By: Donald V. Watkins
Copyrighted and Published on July 26, 2023
Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) tried to “fix” Hunter Biden criminal case with a crooked plea deal. Today, this plea deal blew up in a Delaware federal court.
U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika, the judge assigned to hear the plea deal in Hunter Biden’s case, rejected an approval of this stinking and highly suspect plea deal.
In disapproving the plea deal, Judge Noreika directed her focus on two aspects of the deal: (a) the DOJ’s grant of blanket immunity to Hunter Biden on future tax charges and (b) the DOJ's admission of Hunter Biden into the federal pretrial diversion program, even though he faced a gun possession charge.
In June, Hunter Biden was charged with two misdemeanor tax charges and a “firearms offense – namely, one count of possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(3) and 924 (a)(2) (2018).”
Section 922 is a felony “weapons” offense, as defined in the annual DOJ statistical reports. The mandatory minimum sentence for this offense is 5 years.
Prosecutors attempted to help Hunter Biden avoid the 5-year minimum sentence by allowing him to enter into a pretrial diversion program.
According to the DOJ reports from 2001 to 2021, none of the 185,082 “weapons” cases prosecuted during this 20-year period was referred by DOJ to a pretrial diversion program. Hunter Biden is the first and only federal offender has enjoyed this kind of preferential treatment in a firearms case.
Hunter Biden also failed to declare his millions of dollars in income from Ukrainian and Chinese businesses on his federal tax return. His conduct in this regard constitutes one or more felony offenses of income tax evasion.
The DOJ tried to “fix” Hunter Biden’s tax evasion crime by dragging out its criminal investigation into Biden's undeclared millions of dollars in income until the statute of limitations runs out on this offense.
Judge Noreika did not buy any aspect of the DOJ's crooked scheme to save Hunter Biden from going to prison. The plea deal is now dead.
Claims by the White House, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland that Hunter Biden has treated like all drug-using, federal firearms possessing, and tax evading federal offenders are complete and utter "bullshit."
Hunter Biden’s criminal case was “fixed” because he is President Joe Biden’s son. America's crack cocaine-smoking, "dope-head" First Son is a beneficiary of the most corrupt Department of Justice in modern history.
We thank God that Judge Maryellen Noreika is not a crook like Merrick Garland and the other Department of Justice officials who approved the Hunter Biden “sweetheart” deal.