Posted on 10/11/2023 8:34:08 PM PDT by bitt
US District Judge Maryellen Noreika on Wednesday agreed to formally drop a gun charge against Hunter Biden after a new indictment replaced his collapsed plea deal.
Recall that Hunter Biden’s sweetheart plea deal collapsed in July after Judge Maryellen Noreika realized Hunter’s lawyers were trying to pull a fast one on her.
Hunter was only charged with two misdemeanors related to tax fraud and would have avoided prison time on a felony gun charge.
Prosecutors went easy on Hunter and handled the gun charge as a “diversion case.”
The lawyers slipped Hunter’s blanket immunity in the pre-trial diversion agreement so the judge could not accept – or reject – the blanket immunity part of the deal.
However, the judge smelled a rat and blew up the entire plea deal!
Last month Hunter Biden was indicted on federal gun charges. He was indicted in a Delaware court on three counts related to his possession of a firearm while using drugs.
Hunter pleaded not guilty to all three charges earlier this month.
Prosecutors asked Judge Maryellen Noreika to drop the old gun charge and she signed off on their request.
AP reported:
WASHINGTON (AP) — A gun count that had been part of a collapsed plea deal in the Hunter Biden case was dismissed Wednesday as a judge signed off on a prosecution request.
The order from U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika formally removes a gun-possession charge that has now been replaced by an unrelated three-count indictment filed after the agreement imploded in July.
Last month’s gun-related charges aren’t the end of Hunter Biden’s legal problems. Weiss previously withdrew Hunter’s tax-related charges in Delaware and said the venue for the offenses are either in California or DC.
Prosecutors say the venue for Hunter Biden’s tax-related charges lies either in California or DC, not Delaware.
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Sounds like this is the initial gun charge which got the sweetheart deal. The current gun charges are still ongoing.
BREAKING: A federal judge moved to formally dismiss the gun charge Hunter Biden was initially expected to avoid prosecution on before his plea deal collapsed under scrutiny.
https://t.co/Qhn5VblgnP pic.twitter.com/a0JOC8fIcp— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) October 11, 2023
They busted their asses and found the sorriest Jesters around to get these charges missed for the drug addicted porn star.
Of course.
Democrat immunity.
Any chance they look into the big guy now?
Of course he does.
The Bidens will be thanking Hama$ for the diversion it provided.
The WILL try to immunize him again.
How many gun violations did Hunter commit?
Drop old charges, mess up the new one, drop the case because of error..... 🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐
Who didn’t see this coming?
Put him in IDF front line.
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They have established a special prosecutor who is illegal because he does not meet the qualifications of law. We already know he is up to no good. Congress does nothing.
Hunter Biden withdrew $20,000 from high school aged daughter Maisy’s college fund
he spent it on hookers and drugs after bankers warned he had just 44 cents left in his account
10/6/2023, 3:53:49 PM · by knighthawk
UK Daily Mail ^ | October 6 2023 | JOSH BOSWELL
Hunter Biden withdrew his high school aged daughter’s college savings to help fund a months-long drug and hooker binge – and still hasn’t paid the taxes on it, documents unearthed exclusively by DailyMail.com reveal.
The First Son’s profligacy was cast in sharp relief in papers from an IRS whistleblower who investigated him for tax crimes, released by Congress last month.
In late 2018 Hunter was in his ‘penultimate odyssey through full blown addiction’, according to his own memoir, skulking in Connecticut motels and frittering away thousands on prostitutes and crack cocaine.
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Days after Joe Biden became president, his tax-paid
DOJ sought briefing on Hunter criminal case, memos show
Just The News ^ | October 4, 2023 | By Steven Richards and John Solomon
Posted on 10/5/2023, 10:42:21 AM by Red Badger
A mere 16 days after Joe Biden assumed the presidency, top officials in his tax paid Justice Department raised suspicion by demanding a briefing on the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden, according to evidence turned over to Congress that raises new questions about Attorney General Merrick Garland’s claims of an interference-free probe.
The Feb. 5, 2021 meeting between Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss’ office (now Hunter’s special prosecutor) and some of Biden’s new assistant attorneys general in DOJ’s Washington headquarters was chronicled in email exchanges between federal prosecutors and IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler. Weiss was leading the probe into the first son,
“The 5 attorneys have the briefing at 1130 with the AAGs,” Delaware Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf wrote to the IRS and FBI agents working the case who were told their regular meeting with Wolf might be delayed by the briefing in Washington.
The recipients on Wolf’s email included Ziegler, the IRS case agent on the Hunter Biden tax probe that was codenamed “Sportsman.” A short while later, Ziegler’s supervisor, Shapley, alerted the IRS chain of command about concerns that Biden’s new DOJ officials were asking to join the meeting, including one from the National Security Division (NSD) that had no jurisdiction in the tax probe. Some of the attendees were Biden political appointees.
“We learned today that USAO and DOJ Tax are briefing the new AAG on the tax case today,” Shapley wrote his boss. “NSD asked for a briefing so they could understand the tax side of the case. I don’t understand why this matters to them since they are NSD…but I just wanted to give you an update that this meeting was.”
You can read those emails here.
File ShapleyZieglerEmailsDOJSportsmanBriefing2-5-21.pdf
The request for the briefing escaped public and media notice for two years and is now the earliest known evidence of intervention by Biden DOJ officials into the Hunter Biden case. It comes only weeks after reports disclosed that Associate Deputy Attorney General Bradley Weinsheimer had contact with Hunter Biden’s attorneys in May during the effort to negotiate a now-abandoned plea deal that would have spared Hunter Biden prison time on tax evasion and gun charges.
Hunter Biden has since been charged with three gun felonies and remains under investigation for other potential offenses after a federal judge rejected his plea deal. Biden has pleaded “Not Guilty” to those charges.
The new revelation — contained in documents that Ziegler and Shapley turned over during their whistleblower cooperation with the House Ways and Means Committee — is certain to heighten concerns among congressional investigators who are suspicious of Garland’s claims that his his DOJ kept hands off of the Hunter Biden probe and left all decisions to Weiss’ office.
Shapley and Ziegler have been relentlessly attacked by Hunter Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell, who contended that both Shapley and Ziegler broke federal law when making protected disclosures to Congress. Lowell told CNN that the whistleblowers were “disgruntled agents with an axe to grind.
The Biden DOJ’s history of obstruction in Hunter Biden-related cases, they testified to Congress, included being turned down for perfectly legal search warrants for Joe Biden’s property and Hunter Biden’s storage locker, being blocked from inquiring about Joe Biden or his grandchildren and being thwarted from doing a surprise interview with Hunter Biden. In fact, instead of allowing agents to simply interview Hunter Biden, DOJ officials contacted Joe Biden’s team and told them ahead of time that they wanted to speak with Hunter Biden.
“I am blowing the whistle because the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office, Department of Justice Tax, and Department of Justice provided preferential treatment and unchecked conflicts of interest in an important and high-profile investigation of the President’s son, Hunter Biden,” Shapley testified to Congress this summer.
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James Biden’s Role In The Hunter Biden Access-For-Hire
influence-peddling schemes Shows It Was A Family Affair
The Federalist ^ | 10/4/23 | ELLE PURNELL
Posted on 10/4/2023, 7:15:23 PM by CFW
As the Biden family’s corruption scandals tumble out into the open, corporate media badly want you to think the only story here is about Hunter Biden, a struggling drug addict who may have made some unwise decisions while grieving the loss of his brother.
The more evidence — from whistleblower testimony to documentation — of President Joe Biden’s involvement arises, the more frantically they shout “no evidence!” and insist the elder Biden was only involved to the extent that he loves his son and talks with his wealthy foreign friends about the weather.
But setting aside the evidence of Joe Biden’s involvement in the access-for-sale scheme — of which there is an abundance — there’s another central figure in the operation. The participation of James Biden, Hunter’s uncle and Joe’s brother, shows just how much of a family affair the scandal is, with Joe Biden, the family’s “only asset,” at the top.
So what exactly do we know about James Biden’s involvement?
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James, his wife Sara, and Hunter went on a $101,291 spending spree with credit cards opened by Hunter and Kevin Dong, who “served as ‘Chairman Ye[’s] CEFC emissary’ in the United States.” The three Bidens purchased “extravagant items, including airline tickets and multiple items at Apple Inc. stores, pharmacies, hotels and restaurants.”
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Despite telling the IRS “that he recalled not being involved with anything beyond 2017,” James Biden sent a message to Hunter in February 2018 that he was “in a near panic” because “we got nothing in Feb! … Did K [likely Kevin Dong] cut us off in Feb? I thought you had said that $ were wired into your account , 82.5 was on its way. We can’t find any record that was sent. Did I miss something?”
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
Joe Biden had (cough) “no knowledge” of where the money for his family was originating from and how all his purchases, expenses, and home repairs were being financed. And, none of his U.S. policy promotions and decisions as VP (or Obama’s — whose name is being kept out of this corruption scandal) were based on those financial “contributions” to his family’s wealth. Makes perfect sense.
Or, at least it does if you are a democrat.
The so called courts turn another blind eye to the Biden syndicate dumb ideas come with a price.
While most extraordinary world views were shaped by a belief in American exceptionalism,
the disturbed “woke world” Biden view hates success, and they virulently hate America.
They sound like millions of Me-First Obamas......antisocial, borderline, histrionic,
narcissistic, race-obsessed, to name a few of their dark psychoses.
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