Did Hunter Biden get the same deal that would be given to someone who was not the son of the president of the United States? One sentencing expert said it was difficult to assess from the filings whether Biden received a sweetheart deal.
Did Hunter Biden get the same deal that would be given to someone who was not the son of the president of the United States?
The crimes to which Biden is pleading guilty, Berman said, are ones that the average person is rarely prosecuted for because they are usually only brought along with more serious offenses.In Biden’s case, they include a charge stemming from lying about drug use on the government form used for his purchase of a handgun. Current and former officials say tens of thousands of Americans, out of the 25 million who buy guns each year, lie on their forms and are not prosecuted.
By making the payments, former officials said, Biden complicated the ability of prosecutors to charge him with tax evasion because juries often question why the government has indicted someone who has paid his taxes. That left prosecutors with the options to charge Biden with filing his 2017 and 2018 taxes late — something that Biden’s lawyers argued to prosecutors are often handled without criminal charges and that in this case were handled as misdemeanors.
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