Hunter Biden wants evidence of foreign business deals, unregistered agent claims excluded from criminal trial
By Josh Christenson
Published Aug. 12, 2024, 2:07 p.m. ET
First son Hunter Biden is moving to exclude evidence from his upcoming tax trial of his allegedly improper overseas business dealings and potential lobbying of US officials on behalf of foreign principals, according to a Sunday court filing submitted by his legal team.
Attorneys for the president’s son accused special counsel David Weiss in the motion of “seeking to insinuate extraneous, politically-charged matters into the trial which have no relevance to the tax offenses Mr. Biden is accused of,” the filing in US District Court for the Central District of California shows.
“The Court should not allow a side show in which issues far beyond the charges have to be explained and litigated in a tax case,” the attorneys wrote to Los Angeles Judge Mark Scarsi, calling the evidence “irrelevant” and “politically-charged.”
“Disallowing this unnecessary detour will ensure that Mr. Biden, like any other person accused, gets the fair trial that he deserves,” they argued.
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