Tax charges from defunct Hunter Biden plea deal dismissed, so probe can move forward
Updated: 8:32 AM EDT Aug 18, 2023
5 AT 530. US ATTORNEY GENERAL MERRICK GARLAND ANNOUNCED TODAY HE바카라 게임 웹사이트S APPOINTED A SPECIAL COUNSEL TO INVESTIGATE THE HUNTER BIDEN CASE. AND RIGHT NOW, TO HELP US UNDERSTAND THE LEGAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THAT MOVE, WE ARE JOINED BY VINCE DAMORE, WHO IS AN ATTORNEY WITH THE HENNING STRATEGIES. GREAT TO SEE YOU. SO SO THE US ATTORNEY FOR DELAWARE, DAVID WEISS, WHO HAS BEEN INVESTIGATING HUNTER BIDEN FOR YEARS, A TRUMP APPOINTEE, BY THE WAY, IS NOW THE SPECIAL COUNSEL. HOW DOES THAT CHANGE HIS ROLE? IN MANY WAYS, THIS IS PRIMARILY A COSMETIC CHANGE RATHER THAN A SUBSTANTIVE CHANGE. AS YOU INDICATED, HE바카라 게임 웹사이트S BEEN CONDUCTING THIS INVESTIGATION NOW FOR ABOUT FIVE YEARS FOR VARIOUS CRIMES BY HUNTER BIDEN OR ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN COMMITTED BY HUNTER BIDEN. SO WHAT THIS REALLY CHANGES IS NOT SO MUCH WHAT HE바카라 게임 웹사이트S DOING, BUT THE TOOLS THAT HE HAS AS IT IS DISPOSAL, THE PRIMARY QUESTION THAT RESOLVES IS WHETHER OR NOT HE CAN BRING CHARGES OR PURSUE CHARGES. AND OTHER FEDERAL DISTRICTS OUTSIDE OF DELAWARE. AND THAT SPEAKS TO AN ALLEGATION IN ONE OF THE ALLEGED IRS WHISTLEBLOWERS HAD MADE A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO WHO CLAIMED THAT US ATTORNEY WEISS SAID THAT HE DID NOT HAVE THAT POWER. WHAT바카라 게임 웹사이트S INTERESTING HERE IS THAT THE APPOINTMENT MEMO THAT MERRICK GARLAND ISSUED TODAY WAS DIFFERENT THAN THE ONE THAT HE HAD DONE FOR JACK SMITH WAS, YOU KNOW, WAS PROSECUTING THE JANUARY SIXTH CASE BECAUSE IN THIS MEMO, HE MAKES IT EXPLICITLY CLEAR THAT CHARGES CAN BE BROUGHT IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS, WHICH MAY SIGNAL PERHAPS WHERE THIS IS GOING. OKAY. SO THIS ALL HAPPENED AFTER THAT PLEA DEAL THAT HUNTER BIDEN AGREED TO, FELL APART. THE JUDGE IN THE CASE CRITICAL OF THE DEAL, ESPECIALLY ON THE QUESTION OF FUTURE PROSECUTIONS. WERE YOU SURPRISED BY THAT? OF COURSE, POLITICS IS IN PLAY AND A NUMBER OF PEOPLE HAD BEEN CRITICAL. BUT WERE YOU SURPRISED BY THE JUDGE바카라 게임 웹사이트S ACTIONS THERE? WELL, THE FACT THAT A PLEA DEAL FALLS APART AT THE LAST MINUTE IS NOT BY ANY STRETCH OF THE IMAGINATION PARTICULARLY SURPRISING. THESE THINGS HAPPEN ALL THE TIME WITH SOME DEGREE OF REGULARITY, ALTHOUGH CERTAINLY THEY HAPPEN LESS FREQUENTLY IN FEDERAL COURT THAN THEY DO IN STATE COURT. BUT WHAT WAS SURPRISING HERE IS THE PLAYERS INVOLVED HAD TO KNOW HOW MUCH SCRUTINY WOULD BE INVOLVED IN ANY PLEA AGREEMENT WITH INVOLVING HUNTER BIDEN, EVEN IF HE WAS PLEADING FOR LIFE IN PRISON, THEY WOULD BE SCRUTINY OVER IT. AND THE FACT THAT THEY DIDN바카라 게임 웹사이트T HAVE THEIR DUCKS IN A ROW OR SEEMED TO CONSIDER THAT THE COURT MIGHT HAVE SOME RESERVATIONS WITH WHAT THEY HAD PLANNED. TO ME, THAT WAS SURPRISING. AND EVEN THOUGH, AS I MENTIONED, WEISS WAS APPOINTED BY DONALD TRUMP, HE, OF COURSE, AND REPUBLICANS HAVE HAVE RIPPED HE BEING DONALD TRUMP, HAVE RIPPED WEISS FOR ALLEGEDLY GOING SOFT ON HUNTER BIDEN. I DON바카라 게임 웹사이트T KNOW IF THERE바카라 게임 웹사이트S AN ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION, BUT CAN THE POLITICS OF THIS BE SEPARATED FROM THE LAW OF THIS? OBVIOUSLY VERY DIFFICULT TO SEPARATE THE TWO IN THIS CASE, REALLY IN ANY CASES INVOLVING ANY OF THE THREE SPECIAL COUNSEL INVESTIGATIONS THAT ARE ONGOING RIGHT NOW. BUT WHAT바카라 게임 웹사이트S INTERESTING IS, GIVEN THE ATTORNEY GENERAL바카라 게임 웹사이트S RECENT ASSERTION THAT US ATTORNEY WEISS IN FACT ALREADY HAD INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATORY AUTHORITY, IT바카라 게임 웹사이트S HARD TO SEE THE CHOICE TO APPOINT HIM HERE. IS ANYTHING OTHER THAN AN ATTEMPT TO UNDERSCORE AND REINFORCE THAT INDEPENDENCE AND FUNDAMENTALLY, THAT바카라 게임 웹사이트S A POLITICAL CALCULATION. AND THEN THE NEXT STEPS YOU바카라 게임 웹사이트RE GOING TO SEE IN THIS IN NATION ARE GOING TO COME IN THE MIDDLE OF A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. SO EVEN THE MOST MUNDANE CHOICES ARE GOING TO BE CONSUMED BY THE PUBLIC AND BY THE MEDIA AS POLITICAL CHOICES AT THE END OF THE ROAD, REGARDLESS OF WHAT HAPPENS BOTH FOR HUNTER BIDEN AND ULTIMATELY FOR DONALD TRUMP AS WELL, THERE바카라 게임 웹사이트S GOING TO BE A TRIAL. AND WHEN THE BELL RINGS ON THOSE TRIALS, AT THAT POINT, ONE WOULD HOPE AT LEAST. AND SO IT SHOULD GO. ALL THAT바카라 게임 웹사이트S GOING TO MATTER AT THAT POINT WILL BE THE EVIDENCE IN THE LAW. BUT 100% IN THE ENTIRE RUN UP TO THAT VER
Tax charges from defunct Hunter Biden plea deal dismissed, so probe can move forward
Updated: 8:32 AM EDT Aug 18, 2023
A federal judge in Delaware dismissed two tax misdemeanor charges against Hunter Biden that were filed as part of his now-defunct plea deal, paving the way for special counsel David Weiss to potentially bring more charges in another jurisdiction as part of his continuing probe.After the plea deal collapsed earlier this month, Weiss바카라 게임 웹사이트 prosecutors asked District Judge Maryellen Noreika to dismiss the charges in Delaware, so new charges could potentially be brought in California or Washington, D.C. Hunter Biden바카라 게임 웹사이트s lawyers agreed that the charges should be dismissed, because they were only brought in Delaware as part of the earlier plea agreement.Noreika approved the procedural request on Thursday.The two charges brought in Delaware were misdemeanors, for failing to pay taxes on time in 2017 and 2018. Without a plea deal in-hand, Hunter Biden could potentially face more serious charges: IRS whistleblowers who worked on the case told Congress they recommended charging the president바카라 게임 웹사이트s son with six federal felonies, including tax evasion and filing false tax returns.The fate of a separate but related deal to resolve a felony gun possession charge is still unclear.Video below: AG Merrick Garland announces special council assigned to Hunter Biden probeProsecutors say the deal never went into effect. Hunter Biden바카라 게임 웹사이트s lawyers say it is still valid and binding. It is up to Noreika to decide the status of that deal, which called for prosecutors to drop the gun charge in two years if Hunter Biden stayed out of legal trouble and passed drug tests.Weiss, now with special counsel status, is continuing the investigation.At the July 26 court hearing where the plea deal started to unravel, a prosecutor in the case told the judge that the probe into Hunter Biden바카라 게임 웹사이트s potential foreign lobbying violations continued and more charges potentially could be brought. That part of the investigation into potential violations of the Foreign Agent Registration Act, led by the FBI, has been part of the Hunter Biden probe for years.
DOVER, Del. — A federal judge in Delaware dismissed two tax misdemeanor charges against Hunter Biden that were filed as part of his now-defunct plea deal, paving the way for special counsel David Weiss to potentially bring more charges in another jurisdiction as part of his continuing probe.
After the plea deal collapsed earlier this month, Weiss바카라 게임 웹사이트 prosecutors asked District Judge Maryellen Noreika to dismiss the charges in Delaware, so new charges could potentially be brought in California or Washington, D.C. Hunter Biden바카라 게임 웹사이트s lawyers agreed that the charges should be dismissed, because they were only brought in Delaware as part of the earlier plea agreement.
Noreika approved the procedural request on Thursday.
The two charges brought in Delaware were misdemeanors, for failing to pay taxes on time in 2017 and 2018. Without a plea deal in-hand, Hunter Biden could potentially face more serious charges: IRS whistleblowers who worked on the case told Congress they recommended charging the president바카라 게임 웹사이트s son with six federal felonies, including tax evasion and filing false tax returns.
The fate of a separate but related deal to resolve a felony gun possession charge is still unclear.
Video below: AG Merrick Garland announces special council assigned to Hunter Biden probe
Prosecutors say the deal never went into effect. Hunter Biden바카라 게임 웹사이트s lawyers say it is still valid and binding. It is up to Noreika to decide the status of that deal, which called for prosecutors to drop the gun charge in two years if Hunter Biden stayed out of legal trouble and passed drug tests.
Weiss, now with special counsel status, is continuing the investigation.
At the July 26 court hearing where the plea deal started to unravel, a prosecutor in the case told the judge that the probe into Hunter Biden바카라 게임 웹사이트s potential foreign lobbying violations continued and more charges potentially could be brought. That part of the investigation into potential violations of the Foreign Agent Registration Act, led by the FBI, has been part of the Hunter Biden probe for years.