A DoJ official says the department is discussing delaying Hunter Biden’s plea hearing — after a storm of “sweetheart deal” allegations from whistleblowers and claims the attorney general lied to Congress about the criminal investigation into Biden.
On July 26, a federal judge in Delaware will decide whether to accept First Son’s plea deal with prosecutors over two tax crimes.
Republican lawmakers are calling on Judge Maryellen Noreika to completely scrap the “slap on the wrist” and “sweetheart” deal after IRS whistleblowers investigating Hunter for five years said he could have been charged instead with a string of more serious tax and corruption crimes.
Now, a legal filing shows that the DoJ is considering delaying completion of the plea deal amid the disgrace.
A federal judge in Delaware will decide on July 26 whether to accept Hunter Biden’s plea deal with prosecutors over two tax violations.
Conservative charity Heritage Foundation is suing the Justice Department for failure to release Delaware prosecutor David Weiss’s communications records under the Freedom of Information Act.
A lawsuit filed last week by the Foundation documented a June 29 phone call between their attorney and DoJ attorney Jason Lynch in which the Attorney General allegedly made the intoxicating confession.
Foundation attorney Samuel Dewey pointed out to the DoJ attorney that they could ask the federal judge in Hunter’s criminal case to postpone his July 26 plea hearing, to give them more time to process and release Weiss’s records, and to to facilitate the prosecution’s investigation. .
Republican lawmakers call on Judge Maryellen Noreika to completely scrap ‘slap on the wrist’ and ‘sweetheart’ deal
“DoJ Counsel indicated that plaintiffs were “absolutely correct” that the Department could file such a motion and that DoJ Counsel would return that point to the “District” (presumably speaking of the District of Delaware),” Dewey wrote.
Dewey’s description suggests that the Justice Department could now debate delaying closing the plea deal.
“They have the option to move the plea deal, although they have not indicated that they likely would,” Mike Howell, director of the Heritage Foundation Oversight, told DailyMail.com.
‘The public has an interest in judging for themselves: is this a sweetheart deal? It certainly seems to be.
“This information should be public and it is in the public interest for it to be public before any plea is signed.”
The Foundation filed its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Justice Department in March, requesting documents or communications between Weiss’s Delaware office and other DoJ officials regarding the Hunter Biden investigation.
They sued the ministry after it failed to provide data for months.
Howell said the Foundation is seeking evidence to support whistleblower claims that Weiss has been denied the opportunity to prosecute the First Son’s crimes in other counties, including Central California and Washington DC.
There are repeated allegations that the Attorney General lied to Congress about the criminal investigation into Biden
Conservative charity, the Heritage Foundation, is suing the Justice Department for failure to release Delaware Prosecutor David Weiss’s communications records under the Freedom of Information Act
Attorney General Merrick Garland told the Senate that Weiss had all the powers he needed to prosecute Hunter for crimes anywhere in the US.
But IRS investigators told Congress Weiss said he was barred from prosecuting felony tax returns by Biden-appointed prosecutors in D.C. and Los Angeles.
“If the whistleblowers are right, the U.S. Attorney Weiss’ Office should have responsive files that the whistleblowers will corroborate,” Dewey wrote in the Heritage Foundation’s lawsuit.
“There are events so serious — so essential — to our constitutional order that if we are to preserve our Republic, the American people must have a full record of the facts.
“A course of action that raises the question of whether the Attorney General misled Congress is unacceptable. Therefore, the submission of the documents requested by the claimants is essential. And why it is now essential.’
In its legal responses, the DoJ said they will try to produce some documents, but will not hand over anything until after Hunter’s plea hearing on July 26.
Once Judge Noreika signs the deal – the details of which are still under wraps – it is unlikely that it can be reversed.
“They have the option to move the plea deal, although they have not indicated that they likely would,” Mike Howell, director of the Heritage Foundation Oversight, told DailyMail.com.
The judge in the Heritage Foundation’s FOIA lawsuit, Dabney Friedrich, ordered the DoJ to respond with legal arguments to the charity’s emergency demand for documents by July 10.
Howell said the charges would amount to an effective “backdoor pardon” with no jail time and no felony.
“Essentially what they’re doing is pardoning Hunter Biden in a different way by giving him this slap on the wrist when there’s all these other great whistleblower accounts and a pattern of shady business dealings from the Biden family,” he told DailyMail .com .
One of Hunter’s attorneys, Chris Clark, said the deal showed his client was “taking responsibility.”
“Hunter will take responsibility for two cases of late tax payments,” Clark said in a written statement when the deal with prosecutors was announced last month.
“I know it’s important to Hunter to take responsibility for the mistakes he made during a period of turmoil and addiction in his life. He looks forward to continuing his recovery and moving forward.”