Congress may be on recess for the month of August, but the House Judiciary, Oversight and Accountability, and Ways and Means Committees are pressing forward with yet another investigation – this time into the sweetheart plea deal that Hunter Biden nearly snagged from his father’s Department of Justice (DOJ) on federal tax and gun charges. The deal was scuttled (at least temporarily) after Delaware District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika raised questions at Wednesday’s hearing about the highly unusual structure of the deal, which ultimately exposed that either the DOJ attorneys and Hunter’s attorneys failed to have a true meeting of the minds regarding the scope of the immunity being offered to Hunter or were trying to pull a fast one on the judge.
Pretty sure this was not a disagreement between the two parties and I am quite certain that they were just trying to pull a fast one on the judge. There were several times during the hearing where the Judge asked the DOJ if there was any precedents for the unusual manner in which this was being handled, and the DOJ conceded on several occasions that they did not have any precedent. As a point of definable fact, that makes that plea agreement "unprecedented". When something is "unprecedented" it seems fair to understand why.
The most blatant example of something considered unprecedented was the immunity, which is the specific reason why Noreika had to approve the deal.
“During the hearing, Judge Noreika questioned the Department about this apparently unusual provision, asking whether the SAUSA ‘had any precedent for agreeing not to prosecute crimes that have nothing to do with the case or the charges being diverted.’ The SAUSA responded: ‘I’m not aware of any, Your Honor.’ Judge Noreika followed up by asking the prosecutor: ‘[H]ave you ever seen a Diversion Agreement where the agreement not to prosecute is so broad that it encompasses crimes in a different case?’ The SAUSA’s answer was ‘No.’
The idea that the plea provided almost blanket immunity against any charges regarding anything that Hunter Biden has done prior to now is mindboggling. You would think that Hunter Biden was giving up a limb or something in return in order to justify that sort of plenary forgiveness. Instead, he was giving up almost nothing in return for pretty much everything they could have hoped for. In this case, the Hunter Biden defense team was the Harlem Globetrotters and the DOJ was the Washington Generals (as in the DOJ was only pretending to put up a defense for show).
What probably didn't help was the Hunter Defense team suggesting publicly that the plea agreement closed the books on all legal things Biden related, while the DOJ suggested (fairly dishonestly) that there was still an ongoing investigation and pretended that it didn't close anything. So when the Judge asked, the DOJ did not want to admit that they had given blanket immunity even though that seemed to be the case. The judge took issue to this and other things.
“Taken individually, each of the provisions discussed above raises serious concerns about how the Department has handled this matter. But when considered together, the provisions appear to be even more troubling. Judge Noriega explained the problem: ‘What’s funny to me is you put me right smack in the middle of the Diversion Agreement that I should have no role in, you plop [me] right in there and then on the thing that I would normally have the ability to sign off on or look at in the context of a Plea Agreement, you just take it out and you say Your Honor, don’t pay any attention to that provision not to prosecute because we put it in an agreement that’s beyond your ability.’
The Judge seems to have already written the summation for any investigation, although I am sure the political one will be more... well political. But the idea (I am sure) is to get this out into the public so that it can be paid attention to. No doubt that the two Parties will come together with a new agreement that dots an I or two and crosses another T, but will anyone serious trust it? The fix is in and according to those in charge Hunter will not be going to jail and not be charges with the more serious charges.
Let's be clear, with 170 suspicious activity reports, 20 shell companies, and money flowing from China and Ukraine and ending up in the coffers of various family members, that is text book money laundering and racketeering. These are felonies and would not be hard to prosecute, but even these might just be the tip of the iceberg. To let someone like this off with two misdemeanor pleas for no jail time? That is truly scandalous. Which is why the far left DOJ is doing everything in their power to cover it up, and have been doing so since 2018.
"Biden is a “family man” & “loving father” who: — Has two children who are drug addicts — Had “inappropriate” showers with his daughter — Has a dog that attacks people — Didn’t seem to care when his son started banging the widow of his deceased son — Didn’t seem to care when…" / X
and believes his word as a Biden is something for others to be impressed with