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Hunter Biden Delaware Plea Deal Collapses


By Charlie McCarthy    |   Friday, 11 August 2023 01:22 PM EDT

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A potential plea deal between Hunter Biden and the Justice Department collapsed Friday after attorneys for both sides failed to finalize an agreement.

“Hunter Biden’s plea deal has collapsed. Talks with gov’t at an impasse,” Vox.com’s Andrew Prokop tweeted Friday with a screen grab of a court filing.

“DOJ filing: ‘Following additional negotiations after the hearing held on July 26, 2023, the parties are at an impasse and are not in agreement on either a plea agreement or a diversion agreement.'”

The court document adds: “Therefore, the Government believes the Court’s briefing order should be vacated.”

Prokop later tweeted: “DOJ says they are moving to dismiss the Delaware case against Hunter so they can file tax charges against him in CA or DC.”

Delaware U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika rejected a proposed plea deal on July 26 when she questioned aspects of the agreement for Biden to plead guilty to tax charges and avoid a gun charge. The judge told Hunter Biden’s lawyers and prosecutors that they could persuade her to approve the deal as it was previously negotiated, or to alter it to a form she can accept. She said she did not want to “rubber stamp” a plea deal.

President Joe Biden’s son then pleaded not guilty to charges of failing to pay taxes on more than $1.5 million in income in 2017 and 2018 despite owing more than $100,000, prosecutors allege.

The document shared by Prokop said DOJ officials requested Biden’s plea position on Wednesday and Friday. After his attorneys requested more time, until Monday, prosecutors declined.

Noreika released the proposed plea deal last week to satisfy a request from an NBC News reporter. Large portions of the plea deal were read in court on July 26.

On July 28, Noreika ordered attorneys Friday to raise issues with her chambers, not the court clerk. The order came two days after an employee at a law firm representing Biden allegedly misrepresented her identity to the clerk’s office during a phone call.

Reuters contributed to this story.

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Judge Releases Hunter Biden Plea Deal


By Charlie McCarthy    |   Wednesday, 02 August 2023 01:23 PM EDT

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The federal judge who rejected Hunter Biden’s plea deal released the proposed settlement publicly on Wednesday.

Judge Maryellen Noreika granted a request by NBC reporter Tom Winter for the full Hunter Biden plea deal to be released, The Messenger reported. Neither Biden’s lawyers nor prosecutors objected. A leaked version of the proposed plea deal was widely shared in the media last week.

Large portions of the plea deal were read in court on July 26, when Hunter Biden’s proposed deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to tax charges and avoid a gun charge hit a snag when Noreika said she needed more time to review the agreement.

“Those agreements should be publicly docketed given that they were discussed in open court and played a role in Your Honor’s decision on the proposed plea deal,” Winter wrote in his request.

Noreika also released the diversion agreement, which included that the U.S. agreed to “not criminally prosecute Biden, outside of the terms of this Agreement, or any federal crimes encompassed by the attached Statement of Facts (Attachment A) and the Statement of Facts attached as Exhibit 1 to the Memorandum of Plea Agreement filed this same day.”

Hunter Biden initially had agreed to plead guilty to two tax evasion charges and minor gun charges, much to the protest of Republican lawmakers.

After Noreika rejected the deal, the first son pleaded not guilty to charges of failing to pay taxes on more than $1.5 million in income in 2017 and 2018 despite owing more than $100,000, prosecutors allege.

The Republican heads of three House committees on Monday announced in a letter they will investigate the circumstances surrounding Biden’s failed plea deal, the New York Post reported.

The letter, signed by Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., and Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith, R-Mo., was sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland less than one week after Noreika rejected the plea deal after describing it as “not standard” and questioning the deal’s diversion agreement.

Noreika ordered attorneys Friday to raise issues with her chambers, not the court clerk.

The order came two days after an employee at a law firm representing Biden allegedly misrepresented her identity to the clerk’s office during a phone call.

Reuters contributed to this story.

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Today’s Politically INCORRECT Cartoon by A.F. Branco


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A.F. BRANCO | on June 22, 2023 | https://comicallyincorrect.com/a-f-branco-cartoon-ministry-of-truth/

Hunter Biden gets a slap on the wrist for serious crimes because of who his dad is.

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Tucker Carlson incinerates Hunter Biden plea deal in newest Twitter episode: ‘A lifetime of sins just washed away in an instant’


By: CARLOS GARCIA | June 20, 2023

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Image Source: Tucker Carlson Twitter video screenshot

Tucker Carlson released another scathing episode of his Twitter show and took aim straight at Hunter Biden after he agreed to a plea deal and got a slap on the wrist.

The president’s son reportedly agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and will receive probation and have to pay the taxes he owes. He will also enter into a diversion program over charges related to lying on a federal form when applying for a gun license.

“As in most of the developing world, it’s safer to be the president’s son than his opponent,” wrote Carlson in the description of his latest Twitter episode.

“This morning Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to pretty much nothing. Biden pled to two misdemeanor tax evasion charges then entered a diversion on a federal gun charge. That’s it. As far as Merrick Garland’s Justice Department is concerned Hunter Biden is done,” said Carlson on the show.

“There was no pre-dawn raid carried out live simultaneously on CNN, there was no perp walk, no handcuffs, no press conference. Above all there was no felony. Hunter Biden who broke federal gun laws can still carry a gun. It’s like it all never happened,” he added.

“In fact the Justice Department just baptized Hunter Biden. A lifetime of sins washed away in an instant,” Carlson said. “It was a secular miracle!”

He went on to emphasize that Hunter Biden got special treatment because he’s a son of President Joe Biden and mocked the White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

Carlson left Fox News in April and began publishing his own version of his very popular show on Twitter. He received tens of millions of views while Fox News has struggled to fill his time slot and has suffered in ratings without him.

He later accused Fox News of fraud and breach of contract over the circumstances surrounding his exit from the cable news network.

Hunter Biden is expected in federal court in the next few days over the plea deal.

Here’s the video from Tucker Carlson:

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