Hunter Biden, the embattled son of President Joe Biden, pleaded guilty to nine federal tax crimes—a move that some suggest could be laying the groundwork for a pardon from his father.
U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi accepted the plea and set sentencing for December 16, just over a month after the presidential election, the New York Post reported Thursday.
Pleading guilty spares both Hunter and his father from the intense media scrutiny around what could have been a second trial brought by Special Counsel David Weiss.
But critics questioned the timing of the guilty plea, with best-seller author and journalist Jerry Dunleavy IV calling it a “bait-and-switch stunt” and a “total joke.”
“A defendant would never do this without the knowledge that he had a commutation or pardon in his back pocket,” Dunleavy commented on X. “And any normal prosecutor would just laugh, reject it, and proceed to trial.” […]
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