WASHINGTON—In early 2020, while his father was on the cusp of a political turnaround that would propel him to the Democratic presidential nomination, Hunter Biden went to his accountants to clean up a lingering personal issue: his failure to have filed taxes for 2017 and 2018.
By his own account, the younger Biden had been sober since June 2019. But during that attempt to resolve his tax mess, he created a far more serious one for himself, according to federal prosecutors, who charged him Thursday with nine tax offenses, including three felonies.
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