Hunter Biden’s 2021 memoir, “Beautiful Things,” was cited repeatedly in a California indictment detailing tax charges against him this week, outlining how he talked about lavish spending at a time when prosecutors say he should have been paying taxes.
Biden confronts nine charges accusing him of engaging in a “four-year scheme” during which he allegedly neglected to fulfill his federal income tax obligations from January 2017 to October 2020, concurrently submitting inaccurate tax reports.
The charges consist of three felonies and six misdemeanors, pertaining to $1.4 million in outstanding taxes that have since been settled. The special counsel contends that Hunter Biden diverted funds towards an opulent lifestyle instead of meeting his tax liabilities. Furthermore, in 2018, it is alleged that he ceased payments on his overdue taxes for the tax year 2015. a California indictment
“When he eventually submitted his 2018 returns,” Weiss asserted, “[he] intentionally incorporated deceptive business deductions with the aim of evading tax assessments, strategically diminishing the considerable tax responsibilities he was confronted with as of February 2020.”
The indictment describes how, in 2019, he began writing the memoir, “Beautiful Things,” and received approximately $140,625 from January to October 2020, which was deposited into his wife’s bank account. The indictment also said that, in 2018, he claimed approximately $388,810 in business-related travel. While he was making those claims to accountants, he was working on the memoir but did not share it with them, the document says.