Special Council David Weiss‘the office referred in a filing on Wednesday to evidence it intends to present at trial, purportedly showing that Biden Hunter was compensated by a Romanian businessman who was trying to influence US policy and put an end to a local investigation into him in Romania.
The prosecution will present evidence at trial that the president’s son “received compensation from a foreign principal who was trying to influence U.S. politics and public opinion and have the United States investigate the Romanian investigation” of the businessman, the counsel wrote senior special assistant Derek Hines. in Wednesday filing.
The special counsel’s team also aims to further target Biden’s business dealings, saying in the filing that prosecutors intend to present evidence at trial relating to Biden’s business deals with Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma and Chinese-led CEFC China Energy Company .
“The evidence no include evidence that the defendant conducted lobbying activities in exchange for this compensation,” Weiss’ team wrote.
“Instead, the evidence will show that Defendant performed almost no work in exchange for the millions of dollars he received from these entities,” the lawsuit added.
The prosecution included additional details about its trial plans in a filing urging the court to deny Biden’s request to withhold certain evidence that his lawyers consider unfairly prejudicial in his federal tax case. He is accused of not being able to pay taxesfailed to file an application, avoided a citation and filled out a fraudulent form.
A lawyer for Biden did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday night.
Previously promoters alleged that In they are insaying that from November 2015 to May 2017, Biden received one-third of about $3.1 million in compensation related to a verbal agreement to help the businessman, who is referred to as “GP” in court filings, contest bribery charges faced in Romania.
Prosecutors said a business associate, who is not named in the lawsuit, would testify at trial about the Romanian businessman’s alleged efforts to retain the business partner and another associate to try to pressure federal agencies into opening an investigation in an effort to end the criminal investigation. from Romania.
Prosecutors do not intend to present evidence of “direct compensation from a foreign state or evidence that the defendant received compensation for actions taken by his father that impacted national or international politics,” Hines wrote.
He argued, however, that Biden’s salary structure and details about his job were relevant to the case.
“Further, the evidence of what defendant agreed to do and did for GP demonstrates defendant’s state of mind and intent during the relevant tax years charged in the indictment,” Hines wrote.
The fact that Biden suffers from drug addiction does not mean that he has impaired capacity, a legal theory that a person does not have the mental state necessary to formulate the intention to commit a crime.
“It is also evidence that the defendant’s actions do not reflect someone with diminished capacity, given that he agreed to attempt to influence U.S. public policy and receive millions of dollars under the terms of an oral agreement” with his associate as part of a plan “that hid the true nature of the work”, he added.
Biden’s trial is scheduled to begin next month.
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