Hunter Biden's 'high drama' day in court ends in shocking guilty plea
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The criminal trial of first son Hunter Biden on federal tax charges was expected to get underway in normal order Thursday before he said he intended to plead guilty to the charges in a shocking twist.
In the indictment, Weiss alleged that Hunter "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, from in or about January 2017 through in or about October 15, 2020, and to evade the assessment of taxes for tax year 2018 when he filed false returns in or about February 2020." Brianna Herlihy is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
Earlier this year, Hunter's lawyers blew up a plea deal involving those crimes, indicating he would plead not guilty in trial. But instead, Abbe Lowell, Hunter's attorney, said in a California federal court Thursday that his client intended to switch his plea, unbeknownst to the prosecution.