Hunter Biden set to plead guilty to tax and gun charges in deal with prosecution

Hunter Biden is expected to plead guilty to two tax crimes and admit possessing a gun as a drug user in a deal with the US Justice Department that is likely to spare him a jail sentence (Patrick Semansky/AP)

President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, faced new challenges on the eve of a scheduled court appearance on Wednesday in which he is set to plead guilty in a deal with prosecutors on tax and gun charges.

On Capitol Hill, where Republicans are ramping up their investigations into the president and his son, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee took the unusual step of filing court documents urging the judge in Hunter Biden’s case to consider evidence from Internal Revenue Service (IRS) whistleblowers.