WILMINGTON, Delaware (HRNW) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden on Wednesday told a judge he intended to plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges of willfully failing to pay income taxes, according to the New York Times and CNN.
The plea is part of a deal that allows him to avert conviction on a gun-related charge.
The younger Biden did not pay taxes on more than $1.5 million in income in 2017 and 2018 despite owing more than $100,000, prosecutors allege.
He is also charged in a separate case with unlawfully owning a firearm while addicted to and using a controlled substance, a felony. Under an agreement with federal prosecutors in Delaware, the younger Biden has entered into a pretrial diversion agreement for that charge, an alternative to prosecution that allows defendants to avoid a conviction or prison time.
The plea comes as Democratic President Biden is in the middle of a re-election campaign that could pit him against former President Donald Trump, the current front-runner for the Republican nomination for the 2024 election.