taxes. also, and these are the felonies he's accused of filing a fraudulent return for 2018 after allegedly claiming some very private expenses were for business purposes. 11,500 for two nights with an escort, more than 27,000 on online porn and nearly $60,000 on his daughter's represent and college tuition. biden's lawyers say all this happened when he was in the grip of drug addiction. he's now clean and paid his tax bills plus interest and penalties more than two years before this indictment was ever filed. this morning jill biden said this. >> i think what they are doing to hunter is cruel. and i'm really proud of how hunter has rebuilt his life after addiction. >> reporter: he almost reached a plea deal in the summer. a separate gun charge would have been dropped. he would have pleaded guilty to two tax misdemeanors and faced no jail time. that deal collapsed at the very