Hunter Biden’s legal team launched a series of motions seeking to dismiss his federal tax charges in California on Tuesday night, including one motion targeting IRS agents Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler. Biden’s attorneys submitted a total of eight motions to dismiss the tax charges, along with another filing requesting U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi to strike mentions of his extravagant lifestyle from the federal tax indictment.
“The Indictment is loaded with allegations regarding Mr. Biden’s ‘extravagant lifestyle’ and characterizations of his personal choices and spending habits (during his deep addiction) in a way meant to depict Mr. Biden as irresponsible, frivolous, and otherwise of questionable character and integrity,” the motion asserts.
The attorneys specifically object to page 13 of the indictment detailing Hunter Biden’s expenditures on “various women,” clothing, adult entertainment, retail purchases, and rehabilitation.
“These categories of expenditures purportedly made by Mr. Biden are not probative of any claims or issues, and these irrelevant assertions—as salacious as they may be—must be struck from the Indictment to avoid improper prejudice,” the motion elaborates.
In one of the dismissal motions, Hunter Biden’s legal team criticizes the two IRS whistleblowers for testifying about the apparent preferential treatment he received from the Justice Department during its criminal investigation into him.
“This prosecution of Mr. Biden has been prejudiced by, and is the byproduct of, unprecedented leaks by two IRS agents involved in a private internal investigation and by those IRS agents’ improper disclosures of Mr. Biden’s confidential return information despite statutes designed to protect and safeguard such information,” Biden’s attorneys stated. He is currently suing the IRS over the alleged unlawful disclosures by Shapley and Ziegler.