Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden and recurring target of the Republican opposition, has admitted his guilt in two federal cases concerning him, the prosecutor in charge of the case said on Tuesday.
He pleaded guilty to one part in a federal income tax fraud case, details prosecutor David Weiss.
Hunter Biden, 53, will also, according to the same source, make an agreement with the prosecution in a case of violation of firearms legislation, which amounts to an admission of guilt.
He is accused of having acquired a firearm in 2018 when he was a drug addict.
Former President Donald Trump, struggling with justice in a series of cases, estimated in a reaction on his network “Truth Social” that Hunter Biden had only received a “fine” and claimed that the judicial system was “broken”.
The youngest son of the American president – the eldest, Beau, died in 2015 of brain cancer – described his addiction problems, crack in particular, in a book published in the spring of 2021.
In this book, Hunter Biden, a former lawyer and businessman turned artist, also claims to be now weaned from alcohol and drugs.
The American president has always supported him publicly and said he was “proud” of him in particular during a heated debate opposing him to Donald Trump before the 2020 presidential election.
Joe Biden also rejects the accusations of corruption from the Republican parliamentary opposition which accuses Hunter Biden of having done questionable business in Ukraine and China while his father was vice-president.
“My son has done nothing wrong,” he said in an interview with MSNBC last May. “I trust him,” added Joe Biden.