Delaware federal prosecutor David Weiss was appointed special counsel in the case against Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden.
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The filing also said that the president's son would likely face trial in California or Washington, D.C., and that he might be charged with more crimes. At the July 26 hearing, Hunter Biden, who has been under investigation for five years, planned to plead guilty to two counts of failure to pay federal income taxes on annual income of more than $1.5 million in 2017 and 2018.Separately, prosecutors offered him a diversion agreement that would drop a criminal charge of having a gun while being a drug user if he abided by certain conditions for a period of time.
A key sticking point for the judge was the requirement that she, not the U.S. Department of Justice, be the one to decide if Hunter Biden violates the gun agreement over a two-year period.
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