Hunter Biden continues to try to throw out his federal tax case, but it all boils down to a trial in Los Angeles – Daily News

A status conference on the federal tax case against Hunter Biden is scheduled for Wednesday in downtown Los Angeles. The president's son is accused of failing to pay more than $1.4 million in taxes.

President Joe Biden's son is scheduled to go on trial next month on nine tax-related charges, including three felony counts and six counts of failure to pay taxes.

Hunter Biden, 54, of Malibu, “spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle instead of paying his taxes,” the indictment says.

Donald Trump-appointed U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi, who is presiding over the trial, this week rejected the defendant's request to dismiss the case after the president's son argued that the special counsel prosecuting the case had been improperly appointed.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had previously rejected the younger Biden's request to revive the charges against him.

Hunter Biden's lawyers wrote in their lawsuit that they believe the case was brought “in direct response to political pressure.” His lawyers wrote that the defendant has since paid his tax debt and fines to the state.

Hunter Biden is not expected to attend Wednesday's hearing.

As for the tax charges, the 56-page indictment filed in federal court in Los Angeles alleges that between 2016 and October 15, 2020, the defendant “spent this money on drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing and other items of a personal nature – in short, everything except his taxes.”

In June, the president's son was found guilty in a separate federal case in Delaware of three serious crimes related to the purchase of a gun in 2018. Hunter Biden was found guilty of lying on a mandatory gun purchase form by stating that he was not using or addicted to illegal drugs – although he later admitted to being addicted to illegal narcotics at the time.

According to court documents, the verdict against Hunter Biden in the Delaware gun trial is scheduled for November 13, the week after the presidential election.