Hunter Biden has responded to his pardon in a new court filing.
“Joseph R Biden Jr granted me a full and unconditional pardon for, inter alia, the offenses specified in the indictment in this case,” he wrote.
“On December 1, I received and formally accepted the president’s grant of a pardon. I declare (or certify, verify or state) under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States of America that the foregoing is true and correct.”
The document, signed by Hunter Biden, was executed in Washington, D.C. on December 1.
President Biden announced on Sunday that he had pardoned his son, who was awaiting sentencing following convictions for tax evasion and possession of a weapon while under the influence of drugs.
In addition to signing a declaration that he had been pardoned, Hunter Biden’s lawyers filed legal documents on Sunday night in both the gun and tax cases, informing the judges that the pardon “requires dismissal of the Indictment against him with prejudice and adjournment of all future proceedings in this matter.”
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The federal court in Delaware has now accepted Hunter Biden’s letter in evidence and will likely end his gun case this week.
Hunter Biden was due for sentencing on December 12 in that case, and December 16 for his tax evasion case in California.
The broad pardon not only absolves Hunter Biden for those charges, it also shields him for any potential federal crimes that he may have committed “from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.”
During that time, he sat on the board of Ukrainian gas company Burisma and worked with companies in China and other countries.
President Biden had repeatedly said that he would not pardon his son and that the justice system should take its course.
But in in a statement on Sunday, President Biden said that Hunter Biden was “selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,” and was “treated differently” from others who commit similar crimes.
Read the legal filings below.
