Hunter Biden will go on trial on June 20, 2024, for nine charges, including three felonies: allegedly failing to file taxes, evading an assessment, and filing a fraudulent form.
“I’m kind of keeping you on a tight schedule,” federal Judge Mark Scarsi told the defendant in court. “We like to move things along.”
The judge set the next hearing for late March 2024.
Hunter pleaded not guilty to federal tax charges in California on Thursday after Special Counsel David Weiss indicted him in December.
Hunter could face a maximum of 17 years in prison if convicted. In total, the president’s son faces 42 years in federal prison for nine tax and three gun charges. Hunter pleaded not guilty in October to the gun charges. The trial date for the gun case is not yet set.
In court, U.S. government prosecutor Leo Wise told Judge Scarsi that “discovery in the case had…
