Hunter Biden to be sentenced Nov. 13, a week after Election Day
President Biden, his sister Valerie Biden and his son Hunter Biden make their way to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House. (Photo by Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post)
President Joe Biden’s son Hunter will be sentenced in mid-November—a week after Election Day—after being convicted of gun charges, a federal judge said Friday.
Hunter Biden was convicted in June by a Wilmington, Delaware, jury of felony charges that he lied about his drug use in 2018 on paperwork to buy a gun, and that he illegally possessed that gun. U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika, who oversaw the trial, filed an order Friday saying he will be sentenced Nov. 13.
His trial showcased years of internal behind-the-scenes drama in the Biden family, with relatives taking the witness stand to describe Hunter’s years of drug addiction. The trial also played out against the backdrop of the 2024 presidential race, with Republicans seizing on Hunter Biden’s legal troubles to try to portray the entire Biden family as corrupt.
Hunter Biden is scheduled to go on trial next month in California, on separate tax charges that would once again publicly air the grim details of a dark chapter in his life.
