Foreign deals not part of Hunter Biden tax case: lawyer

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Foreign deals not part of Hunter Biden tax case: lawyer

Hunter Biden’s lawyers say prosecutors are inappropriately trying to insert “politically charged” allegations about his foreign business dealings into the upcoming federal tax trial against the US president’s son.

Special counsel David Weiss’ team told a judge last week that they plan to call to the witness stand a business associate of Hunter Biden’s to testify about an arrangement with a Romanian businessman who was trying to “influence US government policy” during Joe Biden’s term as vice president.

Hunter Biden’s lawyers responded in court papers filed on Sunday that such matters are irrelevant in the case headed for trial next month in Los Angeles over at least $US1.4 million ($A2.1 million) in taxes he owed between 2016 and 2019.

Defence lawyers said allowing such testimony would confuse jurors and criticised prosecutors for showcasing “these matters on the eve of Mr Biden’s trial – when there is no mention of political influence in the 56-page Indictment”.

“The Special Counsel’s unnecessary change of tactic merely echoes the baseless and false allegations of foreign wrongdoing which have been touted by House Republicans to use Mr Biden’s proper business activities in Romania and elsewhere to ******* him and his father,” the defence wrote.

Prosecutors said they want to bring in evidence of the arrangement with the Romanian businessman to rebut arguments from the defence that Hunter Biden’s ***** use during the years in which he is accused of failing to pay his taxes affected his decision-making and judgement.

The evidence shows his actions “do not reflect someone with a diminished capacity, given that he agreed to attempt to influence US public policy and receive millions of dollars” as part of the arrangement, prosecutors wrote.

Romanian businessman Gabriel Popoviciu wanted US government agencies to probe a bribery investigation he was facing in his home country in the hopes that would end his legal trouble, according to prosecutors.

Prosecutors say Hunter Biden agreed with his business associate to help Popoviciu ****** the ********* charges against him.

But prosecutors say they were concerned that “lobbying work might cause political ramifications” for Joe Biden, so the arrangement was structured in a way that “concealed the true nature of the work” for Popoviciu, prosecutors alleged.

Hunter Biden’s business associate and Popoviciu signed an agreement to make it look like Popoviciu’s payments were for “management services to real estate prosperities in Romania”.

In fact, Popoviciu and Hunter’s business associate agreed that they would be paid for their work to “attempt to influence US government agencies to investigate the Romanian investigation,” prosecutors said.

Hunter Biden’s business associate was paid more than $US3 million, which was split with Hunter and another business partner, prosecutors say.

The tax trial comes months after Hunter Biden was convicted of three felony **** charges over the purchase of a **** in 2018.

He was found guilty of lying on a mandatory ****-purchase form by saying he was not illegally using or addicted to drugs.

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