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Biden Crime Family and the Statute of Limitations
The Biden Crime Family
There has been a lot of justified anger in the conservative commentariat about the DoJ losing a lot of the counts in possible indictments against Hunter and Dementia Joe. In general, the federal statute of limitations is five years for felonies and six years for tax offenses, although there are exceptions such as for capital crimes, terrorism, etc. Thus, it would seem tax crimes committed before 2017 and other felonies committed before 2018 could not be charged. Since this is when the worst of the Biden crimes allegedly occurred, it would seem that little can be done to them legally.
However, I’m not so sure this is correct. If there were a vigorous prosecution, perhaps a lot could still be done. In particular, there are circumstances that suspend, or toll, the statute of limitations; and some of these might be applicable to the Biden situation. Here are examples:
If the US has requested but not received evidence from a foreign government about the case, the statute of limitations is suspended until the foreign government provides the evidence up to a maximum of five years. I don’t know if the US has requested evidence from foreign governments, but it seems likely that they would have.
Foreign Agent Registration Act violations continue until filed, even if the person is no longer a foreign agent. So, the statute of limitations only starts to run when you have made the filing. I don’t know whether Hunter has made all his FARA filings or not.
The statute of limitations for all the crimes committed in a conspiracy only starts to run when the final act of the conspiracy is committed. So, if the government could charge a continuing conspiracy that involved the 2013 tax frauds and also later acts, they might still be able to include the 2013 crimes. For example, if failing to make a FARA registration was part of the conspiracy, you might be able to get him on the 2013 tax frauds because the last crime of the conspiracy was not committed until he filed the FARA registration.
Unpaid taxes due to a fraudulent return, failure to file, or an attempt to evade tax may be assessed at any time, even if the statute of limitations on the crime has run. Hunter had a Democratic donor pay a lot of his taxes, but given his complicated tax situation and all the concealment that has gone on, there must still be unpaid taxes that could be assessed.
Equitable estoppel bars the defendant from asserting that the statute of limitations has run if he has interfered in the prosecution. I imagine this would be difficult to prove because you would have to show, not just strongly suspect, that Dementia Joe committed crimes and that he directed the DoJ not to charge him or his son; but it seems as though it fits this case perfectly. The case law on equitable estoppel is really complicated, so it might not apply here.
If we get a vigorous president in 2025, there might still be hope to send the Bidens to the Big House for a long time.
Here is a good summary of the federal statute of limitations law.
Caveat – I am not a lawyer, just an internet researcher.
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In a just world the Republicans…Donald Trump…would win the 2024 election, throw out the majority of our Federal government, and, not MAKE America great, but allow America to be great again. That is a just world. Unfortunately, the world…life… is not always just. Joe Biden should be tried and convicted of conspiratorial fraudulent conduct while under oath as an elected Vice-President. Not to be negative, but I am very concerned neither of those things will happen. But if I had to choose only one thing, the most important would be a Republican…Donald Trump…President.
You give me hope that something will happen. Thanks for checking out these potential actions.
Good work Steve. Gave up criminal law a long time ago. I am much more incensed with the fraud by the CIA types after the Hunter laptop was discovered claiming it was Russian disinfo. And the millions in taxpayer dollars spent on that crap. Let’s start with those idiots if the S of L has not run. Then get to the Biden bribes.
No problem. Garland will appoint a special counsel to do a report on how the
prosecutorspecial counsel let all the deadlines pass.Robert Barnes asserts that DOJ has already given Hunter immunity for all other crimes than the ones for which he was indicted. The agreement was referenced in the Diversion agreement that the judge asked questions about. DOJ did not want to admit on the record that such a deal had been made, so Hunter’s attorneys back out of the plea agreement for charges that are now being brought. Hunter doesn’t want to do jail time for anything, even though the potential sentence is a fraction of the time he could do for all the crimes for which he has obtained immunity. This latest indictment just buys time — no trial until (and if) Joe is out of office with a probable pardon as a parting gift — and keeps eyes off the immunity already granted.
Wouldn’t it be a game changer if the investigations turn up payments during Joe’s presidency! You just know that grifters don’t stop grifting until they are stopped. And payments to the family are the same as payments to the president.
Tell that to the Big Guy.
I wish someone would ask Burima Joe had Hunter paid his “fair share” in taxes
Especially when Hunter is supposedly paying $50k/month “rent” for that house. You know, the one with the classified documents in the garage, etc.
Who’s buying Hunter’s art?
anyone who wants to influence this whitehouse
I bet a lot are going to members of the CCP
I would love to see the first impeachment case against Donald Trump reopened and reexamined in light of this new information. There has to be some way to nullify that impeachment effort.
Whether the Biden Crime Family goes to jail or not is not the most important thing; whether the American Public finally understands just how corrupt and criminal both the Democratic Party and our Federal Bureaucracy is along with the proposition that the many, many crooks in the Democrat Party as well as the Federal bureaucracy spend the rest of their lives in jail is the really important thing .
That is definitely one of the ways Joe Biden used to have his son Hunter launder money to the big guy. I am certain that the IRS looked to make sure that $600,000 a year was shown as income on Joe Biden‘s taxes. I am also certain that the IRS check to see that a Hunter Biden paid taxes on his earnings of that $600,000 that he used to pay his father that extraordinary amount of rent.
Don’t forget, Unsk, the Republicans were dipping into that grab bag as well.