NBC News By Zoë Richards 12/8/2023
Mark Scarsi is the U.S. district court judge who will preside over the case involving the latest federal indictment against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden.
Scarsi, who is based in the Central District of California and was nominated by President Donald Trump, has served since 2020 on a bench that presides over Los Angeles.
The judge was randomly assigned to oversee the latest Hunter Biden case after he was indicted Thursday on nine tax-related charges, including three felony counts, according to court documents filed in a federal court in Los Angeles.
In February, Scarsi sentenced the owner of a construction company to two years in prison for failing to pay $1.6 million in taxes on more than $4.8 million in income over a five-year period and ordered him to pay $1.6 million in restitution.
Over the last year, Scarsi also sentenced a man to 10 years in prison for defrauding eight women, including some with whom he had romantic relationships, as well as nine businesses, and then laundering the money. He also sentenced a pharmacist to two years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to forging prescriptions to illegally sell opioids.
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