Hunter Biden to Appear in Court to Ratify Plea Deal
Hunter Biden, President Biden’s troubled son and the target of long-running Republican efforts to cast the first family as corrupt, is expected to plead guilty on Wednesday in federal court to two misdemeanor tax charges and accept an agreement that will allow him to avoid prosecution on a gun charge.
If approved by a judge, the deal, reached by lawyers for the younger Mr. Biden with the U.S. attorney in Delaware, David C. Weiss, a Trump appointee who was kept on by the Biden Justice Department to complete the investigation, would result in no prison time.
The younger Biden’s appearance as a defendant in Federal District Court in Wilmington — the city where his father started his political career and the future headquarters of the Biden-Harris re-election campaign — will be a humbling homecoming and a reckoning of sorts for years of tawdry and ethically questionable behavior.
Republicans have assailed the plea deal as far too lenient. Citing the congressional testimony of two I.R.S. agents who were involved in the federal investigation, House Republicans have suggested that the Justice Department meddled in the case by failing to give Mr. Weiss the full authority over the investigation that it had promised him — an assertion that Mr. Weiss and Attorney General Merrick B. Garland have rebutted.
Source: The New York Times
