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Hunter Biden Published June 20, 2023 9:48am EDT

Hunter Biden agrees to plead guilty in

federal tax, gun case
President’s son will plead guilty as part of a plea deal as House GOP intensifies its own probes of the Biden family

By Brooke Singman , David Spunt | Fox News

It's time to end the protection of Hunter Biden: Jack Kalavritinos

'Fox News @ Night' panelists Kevin Walling and Jack Kalavritinos discuss reports prosecutors are close to a charging decision in the Hunter Biden case and
a whistleblower's claims about President Biden's alleged 'criminal scheme.'

Hunter Biden has agreed to plead guilty in the federal case stemming from years-long
investigation into his tax affairs, Fox News has confirmed.

Fox News has confirmed that the president's son will plead guilty to two counts of willful
failure to pay federal income tax. Hunter Biden will also plead guilty to a firearm offense—
ne count of possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to
a controlled substance.

Biden has been under federal investigation since 2018. That investigation into his "tax
affairs" began amid the discovery of suspicious activity reports (SARs) regarding funds
from "China and other foreign nations."

ABC, NBC and CBS have completely skipped recent unflattering breaking news related to President Biden’s son, Hunter
Biden, according to a new study from the Media Research Center. (Nicholas Kamm)

Fox News first reported in 2020 that the FBI had subpoenaed a laptop and hard drive
purportedly belonging to Hunter Biden in connection with a money-laundering
investigation in late 2019.

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VP BIDEN , TOP AIDE

In December 2020, weeks after the 2020 presidential election, Biden publicly
acknowledged he was under investigation related to his taxes. At the time, Biden said he
took the matter "very seriously" and was "confident that a professional and objective
review of these matters will demonstrate that I handled my affairs legally and
appropriately, including with the benefit of professional tax advisors."

President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, step off Air Force One. (Patrick Semansky)

IT'S TIME TO END THE PROTECTION OF HUNTER BIDEN: JACK KALAVRITINOS

The firearms charge stemmed from allegations that Hunter Biden lied during a gun
purchase in 2018.

Fox News first reported in 2021 that police had responded to an incident in 2018, when a
gun owned by Hunter Biden was thrown into a trash can outside a market in Delaware.

A source with knowledge of the Oct. 23, 2018, police report told Fox News that it indicated
that Hallie Biden, the widow of President Biden's late son, Beau, and who was in a
relationship with Hunter at the time, threw a gun owned by Hunter in a dumpster behind a
market near a school.

A firearm transaction report reviewed by Fox News indicated that Hunter Biden purchased
a gun earlier that month.

On the firearm transaction report, Hunter Biden answered in the negative when asked if he
was "an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic
drug, or any other controlled substance?"

Hunter Biden was discharged from the Navy in 2014 after testing positive for cocaine.

The White House reacted to the charges Tuesday morning.

"The President and First Lady love their son and support him as he continues to rebuild his
life," White House spokesperson Ian Sams said in a statement. "We will have no further
comment."

Questions surrounding Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings entered the political
conversation in 2019. Former President Donald Trump suggested Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelenskyy launch an investigation into the Biden family’s business dealings—
pecifically why then-Vice President Joe Biden pressed Zelensky's predecessor to fire a
top prosecutor investigating Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings, where Hunter
Biden held a lucrative role on the board.

That phone call prompted the first Trump impeachment. Republicans, in their defense of
the former president, zeroed in on Hunter Biden and his overseas business dealings, even
suggesting Biden testify as part of the impeachment proceedings. The House of
Representatives voted to impeach Trump in December 2019, but he was acquitted by the
Senate.

Tony Bobulinski told "Tucker Carlson Tonight" that Hunter Biden committed fraud against his own business partners.
(Andrew Harnik)

Republicans in the Senate, like Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Johnson, R-Wis.,
also began investigating Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings in 2019. Grassley and
Johnson released a report out of their joint investigation in September 2020.

In that report, Grassley and Johnson said they obtained records from the U.S. Treasury
Department that showed "potential criminal activity relating to transactions among and
between Hunter Biden, his family, and his associates with Ukrainian, Russian, Kazakh and
Chinese nationals." The report also stated that Senate investigators found millions of
dollars in "questionable financial transactions" between Hunter Biden and his associates
and foreign individuals, including the wife of the former mayor of Moscow as well as
individuals with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

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BIDEN LAPTOP INTEL LETTER

In the fall of 2022, Grassley and Johnson flagged to the FBI that they were in possession
of whistleblower allegations suggesting the bureau had "significant, impactful
and voluminous evidence with respect to potential criminal conduct by Hunter Biden and
James Biden" and related to Hunter's work with Burisma Holdings.

And when Republicans took the House majority following the 2022 midterm elections, the
House Oversight Committee, led by Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., ramped up its
investigative work, focusing in on the Biden family and whether their foreign business
transactions put U.S. national security at risk.

NBC News authenticated the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop on May 19. (Brendan Smialowski)

The White House has maintained that the president never spoke to his son about his
business dealings and that the president was never involved in them. Officials also say the
president has never discussed investigations into members of his family with the Justice
Department.

The charges against the first son come after an IRS criminal supervisory agent seeking
whistleblower protections said the federal investigation into Hunter Biden was being
mishandled by the Biden administration.

The whistleblower claimed "clear" conflicts of interest, including giving the president’s son
"preferential treatment." The whistleblower also claimed politics are "improperly infecting
decisions and protocols that would normally be followed by career law enforcement
professionals in similar circumstances if the subject were not politically connected."

The White House has fired back against those allegations, saying that Biden has upheld
his commitment to ensure the investigation is "free from any political interference."

Meanwhile, a separate whistleblower has alleged that the FBI and the Justice Department
are in possession of a document that describes a criminal scheme involving then-Vice
President Joe Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy
decisions.

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"When it comes to President Biden’s personal finances, anybody can take a look: he has
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Brooke Singman is a Fox News Digital politics reporter. You can reach her at
[email protected] or @BrookeSingman on Twitter.

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