PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Bamaflyer on June 20, 2023, 07:13:18 AM
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https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/06/20/breaking-hunter-biden-charged-with-tax-and-gun-crimes-appears-to-get-off-easy-n764297
Not surprised…
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this is my shocked face...
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Of course.
Anyone else would be going to prison, especially if they vote republican.
Just swap the name with Donald Trump Jr, and the sentence would be solitary confinement in a maximum security facility and double the time.
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You can bet the usual republicans will come out with the typical tweets saying how unjust this is, and probably a few sound bites.
Then nothing else.
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You can bet the usual republicans will come out with the typical tweets saying how unjust this is, and probably a few sound bites.
Then nothing else.
Yep and the story will die a quick death. We are living in one of the most corrupt territories on Earth.
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Yep and the story will die a quick death. We are living in one of the most corrupt territories on Earth.
The republican party has become a joke.
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The republican party has become a joke.
I would add that they are now counterproductive to our Rights, Freedoms and Liberties and need to be dealt with just like the Democrats, with guillotines and/or firing squads. After legal, due process, of course. ::)
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All the Bidens need to placed against a wall and shot for treason. But, I also believe that since the 2nd Amendment has not been removed or modified by the proper process set forth by the Constitution, all firearms laws are unconstitutional. Especially if they are aren't applied equally to all citizens.
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Maybe Daddy will pardon him.
Justice is good when you are a part of the ruling junta.
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And now the democrats are all taking a victory lap. "See! He's taking responsibility! What an honorable person Hunter is." And he settled his child support issue as well. Yeah, he got off easy. It's easy when you're playing with billions of someone else's money.
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https://twitter.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1672767716342607874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1672767716342607874%7Ctwgr%5E972bc48df132aa0f47116d2a5893362fa4d11ba6%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpatriots.win%2F
I’m sure that within the next 20 years or so the FBI and CIA and DOJ will be all over that WhatsApp message from Hunter that’s ALL OVER THE INTERNET RIGHT NOW. It exists.
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https://twitter.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1672767716342607874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1672767716342607874%7Ctwgr%5E972bc48df132aa0f47116d2a5893362fa4d11ba6%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpatriots.win%2F
I’m sure that within the next 20 years or so the FBI and CIA and DOJ will be all over that WhatsApp message from Hunter that’s ALL OVER THE INTERNET RIGHT NOW. It exists.
Quick, indict Trump again!!!
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No. They are now openly hypocritical and don’t bother denying it. Cheating in elections has eliminated their need to be coy. They might as well make a law that only Republicans are banned from owning guns.
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No. They are now openly hypocritical and don’t bother denying it. Cheating in elections has eliminated their need to be coy. They might as well make a law that only Republicans are banned from owning guns.
Those are already here, and they’re called “red flag laws”. In essence, anyone they disagree with can be hauled before an activist judge and be stripped of their gun rights, no evidence needed.
Another example is Hunter Biden. Need I say more?
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Those are already here, and they’re called “red flag laws”. In essence, anyone they disagree with can be hauled before an activist judge and be stripped of their gun rights, no evidence needed.
Another example is Hunter Biden. Need I say more?
^^^^^^This. In Spades.
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The IRS would much rather get your money than put you in jail, the only people I've heard of who went to jail for tax evasion wouldn't or couldn't pay. As for the weapons charge, that usually only comes into play when the weapon is used to commit a crime. I think the government settled because they'd have had a hard time winning the case and knew it.
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Others have conflicting information.
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The IRS would much rather get your money than put you in jail, the only people I've heard of who went to jail for tax evasion wouldn't or couldn't pay.
Ever hear of a guy named Al Capone?
As for the weapons charge, that usually only comes into play when the weapon is used to commit a crime. I think the government settled because they'd have had a hard time winning the case and knew it.
Every hear of a guy named Trump?
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The IRS would much rather get your money than put you in jail, the only people I've heard of who went to jail for tax evasion wouldn't or couldn't pay. As for the weapons charge, that usually only comes into play when the weapon is used to commit a crime. I think the government settled because they'd have had a hard time winning the case and knew it.
The case was a slam dunk, and they threw the ball to the side.
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The case was a slam dunk, and they threw the ball to the side.
And you KNOW that because you're one of the prosecuting attorneys.
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And you KNOW that because you're one of the prosecuting attorneys.
The laws are all easy to look up, and understand.
Your idol Hunter Biden committed FELONIES, each carrying prison time. Had you been charged with the exact same FELONIES, you would have a room at Club Fed.
And, it was FJB himself when a senator that pushed for more jail time for the exact same crimes his crackhead son committed.
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The laws are all easy to look up, and understand.
Your idol Hunter Biden committed FELONIES, each carrying prison time. Had you been charged with the exact same FELONIES, you would have a room at Club Fed.
And, it was FJB himself when a senator that pushed for more jail time for the exact same crimes his crackhead son committed.
And you KNOW all this because you personally had access to All the evidence available to the prosecutors, are familiar with the applicable statutes and the record of convictions associated with them. You know the judges involved and how they're likely to see things.
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And you KNOW all this because you personally had access to All the evidence available to the prosecutors, are familiar with the applicable statutes and the record of convictions associated with them. You know the judges involved and how they're likely to see things.
So we're not allowed to have an opinion unless we have ALL the facts from ALL the sources and know the minds of ALL the participants? Yeah, right.
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Only prof chicken little is entitled to an opinion
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I think the government settled because they'd have had a hard time winning the case and knew it.
And you KNOW that because you're one of the prosecuting attorneys.
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And you KNOW all this because you personally had access to All the evidence available to the prosecutors, are familiar with the applicable statutes and the record of convictions associated with them. You know the judges involved and how they're likely to see things.
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So we're not allowed to have an opinion unless we have ALL the facts from ALL the sources
Yeah, right.
Perhaps I should use that as a response to Becky over in my Climate Change thread.
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Perhaps I should use that as a response to Becky over in my Climate Change thread.
You said “I have no doubt.” That means you’re certain. I asked on what you were basing your certainty. Fair question.
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And you KNOW that because you're one of the prosecuting attorneys.
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What I do know is these sorts of weapons charges aren't usually prosecuted unless said weapon is used in a crime. Usually. I suspect that most of this stuff is pretty petty-ante for a federal prosecutor, I think they usually do drug stuff.
What I also know is I didn't sleep through my Civics class like you guys, and I know a bit about how our justice system works. Sadly none of you have evinced that ability, as witnessed by people assuming the defendant's guilt not because they have any access to the evidence but because of who the defendant's father is.
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And there we have it. Prof chicken little took a civics class
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See… I distinctly saw news that the convict biden PLED GUILTY to those charges.
I guess being a criminal democrat means that doesn’t count… if you’re the POS.
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You said “I have no doubt.” That means you’re certain. I asked on what you were basing your certainty. Fair question.
I said I have no doubt. That mean that is my opinion.
I didn't say I have proof. There is no proof. There is circumstantial evidence, even if much of it is suspect.
I thoroughly believe there was cheating in the 2020 election. But I have no proof. Just a lot of (really good) circumstantial evidence.
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The IRS would much rather get your money than put you in jail, the only people I've heard of who went to jail for tax evasion wouldn't or couldn't pay. As for the weapons charge, that usually only comes into play when the weapon is used to commit a crime. I think the government settled because they'd have had a hard time winning the case and knew it.
The IRS has a Criminal Investigation Division, and they do put people in prison. This may shock you, but people who commit tax fraud don’t always have the cash to pay taxes, penalties and interest. They will take a pound of flesh without hesitating.
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Perhaps I should use that as a response to Becky over in my Climate Change thread.
Yes, upon what are you're basing your certainty man affects climate change when we've seen huge swings naturally over millenia? Do tell.
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Yes, upon what are you're basing your certainty man affects climate change when we've seen huge swings naturally over millenia? Do tell.
How could all the crap we have been pumping into the air and the water for the past few hundred years NOT have any effect.
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How could all the crap we have been pumping into the air and the water for the past few hundred years NOT have any effect.
One volcano and that theory goes pffttttt.
One space launch and … oops.
all those celebrities and liberal satan worshipping democrat pricate jets and yachts…
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Sadly none of you have evinced that ability, as witnessed by people assuming the defendant's guilt not because they have any access to the evidence but because of who the defendant's father is.
Or who the defendant is. Donald J Trump, 45th President. And his children. You declared him guilty over and over with zero knowledge of evidence, etc, just like your fellow travelers.
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Oh, BTW
https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/29/doj-prosecutors-charge-hunter-donate-biden-harris/
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How could all the crap we have been pumping into the air and the water for the past few hundred years NOT have any effect.
Add to that deforestation in the rain forest and other places across the planet
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See… I distinctly saw news that the convict biden PLED GUILTY to those charges.
I guess being a criminal democrat means that doesn’t count… if you’re the POS.
It's called a plea agreement, the defendant agrees to do certain actions (like plead guilty) and the court agrees to certain actions (like not throwing him in jail). You'll no doubt be astonished to know that the majority of cases end this way, since trying people in court takes time and money the courts don't have.
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It's called a plea agreement, the defendant agrees to do certain actions (like plead guilty) and the court agrees to certain actions (like not throwing him in jail). You'll no doubt be astonished to know that the majority of cases end this way, since trying people in court takes time and money the courts don't have.
Oh, sorry NOW it’s the fault of the doj that baby hunter is convicted of a felony weapons charge.
Baby hunter couldn’t possibly be guilty of anything…because that’s why he pled guilty, to prove he was innocent.
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Oh, sorry NOW it’s the fault of the doj that baby hunter is convicted of a felony weapons charge.
Baby hunter couldn’t possibly be guilty of anything…because that’s why he pled guilty, to prove he was innocent.
He pled guilty to a pair of tax-related misdemeanors. The felony gun charge was subject to a pretrial diversion, whatever that actually means. I think what it means is he won't be charged with a felony weapons count, but what he still has to do to avoid said charge isn't all that clear.
The sad thing is a lot of poor people plead guilty for stuff they didn't do just to avoid the timed money needed to deal with courts.
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He pled guilty to a pair of tax-related misdemeanors. The felony gun charge was subject to a pretrial diversion, whatever that actually means. I think what it means is he won't be charged with a felony weapons count, but what he still has to do to avoid said charge isn't all that clear.
The sad thing is a lot of poor people plead guilty for stuff they didn't do just to avoid the timed money needed to deal with courts.
They plead guilty because they did the crime and by taking responsibility they get points taken off their sentencing which in turn gives them less time to serve. If you're poor you get court appointed attorneys. From my experience most of them are way better than government attorneys. Once again you show how much knowledge you don't have
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He pled guilty to a pair of tax-related misdemeanors. The felony gun charge was subject to a pretrial diversion, whatever that actually means. I think what it means is he won't be charged with a felony weapons count, but what he still has to do to avoid said charge isn't all that clear.
The sad thing is a lot of poor people plead guilty for stuff they didn't do just to avoid the timed money needed to deal with courts.
You pathetic shill.
Baby hunter pled guilty to avoid PRISON time and as a deal made with a corrupt AG to avoid daddy biden being uncovered as the corrupt communist chinese agent he is and has been for decades.
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He pled guilty to a pair of tax-related misdemeanors. The felony gun charge was subject to a pretrial diversion, whatever that actually means. I think what it means is he won't be charged with a felony weapons count, but what he still has to do to avoid said charge isn't all that clear.
The sad thing is a lot of poor people plead guilty for stuff they didn't do just to avoid the timed money needed to deal with courts.
The most serious tax evasion crimes Hunter allegedly committed occurred when he didn't pay taxes on his considerable Burisma 2014 income and income in 2015. But the DoJ allegedly interfered in the IRS investigation, slowing it down, until the 5 year statute of limitations ran out. So he did get away with fraud. (He used the commonest tax-dodge on the books: claimed the money was a loan, not income.)
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Hahahahahaha!!!
https://gab.com/Dissident_Priest/posts/110635203827819435
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How could all the crap we have been pumping into the air and the water for the past few hundred years NOT have any effect.
Your wife may recall this from veterinary school, but when my daughter was studying pharmacology, I believe, she learned the memory jogger “The solution to pollution (I.e., poisoning) is dilution.”
Apply that to Mother Earth. There is no question the earth is cleaner than it ever was during the Industrial Revolution. Earth seems to have cleaned itself in many ways. LA and Cleveland air doesn’t look like they used to when we were growing up.
So when Algore tells me that my Ford F-150 is destroying the climate, while being unable to quantify the effect on the climate of the 430 quintillion Joules of energy hitting the earth every hour from that big ball of fire in the sky, pardon me if I’m skeptical that the earth is getting destroyed by man.
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But wait! Biden wants to cool the Earth by blocking out the sun. Never mind that it will destroy the solar energy industry.
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But wait! Biden wants to cool the Earth by blocking out the sun. Never mind that it will destroy the solar energy industry.
I saw that. What a bunch of psychotic losers to actually even suggest something like that.
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I saw that. What a bunch of psychotic losers to actually even suggest something like that.
We all know wind and solar are terrible ways to generate electricity. Too little generated and way too expensive. NJ approved a wind farm 12 miles off the South Jersey coast to the dismay of residents and businesses. NJ elected Fascist Murphy so this is what you get.
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First let me say that even though I think man is a bigger contributor to climate change than I used to think:
I still think it is real and that man is a big contributor.
And its not the mere fact of climate change. As we all know, the climate has always been, and always will be changing. The problem is if it changes faster than we can adapt.
But I also think the worst thing we can do is allow government to mandate "solutions". If we do that, we will get things like solar shields that supposedly reflect sunlight away from earth. What could possibly go wrong with that?
But . . .
We all know wind and solar are terrible ways to generate electricity. Too little generated and way too expensive.
We don't all know that. Recent developments and coming technology is improving those methods of generation immensely. And since "We all know" that the cost of electricity at the plug IS GOING TO INCREASE, then the difference will shrink and soon solar and (possibly) wind energy will be cheaper than than grid electricity; even if we build nuclear power plants all over the place. Yes, nuclear produces tons of juice and is "green" except for the waste, but it will never in our lifetimes, be cheap.
NJ approved a wind farm 12 miles off the South Jersey coast to the dismay of residents and businesses. NJ elected Fascist Murphy so this is what you get.
Why are the residents so opposed to this? To an average person standing on the beach, the horizon is less than 3 miles away.
The best way to fight climate change is for people to encourage private industry to develop methods that actually work.
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First let me say that even though I think man is a bigger contributor to climate change than I used to think:
I still think it is real and that man is a big contributor.
And its not the mere fact of climate change. As we all know, the climate has always been, and always will be changing. The problem is if it changes faster than we can adapt.
But I also think the worst thing we can do is allow government to mandate "solutions". If we do that, we will get things like solar shields that supposedly reflect sunlight away from earth. What could possibly go wrong with that?
But . . .We don't all know that. Recent developments and coming technology is improving those methods of generation immensely. And since "We all know" that the cost of electricity at the plug IS GOING TO INCREASE, then the difference will shrink and soon solar and (possibly) wind energy will be cheaper than than grid electricity; even if we build nuclear power plants all over the place. Yes, nuclear produces tons of juice and is "green" except for the waste, but it will never in our lifetimes, be cheap.
Why are the residents so opposed to this? To an average person standing on the beach, the horizon is less than 3 miles away.
The best way to fight climate change is for people to encourage private industry to develop methods that actually work.
That’s exactly what RFK Jr says. Whether he would stick to that if elected is another matter. But he says climate change should be fought with free market solutions, not “top down control”.
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How much is Man and how much is the Sun or other natural factors? This is purely a tactic to further control and subjugate the masses. Period.
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The best way to fight climate change is for people to encourage private industry to develop methods that actually work.
No one can "fight climate change". That's like saying man can "fight seasonal change".
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No one can "fight climate change". That's like saying man can "fight seasonal change".
Or make it be day all 24 hours.
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THE STUFF HUNTER BIDEN DIDN'T GET INDICTED FOR
There's no doubt Hunter Biden had some serious tax problems. In the 2010s, he took in millions from shady overseas business dealings, trading on the name of his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, and had a history of filing his returns late with six-figure amounts of taxes due. There was also his lowlife, high-cost drug addict lifestyle in which he threw away hundreds of thousands of dollars on prostitutes and crack. He had personal financial problems most people don't share.
Last week, Hunter Biden agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of failing to pay his taxes on time. Republicans quickly dismissed it as a sweetheart deal, and they were right. IRS investigators, who did the key work in the investigation, wanted to charge Hunter Biden with felonies. The Justice Department disagreed, choosing instead to reduce the charges to misdemeanors. But those two misdemeanors do not describe the full extent of Biden's tax transgressions.
For the story, it's best to go to two transcripts released last week by the House Ways and Means Committee. The first was from IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley, who oversaw the Biden investigation. Shapley's testimony has received a good bit of attention, in part because he revealed a remarkable WhatsApp message from July 30, 2017, in which Hunter Biden pressured a Chinese business associate for money by threatening to have his father, by then the former vice president, use his influence to retaliate against the associate if the money was not delivered. Hunter Biden said his father was "sitting next to me" as he made the threat, which, if true, would mean that Joe Biden was not telling the truth when he repeatedly denied knowledge of his son's business affairs.
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That was big. But there is a second IRS whistleblower whose testimony was also released last week. This whistleblower, who is anonymous, was the lead case agent for the Hunter Biden investigation. As such, he had a detailed, hands-on knowledge of the evidence in the case. He is the IRS agent who would have testified against Hunter Biden had any case against him gone to trial.
This agent — call him WB2, for whistleblower No. 2 — told House investigators a remarkable story. It started with Hunter Biden before his father became vice president, before becoming a crack addict. "Hunter Biden had had a lot of tax issues, even predating all this stuff," WB2 testified. "Back in 2002, he filed his Form 1040 late — filing and owing over $100,000 in taxes; 2003, owed more than $100,000 in taxes; 2004, late-filed and owed more than $20,000 in taxes; and then 2005, late-filed his personal return and owed over $100,000 in taxes."
Fast-forward to 2014, when Joe Biden was vice president and a corrupt Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, put Hunter Biden on its board of directors. According to WB2, Burisma paid Hunter Biden $666,667 that year to do little or no work. Hunter Biden received the money, WB2 explained, and then moved it to a Chinese company run by one of his associates. That company then "loaned" the money to Hunter Biden.
"So imagine this," WB2 said. "If you are an owner of a company and your friend tells you that, 'I want to pay my wages to your company, and you're going to loan the money back to me,' that's essentially what happened here. He took loans from that corporation ... and he didn't pay taxes on those loans. ... So essentially, for 2014, we found that Hunter didn't report any of the money he earned from Burisma." The problem, WB2 said, was: "You can't loan yourself your own income."
A House Republican lawyer asked: "So none of this was taxed?" WB2 responded: "None of it was taxed." The lawyer said: "And to date, none of it has been paid or prosecuted?" WB2 responded: "So none of this has been paid or prosecuted. And I would also like to note that the statute [of limitations] has run out on these tax years or on the 2014 tax year." The year 2014 was not part of the misdemeanor charges against Hunter Biden. As far as the IRS and Justice Department are concerned, that's all over.
In an extremely complex arrangement, Hunter Biden did pay some of his taxes on Burisma money in 2015. But then, in 2016, Hunter Biden did not file a personal return at all and did not pay the $581,713 he owed in taxes, according to WB2. Hunter Biden moved to California, entered his drug addict years, and did not file tax returns for 2017 or 2018, either. In 2019, he got sober and faced a child support case for a child he had had with a former stripper in Arkansas. He hired a new accountant and, in February 2020, filed his 2017 and 2018 returns, according to WB2.
The 2018 return, WB2 said, contained false claims for deductions. "Some of the items that he deducted were personal no-show employees," WB2 said. "He deducted payments that were made to who he called his West Coast assistant, but she was essentially a prostitute. He made payments — there's an $18,000 wire that is made to one of these individuals, and on the wires, they say $8,000 in wage and $10,000 in golf — $10,000 golf club member deposit. And we know that that $10,000 went to pay for a sex club. He went to a sex club — and we've talked to the person that owned that sex club, and they confirmed that he was there. And the [sex club member] has to pay $10,000 ... so that was deducted on the tax return."
Hunter Biden also "deducted expenses for hotel rooms for one of his drug dealers or what we believed to be one of his drug dealers," WB2 added. "There was a significant amount of expenses deducted related to his girlfriend at the time, Airbnbs related to her, hotel rooms. So he deducted a lot for the Chateau Marmont, and he actually was blacklisted and thrown out of the Chateau Marmont. We actually have ... photos of the rooms and the destruction that was done to the rooms."
In those years, Hunter Biden was in full flight when it came to profiting from his father's name and influence. The money wasn't just coming from Ukraine. It was coming from all over the world. "Global income streams for everyone altogether, so it's for the period 2014 through 2019, our investigative years, so the total global transfers that Hunter and his associates would have received from Ukraine, Romania, and China was $17.3 million, approximately," WB2 said. But that was for everyone involved in the Hunter Biden enterprise. As for Hunter Biden himself, WB2 said: "Of this amount, for the period 2014 through ... the end of 2019 — that's when income stops coming in — it's $8.3 million. This is what Hunter would have received of that." That's the bottom line for Hunter Biden's foreign income during that period: $8.3 million.
The IRS investigation began in 2018. "The investigation into Hunter Biden, code name Sportsman, was first opened in November 2018 as an offshoot of an investigation the IRS was conducting into a foreign-based amateur online pornography platform," Shapley told House investigators.
By the time his father was the Democratic candidate for president, Hunter Biden owed a lot of unpaid taxes. By Shapley's estimation, the total owed was $2.2 million. Since 2014, Hunter Biden has sometimes failed to file his returns, has failed to pay tons of tax, and has fraudulently claimed deductions for payments to prostitutes. How could he get out of such a situation?
One big step would be to pay off all his taxes and penalties. Many news accounts of the Hunter Biden story have noted that prosecutors are less likely to charge a person who has committed tax crimes if that person ultimately paid off his or her bill. The idea is that a jury would ask: Hey, this guy has paid what he owes, so why are you putting him on trial? Hunter Biden could put himself in an infinitely better position if he paid the IRS what he owed. But that was $2.2 million. Where could Hunter Biden get $2.2 million?
Enter Kevin Morris. A wealthy Hollywood celebrity lawyer, Morris apparently met Hunter Biden at a political fundraiser in the 2019-20 period. And then, when Joe Biden was in the White House, Morris paid the younger Biden's tax bill.
According to WB2, on his 2020 tax returns, Hunter Biden included a note: "The taxpayer received financial support from a personal friend totaling approximately $1.4 million. The parties agreed in 2020 to treat the support as a loan and later documented their agreement in a promissory note in the amount of $1.4 million, 5% interest. The promissory note requires periodic payments between 2025 and 2027. The promissory note was executed by both parties on October 13th, 2021. The taxpayer is treating this amount as a loan for tax purposes. The balance of the financial support is treated as a gift. No amount of the support is treated as a reported taxable event on this return."
In later months, Morris gave his friend even more money — approximately $800,00 more, bringing Morris's total payoff of Hunter Biden's tax liabilities to the full $2.2 million owed. The Morris money would serve as a roadblock to those IRS agents who wanted to prosecute Hunter Biden. "The payment could make it harder for prosecutors to win a conviction or a long sentence for tax-related offenses, according to tax law experts, since juries and judges tend to be more sympathetic to defendants who have paid their bills," the New York Times reported in 2022. Of course, Hunter Biden did not actually pay his bills. Morris did.
In WB2's testimony, a Republican lawyer asked about the Morris loans: "Has that transaction been investigated?" WB2 responded, "I'm no longer a part of an investigation related to that." As part of what the whistleblowers say is retaliation against them, top IRS officials removed both WB2 and Shapley from the Hunter Biden case.
And now the matter has been resolved with two misdemeanor charges. The conclusion is deeply frustrating to IRS agents like WB2. Hunter Biden failed to file returns, failed to pay his taxes for several years, and falsely claimed deductions. WB2 also pointed out, more than once, that Hunter Biden's tax offenses occurred over a period of years, some of which he was on drugs and some of which he was not, meaning that not all of the violations can be attributed to Hunter Biden's being in a drug-induced haze, as some defenders suggest. The agents' conclusion is that just because Hunter Biden's new friend bailed him out — no repayments required until 2025 — does not mean Hunter Biden did not violate the tax laws repeatedly in the 2010s.
At the end of WB2's deposition, a Republican lawyer asked this question: "If someone meets all the elements for a crime of willful evasion and are found to, in conjunction with that, owe a liability, and they pay off that liability years later when they've been caught, has a crime been committed?" WB2 answered simply: "Yes."
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This is the most corrupt faux Administration in my lifetime. Even worse than Obama and half the U.S. territory seems fine with it.
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This is the most corrupt faux Administration in my lifetime. Even worse than Obama and half the U.S. territory seems fine with it.
Yeah… but no danger of anyone getting their feelings hurt by a mean tweet.