Hunter Biden will face a new federal grand jury indictment on his gun charges later this month, the Justice Department revealed in a court filing Wednesday.
“The Speedy Trial Act requires the Government to obtain a return of an indictment by a grand jury no later than Friday, September 29, 2023. The Government intends to return an indictment in this case before that date,” special counsel David Weiss said in a document filed in US District Court for Delaware County.
The filing was in response to an Aug. 31 oral order by the court that the Justice Department and Biden’s lawyers provide him with a status update on the case, including any steps they believe should be taken by the Delaware court.
Lawyers for President Biden’s scandal-ridden son submitted their own update shortly after Weiss, indicating that the 53-year-old had followed the terms of a diversion deal he had previously reached with federal prosecutors to avoid felony firearms charges.
“Mr. Biden has followed and will continue to follow the terms of the Agreement, which was agreed to by the US Attorney’s Office and signed and informed the Court on July 20, 2023 that the Probation Office has agreed and has recommended that it be enforced,” his attorney said in the filing.
Hunter Biden will face a new federal grand jury indictment on gun charges later this month, the Justice Department revealed in a court filing.
Under the diversion agreement, Biden must remain sober, submit to drug tests, refrain from committing other crimes for two years and agree to no longer possess firearms.
The first son was set to receive blanket immunity under a plea deal he reached with federal prosecutors in June that would have allowed him to avoid prosecution on a felony charge of possessing a firearm while addicted to crack cocaine, but the deal failed in a Delaware courtroom on July.
Biden will serve two years of probation for two tax offenses and enter a diversion program for gun charges under the terms of the ill-fated deal.
The filing was in response to an Aug. 31 oral order by the court that the Justice Department and Biden’s lawyers provide him with a status update on the case, including any steps they believe should be taken by the Delaware court.
The 53-year-old eldest son is set to receive blanket immunity under a plea deal he reached with federal prosecutors in June that will allow him to avoid prosecution on gun charges.AP
Weiss deviated from that plan during a tumultuous three-hour hearing in a federal courtroom in Wilmington, Del., where US District Judge Maryellen Noreika was expected to confirm the deal, telling the judge that the unprecedented deal did not prevent prosecutors from continuing their investigation into on Biden’s criminal allegations – such as his alleged violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Biden’s lawyer, Chris Clark, called the plea deal “null and void” after hearing Weiss say the government could pursue more charges.
Wednesday’s status update, however, implied that Hunter’s defense team believes the deal, at least on the firearms charge, is still in effect.
However, the plea deal failed in a Delaware courtroom in July.REUTERS
Biden’s lawyer, Chris Clark, called the plea deal “null and void” after hearing Weiss say the government could pursue more charges. AP
Weiss was elevated to special counsel in the case on August 11 by Attorney General Merrick Garland, who cited the “extraordinary circumstances surrounding this matter” because the decision gave the Delaware US attorney broad powers to bring indictments, issue subpoenas and obtain searches. warrant related to the case.
IRS investigators assigned to oversee the case testified before Congress that lawyers appointed by President Biden prevented Weiss from prosecuting her son in Washington, DC and Southern California.AP
Earlier this summer, IRS investigators tasked with overseeing the case testified before Congress that US attorneys appointed by President Biden prevented Weiss from prosecuting his son in Washington, DC and Southern California and that Weiss was denied special counsel status early in the investigation despite ask for it.
Garland and Weiss have denied both allegations.
Efforts to revive the tentative plea bargain have been at an “impasse” for the past month, according to federal prosecutors in Delaware.
“Since [the July 26 plea agreement hearing]the parties have engaged in further plea negotiations but have reached an impasse,” Assistant US Attorney Leo Wise wrote in an Aug. 11 court filing.
“The government now believes that the case will not be settled immediately after the trial,” he added.
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