President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden has reached a deal on federal charges related to tax crimes and the illegal purchase of a handgun while he was an illicit drug user, the Justice Department wrote in a court filing on Tuesday.
The president's son has agreed to plead guilty to two counts of "willful failure to pay" his federal income taxes, and the Justice Department said Hunter Biden will be entering a "Pretrial Diversion Agreement" pertaining to possession of a firearm "by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance," according to the filing.
U.S. Attorney David Weiss of Delaware brought the limited charges amid whistleblower allegations that the Justice Department investigation was politicized and as Joe Biden insists his son has done nothing wrong.
Weiss’s office put out a press release on Tuesday, noting that Hunter Biden had been hit with “two misdemeanor tax offenses and a felony firearm offense.” The Delaware federal prosecutor said that “the investigation is ongoing.”
