Whew.<\/p>\n
Judge Mark Scarsi issued an order Tuesday night acknowledging Hunter Biden\u2019s pardon and strongly rebuked Biden\u2019s assertion that his son was the victim of selective prosecution.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe President\u2019s statement illustrates the reasons for the Court\u2019s disapproval, as representations contained therein stand in tension with the case record. For example, the President asserts that Mr. Biden \u2018was treated differently\u2019 from others \u2018who were late paying their taxes because of serious addictions,\u2019 implying that Mr. Biden was among those individuals who untimely paid taxes due to addiction,\u201d Scarsi said<\/a>.<\/p>\n The judge pointed out that Hunter Biden said in court filings he was addicted to drugs and alcohol through May 2019, and in his guilty plea on tax-evasion charges admitted to dodging tax payments after becoming sober.<\/p>\n Hunter Biden pleaded guilty in September to nine federal tax charges for being unable to pay over $1.4 million of taxes in a timely manner last decade, despite making over $7 million and receiving considerable financial support from entertainment lawyer Kevin Morris. The younger Biden also faced charges for filing false tax forms and failing to file tax forms, in part because he fraudulently deducted personal expenses as business expenses.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd Mr. Biden admitted that he \u2018had sufficient funds available to him to pay some or all of his outstanding taxes when they were due,\u2019 but that he did not make payments toward his tax liabilities even \u2018well after he had regained his sobriety,\u2019 instead electing to \u2018spen[d] large sums to maintain his lifestyle\u2019 in 2020,\u201d Scarsi observed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whew. Judge Mark Scarsi issued an order Tuesday night acknowledging Hunter Biden\u2019s pardon and strongly rebuked Biden\u2019s assertion that his son was the victim of selective prosecution. \u201cThe President\u2019s statement illustrates the reasons for the Court\u2019s disapproval, as representations contained therein stand in tension with the case record. For example, the President asserts that Mr. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5004,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/5004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}