming they forced Hunter to disclose his tax returns
The cases involved the paternity and child-support case brought by a woman in Arkansas in May 2019, and a case brought by Hunter’s ex-wife in DC after he ‘stopped making spousal support payments and refused to provide financial records.’
Biden’s son currently faces three felony charges that carry a maximum combined 25 years incarceration and $250,000 fine.
House Oversight Chair James Comer claims he’s traced some $20 million from foreign actors into Biden family members’ bank accounts through a series of complex shell accounts designed to minimize scrutiny
The first count is for lying on a 2018 gun purchase form that he was not an illicit drug user, and has a top sentence of 10 years. The second count is for lying to the gun store about it, which could net him up to five years. The third is for possessing the firearm while being an addict, which could land him another 10 years.
Despite hiring top lawyers, they may have a tough time fighting the facts of the case.
In Hunter’s 2021 memoir, Beautiful Things, he admitted to his continued ‘full-blown addiction’ to crack cocaine in 2018 – the period he bought the Colt Cobra 38SPL revolver.
The federally required Firearm Transaction Record for the purchase asks: ‘Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?’
Hunter ticked the box for ‘no’ on the form, obtained by DailyMail.com.
The charges against him were set to be held over as part of a plea deal Hunter struck with prosecutors, in which he would admit to tax crimes for deliberately failing to file and pay his tax bill on millions of dollars of income.
But under scrutiny from a federal judge in July, the plea deal spectacularly fell apart in the courtroom over a controversial clause that would give him blanket immunity for other offenses.
Abbe Lowell, Hunter’s hotshot DC lawyer, has suggested that he may challenge the charges on constitutional grounds related to the second amendment.
More than half of Americans believe Joe Biden is directly implicated in his son Hunter’s business dealings, despite the White House’s insistent denials, according to a new poll.
Sixty percent of respondents said they believed Joe ‘helped and participated in Hunter Biden’s business,’ while 40 percent said they did not think the president helped or participated, according to a new Harvard CAPS-Harris poll.
The president claimed he never talked business with his son or his associates – despite Hunter’s abandoned laptop and congressional testimony from his former business partner Devon Archer saying otherwise.
Archer said that Joe Biden was present at two dinner meetings at Washington, D.C.’s Cafe Milano, along with Hunter’s business partners. A note was also found on the laptop from a Burisma executive thanking Hunter for introducing him to his dad at dinner.
Archer also testified that Joe Biden ‘had coffee’ with Jonathan Li, CEO of Chinese-backed BHR partners where Hunter owned a 10 percent stake.
Hunter Biden’s business dealings have been in the spotlight ever since the first report about the laptop he abandoned at a repair store came out one month ahead of the 2020 election.
In September, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy launched an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, saying the family had a ‘culture of corruption.’
Since then House Republicans have honed in on the family’s bank records and testimony of the business dealings.
House Oversight Chair James Comer claims he’s traced some $20 million from foreign actors into Biden family members’ bank accounts through a series of complex shell accounts designed to minimize scrutiny.
He has not, however, linked any direct payment to Joe Biden. In uncovered text messages, meanwhile, Hunter complained about having to pay his father’s bills.
In another unearthed text message, Hunter told a Chinese business associate he was ‘sitting’ in a room with his father who ‘would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled,’ referring to a payment.
The poll was conducted online November 15-16 with 2,851 registered voters.
House Republicans are now closing in on on the Biden impeachment inquiry, with subpoenas fired off to Hunter and James and interview requests to around a dozen others.
They will then decide whether or not to move forward with a House vote on whether to impeach the president.