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[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Joseph Klein’s masterpiece contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
A gentle slap on the wrist. That is what President Biden’s son Hunter will likely face for lying about his drug use on a federal gun purchase form and for evading the payment of hundreds of thousands of dollars he owed in federal taxes.
After five years of a bogus investigation, Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss’ office announced on June 20th an incredibly lenient plea deal for offenses that have sent lesser mortals without a daddy in the Oval Office to prison. That is, unless the federal judge assigned to the case, U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika, sees through this miscarriage of justice and rejects the plea deal.
When asked about the plea deal for Hunter’s illegal acquisition of a gun and cheating on his taxes, President Biden said he was “very proud” of his son. Given the president’s zealous support for gun control and for going after well-heeled tax cheats, President Biden would have been better off saying nothing at all.
If Hunter Biden had taken full ownership of his crimes and agreed to serve some jail time in exchange for the prosecution’s agreement to accept his guilty plea, then maybe there would have been something to be proud of. But that is not what happened. Hunter is an unreformed grifter who has lived his adult life leveraging his father’s political power for personal advantage. The Biden Justice Department’s offer of a sweetheart deal to Hunter came about only because his father is in the White House.
Hunter took one for the entire Biden family syndicate by agreeing to plead guilty to narrow charges focused only on his own tax evasion and illegal gun acquisition. He avoided entangling his family members, including the “big guy,” in a web of far more serious charges like money laundering, bribery, and violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, despite strong evidence of such crimes. Perhaps that is why President Biden is so proud of his son.
Bank records evidencing the shell companies used to surreptitiously divert money sent from China, Ukraine, and Romania to Biden family members evidently eluded the FBI agents and prosecutors supposedly investigating Hunter’s criminal activities for five years.
Since 2019, the FBI has been in possession of Hunter’s laptop, which contains a treasure trove of evidence of wrongdoing not only by Hunter but also by the Biden family syndicate. Yet the FBI agents and prosecutors assigned to investigate Hunter’s conduct did not think it was worth delving into the contents of the laptop before working out the outrageous plea deal with Hunter’s attorneys.
There are now reports indicating that Biden’s Department of Justice interfered with the Internal Revenue Service’s tax fraud investigation of Hunter Biden. A career IRS agent in charge of the investigation was disgusted enough to blow the whistle on what he considered to be a coverup. Reportedly at the direction of the Department of Justice, the political leadership of the IRS removed the whistleblower and his entire investigative team from the case in retaliation.
The career supervisor of the investigation and another IRS whistleblower were reported on June 22nd to have told the House Ways and Means Committee that their recommendation to charge Hunter Biden with a felony went nowhere. They further claimed that the Biden Justice Department buried evidence which implicated Hunter.
Were these whistleblowers invited to testify before the grand jury impaneled in Delaware in connection with the Hunter Biden investigation? We don’t know for sure but it is highly doubtful.
We do know that Tony Bobulinski, a former business partner of the Biden family who knows all about the Biden family’s foreign business dealings, said last fall that he was not asked to testify before this grand jury. Since Mr. Bobulinski has identified Joe Biden as the “big guy” referenced in e-mail correspondence discovered on Hunter’s laptop, the Biden Justice Department was leery that something embarrassing to the president could show up in the grand jury transcripts if Mr. Bobulinski testified.
What the disgraceful outcome of the so-called investigation of Hunter Biden proves beyond a shadow of a doubt is that there is a two-tiered system of justice in America. Not only as between the aggressive prosecution of Donald Trump versus the kid gloves treatment of Hunter Biden and Hillary Clinton. There is also a two-tiered system of justice that shields the powerful Democrat elite in Washington from aggressive prosecution while federal law enforcement goes after regular Americans who do not have the proper political connections.
Texas Republican Representative Wesley Hunt tweeted in disgust:
“Democrats are the party of criminal justice reform, right? Where’s their outrage now while Hunter Biden, the white, privileged son of a President gets a slap on the wrist for a gun charge and tax evasion? Crickets.”
During a House Judiciary Committee meeting on June 21st where Special Counsel John Durham was testifying about the Russia hoax, Rep. Hunt expressed his outrage:
“The American people are sick and tired of this two-tiered justice system and as a black man I’m tired of seeing this kind of discretion you use to favor people like Hunter Biden because he’s white and a son of a president.”
Even celebrities without the right political connections in Washington, D.C., especially a family connection with the president of the United States, can face jail time for doing what Hunter Biden would get away with under his sweetheart deal.
All that Hunter had to do to avoid jail time for evading the payment of federal income taxes on millions of dollars of taxable income that he owed for both 2017 and 2018 was agree to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts. The sentence will be probation instead of jail if the plea agreement is approved by Judge Noreika.
By contrast, actor Wesley Snipes was sentenced in 2008 to three years in prison and fined $5 million after being found guilty of willfully failing to file past tax returns. The Internal Revenue Service rejected an offer by Mr. Snipes to compromise.
Jeffrey Bruce Atkins Sr., an African American rapper better known professionally as Ja Rule, received a 28-month prison sentence for failing to pay taxes on more than $3 million in earnings between 2004 and 2006. This federal sentence ran concurrently with his two-year sentence in state prison already in progress, which was handed down after he had previously pleaded guilty to attempted gun possession. After he finished serving his state sentence, Ja Rule then spent several additional months in federal prison.
All that Hunter had to do to avoid prosecution for lying on his federal gun purchase form was to agree to enter a pretrial “diversion” program. Under this program he must remain drug-free for 24 months and never own a firearm again. If Hunter complies with these conditions, the gun charge will be expunged from his record.
By contrast, Bill Kahan Kapri, an African American rapper better known as Kodak Black, was sentenced to three years and eight months in prison after pleading guilty to a charge that he lied on gun purchase forms to buy firearms.
Commenting on the sweetheart deal that Hunter Biden received, Bradford Cohen, Mr. Black’s attorney, wrote:
“2 tiers of justice? Kodak was charged with the same crime. Got over 3 years. Mr. Biden will not serve a day. Feels right? Do FBI agents and federal authorities take cases personally?”
Kodak Black’s attorney added in a tweet:
“After 26 years, I have yet to have a plea in a case with an illegal possession of a weapon and tax evasion, that did not come with some kind of prison sentence.”
U.S. District Court Judge Noreika of the District of Delaware, a Trump appointee whose nomination was initially endorsed by Delaware’s two Democratic senators, has been assigned to the Hunter Biden case. She set a court date of July 26 for Hunter Biden to appear in court for a “combined initial appearance and plea hearing.”
Judge Noreika will have the option of either approving or rejecting the plea agreement and deciding at that time or at a subsequent hearing whether probation is the appropriate sentence, or a harsher sentence would be more appropriate.
Republican members of the House Oversight Committee must try their best to present to Judge Noreika the detailed evidence they have uncovered regarding Hunter Biden’s and his family’s fraudulent wrongdoing going back to Joe Biden’s days as vice president. This means providing all the bank records, other documents, and testimony they have gathered so far to Judge Noreika before she renders her final decision. This could be the only way to convince the judge to reject the sweetheart plea deal, and force the Department of Justice to conduct a genuine investigation and to seek a conviction on felony charges – perhaps by finally appointing a fair-minded special counsel.
C’mon man this is why we need gun control, if innocent Hunter can accidentally buy an illegal weapon then anybody could. I am doing this for the good of the people man.
The pictures taken in 2017 of Hunter demanding payment with Mr Big present while he was at Mr Bug’s house are compelling evidence of a crime family in action that should lead to a rejection of this sweetheart deal of a plea
Yes, I agree. This whole farce smells vaguely like we are dealing with an organized crime family. The intimidation, the sleazy lawyers, the brazen lies, I could go on…
It seems more apparent that our foreign enemies saw maliable idiots with no morals, honesty, or values.
They found that those immoral idiots were rudderless fools & easy to manipulate – and even easier to buy
In Hunter’s case, the idiot no doubt has blackmail on him (although the blackmail material has diminished in value – the CCP saw how the press & FBI dismissed the laptop.)
The Bidens don’t run the racket; they’re chickenshit pawns owned by the racket.
(The irony is that the Taliban got everything they could have ever asked for & billions more; yet, they never even had to buy a crappy Hunter painting.)
Sick, evil family
Off topic. Maybe.
I support Trump because I trust no-one else to exercise appropriate ruthlessness.
Thousands of miscreants have substantial prison time coming their way and I want them substantially indulged. I want government shrunk, immigration halted and the country strengthened.
My patience has expired.
I was surprised he even got minor charges. Maybe Judge Noreika can at least throw in several weeks of community service for Hunter at the Beau Biden Foundation for Underprivileged Kids.
from what we know of Dopey Junior’s moral “srandards” I’d not want him anywhere near any gathering including youth. Keep this pervert as far away from young people as possible, then double that disance.
Pablo Escabar would be proud.
Once again my name and email are missing for posting here and I have to enter both again. Never had this problem with Disqus.
I never signed up for disquis. What wholesome purpose would be served by having all communication emminating from my ip address available, in a single file, for future investigation and prosecution?
I want to communicate while escaping persecution, not while inviting it.
Our justice system, like most institutions of our society have been ruined by the Democrats. The article fails to mention that DOJ refused to allow Wise to obtain search warrants on Biden properties and storage facilities and made sure to slow walk the investigation so that Hunter’s enormous tax evasions from 2014-15 would be put beyond the statute of limitations. This obviously is a farce and the administration and media are just rubbing it in our faces. The Dems are totally corrupt and have not a scintilla of integrity among the lot of them.
Also, according to Margot Cleveland, the Weiss didn’t ever bother to tell the Biden investigators about the existence of the form 1023 that alleged Hunter had taken a five million dollar bribe, which he undoubtedly failed to declare on his 1040, although former A.G. Barr has said that he had forwarded it to Weiss. I’m also sick of hearing how Weiss was appointed by Trump. He had been appointed as interim Assistant U.S. Attorney for Delaware by Obama and Trump kept him on as Assistant A.G. as a political courtesy to Delaware’s two Dem Senators who request he be given the full appointment.
David Weiss”is a”PLANT”.He was appointed by Trump in 2018,and the”STALLING” began in 2019!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And… then there’s the coincidence that Hunter received millions from Burisma a Ukrainian energy company and the price of energy has now gone through the roof since the NATO war on Russia.
Isn’t it ironic that Hunter Biden was paid millions by an oil and gas giant that produces something his father, the POYUS, apparently hates with a passion, but not enough to make him turn down those dollar$?
The”IRONIES” ABOUND??????????????????
Is anyone surprised? We all knew this was coming.
It’s a good article, like most. Unfortunately one doesn’t ever read of meaningful consequences of such criminal corrupt behavior. And so one wonders if it will ever happen. Ho hum.
Judge Noreika will accept the plea deal.
She has family to consider.
Yes, and I’m sure she’s already been contacted by somebody about just that.
They’ll make her an offer she can’t refuse.
The Biden’s, both father and son, are the epitome of a crime family.
The”BidenLeone’s”???????????????????
Only vigilante justice will keep America out of the sewer in the immediate future.
We’ll become what we already are – subjugated.
That is unless something changes, but that’d involve something parents are currently showing at schoolboard meetings – absolute resolve.
Benjamin Franklin had a timeless & astute observation:
“If we don’t hang together, we’ll most surely hang separately.”
SPOT ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It is somehwat comforting to know that one day REAL jusice will be meted out to wretches such as these Including all those who played their parts in thus monstrous fleecing job.
There is One who never sleeps, nor does He miss anything. Both these Biden creatures WILL be judged according to their works.
Joey, Garland and Wray are all serial liars!
At whose recommendation did Trump appoint this judge? I take no solace in thinking, because she’s “a Trump appointed” judge, the plea deal will be rejected for consequences more fitting the crimes.
Exactly!This was very early in Trump’s Presidency(2018).Trump had yet to discover just how DEEP was”The Swamp”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can I just add that Hunter isn one dirty looking, ugly, not so young dude. I think I want to sue for damages for the trauma of having seen pictures of this hairy oaf in underwear.
Father and Son crookeder then a bolt of Lightning more low down there a a snakes in a wagon rut
Although David Weiss is a”Trump Appointee”,this happened very early in Trump’s Presidency.He had yet to find out just how DEEP was”The Swamp”??????????????
What a disgrace, DEMOCRATIC COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIP at the highest. THIS COUNTRY HAS TURNED COMMUNIST. BIDEN FAMILY HAS THE FBI AND AG UNDER THEIR THUMB. OBAMA IS THE PUPPET MASTER , WE ARE NOW A BANANA REPUBLIC.
Never thought I would see the day when a U.S. President would be the laughingstock of the World. The White House the most guarded intelligence seeking House in the World doesn’t have a clue? Huh!!!! The Bidens sure know where the Yayo is.