New Details About What Hunter Biden Spent Money on Instead of Taxes Revealed at Pre-Trial Hearing

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New Details About What Hunter Biden Spent Money on Instead of Taxes Revealed at Pre-Trial Hearing
Jennifer Van Laar

During a pre-trial hearing in Hunter Biden’s federal tax evasion case Wednesday, defense attorney Mark Geragos revealed his team’s unsurprising strategy and prosecutors laid out some details of the evidence they plan to introduce during the trial, which is scheduled to begin September 5 in Los Angeles.

Attorneys for both sides argued their motions in limine, which are "motions that seek the exclusion of specific evidence or arguments from being presented during a trial."

Judging by the motions filed and the arguments made Wednesday, it seems the defense strategy will be to argue that while in the throes of addiction Hunter had diminished mental capacity, and secondarily that his tax preparers and advisors had some type of enhanced responsibility to ensure that his deductions were all legit and shirked that responsibility.

Assistant US Attorney Leo Wise hit back at that strategy, saying:

    “No matter how many drugs you take, you don’t suddenly forget that when you make $11 million you need to pay taxes.”

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Geragos argued at length that he should be able to call an addiction expert who’ll supposedly provide testimony that Hunter’s cocaine addiction was caused by traumas such as the 1972 car crash that killed his mother and sister and his brother Beau’s death in 2015, but in the expert witness disclosure he failed to list any of the particular opinions this expert would give or the methodology used or how the expert arrived at that opinion.

Caused? Hardly. Just more excuses for Hunter's bad, stupid behavior. I'm only surprised he didn't throw Joe under the bus by claiming his father molested him and his siblings.

The legendary defense attorney claims that the prosecution strategy is to “slime” his client by going into detail about the money Hunter spent on prostitutes, drugs, Lamborghinis, pornographic websites, and luxury hotel suites for drug-fueled orgies and claimed as business expenses.

No, Geragos, your client slimes himself all by himself on a regular, ongoing basis.

[Smokin Joe]

Caused? Hardly. Just more excuses for Hunter's bad, stupid behavior. I'm only surprised he didn't throw Joe under the bus by claiming his father molested him and his siblings.

Considering Dad's water saving shower habits, that might be dangerous territory.

At ~$100/gram street, $11,000,000 would be lethal amounts of toot.