Hunter Biden has been indicted on nine criminal charges as part of a Department of Justice investigation into his taxes.

Those charges include failure to file and pay taxes, evasion of assessment, and false or fraudulent tax return.

Special counsel David Weiss had previously convened a federal grand jury in Los Angeles to gather testimony and evidence on potential criminal tax charges.

The new charges come after district judge Maryellen Noreika dismissed two outstanding misdemeanor tax charges against Hunter Biden at the request of federal prosecutors. Noreika had previously rejected a plea deal that would have seen the younger Biden plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax violations and submit to a pre-trial diversion agreement to avoid a felony gun charge in exchange for broad immunity from future prosecution. 

In September, Weiss indicted Hunter Biden on three firearms charges, alleging that Hunter lied on a federal form while purchasing a gun five years ago.

That four-page indictment, filed in U.S. District Court in Delaware, argues that Hunter “knowingly made a false and fictitious written statement, intended and likely to deceive” a dealer in his effort to acquire a Colt Cobra revolver in October 2018.

The indictment accused Hunter of falsely certifying that he was “not an unlawful user of, and addicted to, any stimulant, narcotic drug, and any other controlled substance,” when he filled out a federal Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms form. 

Biden wrote in his memoir that he was smoking crack nearly every 15 minutes around the time he purchased the gun.

Biden pleaded not guilty to those charges.