• A nine-count indictment filed Thursday against Hunter Bidenlaid out years of the first son’s extravagant spending and sprawling foreign business dealings. But it also raised questions about why the charges did not arrive until nearly a decade after the alleged criminal activity began.
• Special counsel David Weiss filed the charges just four months after requesting the authority to bring the case outside his home district in Delaware, where he had investigated Hunter Biden for five years as a U.S. attorney.
• Although President Joe Biden was not named as a participant in the schemes described in the indictment, he has spoken to or met with several of the business partners who were.
• Here are nine takeaways from the indictment.

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