Judge in Hunter Biden’s federal tax trial issues schedule update
(This July 22 story has been corrected to say that Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty to the tax charges in paragraph 3)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The criminal tax trial for President Joe Biden’s son Hunter, due to begin on Sept. 5 with sessions Tuesdays through Fridays, will hold a session on Monday, Sept. 9, in lieu of Friday, Sept. 13, the judge overseeing the trial said in a schedule update.
The Department of Justice charged Hunter Biden in December with failing to pay $1.4 million in taxes between 2016 and 2019, while allegedly spending millions of dollars on drugs, escorts, exotic cars and other big-ticket items.
Hunter Biden has pleaded not guilty to the charges. In June he was convicted by a federal jury in Delaware on separate charges of lying about his illegal drug use to buy a gun. That made him the first child of a sitting U.S. president to be convicted of a crime.
