BREAKING: Hunter Biden to plead guilty before tax trial, attorney says | LiveNOW from FOX

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Hunter Biden plans to change his not guilty plea to avoid going to trial on federal tax evasion charges, his defense attorney said Thursday.

Defense attorney Abbe Lowell told the judge that the evidence against Hunter Biden is “overwhelming” and that the president’s son wants to resolve the case with a plea instead of going to trial for a second time just months after he was convicted of felony gun charges in a separate case.

Hunter Biden is proposing to enter what’s referred to as an Alford plea, under which a defendant does not admit guilt but acknowledges prosecutors have enough evidence to secure a conviction, Mark Geragos, another Hunter Biden attorney, said in a text message.

The Justice Department charged Hunter Biden with misdemeanor and felony charges over what prosecutors say was a four-year scheme to avoid paying at least $1.4 million in taxes while pulling in millions of dollars from foreign business entities. He is already confronting potential prison time after a Delaware jury convicted him in June of lying on a 2018 federal form to purchase a gun that he possessed for 11 days.