North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Sep 6, 2024

Hunter Biden enters surprising guilty plea to tax charges

LOS ANGELES — Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to federal tax charges Thursday in a surprise move that spares President Joe Biden and his family another likely embarrassing and painful criminal […]

Aug 5, 2024

Hunter Biden faces gun conviction sentencing in November

WASHINGTON — Hunter Biden is set to be sentenced on felony firearms charges in November under an order signed by a judge on Friday. The president’s son could face up […]

Jul 23, 2024

Hunter Biden drops Fox News lawsuit

NEW YORK — Hunter Biden has dropped a lawsuit accusing Fox News of illegally publishing explicit images of him as part of a streaming series. An attorney for the president‘s […]

May 21, 2024

Hunter Biden’s attorneys press for gun trial delay

WASHINGTON — Hunter Biden pressed for a delay Monday in his federal gun case, asking an appeals court to pause the Delaware trial set to begin next month. Defense attorneys […]

May 15, 2024

Judge rejects bid to delay Hunter Biden’s trial

WILMINGTON, Del. — Hunter Biden’s federal gun case will go to trial next month, a judge said Tuesday, denying a bid by lawyers for the president‘s son to delay the […]

Jan 12, 2024

Hunter Biden pleads not guilty to federal tax counts

LOS ANGELES — Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal tax charges filed after the collapse of a plea deal that could have spared him the spectacle of a […]

Nov 16, 2023

Hunter Biden wants Trump documents subpoenaed

WASHINGTON — Hunter Biden asked a judge on Wednesday to approve subpoenas for documents from Donald Trump and former Justice Department officials related to whether political pressure wrongly influenced the […]

Oct 3, 2023

Hunter Biden pleads not guilty to gun charges

WILMINGTON, Del. — Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to three federal firearms charges filed after his earlier deal imploded, setting the case on a track toward a possible […]

Sep 26, 2023

Hunter Biden sues Giuliani over computer data access

WASHINGTON — Hunter Biden sued Rudy Giuliani and another attorney Tuesday, saying the two wrongly accessed and shared his personal data after obtaining it from the owner of a Delaware […]

Sep 7, 2023

Prosecutors to seek new Hunter Biden indictment this month

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors plan to seek a grand jury indictment of President Joe Biden's son Hunter before the end of the month, according to newly filed court documents. The filing comes in a gun possession case in which Hunter Biden was accused of having a firearm while being a drug user, though prosecutors did not name exactly which charges they will seek. He has also been under in[...]

Aug 16, 2023

Biden prosecutors say gun plea deal is dead

WASHINGTON (AP) — A legal showdown over the derailed plea deal for Hunter Biden is continuing as prosecutors assert that an agreement on a gun charge is dead along with the rest of the deal as the case makes a major shift into a special counsel investigation. The agreement was supposed to have wrapped up the long-running investigation of President Joe Biden's son, but it largely unraveled during[...]

Jul 26, 2023

Hunter Biden pleads not guilty to tax counts

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden's son Hunter has pleaded not guilty to two tax crimes after a plea deal with federal prosecutors unraveled during a court hearing in Delaware following the judge's concerns over the agreement. Hunter Biden was charged last month with two misdemeanor tax crimes of failure to pay more than $100,000 in taxes from over $1.5 million in income in both 2017 a[...]