Kathianne
08-14-2023, 08:45 AM
I remember reading months ago that Hunter had retained some very tough defense attorneys, helped out by his rich friend that paid his taxes. Looks like they are earning that $$$:
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2023/08/14/hunter-lawyers-weiss-welched-on-us-n571052
Hunter lawyers: Weiss welched on us!ED MORRISSEY 9:21 AM on August 14, 2023
Hunter lawyers: Weiss welched on us!
And hey, no one knows a deal like Hunter Biden, right? Give the man credit — when he got bought, he stayed bought. Hunter may have learned that at the knee of the Big Guy, after all.
Unfortunately for Hunter, his deal with prosecutors apparently has fallen completely apart. In a court filing last night, Hunter’s attorneys complained that prosecutor-turned-special-counsel “renege[d]” on a plea deal that was so suspect that a federal judge refused to accept it. Their filing contends that Weiss more or less dictated the terms to them, rather than the other way around — and they want it reinstated:
Hunter Biden’s legal team said late Sunday the Justice Department had decided to “renege on the previously agreed-upon plea agreement,” escalating a dispute that is threatening to become a factor in the 2024 presidential race as President Biden seeks re-election. …
In the three-page filing Sunday, the younger Biden’s legal team provided more details about the talks, saying prosecutors had proposed and “largely dictated” the language in the plea agreement and a separate deal to resolve a gun charge.
That included language that said the U.S. wouldn’t criminally prosecute Biden further over the conduct at issue in either the tax or gun cases, a provision which Biden understood to mean the investigation was over. The agreement, now public, said it didn’t cover any future conduct by Biden or by any of his affiliated businesses.
At the July hearing, prosecutors instead revealed they continued to investigate Hunter Biden, including in connection with possible foreign-lobbying charges related to his work for foreign clients, which had been at issue in the tax counts.
Er … how smart is this? It’s very clear that Weiss and Merrick Garland desperately want to bury this matter as quietly as possible. The first attempt at the plea deal makes that crystal clear; that’s why House Oversight Committee members raised such a stink about it both before and after the deal got made. Chair James Comer specifically and publicly warned the Department of Justice not to cut a deal before the Oversight investigation finished, because they had uncovered an archipelago of LLCs that had filtered millions in payments to the Bidens from all sorts of foreign sources. Weiss cut the deal anyway, only to have Oversight embarrass him and the DoJ.
After that, Weiss had no choice but to tell the judge that his team would continue to investigate Hunter, but who was that fooling? Garland’s appointment of Weiss isn’t intended to get tougher with Hunter and the Bidens; it’s intended to salvage the plea deal in some form, keep Hunter out of prison, and quash any more efforts to pry open the Bidens’ bank records. Making a bigger spectacle of this by complaining about welching on the ridiculously lenient deal will only keep drawing more attention to it.
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https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2023/08/14/hunter-lawyers-weiss-welched-on-us-n571052
Hunter lawyers: Weiss welched on us!ED MORRISSEY 9:21 AM on August 14, 2023
Hunter lawyers: Weiss welched on us!
And hey, no one knows a deal like Hunter Biden, right? Give the man credit — when he got bought, he stayed bought. Hunter may have learned that at the knee of the Big Guy, after all.
Unfortunately for Hunter, his deal with prosecutors apparently has fallen completely apart. In a court filing last night, Hunter’s attorneys complained that prosecutor-turned-special-counsel “renege[d]” on a plea deal that was so suspect that a federal judge refused to accept it. Their filing contends that Weiss more or less dictated the terms to them, rather than the other way around — and they want it reinstated:
Hunter Biden’s legal team said late Sunday the Justice Department had decided to “renege on the previously agreed-upon plea agreement,” escalating a dispute that is threatening to become a factor in the 2024 presidential race as President Biden seeks re-election. …
In the three-page filing Sunday, the younger Biden’s legal team provided more details about the talks, saying prosecutors had proposed and “largely dictated” the language in the plea agreement and a separate deal to resolve a gun charge.
That included language that said the U.S. wouldn’t criminally prosecute Biden further over the conduct at issue in either the tax or gun cases, a provision which Biden understood to mean the investigation was over. The agreement, now public, said it didn’t cover any future conduct by Biden or by any of his affiliated businesses.
At the July hearing, prosecutors instead revealed they continued to investigate Hunter Biden, including in connection with possible foreign-lobbying charges related to his work for foreign clients, which had been at issue in the tax counts.
Er … how smart is this? It’s very clear that Weiss and Merrick Garland desperately want to bury this matter as quietly as possible. The first attempt at the plea deal makes that crystal clear; that’s why House Oversight Committee members raised such a stink about it both before and after the deal got made. Chair James Comer specifically and publicly warned the Department of Justice not to cut a deal before the Oversight investigation finished, because they had uncovered an archipelago of LLCs that had filtered millions in payments to the Bidens from all sorts of foreign sources. Weiss cut the deal anyway, only to have Oversight embarrass him and the DoJ.
After that, Weiss had no choice but to tell the judge that his team would continue to investigate Hunter, but who was that fooling? Garland’s appointment of Weiss isn’t intended to get tougher with Hunter and the Bidens; it’s intended to salvage the plea deal in some form, keep Hunter out of prison, and quash any more efforts to pry open the Bidens’ bank records. Making a bigger spectacle of this by complaining about welching on the ridiculously lenient deal will only keep drawing more attention to it.
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