u.s. district court in los angeles, california. hunter biden is there as we speak. he s being arraigned formally on the nine federal tax charges. prosecutors are alleged that he engaged in a four-year scheme to avoid paying millions in taxes. we re on top of that. i m neil cavuto. glad to have you with us. let s get to it with kelly o grady who is there and how things are going now. kelly? neil, the hearing is expected to get underway any minute now. this is going to be hunter biden s first appearance in court over these charges. he arrived at the courthouse behind me roughly 1 1/2 hours ago or so. it was very much in contrast to yesterday s chaos on the hill. the arrival was planned. he was driven in to underground parking. today he s facing nine charges of tax evasion, three of those will be felonies. according to the indictment as you mentioned, he failed to pay $1.4 million in federal taxes from 2016 to 2019. he did, however, spend millions on a lavish lifestyle. there
To . Who has a family of high ranking government officials receiving money, car and luxury items from a Foreign Government . You might have said senator menendez. Youd be right. Hunter biden would also receive those same things. Mr. Turley, in your experience, is it a concerning that a public official like joe biden is involved with the Cefc China Energy company with ties to ccp and chairman yi who was later detined by china for fraud . Certainly is a concern that some of these individuals have been either accused or has been convicted of fraud including one by the United States government. The question is whether that conduct extended to the Vice President or the president today and whether that is part of a continue youll of conduct. When you see a pattern of problems, particularly in corruption, doesnt that pattern continue . A cover up. Do you agree with that statement . I do. We call it pattern ed. Thats what we look for when doing investigations to see what is continuing in that
the judge and the clerk informed him that he may have to do a little more exit processing with the u.s. marshall service. he should be on his way leaving the courtney time soon, david. now back to you. neil, i m here. so looks like this is going to trial june 20th. neil: thank you. i do please pass along my thanks to jonathan for whatever happens legally here. the fax faux pas on the part of hunter biden could be something to look at down the road. all right. thanks very much, guys. we are hearing it s official that hunter biden has pled not guilty to the nine tax felony and related misdemeanor charges here. if found guilty on all of them, that would be a leap. in jail for 17 years. june 20th trial is the goal. we ll keep you posted on that. more after this. limu emu & doug ( bell ringing) customize and save with libberty bibberty.
tax felony and not only tax misdemeanor charge and he s planning to ask the federal government to look into this case and other related cases. congressman russell frye, joins us now. the whistleblowers are expected to testify they witnessed undeniable pattern of preferential treatment for the bidens. with that, what is your first question to the whistleblowers? my first question, my line of questioning will center around merrick garland and attorney david weiss, there are inconsistent statement between the two. who was making the calls? either merrick garland perjury perjured himself. that is crucial to underbelly of this case. beyond that, this is uncling
breaking details this morning. good morning. lucas: good morning, carley and todd. not one whistleblower, but two coming out to testify on capitol hill. we do not know the identity of the second whistleblowers, whistleblower x. here is a bit from his opening statement, hunter biden should have been charged with a felon, tax felony and not misdemeanor charge. prosecutors did not do the ordinary process, slow walked and put in unnecessary approval from investigating the case. here is opening statement from irs whistleblower gary shapley levelling the following accusation. quote, prosecutors decided to conceal some evidence from investigators, they were ready by april 2020, delaware pushed