Hunter Biden all smiles during 2-hour lunch at upscale Malibu restaurant day after pleading guilty in $1.4M tax evasion case
First son Hunter Biden appeared cheerful and upbeat Friday as he strolled into an upscale Malibu restaurant one day after pleading guilty to tax evasion charges in a Los Angeles courtroom.
Hunter, flanked by Secret Service agents, was spotted grinning ear to ear as he fumbled with his cellphone while heading to Moonshadows Malibu for lunch.
The restaurant boasts “award-winning ocean view dining” and invites patrons to “Indulge in a dining experience that will scintillate all your senses.”
Hunter, sporting a baseball cap emblazoned with Hawaii’s flag and several bracelets below his rolled-up sleeves spent about two hours inside the New American establishment before being whisked away.
The first son’s post-confession outing didn’t appear to cause any sort of stir in the celebrity enclave by the Pacific Ocean.
“Honestly, I didn’t even know he was here,” a Moonshadows Malibu employee told The Post.
Hunter pleaded guilty to all nine counts in the federal tax evasion case against him before jury selection on Thursday in order to “spare” his family from further “embarrassment,” he said in a statement.
“I will not subject my family to more pain, more invasions of privacy and needless embarrassment,” read the statement from President Biden’s son. “For all I have put them through over the years, I can spare them this, and so I have decided to plead guilty.”
Prosecutors had planned to present evidence about Hunter’s crack cocaine addiction and about how he allegedly paid tens of thousands of dollars for strippers and porn while dodging $1.4 million in taxes.
Hunter is due to be sentenced in the tax case on Dec. 16. He faces a maximum of 17 years behind bars.
He was previously convicted of three felony counts in Delaware related to the purchase of a gun while in the throes of crack cocaine addiction, which he lied about on a federal form.
Hunter faces up to 25 years in prison for the gun charge convictions and he will be sentenced in that case on Nov. 13.
