DrMaddVibe
2 years ago
Hunter Biden’s Plea Deal: Something Smells Rotten Here



In what only can be described as a bizarre and disturbing turn of events, after a five-year investigation the Justice Department this week announced a plea agreement with Hunter Biden, the troubled son of President Joe Biden.

Under the deal, the president’s son would plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of willful failure to pay income taxes, and the government would recommend a sentence of probation. He also would be permitted to enter a pretrial diversion program for a serious gun charge, which would be dismissed if he successfully completes the program.

Talk about a sweetheart deal!

But the closer you look, the worse the plea deal gets.

It is not just that Hunter Biden failed to pay his federal income taxes, he did so for two years in which he earned over $1.5 million and owed over $100,000 in taxes.

This easily could have been prosecuted as a five-year felony. Does anyone think that other rich businessmen would have gotten such a deal for tax evasion? As two former federal prosecutors, we doubt it.

And what of the gun charge? The crime of possession of a firearm by an individual who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance—and there is ample proof that Hunter Biden fit into that category—is sufficiently serious that President Biden signed into law a measure called the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which increased the potential penalty from 10 years to 15 years in prison.

Granted, drug users with no criminal history don’t pose the same level of danger as a violent felon who possesses a firearm. But a pretrial diversion program?

On its face, the plea deal announced Tuesday for Hunter Biden seems suspect, or at least overly lenient.

And what about all the allegations of shady business dealings in Ukraine, China, and who knows where else? What about the allegations of a $10 million pay-to-play bribery scheme involving both Hunter and his then-vice president father—the “big guy,” according to Hunter’s former business partner, Tony Bobulinski?

Were those allegations thoroughly investigated?

The House Ways and Means Committee released transcripts Thursday of two key investigators whose testimony, under oath, suggests that the answer to this last question is “no” and paints the Hunter Biden plea deal in a whole new light.

These two whistleblowers, both IRS agents, have come forward to state that federal prosecutors and others within the Justice Department stymied the investigation and nixed recommendations to charge the younger Biden with multiple felonies. The IRS agents also say that they suffered retaliation for raising concerns about such interference.

U.S. Attorney for Delaware David Weiss, a holdover appointed by President Donald Trump, claims the investigation is ongoing. However, Biden’s attorneys have stated that with this plea deal, they believe the matter is now over.

And although Weiss maintains that he had “ultimate authority” over the Biden investigation, the whistleblowers claim that their probe was stifled by people at Main Justice and by Lesley Wolf, the assistant U.S. attorney on the case.

The identity of one IRS whistleblower remains undisclosed, but the other is Gary Shapley, the supervisory agent who until recently was in charge of the Biden investigation. Shapley has stated that the investigation was replete with irregularities and was unlike any other investigation he was involved in over the course of his 14-year career.

Shapley appears to be a model career civil servant, with no ax to grind. He testified that he was taught as a child to “always do the right thing,” and that there was “no reward for me for becoming a whistleblower.”

A highly decorated IRS agent since 2009, Shapley testified under oath that he investigated and managed “some of the largest cases in U.S. history and of the history of the agency, recovering over $3.5 billion.” He said that he never has given money to any political campaign, never attended a campaign event, never had a candidate sticker on his car, and voted for both Democrats and Republicans for president.

In January 2020, Shapley became the supervisor of the IRS’ Hunter Biden case, code name Sportsman. By March of that year, he had sent reports up his chain of command that the IRS would be ready to “seek approval for physical search warrants in California, Arkansas, New York and Washington, D.C.”

On April 1, 2020, an IRS colleague drafted an affidavit establishing probable cause for those searches and also noted he need to conduct 15 interviews at the same time.

But once Joe Biden became the Democrats’ presumptive nominee for president in early April 2020, according to Shapley, “career DOJ officials dragged their feet on the IRS taking these investigative steps.”

Over the course of the next two years, Shapley testified, he and his team were hamstrung by superiors and not allowed to follow the facts in this case.

Shapley also stated under oath that he was abruptly removed from the investigation a month ago “after providing protected disclosures concerning prosecutors’ mishandling of the investigation of Hunter Biden, to include conflicts of interest, preferential treatment, deviations from normal investigative procedures and conflicting information provided by Attorney General Merrick Garland to Congress related to the independence of the U.S. Attorney of Delaware [Weiss].”

During his testimony, Shapley recalled a meeting that he attended Oct. 7, 2022, at Weiss’ offices along with senior-level managers from the IRS, FBI, and Weiss himself.

Weiss told the group that he was “not the deciding official on whether charges are filed” against Hunter Biden and that U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves “would not allow him to charge” Hunter Biden in Washington, D.C. (where Biden’s taxes should have been filed). Weiss also said that he had asked “Main Justice” for the authority of special counsel to charge Biden in D.C. and that the request was denied.

Shapley also said he learned that the U.S. attorney for the Central District of California (where the younger Biden lived) declined Weiss’ attempt to bring charges in his district.

“Some of these decisions seem to be influenced by politics,” Shapley added.

Shapley was asked about Garland’s sworn Senate testimony March 1, in which the attorney general said: “I promise to leave the matter of Hunter Biden in the hands of the U.S. attorney for the District of Delaware. …I have pledged not to interfere with that investigation, and I have carried through on my pledge.”

House investigators asked Shapley whether Garland’s statement, under oath, was true.

He answered, “It’s not accurate.”

Garland testified during the same hearing about Weiss’s latitude to bring cases in other federal districts.

Weiss “has full authority to make those kinds of referrals that you are talking about or bring cases in other jurisdictions if he feels that it’s necessary,” the attorney general said. “And I will assure that if he does, he will be able to do that.”

Shapley testified that Garland’s statement was not true, and that it came a year after Weiss was rebuffed by fellow U.S. attorneys in both D.C. and California.

According to the newly released (albeit redacted) transcripts of testimony by Shapley and the other whistleblower, search warrants (including a search warrant of Joe Biden’s guest house where Hunter was living) and other investigative requests were blocked. They said charges were downgraded and critical related information was leaked to the younger Biden’s legal team, thereby stifling investigators’ ability to obtain evidence.

The IRS whistleblowers also claim that investigating agents were prohibited from asking any questions of witnesses about the president or delving into potential campaign finance violations or financial transactions involving his son’s children.

The unnamed whistleblower said investigators recommended charging Hunter Biden with felony tax charges covering six years and over $8.3 million in income—not just the two years covered by the misdemeanor charges to which he will plead guilty. But, the whistleblower said, that recommendation was blocked by the president’s political appointees.

Shapley alleges that Hunter Biden engaged in this conduct, at least in part, to hide payments that he received from Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian energy company that hired him as a consultant and placed him on its board of directors.

Others have asserted that, as vice president, Joe Biden orchestrated the firing of Ukraine’s chief prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, because he was investigating Burisma.

If these allegations are true—and Garland has denied that they are—that would be shocking, not only because of the favorable treatment accorded to the president’s son but because agents were prevented from investigating potential criminal wrongdoing by the president himself.

So, we thought earlier this week that the Justice Department’s plea deal with Hunter Biden was overly lenient, and now it looks like the story behind that plea deal might be much more rotten.

It is of the utmost importance that the truth and facts come to light. A thorough investigation is warranted. Let the chips fall where they may.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/06/23/hunter-bidens-plea-deal-something-smells-rotten-here/ 


Orangeman baaaad.
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Speyside2
2 years ago
Hunter took a deal and will admit what he did. Trump will go down with the ship.
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RayR
2 years ago
I heard there are 370 peeps in jail for avoiding paying their "fair share: of the Marxist tax because their last name wasn't Biden.
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DrMaddVibe
2 years ago
I'm thinking at this point that the judge doesn't sign off on the sweetheart deal Hunter got.


IRS Whistleblower: Hunter's Whats App Messages Were Produced by Apple After Search Warrant; Weiss Blamed 'Prosecutors' for Denials, Delays



IRS Whistleblower Gary Shapley, who gave explosive testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee that was made public last week, sat for a wide-ranging interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier that aired Wednesday night. Shapley reiterated the testimony he’d previously given, which does not align with Attorney General Merrick Garland’s previous testimony to Congress and which Garland disputed last Friday. Shapley also gave additional detail on a few topics he’d testified about, and doubled down on his assertion that the US Attorney David Weiss wasn’t allowed to bring criminal charges against Hunter Biden in jurisdictions outside Delaware.

The main points Shapley made are:

Biden-appointed US Attorney for D.C., Matthew Graves, refused to allow Weiss to bring criminal charges against Hunter Biden in his jurisdiction

Multiple requests by Weiss to the DOJ for special counsel authority, which would allow him to charge outside his jurisdiction without that US Attorney’s permission, were denied

Hunter’s Whats App messages were produced by Apple pursuant to an electronic search warrant, not simply harvested from the laptop in the FBI’s possession (meaning, they’ve been authenticated)

Investigators were prohibited from looking into whether Joe Biden was involved in Hunter’s business dealings

Hunter Biden failed to report at least $8.3 million in income received between 2014 and 2019

Another issue that stood out was the number of times Weiss said that “prosecutors” wouldn’t allow something to go forward, whether a search warrant or charges. He is the prosecutor. Was he making excuses to the IRS criminal investigators and slow-walking it himself, or was someone else? If it was someone else, who? Now that Republicans in the House have demanded that Weiss, Graves, AUSA Lesley Wolf, US Attorney for the Central District of California Martin Estrada, and more, sit for transcribed interviews with committees, perhaps we’ll get some answers to those questions.

Shapley had testified that David Weiss told him in an October 2022 meeting that the U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., Matthew Graves, a Biden appointee, refused to allow charges to be filed against Hunter Biden in his jurisdiction in March 2022, and that Weiss’ subsequent request for special counsel authority was denied. He reiterated this to Baier:

[T]hey went to the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s office in March of 2022 and they presented this case to them. At the same time of that — same time as that was occurring, they requested discovery from the agents, which is a typical step when they’re getting ready to charge. Now, I wasn’t in those meetings. I asked to be in those meetings, as did the case agent. So — we didn’t help present to them. But after that occurred, he was no longer looking to charge in that district….

[Then] David Weiss, on October 7, 2022, said that the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s office will not allow us to charge there. And then he added that he…requested special counsel authority and was denied. In that meeting I even had him repeat that, because I knew how important that fact was and I wanted to make sure I understood it.

Looking at this course of action through a cynical lens, it could seem that someone (or multiple someones) wanted to know exactly what evidence the IRS-CI agents possessed so they could either pass that along to Hunter Biden’s attorneys or slow-walk the rest of the steps so the statute of limitations would run out, which it did in December 2022 for certain tax years.

To those who might think Shapley possibly misunderstood what Weiss was saying, Shapley said he documented the meeting in an email and another attendee verified his recollection.

And I sent that e-mail to two senior executives, one of which was at that meeting. And I said, is this an accurate reflection of what occurred during the meeting? And the response was, you covered it all. So, there are other things in that e-mail, to include that he needed to go to California, and he had gone to California to request a charge there. And then he even opines that if they decline to allow charges that he would have to request special counsel authority from the Deputy Attorney General or Attorney General.

The authenticity of the Whats App message has been questioned, especially by one influential Democrat political consultant. However, Shapley says the message was produced in response to an electronic search warrant served on Apple.

when we received the attorney-client-filter reviewed copy of information from the search warrant to Apple, which produced that document, we went back to the prosecutors and we requested to take various investigative steps, and they were not supported. And when they weren’t supported, they said, well, maybe he wasn’t co-located with him. So, well, we can take investigative steps to — to see if that happened. And they didn’t support anything in relation to that effort, and it’s consistent with their ongoing theme of not allowing us to pursue or ask questions about President Biden, the big guy.

In discussing various search warrants and their execution, Shapley mentions “the prosecutors” separately from Weiss, and refers to Weiss saying that “the prosecutors” didn’t want to do something, as if that tied his hands. This is something that needs to be examined.

Between April and June of 2020, we drafted an affidavit to execute a search warrant in a couple of different locations, and the prosecutors at the time stated that probable cause had been achieved. But as we moved closer to the election, it just seemed like they kept putting it on the back burner, and they eventually didn’t allow us to do that search warrant, even though the legal requirements to execute that search warrant were met.

Transitioning into another search warrant was on a storage unit in Northern Virginia. And during the day of action December 8 of 2020, we got updated information that said that records were in that location that were — that would be evidence in this particular investigation. And the prosecutors initially were supportive of it, and an affidavit was drafted the night of December 8, 2020, to go forward for approval. Eventually, the prosecutors decided they didn’t support it.

So I called U.S. Attorney David Weiss with my senior executive on the phone, and we said we needed to execute this search warrant. They — he responded that the prosecutors didn’t want to, and I asked if — in 30 days, if that storage unit wasn’t accessed, and that was the deadline for the document request that was served on that day, then we can execute the search warrant? And he agreed to that.

And no sooner I had gotten off the phone with David Weiss had we learned that the prosecutors were informing defense counsel of that storage unit and the evidence that existed there. So, it completely ruined our chance to access those unfettered.

Who are the “prosecutors” David Weiss refers to?

So, December 8, 2020, we finally were going over in this investigation, after several delays, So, we eventually did a day of action, where we were approaching the subject and several other witnesses. We had a plan of how we were going to approach Hunter Biden that morning. And, ultimately, we found out that, the night before, I was told the FBI headquarters contacted Secret Service and the transition team and told them of the pending action the next day.

So, ultimately, I don’t know how it affected the witnesses, but there was clear opportunity for them to be tipped off before we even approached them. And of the 12 interviews that we attempted, we only received one substantive interview, and that was of Rob Walker. And that was a very important interview, as the exhibit in the House Ways and Means Committee transcript indicates.

Two of Hunter Biden’s Whats App messages have been made public in the past week that certainly make it seem that Joe Biden was intimately involved in Hunter’s deals and served as an enforcer of sorts. Of course, Democrats have questioned their veracity, but Shapley said they were produced by Apple pursuant to an electronic search warrant.

So I can’t say with specificity the exact time frame we received that, but I can say that we did an electronic search warrant to Apple, and it was produced in that batch.

Here is that text: pic.twitter.com/51rbUaur4X

— Rep. Jason Smith (@RepJasonSmith) June 24, 2023

A big question is whether Joe Biden was involved in Hunter’s business deals, and if he was, to what extent. Certainly taking Whats App messages at face value leads one to conclude that Joe was/is at least somewhat involved in Hunter’s business, and possibly a full partner. That’s information is certainly relevant to investigators wanting to determine what tax liability Hunter might have, yet Shapley’s team wasn’t allowed to even investigate.

And the importance of that WhatsApp message is that, as an IRS criminal investigator, we need to understand all the financial flows of money. We’re working an investigation on Hunter Biden. We’re trying to assess a true and accurate tax assessment for him. So if there is money that’s going elsewhere, whether it’s President Biden or elsewhere, we need to follow the investigative steps to ensure that happens, and they were just not allowed in this particular investigation.

So that’s kind of the crux of one of the issues here, is that we weren’t allowed to ask questions about dad. We weren’t allowed to ask about the big guy. We weren’t allowed to include certain names and document requests in search warrants. So we were precluded from following that line of questioning.

…

We were conducting an investigation of Hunter Biden, and we were trying to follow the normal process. We were trying to get to the bottom of it. And, ultimately, if it was going to lead to another individual, we should would follow that to determine what is actually happening. But there were definitely hindrances that I have never seen before in my 14 years concerning this investigation that didn’t allow us to follow through an investigation of any other individual, to include President Biden.

Shapley believes that most of the unreported income Hunter received has been spent and says that the total amount his team was able to track from CEFC, Ukraine, and Romania was $8.3 million from 2014 through 2019 – but that it could be higher.

there were certain things that — when prosecutors don’t allow you to put the subject’s name on document requests or on search warrants, then it raises the possibility that there’s more information out there we didn’t find. But based on all of the financial records that we did find, you know, they’ve been analyzed. It was around $8.3 million he received.

…

And even the Burisma money — and it’s kind of an aspect that we didn’t get into, but the 2014 and 2015 tax years is when the Burisma money was coming in. I mean, to this day, there is still around $400,000 of unreported income from Burisma in 2014. Hunter Biden was told by his partner, Eric Schwerin, that he needed to amend his returns, and he never did. So, the D.C. U.S. attorney’s office declining those charges, David Weiss requesting special counsel authority and being denied, and then the statute of limitations then expires in November or December of 2022. So those years are gone, and there’s no way to recoup the money from that Burisma income.

It was mentioned in the whistleblower testimony that some back taxes had been paid by Hunter Biden, but Shapley contends that since that money was given to him by a Hollywood attorney and Hunter classified it as a loan that hasn’t been paid back to date, to say that he’s paid the taxes is debatable.

Well, to say he paid is a misnomer, right? Because it was an individual, Patrick Morris, that he met at a campaign finance event, and then he immediately starts giving Hunter Biden money to pay off tax debts, to pay living expenses. The money that was given to Hunter Biden by Morris was — showed up on his tax returns as a loan to him. So when you have a person that you meet at a campaign finance event, then he’s all of a sudden giving you millions of dollars, and now it’s a loan to you, I mean, I wouldn’t necessarily say that the subject paid those taxes.

Although Hunter’s finally been charged with a few misdemeanors, Shapley said there was evidence to support charging “substantive felony charges” against him.

The most substantive felony charges were left off the table…which would have been evasion for ’14, false return for ’18 and 2019. So, as of right now in the Information that’s been out there in the public, it uses a term in excess of $100,000 for 2017, separately for 2018. The true number is $580,000 of failure to pay for 2017 and $620,000 for 2018. Yet this document puts it close to $100,000.

[T]he relevance of 2018 tax year is, that doesn’t even include the false business expenses that he claimed and that the prosecutors refused to charge. So, there’s still outstanding tax due and owing above that $620,000 that, because of this deal, they will never recoup.

Shapley ended the interview by saying that he wasn’t disappointed in the outcome, but disappointed that the investigation wasn’t allowed to be fully completed. Still, now that we’ve seen what even an obstructed investigation has produced, the American people deserve nothing less than a full and complete investigation, followed by appropriate charges and punishments.

https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2023/06/29/irs-whistleblower-whats-app-messages-were-produced-by-apple-after-search-warrant-weiss-blamed-prosecutors-for-denials-delays-n768743 
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ZRX1200
2 years ago
On the bright side, the deadbeat crackhead dad got his child support lowered by 70%…..
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DrMaddVibe
2 years ago

On the bright side, the deadbeat crackhead dad got his child support lowered by 70%…..

ZRX1200 wrote:



Lemme guess...he's broke???


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RayR
2 years ago
He probably didn't get his fair share. I heard the totall take of the Biden Crime Family bribery, influence peddling and money laundering scheme is up to $40Million now.
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RayR
2 years ago
LEFTIES say it's not a story about the felonious activities of the Biden Crime Family, it's really a story about LOVE. 😍 👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨💋

Allegations against Biden and his family are too credible to wipe away with ‘father’s love’ sob story

By Miranda Devine
June 28, 2023 10:51pm

Ana Navarro whipped out the tiny violins on ABC’s “The View” this week, declaring that the Biden corruption scandal “is a story of a father’s love, and Joe Biden has never and will never give up on his son Hunter . . .

“That is part of his heart.”

The “View” co-host was simply echoing the spin from the White House to get out from under the latest avalanche of damning evidence about the Biden family grift machine during Joe’s vice presidency: Honest Joe is guilty of nothing more than loving his wayward son.

The New York Times’ Nick Kristof echoed the sentiment in a cringeworthy piece titled “The Real Lesson From the Hunter Biden Saga: It isn’t about presidential corruption but a determined parent battling his son’s addiction with unconditional love.”

But the allegations against the president and his family are too credible to be wiped away by a secondhand sob story.

Every defendant has a hard-luck tale and it’s a little much from a family that has been the epitome of privilege for decades when they don’t even try to provide an explanation.

Nor will Biden’s on-brand defiance fly this time.

More...

https://nypost.com/2023/06/28/allegations-against-biden-and-his-family-are-too-credible-to-wipe-away-with-fathers-love-sob-story/ 

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RayR
2 years ago
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said Wednesday that the Washington, D.C., establishment is "working harder than an ugly stripper" to cover up the investigation into Hunter Biden.

"I do know this, and I think the American people can see it," Kennedy told Fox News. "The Washington managerial elite, the establishment, if you will, is working harder than an ugly stripper to cover up whatever happened."
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ZRX1200
2 years ago
I wonder if the baggie of cocaine in the White House effects Hunters probation….
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DrafterX
2 years ago
I heard it Dr. Jills... 😟
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ZRX1200
2 years ago
She probably wrote an Rx for it
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DrMaddVibe
2 years ago

I wonder if the baggie of cocaine in the White House effects Hunters probation….

ZRX1200 wrote:




Or his exceptional plea deal...be a shame if the judge made him take a court ordered drug test to make it stick.

PS: A racist father's love was Hunter's crime.
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JGKAMIN
2 years ago

I wonder if the baggie of cocaine in the White House effects Hunters probation….

ZRX1200 wrote:


Either the bag was his and the family should be irate with him and they hope the story goes away quickly, or it wasn’t his and they should be trying to find the culprit that put him into such a position of either relapsing or a story like this coming out and looking like an absolute fool. And if so, they should be mad as hell and trying to find the culprit.
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DrMaddVibe
2 years ago

Either the bag was his and the family should be irate with him and they hope the story goes away quickly, or it wasn’t his and they should be trying to find the culprit that put him into such a position of either relapsing or a story like this coming out and looking like an absolute fool. And if so, they should be mad as hell and trying to find the culprit.

JGKAMIN wrote:




Listen to Dan Bongino explain it. He used to be Secret Service in the White House.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2023/07/06/dan-bongingo-on-wh-cocaine-n2625366

EVERYONE KNOWS it was Hunter's. You see the vid I posted? Sweating profusely, figgitty, eyes bulging out of his head, constant moving...he's high AF!!!! Then there's Dr. Jill's stern lockjaw stare into the Abyss eyes averted away from the trainwreck happening less than a foot from her as Pedo Joe eyes locked, drooling watching little kids. Disgusting.
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ZRX1200
2 years ago
Saw a clip this morning from a MSM report now they’re saying it was found in a more secure location than previously reported and it was near the VP entrance 🤣🤣🤣

Finna drag Word Salad Kamala under the bus to save Hunter now?!
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frankj1
2 years ago

Either the bag was his and the family should be irate with him and they hope the story goes away quickly, or it wasn’t his and they should be trying to find the culprit that put him into such a position of either relapsing or a story like this coming out and looking like an absolute fool. And if so, they should be mad as hell and trying to find the culprit.

JGKAMIN wrote:


if only it was possible to remove all the fame and politics, I have no doubt families like yours and mine would first be desperately trying to save our sons' lives...

but we aren't in the spotlight and I sincerely hope you've never had to deal with anything like this.
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RayR
2 years ago
I know some peeps here won't like this informative piece, a rundown of the nefarious Hunter and the Biden Crime Family.
Probably Spey and Frank because you know..."Lew" 😂


The Criminal Hunter Biden

By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

July 10, 2023

Hunter Biden is a dangerous criminal, just like his father brain-dead Joe Biden. The “sweetheart deal” he got from the Justice Department and the hands-off attitude the FBI has shown him contrast with the political persecution of former President Trump. But so much is coming out about him that there is a chance he will go down and take his criminal father with him.

According to a story in May of last year on NBC News by Tom Winter, Sarah Fitzpatrick, Chloe Atkins, and Laura Strickler, “From 2013 through 2018 Hunter Biden and his company brought in about $11 million via his roles as an attorney and a board member with a Ukrainian firm accused of bribery and his work with a Chinese businessman now accused of fraud, according to an NBC News analysis of a copy of Biden’s hard drive and iCloud account and documents released by Republicans on two Senate committees.

The documents and the analysis, which don’t show what he did to earn millions from his Chinese partners, raise questions about national security, business ethics and potential legal exposure. In December 2020, Biden acknowledged in a statement that he was the subject of a federal investigation into his taxes. NBC News was first to report that an ex-business partner had warned Biden he should amend his tax returns to disclose $400,000 in income from the Ukrainian firm, Burisma. GOP congressional sources also say that if Republicans take back the House this fall, they’ll demand more documents and probe whether any of Biden’s income went to his father, President Joe Biden.

‘No government ethics rules apply to him,’ said Walter Shaub, a former director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics who is now an ethics expert with the Project on Government Oversight. Shaub added, however, that ‘it’s imperative that no one at DOJ and no one at the White House interfere with the criminal investigation in Delaware.’ Shaub had previously raised questions about Hunter Biden’s new line of work, selling his own paintings, which created the potential to purchase a painting to buy perceived influence, and also because the White House became involved in the transactions, arranging that none of the buyers’ names be known to Biden, the White House or the public.

Frank Figliuzzi, the FBI’s former assistant director for counterintelligence, said there is a national security risk when foreign powers like China see an opportunity to get close to someone like Biden. ‘It’s all about access and influence, and if you can compromise someone with both access and influence, that’s even better,’ said Figliuzzi, now an NBC News contributor. ‘Better still if that target has already compromised himself.’

The documents and the analysis indicate that few of Biden’s deals ever came to fruition and shed light on how fast he was spending his money. Expenditures compiled on his hard drive show he spent more than $200,000 per month from October 2017 through February 2018 on luxury hotel rooms, Porsche payments, dental work and cash withdrawals.

Biden has admitted to burning through cash to pay for drugs and partying with strangers who routinely stole from him, and he struggled to pay multiple mortgages or keep up with alimony and child support payments to his ex-wife. In his autobiography, ‘Beautiful Things,’ he says the money from Burisma ‘turned into a major enabler during my steepest skid into addiction’ and ‘hounded me to spend recklessly, dangerously, destructively. Humiliatingly. So I did.’

More...

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/07/lew-rockwell/the-criminal-hunter-biden/ 

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DrMaddVibe
2 years ago
Here are the concerns the judge raised in today's Hunter Biden plea hearing — and why the agreement is on hold



The federal judge overseeing Wednesday's plea hearing raised serious questions about the agreements Hunter Biden reached with prosecutors, leading her to end the proceedings without accepting his plea deal.

“Is this even constitutional?” US District Judge Maryellen Noreika said of the proposed agreement to resolve Biden’s gun possession conduct, adding that she has “concerns about the constitutionality” of the gun deal because it might violate separation of powers principles.

The felony charge revolves around alleged false statements on his application to purchase the gun in which he affirmed falsely he was not using drugs at the time. Under the proposed deal presented going into the hearing, Biden would enter a diversion program to resolve the gun charge if he abides by certain conditions for a period of time.

At Wednesday’s proceedings, the judge said she was “trying to exercise due deliverance and consideration to make sure we do not make a misstep.”

“You all are telling me to just rubber-stamp” the gun deal, Noreika said.

The gun deal is “not straightforward” and contains “atypical provisions,” the judge said.

Noreika expressed frustration that the two sides structured the deals – which also included a separate plea agreement for two tax misdemeanors — in a way where she would need to approve the gun deal, but had no powers to approve or reject the tax agreement.

The diversion agreement — which doesn’t often go to a judge — has a provision that says if there is a dispute over whether Biden breached the terms of the deal, it would go to the judge for fact finding. Noreika questioned why it would “plop” her in the middle of a deal she didn’t have a say in, and potentially block the Justice Department from bringing charges, a function of the executive branch.

Biden’s attorney said given the politicization of the case, they wanted a neutral arbiter to handle any potential disputes. The judge said she couldn’t make that decision on the fly.

“I cannot accept the plea agreement today,” Noreika said.

According to an order issued after the hearing wrapped up, the parties have 30 days to submit additional briefs on the matter.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/hunter-biden-tax-charges-hearing/index.html [/i][/color]

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Thinking...paid off.


AGAIN!


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MACS
2 years ago
How on Earth has Biden not been impeached yet?
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