Hunter Biden asks judge to cut ‘extravagant lifestyle’ mentions from tax indictment

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Hunter Biden asked a judge to remove from his indictment in California any mentions of his “extravagant lifestyle” and other similar references, arguing they were “gratuitous facts” that were irrelevant to the tax charges special counsel David Weiss brought against him.

The request came amid a flurry of nine separate court filings from Biden on Tuesday night, eight of which were calls for Judge Mark Scarsi to dismiss the case. The ninth was the request to excise the mentions of his lifestyle.

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