Hunter Biden 'received compensation' from Romanian businessman aiming to influence U.S. policy, special counsel in tax case says

Special counsel David Weiss’ office referred in a filing Wednesday to evidence it intends to introduce at trial purportedly showing that Hunter Biden was compensated by a Romanian businessman who was trying to influence U.S. policy and end a local investigation of him in Romania.

The prosecution will present evidence at trial that the president’s son “received compensation from a foreign principal who was attempting to influence U.S. policy and public opinion and cause the United States to investigate the Romanian investigation” of the businessman, senior assistant special counsel Derek Hines wrote in Wednesday’s filing.

The special counsel's team also intends to target Biden's business dealings even more, saying in the filing that prosecutors intend to introduce evidence at trial pertaining to Biden’s business agreements with the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma and Chinese-led CEFC China Energy Company.

“The evidence will not include evidence that the defendant performed lobbying activity in exchange for this compensation,” Weiss’ team wrote.

“Rather the evidence will show the defendant performed almost no work in exchange for the millions of dollars he received from these entities,” the filing added.

The prosecution included the additional details about its plans for trial in a filing urging the court to deny Biden’s request to omit certain evidence that his attorneys view as unfairly prejudicial in his federal tax case. He is alleged to have failed to pay taxes, failed to file, evaded an assessment and filed a fraudulent form, and has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

An attorney for Biden did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday night.

Prosecutors previously alleged in their indictment