No jail time for the President’s son…
(Hunter Biden paid back the tax due)
Getting his name out of the media and making his dad happy….
Some Republicans will try to stretch this…
But?
It’s going away….
The agreement caps an investigation that was opened in 2018 during the Trump administration, and has generated intense interest and criticism since 2020 from Republican politicians who accused the Biden administration of reluctance to pursue the case. The terms of the proposed deal — negotiated with Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, a holdover from President Donald Trump’s administration — are likely to face similar scrutiny.
The court papers indicate the younger Biden has tentatively agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges of failure to pay in 2017 and 2018. The combined tax liability is roughly $1.2 million over those years, according to people familiar with the plea deal, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe details of the agreement that are not yet public. Prosecutors plan to recommend a sentence of probation for those counts, these people said. Biden’s representatives have said he previously paid back the IRS what he owed….
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Handling the gun charge as a diversion case means Biden will not technically be pleading guilty to that crime. Diversion is an option typically applied to nonviolent offenders with substance abuse problems….
image…Bloomberg
GOPer’s will keep trying….
But this IS about done…..
House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) vowed on Tuesday to continue investigating Hunter Biden, despite his “sweetheart plea deal” reached with federal prosecutors….
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Andrew Weissmann 🌻
@AWeissmann_
Hunter Biden note: 3 factors why this is on the up and up:
1. to go forward with the tax deal, the DOJ Tax Division had to sign off on this deal;
2. the USAttorney is a Trump appointee, held over by Garland;
3. 1st time tax offense like this rarely get prosecuted/jail time.
I KNEW this wasn’t just gonna let go…..
LOT of people want Biden’s son to take him down…..
Of course a LOT of people are asking about Jared Kushner and Trump Jr…..
And Biden himself since Trump is in a hole….
An IRS agent who supervised the investigation into President Biden’s son Hunter told lawmakers that Justice Department officials slowed and stymied the investigation, whittling away the most serious evidence of alleged tax crimes, according to a transcript of his account released Thursday….
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