US President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, is facing a nine-count criminal indictment for alleged tax evasion.
The 56-page charge sheet accuses him of evading $1.4m in taxes from 2016-19 and funding an “extravagant lifestyle”.
Much of the recovering crack cocaine addict’s alleged illicit activities occurred while his father was US vice-president under Barack Obama.
But the current US president is not accused of wrongdoing, or even mentioned in the latest indictment.
The Yale-educated lawyer faces up to 17 years in prison if convicted. Hunter Biden was separately hit with a federal indictment on gun charges in September.
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The indictment says the president’s son allegedly spent his money on “drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing, and other items of a personal nature, in short, everything but his taxes”.