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California Judge Mark Scarsi ruled against Hunter Biden’s attempt to dismiss the nine federal tax charges brought against him in California.

On December 7, 2023, Biden was indicted for three felonies and six misdemeanors. They were filed in addition to three federal firearms charges in Delaware, which charged that he lied about his drug use to buy a firearm, which he had for a brief period in 2018.

Federal law forbids gun possession by “habitual drug users.”

Still, a federal appeals court questioned its application as a standalone charge.

Special Counsel David Weiss said Hunter “spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle rather than paying his tax bills.”

These charges primarily focus on almost $1.4 million in unpaid taxes that Hunter owed between 2016 and 2019, during which he publicly recognized his struggles with addiction. If convicted, Hunter could face a sentence of up to 17 years.

The documents in California highlight Hunter’s expenditures on drugs,...

Oscar winner Julianne Moore (Still Alice) and Nicholas Galitzine lead the cast of Starz’s new period drama Mary & George. Episode one, “The Second Son,” premieres on April 5, 2024 at 9pm Et/Pt and finds Moore as Mary Villiers plotting how to improve her family’s standing.

The cast also includes Tony Curran (Mayflies) as King James I, Nicola Walker (The Split) as Lady Hatton, Niamh Algar (The Wonder) as Sandie, Trine Dyrholm (The Legacy) as Queen Anne, and Sean Gilder (Slow Horses) as Sir Thomas Compton. Adrian Rawlins (Living) plays Sir Edward Coke, Mark O’Halloran (The Miracle Club) is Sir Francis Bacon, Laurie Davidson (Masters of the Air) is Earl of Somerset, Samuel Blenkin (The Witcher: Blood Origin) is Prince Charles, and Jacob McCarthy (Sas: Rogue Heroes) as Kit Villiers.

“The Second Son” Plot: Mary Villiers develops a cunning plan to transform her family’s fortunes forever, but first,...

Pay no attention to the discredited informant facing prison time.

GOP officials were scrambling Wednesday after Alexander Smirnov, a key witness in the impeachment proceedings against President Biden, was accused of being informed by Russian intelligence.

Smirnov was arrested last Thursday after Special Counsel David Weiss charged him on suspicion of providing the FBI with fraudulent information. Smirnov, an FBI informant for over a decade, was further discredited after a DOJ report Tuesday indicated he was not only lying to the FBI about Biden, but had “contacts with multiple foreign intelligence agencies.

The prosecutor overseeing the Hunter Biden investigation last week indicted a key witness in the GOP’s case against Hunter Biden, Alexander Smirnov, for lying to the FBI. But Rep. Mike Turner, GOP chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, wants the Republican impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden regarding his son’s business dealings to continue to “its natural conclusion,” even though Rep. Jim Jordan recently said that “the most corroborating evidence” against the Bidens stems from Smirnov’s claims.

Turner appeared on Sunday’s Meet the Press where host Kristen Welker asked him about Smirnov.

FBI informant Alexander Smirnov has been indicted on charges of concoction of a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme that involved President Joe Biden, Biden’s son Hunter and a Ukrainian energy company.

The claims made by Smirnov have played a central role in the Republican-led impeachment inquiry against Biden.

Court documents say Smirnov, 43, falsely reported to the FBI in June 2020 that executives linked to the Ukrainian energy company Burisma had paid Hunter and Biden $5 million each in 2015 or 2016. Smirnov alleged that an executive had hired Hunter to leverage his father’s influence in order to avoid potential complications. However, prosecutors assert that Smirnov’s interactions with the company were routine business dealings in 2017, and he only made the bribery allegations after he expressed bias against Biden in his presidential candidacy.

After a brief appearance in Las Vegas court, Smirnov was charged with making false statements and creating a fictitious record. He did not enter a plea,...

The Department of Justice has charged a former FBI informant — whose claims Republicans used to bolster allegations of a corrupt bribery scheme involving Hunter Biden and the Ukrainian energy company Burisma — with two counts of making false statements to federal authorities.

The indictment, announced Thursday by Special Counsel David Weiss, alleges that Alexander Smirnov “falsely claimed” that during two business meetings in 2015 and/or 2016 “executives associated with Burisma, admitted to him that they hired [Hunter Biden] to ‘protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems.’”

Smirnov added that the Burisma...

“Live coverage here, as it happens,” Fox News’ Martha MacCallum declared Thursday with an on-screen Breaking News alert. “We are now minutes away from Hunter Biden’s arraignment in a Los Angeles courtroom!”

Mere hours after Donald Trump received the judicial equivalent of a spanking in the courtroom at New York City fraud trial, Biden’s courtroom appearance on the other side of the country had Fnc in a lather.

In the federal courthouse in downtown LA, Biden entered a not-guilty plea before U.S. District Judge Mark C. Scarci. The hearing, Biden’s first appearance in the case, lasted about 30 minutes with Trump-appointed judge Scarci making sure Biden was aware a warrant for his arrest could be issued if he failed to comply with any conditions of release like drinking or having a gun.

“Do you understand?” the judge asked.

“I do, your honor,” Biden responded, with his attorneys by his side.

A day after he walked out on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) during a surprise appearance at a House Oversight Committee hearing, Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty to tax evasion in a federal courtroom in Los Angeles Thursday. He received a trial date of June 20.

It was the first court appearance for President Joe Biden’s son after a federal grand jury indicted him December 7 on nine charges alleging he “willfully failed” to pay $1.4 million in taxes while living an “extravagant lifestyle.” Dressed in a navy blue suit and tie,...

On Thursday, President Joe Biden‘s son, Hunter Biden, was indicted on nine tax charges in California.

The new charges – three felonies and six misdemeanors – have been filed in addition to federal firearms charges in Delaware, which allege that Hunter lied about his drug use to purchase a firearm, which he possessed for a brief period in 2018.

Federal law prohibits gun possession by “habitual drug users.”

Still, its application as a standalone charge has been questioned by a federal appeals court. The collapse of a previous plea deal over the summer has set the stage for a potential trial while Hunter’s father campaigns for reelection.

Special Counsel David Weiss stated that Hunter “spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle rather than paying his tax bills.”

The charges primarily center around approximately $1.4 million in unpaid taxes that Hunter owed between 2016 and 2019, a period in which he publicly acknowledged his struggles with addiction.

In a legal bombshell, Hunter Biden faces a barrage of accusations, as revealed in a 56-page federal court filing in Los Angeles. The indictment, encompassing nine tax-related charges, paints a vivid picture of financial mismanagement and alleged misconduct. This development, fueled by a four-year investigation overseen by special counsel David Weiss, has sent shockwaves through […]

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President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, plans to plead not guilty to federal gun charges, his attorney stated in a Tuesday filing, according to The New York Times.

Last week, Hunter Biden was indicted on three counts related to possessing a firearm while under the influence of narcotics. He is requesting to hold his initial court hearing over video instead of in person, per the filing.

“Mr. Biden also will enter a plea of not guilty, and there is no reason why he cannot utter those two words by videoconference,...

Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, was indicted Thursday on federal gun charges.

Federal prosecutors already indicated earlier this month that they were moving to charge Biden on the charges. He pleaded not guilty in July to misdemeanor tax charges after a plea agreement fell apart. As part of that deal, Biden would have entered a diversion program in lieu of the gun charges.

Prosecutors allege that Biden made false statements in the purchase of a firearm in 2018. Specifically, on a gun purchase form, he attested that he was not addicted to a narcotic when he was still using, according to prosecutors. Biden was charged with three counts in the case. Read the indictment.

The indictment puts Hunter Biden’s legal troubles again front and center during the presidential election, as they were in 2020. Already, the president’s critics compared the treatment of Hunter Biden’s criminal case...

The special counsel investigating Hunter Biden informed a judge that he planned to indict the president’s son by later this month.

U.S. Attorney David Weiss wrote in a court filing that the government planned to seek the indictment before September 29.

It was not immediately clear what charge or charges Biden would face, but the prosecutors’ filing suggested that it was related to a felony gun charge.

Biden pled not guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges at a court hearing in July, after plans for a plea agreement with prosecutors fell apart. As part of that agreement, Biden also was to enter a diversion program in lieu of the gun charge.

Biden’s legal team also wrote in a filing that their client “has been following and will continue to follow the conditions of “the diversion agreement,” which the U.S. Attorney’s Office agreed and signed and informed the Court...

U.S. Attorney David Weiss, the special counsel Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed to investigate Hunter Biden, will file a new indictment against the president’s son by the end of September, according to a court filing.

“The Speedy Trial Act requires that the Government obtain the return of an indictment by a grand jury by Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, at the earliest,” the special counsel’s office wrote in the Wednesday filing. “The Government intends to seek the return of an indictment in this case before that date.”

Garland appointed Weiss as special counsel on Aug.

Republicans are flip-flopping on who they want to investigate Hunter Biden.

Last September, Sen. Ted Cruz along with several other Republicans authored a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland requesting that U.S. Attorney David Weiss be given “special counsel protections and authorities to conduct the Hunter Biden investigation.” But now that Garland has appointed Weiss as special counsel in the investigation, Cruz is claiming that Weiss is a “wildly inappropriate” choice.

Cruz alleged that Weiss “was a U.S. Attorney hand-picked to lead this investigation who spent the last...

Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday named David Weiss, a federal prosector appointed by Donald Trump, as a special counsel tasked with investigating Hunter Biden.

Weiss, who has been investigating the president’s son since 2019, requested to be made a special counsel on Tuesday. The appointment gives Weiss the authority to continue investigating Biden “as well as any matters that arose from that investigation or may arise,” and to “prosecute federal crimes in any federal judicial district arising from the investigation of these matters.”

Trump nominated Weiss to serve as...

U.S. Attorney David Weiss, who has been overseeing the investigation into Hunter Biden, has been appointed to the post of special counsel, a move intended to give him a new level of independence from the Justice Department.

Attorney General Merrick Garland made the announcement on Friday, amid Republican claims that the investigation of the president’s son had been treated differently and that a proposed plea deal was too lenient.

Weiss, a Donald Trump appointee to the post of top federal prosecutor in Delaware, has supervised the case since 2018, and remained in his position after Biden took office.

Last month, the proposed plea deal unraveled in a Delaware federal court. Biden was to plea guilty to two counts of failure to pay federal income tax, and to enter a diversion program that would resolve a potential gun charge. At one point during the hearing, prosecutors had insisted that the investigation was ongoing,...

Updated: Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty to federal tax charges after a judge declined to sign off on a plea agreement between the president’s son and prosecutors.

U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika cited concerns over an agreement in which Biden would enter a diversion program as part of a deal having to do with another charge, for felony possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of, or addicted to a controlled substance, according to CNN. The judge raised constitutional issues about the gun diversion agreement.

The judge indicated that she would schedule a future hearing, essentially putting the plea deal on hold. She gave both sides 30 days to submit briefs addressing her concerns, deferring a decision on the plea in the interim.

Her decision to put the deal on hold was a surprise, and came after the deal appeared to fall apart earlier in the day.

Donald Trump is once again mad online, this time because a federal prosecutor he appointed struck a plea deal with Hunter Biden that didn’t involved the president’s son being put to death.

“Weiss is a Coward, a smaller version of Bill Barr, who never had the courage to do what everyone knows should have been done,” the former president wrote of U.S. Attorney David Weiss. “He gave out a traffic ticket instead of a death sentence. Because of the two Democrat Senators in Delaware, they got to choose and/or approve him.

In a significant development surrounding the ongoing Hunter Biden investigation, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, David Weiss, has broken his silence. His response comes after explosive allegations from whistleblowers claiming that the probe into Hunter Biden’s activities had been influenced by politics and that Weiss faced constraints when making prosecutorial decisions. The allegations […]

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Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, plans to plead guilty to tax and gun charges following a Justice Department investigation.

Biden will plead guilty to two counts of failure to pay federal income tax. He also has agreed to enter a diversion agreement related to another charge, for possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of, or addicted to a controlled substance.

The agreement was outlined in a letter sent by U.S. Attorney David Weiss to the U.S. District Court in Delaware.

The tax charges are misdemeanors, and the gun charge is a felony. Prosecutors do not plan to recommend jail time, but two years of probation, according to The Washington Post. The gun charge would be removed if Biden does not violate conditions during that period.

A judge has not yet approved the plea agreement.

According to the Justice Department,...

Hunter Biden is pleading guilty to two federal misdemeanor charges related to failing to pay his taxes, the Justice Department announced in a court filing on Tuesday.

The president’s son has reached an agreement to plead guilty on two counts of “willful failure to pay federal income tax.” Biden has also been charged with “possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance.” He reached a pretrial diversion for the firearms charged, and it is likely to be dismissed if he meets certain conditions.

The American Psycho episode of Wtf Happened to This Adaptation? was Written and Narrated by Andrew Hatfield, Edited by Mike Conway, Produced by Lance Vlcek and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian. Here is the text of Hatfield’s script:

Horror can take many forms and its high time we talked about something firmly in the psychological realm. Author Brett Easton Ellis is known to broach subjects that are uncomfortable or outright horrifying, but it is with his 3rd book that he went for the throat so to speak and tackle a more traditional genre topic in a thoroughly nontraditional way. American Psycho was quite controversial upon its release in 1991 and the film based on it in 2000 (watch it Here) was divisive then and it’s divisive now.

Take a look at the craftsmanship on that card as we find out what the f*ck happened to this adaptation.

Kandiss Taylor, a recently elected GOP District Chair in Georgia, would like to know why Big Globe won’t stop shoving round-Earth propaganda down our throats.

In an interview with David Weiss (Aka “Flat Earth Dave”) and Matt Long on her “Jesus, Guns, and Babies” podcast, Taylor and her guests discussed biblical “evidence” that the Earth is actually flat as a pancake. “The people that defend the globe don’t know anything about the globe,” said Weiss. “If they knew a tenth of what Matt and I know about the...