Hunter Biden‘s legal team is asking to dismiss his federal tax charges.
The president's son was indicted last year in California on multiple tax charges.
CNN reported that Hunter was hit with nine counts on charges that include failure to file and pay taxes; evasion of assessment and false or fraudulent tax return. (RELATED: Hunter Biden Hit With New Indictment)
Biden is facing up to 17 years in prison for his crimes.
“Since its inception in 2018, the investigation of Mr. Biden has been compromised by politics. This case follows a nearly six-year record of DOJ changing its charging decisions and upping the ante on Mr. Biden in direct response to political pressure and its own self-interests,” attorneys for the president's son wrote.
“When the prosecution brings charges for purposes unrelated to legitimate prosecutorial considerations, it violates due process and equal protection rights,” they added.
Biden's attorneys also argued that the case should be dismissed due to “outrageous government conduct” involving two IRS agents who were assigned to the case. The two agents became whistleblowers who cooperated with the House's probe into the president's son, according to a court filing.
“The government's actions in this case are beyond egregious; the agents continuously disobeyed supervisors and flagrantly disregarded numerous federal statutes and rules designed to prevent the very abuse the agents were undertaking,” Biden's lawyers argued.
Prosecutors pushed back on the argument that the case was politically motivated, calling the claims a “fictitious narrative.”
“From this fairly unremarkable set of procedural events, the defendant concocts a conspiracy theory that the prosecution has ‘upped the ante' to appease politicians who have absolutely nothing to do with the prosecution and are not even members of the current Executive Branch,” prosecutors wrote.
Biden is also facing three gun-related charges in Delaware, which he pleaded not guilty to.
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