Hunter Biden will face a new federal grand jury indictment related to his weapons charges later this month, the Justice Department revealed in a court filing Wednesday.
“The Speed Trial Act requires the Government to obtain the return of an indictment from a grand jury no later than Friday, September 29, 2023. The Government intends to seek the return of an indictment in this case before that date,” special counsel David Weiss said in a document filed in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware.
The filing was in response to an Aug. 31 oral order from the court for the Justice Department and Biden’s lawyers to provide it with an update on the status of the case, including any steps they believe the Delaware court should take.
Lawyers for President Biden’s scandal-plagued son filed their own update shortly after Weiss’s, stating that the 53-year-old has been following the terms of a diversion agreement previously reached with federal prosecutors to avoid a charge of felony for possession of weapons.
“Mr. Biden has been and will continue to follow the conditions of that Agreement, which the United States Attorney’s Office agreed to and signed and reported to the Court on July 20, 2023 that the Probation Office had accepted and recommended that it be put into effect,” his lawyers said in the filing.
Hunter Biden will face a new federal grand jury indictment on weapons charges later this month, the Justice Department revealed in a court filing.
Under the diversion agreement, Biden would have to remain sober, submit to drug testing, avoid committing other crimes for two years and agree to never possess a firearm again.
The first son was to receive broad immunity protection under a plea deal he reached with federal prosecutors in June that would have allowed him to avoid prosecution for felony possession of a firearm while addicted to crack cocaine. but the deal collapsed in a Delaware courtroom in July.
Biden would have served two years of probation for two minor tax offenses and entered a diversion program for the gun charge under the terms of the ill-fated deal.
The filing was in response to an Aug. 31 oral order from the court for the Justice Department and Biden’s lawyers to provide it with an update on the status of the case, including any steps they believe the Delaware court should take.
The first son, 53, was to receive broad immunity protection under a plea deal he reached with federal prosecutors in June that would have allowed him to avoid prosecution on felony gun possession.
Weiss deviated from the plan during a turbulent three-hour hearing in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware, where U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika was expected to certify the agreement, telling the judge that the unprecedented agreement did not bar prosecutors from the ongoing investigation into Biden’s alleged crimes, such as his alleged violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Biden’s attorney, Chris Clark, called the plea deal “null and void” upon hearing Weiss say the government could pursue more charges.
Wednesday’s status update, however, implies that Hunter’s defense team believes the deal, at least on the weapons charge, is still in place.
However, the plea deal collapsed in a Delaware court in July.REUTERS
Biden’s attorney, Chris Clark, called the plea deal “null and void” upon hearing Weiss say the government could pursue more charges. PA
Weiss was promoted to special counsel in the case on Aug. 11 by Attorney General Merrick Garland, who cited “the extraordinary circumstances surrounding this matter” for his decision to grant Delaware’s U.S. attorney broad authority to file indictments, issue subpoenas and get records. orders related to the case.
IRS investigators overseeing the case testified before Congress that attorneys appointed by President Biden prevented Weiss from filing charges against his son in Washington, DC and Southern California.AP
Earlier this summer, IRS investigators overseeing the case testified before Congress that US attorneys appointed by President Biden prevented Weiss from charging his son in Washington, DC and Southern California and that Weiss was He had denied special counsel status earlier in the investigation despite having requested it.
Garland and Weiss have denied both claims.
Efforts to resurrect the probation plea deal were at an “impasse” last month, according to federal prosecutors in Delaware.
“From [the July 26 plea agreement hearing]The parties have engaged in further plea negotiations but are at an impasse,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Leo Wise wrote in an Aug. 11 court filing.
“The government now believes that the case will not be resolved without a trial,” he added.
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