Hunter Biden’s effort to cast his prosecution on federal tax charges as politically motivated was met with skepticism in court on Wednesday.
Hunter Biden’s defense attorneys led by Abbe D. Lowell presented arguments to U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi Wednesday for weakening or shutting down the case entirely, Politico reported. The president’s son was not present in the Los Angeles federal courthouse where the arguments took place.
Lowell and his co-counsels have brought forward numerous motions to dismiss the tax charges against Biden, including an argument that Biden is being selectively prosecuted by special counsel David Weiss because of political pressure.
“There is nothing regular about how this case was initiated [and] investigated,” Lowell said. Scarsi pressed Lowell for concrete evidence to support his claims, and remarked “there is no evidence [from the defense] that influenced the prosecutors’ decision here.”
Attorney General Merrick Garland, an appointee of Hunter Biden’s father, selected Weiss to be special counsel in August once Hunter Biden’s guilty plea deal and pretrial diversion agreement fell apart in Delaware.
unter Biden’s effort to cast his prosecution on federal tax charges as politically motivated was met with skepticism in court on Wednesday.
Hunter Biden’s defense attorneys led by Abbe D. Lowell presented arguments to U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi Wednesday for weakening or shutting down the case entirely, Politico reported. The president’s son was not present in the Los Angeles federal courthouse where the arguments took place.
Lowell and his co-counsels have brought forward numerous motions to dismiss the tax charges against Biden, including an argument that Biden is being selectively prosecuted by special counsel David Weiss because of political pressure.
“There is nothing regular about how this case was initiated [and] investigated,” Lowell said. Scarsi pressed Lowell for concrete evidence to support his claims, and remarked “there is no evidence [from the defense] that influenced the prosecutors’ decision here.”
Attorney General Merrick Garland, an appointee of Hunter Biden’s father, selected Weiss to be special counsel in August once Hunter Biden’s guilty plea deal and pretrial diversion agreement fell apart in Delaware.
Weiss and his team of prosecutors have called the selective prosecution claims a “conspiracy theory” and pointed out former president Donald Trump is no longer in office.