Hunter Biden plans to plead guilty in his federal tax evasion trial — a bombshell decision his lawyers announced Thursday morning just before jury selection was about to kick off.
Mr. Biden intends to change his plea this morning,” Hunter’s lawyer Abbe Lowell told the judge in a Los Angeles federal courtroom.
Jury selection had been scheduled to start Thursday morning before the surprise announcement.
President Biden’s son, who arrived at court hand in hand with wife Melissa Cohen, was facing his second trial in just the span of a few months after he was convicted in June of illegally owning a gun while hooked on drugs.
The younger Biden was facing the new trial on nine federal charges for allegedly failing to pay $1.4 million in taxes for the years 2016 through 2019.
If convicted at the second trial, the 54-year-old Biden would have faced up to 17 years behind bars.
The embattled first son also faces 25 years behind bars when he’s sentenced in the gun case in November.
