WASHINGTON -- Hunter Biden was hired by a Romanian businessman accused of corruption who was trying to "influence U.S. government policy" during Joe Biden's term as vice president, prosecutors said in court papers Wednesday. Special counsel David Weiss' team said Hunter Biden's business associate will testify at the upcoming federal tax trial of the president's son about the arrangement with the executive, Gabriel Popoviciu, who was facing criminal investigation at the time in Romania. The allegations are likely to bring a fresh wave of criticism of Hunter Biden's foreign business...

Hunter Biden accepted $3,101,258 from Romanian partner Gabriel Popoviciu to “influence U.S. government agencies” when President Joe Biden served as vice president, Special Counsel David Weiss said in a Wednesday court filing. Weiss, who stopped short of accusing Hunter of having “improperly coordinated with the Obama administration,” failed to indict him on Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) violations in 2023, opting instead to indict the president’s son on alleged tax violations, potential wrongdoing that Republicans claim falls short of justice.

Hunter Biden was hired by Romanian, prosecutors say Hunter Biden was hired by a Romanian businessman accused of corruption who was trying to “influence US government policy” during US President Joe Biden’s time as vice president, prosecutors said in court papers on Wednesday. Special counsel David Weiss’ team said that Hunter Biden’s business associate would testify at a federal tax trial of the president’s son about the arrangement with the executive, Gabriel Popoviciu, who was facing criminal investigation at the time in Romania. An attorney for Hunter Biden did not...

Hunter Biden was hired by a Romanian businessman accused of corruption who was trying to "influence U.S. government policy" during Joe Biden's term as vice president, prosecutors said in court papers Wednesday. Special counsel David Weiss' team said Hunter Biden's business associate will testify at the upcoming federal tax trial of the president's son about the arrangement with the executive, Gabriel Popoviciu, who was facing criminal investigation at the time in Romania. The allegations are likely to bring a fresh wave of criticism of Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings, which...

The special counsel prosecuting Hunter Biden in California has already convinced Delaware jurors that President Joe Biden’s son knew he unlawfully purchased and possessed a firearm while addicted to drugs, and now he wants to introduce evidence that the manner in which the defendant structured foreign business dealings tends to show the alleged failure to pay his taxes was willful. Special counsel David Weiss and prosecutors Leo Wise and Derek Hines filed documents in the tax case, not to allege that Hunter Biden violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA)...

Special Counsel David Weiss's office revealed Wednesday that first son Hunter Biden allegedly received "compensation" from a Romanian businessman who was hoping to influence United States policy. Weiss' team said they plan to introduce evidence proving the allegation in Biden's federal tax case next month. The office revealed the information about the unnamed businessman in a filing that urged the court to reject Biden’s request to omit certain evidence that he believes is prejudicial against him.

Prosecutors plan to introduce evidence at his tax-evasion trial that they said will show Hunter Biden took compensation from a Romanian businessman who sought to have federal agencies in the U.S. quash a criminal against him in his country. Special counsel David Weiss’ office wrote in a obtained by NBC News that Biden with a business associate "purportedly to help a Romanian businessperson, G.P., contest bribery charges he was facing in Romania." Prosecutors expect the associate will testify that the two lobbied and consulted together, that the Romanian businessman was...

Special counsel David Weiss’ office in a Wednesday filing referred to evidence it intends to introduce at trial purportedly showing that Hunter Biden was compensated by a Romanian businessman who was attempting to influence U.S. policy and end a local investigation of him in Romania. The prosecution will present evidence at trial that the president’s son “received compensation from a foreign principal who was attempting to influence U.S.

Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors allege Hunter Biden was paid by a Romanian oligarch to "influence U.S. policy and public opinion," while his father, Joe Biden, was vice president, according to new documents. The documents were filed by Special Counsel David Weiss in the Central District of California on Wednesday. The filings pertain to Hunter Biden's tax trial in California. The allegations are the closest prosecutors have come to tying President Biden to his son's overseas business dealings.

In a Wednesday court filing, special counsel David Weiss’ office accused Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, of taking cash from a Romanian oligarch who aimed to influence U.S. policy. The court filing in a California tax case against the president’s son alleges that Biden’s work on behalf of Romanian Gabriel Popoviciu in 2015, while Joe Biden was vice president, was an attempt by Popoviciu to sway government policy, for which Biden and associates were paid more than $3 million. “The government will introduce the evidence ... that...