Federal prosecutors say Hunter Biden evaded paying at least $1.4 million in taxes in new indictment

• Hunter Biden was charged with tax evasion in a new federal lawsuit filed on Thursday.
• Federal prosecutors alleged that Biden spent "millions" on an extravagant lifestyle, including strippers.

Hunter Biden was charged by federal prosecutors with evading at least $1.4 million in taxes between 2016 and 2019 — instead spending "millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle" — in a new indictment filed Thursday in the US District Court for the Central District of California.

He faces nine criminal counts in the federal tax case. The charges include three counts of evasion of a tax assessment, three counts of failure to file and pay taxes, and three counts of filing a false or fraudulent tax return.

"Between 2016 and October 15, 2020, the Defendant spent this money on drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing, and other items of a personal nature, in short, everything but his taxes," federal prosecutors alleged in the lawsuit that was obtained by Business Insider.

Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, is also facing an indictment on three charges related to alleged gun possession and false statements, which came shortly after a plea deal with prosecutors on tax charges fell apart.

He has pleaded not guilty in the gun charges case.

The charges follow an investigation by special counsel David Weiss, a US attorney appointed by Donald Trump, who was designated special counsel in August by Attorney General Merrick Garland following the collapse of Hunter Biden's plea deal.

In a statement to Business Insider, Hunter Biden's attorney, Abbe Lowell, claimed that US Attorney David Weiss had months ago agreed to "resolve this matter with a pair of misdemeanors."

Lowell said that however, his team received news through "media leaks" on Thursday that the nine new charges had been filed.

Lowell further said that Hunter Biden had paid his taxes in full two years ago, and that the disagreements he mentioned would be "addressed in various courts."

"Based on the facts and the law, if Hunter's last name was anything other than Biden, the charges in Delaware, and now California, would not have been brought," Lowell's statement said.

Hunter Biden's legal team intends to file a motion to dismiss what Lowell described as a first tranche of "questionable charges," the attorney said.