On Dec. 7, 2023, a federal grand jury filed an explosive indictment that charged Hunter Biden with a scheme to evade taxes on millions of dollars in income from foreign businesses. Prior to this, he was charged with violating federal law by lying about his drug usage on a federal form, and he was administratively discharged by the U.S. Navy for failing a drug test on his first day at work—a job which Vice President Joe Biden had helped him to get which he was too old to hold.
Hunter Biden's indictment is a public document, and there is no purpose in reprinting it here. The key takeaways are that: 1) Hunter Biden received more than $7 million in income between 2016 and 2020 much of it from Chinese sources; and 2) that the corrupt Ukrainian Burisma Holdings Corporation paid him an annual salary, for a while, of one million dollars a year.
Count 4 of the Indictment says that Hunter Biden "engaged in a four-year scheme to not pay at least $1.4 million in self-assessed federal taxes he owed ***. In furtherance of that scheme, the Defendant: