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Special Counsel To Indict Hunter Biden By The End Of The Month
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Special counsel David Weiss intends to bring an indictment against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden on charges related to his 2018 purchase of a firearm by the end of this month, according to a Wednesday court filing.
The unspecified new charges are in part connected to the younger Biden’s purchase of a gun in Delaware in October 2018, in which he lied on a federal form stating he was not using or addicted to illegal drugs. At the time, he was regularly using crack cocaine.
Lying on the form, which is required by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), is a federal crime.
Biden had reached a deal to avoid prosecution on the gun charge by entering pre-trial diversion and meeting other requirements over a period of two years, including an agreement to acknowledge his failure to pay taxes in 2017 and 2018, which were misdemeanor violations.
But the deal fell apart in July, and the two sides have been arguing over the terms of the deal ever since.
The new filing comes a month after Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Weiss as special counsel in the investigation of Hunter Biden.
“The Speedy Trial Act requires that the Government obtain the return of an indictment by a grand jury by Friday, September 29, 2023, at the earliest,” prosecutors wrote in the Wednesday filing. “The Government intends to seek the return of an indictment in this case before that date.”
“This continues to show, despite what is clearly a heartbreaking scenario for the president, no one is above the law and he has restored independence to the DOJ,” said attorney and strategic communications adviser Kaivan Shroff, who is not involved with the case.
“All those republicans who claimed there was a double standard re: Hunter and Trump now truly have nothing to stand on,” Shroff said.
“Nobody is above the law and prosecutors have discretion in what to pursue or not, but the objective fact is these cases are rarely brought and pushed the way we have seen and there is no doubt that Weiss felt the pressure,” Shroff said.
“If only this ‘indictment’ was for the purpose of justice and not optics,” said Diane Canada, author of “Lady Up & Don’t Quit” and founder of the Lady Up America movement.
“Weiss cannot be taken seriously as special counsel when he brokered the original deal to let Hunter walk with a simple slap on the wrist. The American people see the glaring two tiers of justice, which they are finding harder to maneuver, so the Biden camp must do something to settle people down,” Canada said. “This is that ‘something’ and anyone following this closely can see right through it.”
The filing does not indicate whether the separate tax charges will also be filed.
TMX contributed to this article.
