Washington (EFE) Tuesday.
According to the document presented today before a federal court by the Attorney General of Delaware (USA), David Weiss, Hunter Biden has accepted an agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office to plead guilty to two tax-related charges.
Under the plea agreement, Hunter Biden, 53, admits failing to report and pay for income he received in 2017 and 2018, in exchange for prosecutors recommending probation for him, with which could avoid going to jail.
Hunter Biden, protagonist in elections
The settlement also includes what in US judicial slang is called a “pretrial diversion” as it relates to the charge of unlawful possession of a firearm. This mechanism serves to avoid a traditional prosecution and that the defendant goes to a program of community supervision.
If a federal judge accepts the deal, it could spell the end of the Hunter Biden investigation, which has engulfed his father, Joe Biden, whose political rivals have used these inquiries to cast doubt on the son’s business dealings abroad and to describe the president’s family as corrupt.
This investigation was opened in 2018 during the term of former President Donald Trump (2017-2021) and the Republicans have been using it since 2020 to attack the Democratic president, whom they accuse of not having made any effort to bring this investigation to the end.