The Washington Post reported Thursday that federal agents investigating Hunter Biden, the son of US President Joe Biden, believe they have evidence of tax crimes and it will be up to a prosecutor to decide whether to bring charges.
The newspaper reports, citing sources with knowledge of the case, that investigators believe they have sufficient evidence to charge the younger Biden with making a false statement regarding a gun purchase.
It would be up to the US Attorney in Delaware, who was appointed by former president Donald Trump, to determine whether or not to file charges against Biden, 52.
Hunter Biden, a lawyer, and lobbyist said in a statement in December 2020 that the government was looking into his tax situation, but he denied doing anything wrong.
During the years 2014 to 2019, while his father was vice president, Hunter Biden served prominently on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma.
In 2019, the US House of Representatives voted to remove Trump from office because he tried to get Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to find what Trump thought was embarrassing information about Hunter Biden.
According to the Post, federal agents believe they have sufficient evidence to charge Hunter Biden in 2018 with tax crimes and lying on gun purchase paperwork.
The newspaper reported that US Attorney General Merrick Garland had given David Weiss, the US Attorney in Delaware, the Bidens’ home state, the authority to decide whether charges should be brought.
Chris Clark, an attorney for Hunter Biden, told the Post that federal agents are prohibited from leaking information to the media.
Clark said in a statement, “It is a federal felony for a federal agent to leak information about a Grand Jury investigation such as this one.”
Clark added, “As is proper and legally required, we believe the prosecutors, in this case, are diligently and thoroughly weighing not just evidence provided by agents, but also all the other witnesses in this case, including witnesses for the defense,”
