Hunter Biden Gets Indicted on Tax Felonies

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🗓️ 8 December 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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The President's son says the new charges are a political effort to get at Joe Biden, but does the indictment instead vindicate critics of the previous plea deal cut by prosecutor David Weiss? Plus, former Speaker Kevin McCarthy and onetime Acting Speaker Patrick McHenry are leaving Congress, as Speaker Mike Johnson tries to wrangle his small and fractious GOP majority. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.0	Hunter Biden gets indicted again this time for tax crimes as more retirements hit House Republicans
0:36.5	including that of former speaker Kevin McCarthy. Welcome I'm Kyle Peterson with the
0:41.7	Wall Street Journal.
0:43.3	We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Bill McGurn, and editorial board member,
0:48.6	Manet Ukewue Barua.
0:50.1	Welcome and happy Friday to you both.
0:52.2	The news late Thursday was a new indictment,
0:55.6	this one in California of Hunter Biden,
0:58.3	three counts of evasion of a tax assessment,
1:01.7	three of failure to file and pay taxes, three of filing a
1:05.8	false or fraudulent tax return. It's a 56-page document with some ugly details.
1:11.8	It says that Hunter Biden had a four-year scheme to not pay at least
1:16.2	1.4 million dollars in self-assessed federal taxes, including subverting the payroll and withholding processes of one of his own
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