Hunter Biden's criminal tax trial to begin Sept. 9, judge says

The criminal tax trial for President Joe Biden's son Hunter will begin on September 9, the US federal judge presiding over the case said in a filing, Report informs via Reuters.

The Department of Justice charged Hunter Biden in December with failing to pay $1.4 million in taxes between 2016 and 2019, while allegedly spending millions of dollars on drugs, escorts, exotic cars and other big-ticket items.

Hunter Biden has pleaded guilty to the charges. In June, he was convicted by a federal jury in Delaware on separate charges of lying about his illegal drug use to buy a gun. That made him the first child of a sitting US president to be convicted of a crime.