On Tuesday, Hunter Biden’s legal team submitted nine motions requesting the dismissal of tax-related allegations brought by special counsel David Weiss in a federal court in California last year.
Hunter Biden’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, released a statement saying, “The special counsel has gone to extreme lengths to bring charges against Mr. Biden that would not have been filed against anyone else.”
“Prosecutors reneged on binding agreements, bowed to political pressure to bring unprecedented charges, overreached in their authority, ignored the rules and allowed their agents to run amok, and repeatedly misstated evidence to the court to defend their conduct.”
Hunter Biden’s counsel contended in the court documents that the president’s son was the subject of a biased prosecution. Additionally, they contended that other accusations should be dropped due to improper venue, that the statute of limitations had run out, and that there were duplicate charges for the same tax year.
The president’s son has already paid his taxes, interest, and penalties, according to Hunter Biden’s legal team, on one of the tax charges from 2019.
“When a taxpayer has paid all they owe under those circumstances, as Mr. Biden has, criminal tax charges simply are not brought,” according to a document. “The fact that they were brought here highlights that Mr. Biden is being subject to a selective and vindictive prosecution.”
IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler were the focus of another complaint, which claimed that their “unprecedented leaks” had “prejudiced” the prosecution.
“In numerous acts spanning months, these agents engaged in what is best described as vigilante justice in the court of public opinion, making a public mockery of the framework within which these types of investigations should be handled,” according to a document.
Another lawsuit retaliates against the special counsel, claiming that Weiss “was unlawfully appointed as Special Counsel” and that the Appropriates Clause is violated because Congress did not approve the money for his investigation and prosecution.
The attorneys asked the judge to remove specific accusations from the indictment, claiming in a separate document that the indictment was “littered with inflammatory characterizations and gratuitous facts” that could mislead a jury and deny Hunter Biden a fair trial.
The son of President Joe Biden entered a not guilty plea to nine tax-related charges at his January arraignment. On charges of not paying taxes, he was previously indicted in the Central District of California.
Hunter Biden “spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle” rather than paying taxes, according to the December indictment.
In December, the son of the president requested that gun-related allegations against him be dropped before a federal judge in Delaware. His counsel cited a prior arrangement with prosecutors that they claimed granted him immunity.
Many of the papers filed on Tuesday were more focused on the particular allegations he is facing in federal court in California than they were on the arguments presented in the firearms case.
