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[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s masterpiece contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
Two-thirds of federal tax offenders get prison time. The average sentence is 14 months.
In some ways, Hunter Biden is average. The average federal tax offender is a 52-year-old white male, Hunter is 53. But Hunter is special in one way and only one way: his last name.
And so Hunter walks away with probation after pleading guilty to tax evasion charges.
Hunter was allowed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax offenses with no mention of the felony count of tax evasion that prosecutors had been reportedly considering.
What happened to that felony charge? The same thing that happened to the other charges.
Tax evasion penalties are supposed to punitively rise when sophisticated schemes are used to evade taxes. The House Oversight Committee recently exposed dozens of shell companies and millions of dollars in wire transfers. These “sophisticated” setups have not been addressed. Unlike other tax evasion cases involving international financial transfers, the question wasn’t even raised. Nor are any of Biden’s partners or family members facing investigations or charges. This is far from the norm, but that’s true of the entire Hunter Biden investigation.
IRS whistleblowers had come forward accusing the government of ‘slow walking’ the case. The only possible justification for taking this long to work on the Hunter Biden investigation would have been if investigators were actually unraveling a complex web of international connections, assembling a list of shell firms and flipping Hunter’s financial partners. There was no reason to spend years on little more than assessing a baseline tax penalty that could have been managed by a single IRS agent, let alone a 12-man investigative team, inside of a month. If even that.
The FBI had finished its work in 2022 while the IRS had wrapped its work even earlier. There was no reason to continue dragging out the case except to give Biden’s appointees time to get through the Senate and exert their influence on the proceedings.
In March, Republicans voted to confirm Danny Werfel: Biden’s nominee for IRS commissioner.
Werfel had previously been brought in under Obama after the IRS was caught targeting the administration’s political opponents. The former IRS acting commissioner had promised to get to the bottom of things only to conduct a cover-up of the political targeting.
By May, the IRS investigative team had been suspended from the Hunter Biden case.
Once members of the IRS investigative team came forward they were suspended on orders from Biden’s Department of Justice. The 12 member team was pulled from the case even while the facade of the investigation went on even though nothing was going on except the cover-up.
Whistleblowers had claimed that Justice Department political appointees were blocking charges.
The Hunter Biden laptops had provided federal investigators with graphic evidence of numerous alleged crimes, financial, sexual and drug-related, but the whistleblowers alleged that, much as the Durham report had shown in Russiagate, proper protocols were not followed.
Any of Hunter’s individual alleged crimes would normally have led to years in prison.
Former U.S. Attorney Brett L. Tolman stated that, “diversion would not be available for you or me if convicted… we would get 39 months on avg in prison for same offense.”
Tolman noted that the pretrial diversion used to give Hunter a pass is not available to those accused of offenses involving child exploitation or offenses related to national security and foreign affairs. By excluding the alleged sexual materials on Hunter’s laptop and the national security implications of his dealings with foreign nationals, the DOJ gave Hunter a pass.
A DOJ press release claims that, “Federal Prosecutors Aggressively Pursuing Those Who Lie in Connection With Firearm Transactions”. People who lie about their drug use on firearms forms have been locked away with a possible penalty of as much as ten years in prison.
Imagine for a moment if Hunter Biden were a black man named Kenta Quenshawn Hopson Jr.
When Hopson was asked to fill out a form asking whether he was a drug user, he lied. According to his arrest affidavit, Hopson is a “known marijuana user and marked that he was not a marijuana user on the form.” Hunter Biden was a known crackhead and lied about it. Nobody is arresting him. And no one will. The problem isn’t that Hunter is white, it’s that he’s a Biden.
The much more serious failure to register as a foreign agent charges haven’t even been touched. Neither has there been any meaningful examination of the shell companies.
The federal investigation calculatedly stripped away any elements that might have led to Joe Biden or other members of the family. The case was reduced to its barest essentials: a limited payoff for a failure to pay taxes was arranged, so that the case could be disposed of even while officially continuing in order to allow the FBI, the new Biden IRS tax commissioner and the DOJ to reject any congressional oversight on the grounds that it might harm the investigation.
By narrowing down the case to Hunter’s taxes and gun charge: any pathways leading to the rest of the Biden crime family were cut off. The deal not only gives Hunter a pass, but more importantly makes sure that the investigation will not affect the family or its corrupt patriarch.
This investigation was about protecting Hunter, but more importantly about protecting Joe.
Like banks and industries, a former small time Delaware politico has become too big to fail. And his son, who many have alleged was merely acting as his bag man, is also along for the ride, alternating the crack cocaine, hookers and foreign cash with a “Get Out of Jail Free” card.
In the years since Hunter was palling around with Chinese and Ukrainian oligarchs, he stopped just being the son of a vice president and then ex-vice president, and became the weak point of the man on whom the hopes of the Democrats were riding on. Now that weak point has been sealed. The Democrats may not do much for their constituents in Newark or Detroit, but if you happen to be the president’s son, you can violate as many laws as you want.
And if that’s true of his son, how can it not be true of Joe Biden?
Every conservative was able to predict this bullshit outcome.
No charges would emerge that’d involve the “Big guy”, and it’d only garner a slap on the rest.
The laptop that the drug addled fool had forgotten in a repair shop (“Dude. Where’s my laptop?”), was stuffed full with jaw-dropping evidence of both him & Sleepy.
And that was just ONE of many sources. So much damning evidence; so much for the chickenshit press to clean up.
A stolen laptop without a chain of custody isn’t evidence.
You’re an idiot. It was not stolen and there was a chain of custody. So you’re wrong on both counts.
the idiot has probably been drinking his dog’s pyss, again!
No one is above the law.
Being above the law is reserved as a group privilege.
Then there’s the question nobody is asking, which is why the coincidentally occurring war in Ukraine happened after Biden’s son was employed there. The military industrial complex has benefited greatly.
So have a lot of Ukrainian oligarchs. The recently “discovered” $6.2b accounting error is convenient for Zelenskyyyy, his pals and FJB. It delays the threat of FJB’s cover being blown. As long as FJB is in office the administration will keep having to come up with “accounting errors” and other methods to make sure Zelenskyyyy and friends stay flush with cash to keep quiet.
I envy Hunter. My daddy couldn’t get me a job stocking shelves at the local Sav-Alot and he is good friends with the manager.
The only thing upon which my father and I agreed was that we both wished I had been born into some other family.
This plea was designed ed to protect Mr Big
Well who knows what beans he may have spilled had he gotten any hard time and blabbed to a cellmate or to secure a shorter sentence? Can’t allow for that possibility.
Hunter probably made sure daddy knew that was in the cards.
Hunter skates. Just goes to show you: The law is above no one.
Joe and Hunter like Dastardly and Muttly
This proves the elites live by a double standard. This lawlessness has changed our country forever.
The Left rails against white privilege–but only certain white privilege.
There’s one set of laws for democrat criminals, and another for Americans.
Ok, don’t count the reduced sentance (if you could call it that) and don’t count all the other things Hunter did to cheat the american people, what about just the paying back of the money owed from the tax.
If there’s millions of dollars in cash flowing through these shell companies why doesn’t the IRS just recover what’s owing .. never mind the charges, just the basic tax should be recovered ..
or has Hunter created a new base system for tax evasion …
Going after these shell companies to recover the taxes owed would expose too much information about their existence. No way is the Biden IRS going to open that can of worms.
This is but the latest installment of the “lie”tmotif of Obama-masked-as-Biden et al’s utter corruption and evil intent.
We’re living with this corruption and evil intent not in the sense of putting up with this malignant malarkey and watching in horror as it metastasizes; but meaning actually that we are still literally alive, literally breathing, free to react, to think, exchange ideas and be aware of the manipulation of the vulnerable, while doing our best to protect ourselves and our loved ones as we remain unshakable in the belief that lies will never outlive truth.
No crystal ball here. These bad people, these liars, are thieves; and thieves turn on one another when they start to get greedy thinking about dividing the spoils.
I needed a break from my philosophizing and prayers, and the other stuff I do and have to do, and watched a movie:
Thanks a Million, from 1935.
We know what was going on in America and Germany in 1935. We know – and, most importantly -remember what happened after 1935. And what’s happening now.
So, in spite of reality, or maybe more keenly because of reality, my soul let itself be lifted by a beautiful entertainment, a timelessly relevant little film about music, love, people and politics.
Joe Biden: “We have put together the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in American political history.”
And got away with it, too, thanks to the corrupt, deceitful DOJ/FBI/CIA/IRS, CNN/MSNBC/ABC/CBS/NYT, etc.