Hunter pleads guilty

[ClydeR]

Both sides then tried to move forward with a revised plea deal that specified Hunter would face no additional charges linked to tax crimes from 2014 to 2019 — or any counts involving his drug use and associated gun ownership crimes. However, Noreika indicated that agreement was unacceptable as well, leading the first son to change his plea

However, it was far from clear whether Noreika would accept the revised agreement.

Something is missing.

[Suppressed Poet]

Something is missing.

I had to copy and paste the article in segments so it’s possible something was missed in that process. I included the link to the article so you are welcome to read it from there.

[Parkbandit]

Judge says member of Hunter Biden’s legal team ‘misrepresented her identity’ on eve of plea deal hearing

Biden’s legal team staunchly denied any misconduct, saying the episode was a misunderstanding.

The judge who will review Hunter Biden’s plea deal on Wednesday accused a member of Biden’s legal team of misrepresenting herself in a phone call to the court — a bizarre episode that prompted the judge to threaten sanctions even as Biden’s lawyers insisted it was all a misunderstanding.


In a brief order Tuesday afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika wrote that an employee at Latham & Watkins, a law firm representing the president’s son, had called the court clerk’s office and falsely claimed to work for a Republican lawyer in the hopes of persuading the clerk to remove documents that apparently contained Biden’s personal tax information.

Latham denied any misconduct, saying the firm’s employee identified herself as a Latham staffer and called from a law firm phone that typically displays “LATHAM” on the caller ID. The firm said there must have been an “unfortunate and unintentional miscommunication” between the employee and court staff.



Garland defends DOJ handling of Hunter Biden investigation


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The documents in question had been submitted earlier in the day as part of an amicus brief by House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.). Smith complains in the brief that Biden’s plea deal on gun and tax charges is too lenient, and he alleges that federal prosecutors’ investigation of Biden was tainted by political interference.


Under the plea deal, Hunter Biden has agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and enter a pretrial diversion program in order to avoid being prosecuted for a felony gun charge. Noreika, a Trump appointee, is scheduled to review the deal at a hearing in Wilmington, Delaware, on Wednesday morning.


On the eve of that hearing, a dispute arose over Smith’s amicus filing, which was signed and submitted to the court by Theodore Kittila, the managing partner of the Wilmington law firm Halloran Farkas + Kittila.


Shortly after Kittila filed the brief, the clerk’s office informed the judge that a Latham employee, Jessica Bengels, had called the clerk and falsely claimed to work with Kittila. During the call, Bengels asked that Smith’s filing be removed from the public docket due to sensitive information in it, the judge wrote in her order.


https://www.politico.com/news/2023/0...-call-00108184

Sounds like a fantastic law office Hunter has himself......

[Parkbandit]

Something is missing.

Is it your courage?

[Suppressed Poet]

Judge says member of Hunter Biden’s legal team ‘misrepresented her identity’ on eve of plea deal hearing

Biden’s legal team staunchly denied any misconduct, saying the episode was a misunderstanding.

The judge who will review Hunter Biden’s plea deal on Wednesday accused a member of Biden’s legal team of misrepresenting herself in a phone call to the court — a bizarre episode that prompted the judge to threaten sanctions even as Biden’s lawyers insisted it was all a misunderstanding.


In a brief order Tuesday afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika wrote that an employee at Latham & Watkins, a law firm representing the president’s son, had called the court clerk’s office and falsely claimed to work for a Republican lawyer in the hopes of persuading the clerk to remove documents that apparently contained Biden’s personal tax information.

Latham denied any misconduct, saying the firm’s employee identified herself as a Latham staffer and called from a law firm phone that typically displays “LATHAM” on the caller ID. The firm said there must have been an “unfortunate and unintentional miscommunication” between the employee and court staff.



Garland defends DOJ handling of Hunter Biden investigation


SharePlay Video
The documents in question had been submitted earlier in the day as part of an amicus brief by House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.). Smith complains in the brief that Biden’s plea deal on gun and tax charges is too lenient, and he alleges that federal prosecutors’ investigation of Biden was tainted by political interference.


Under the plea deal, Hunter Biden has agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and enter a pretrial diversion program in order to avoid being prosecuted for a felony gun charge. Noreika, a Trump appointee, is scheduled to review the deal at a hearing in Wilmington, Delaware, on Wednesday morning.


On the eve of that hearing, a dispute arose over Smith’s amicus filing, which was signed and submitted to the court by Theodore Kittila, the managing partner of the Wilmington law firm Halloran Farkas + Kittila.


Shortly after Kittila filed the brief, the clerk’s office informed the judge that a Latham employee, Jessica Bengels, had called the clerk and falsely claimed to work with Kittila. During the call, Bengels asked that Smith’s filing be removed from the public docket due to sensitive information in it, the judge wrote in her order.


https://www.politico.com/news/2023/0...-call-00108184

Sounds like a fantastic law office Hunter has himself......

There is overwhelming evidence to get him on FARA charges. I’m skeptical our government will because he is part of the protected political class, but it will be interesting to see how things unfold.

[Parkbandit]

There is overwhelming evidence to get him on FARA charges. I’m skeptical our government will because he is part of the protected political class, but it will be interesting to see how things unfold.

Like the fucking brass balls it took his lawyers to try and pull that stunt... that should get the lawyer that made the call disbarred at the very least.

[Seran]

It certainly is interesting that the chair of Ways and Means is spending all of his time involving himself in a court proceeding of a private citizen, considering his committee has no jurisdiction. Republicans ought to spend less time spinning conspiracy theories debunked by the Trump appointees running the investigation, and a more time serving their constituents.

[Methais]

Now that's an opinion piece written by the right wing nut job. Very creatively interweaving imagined motive to the Court's orders along with their own personal opinions. Worthless article.

Which specific lines were opinion? Just quote one line.

I literally see none. Help me be smart like you.

[Suppressed Poet]

It certainly is interesting that the chair of Ways and Means is spending all of his time involving himself in a court proceeding of a private citizen, considering his committee has no jurisdiction. Republicans ought to spend less time spinning conspiracy theories debunked by the Trump appointees running the investigation, and a more time serving their constituents.

That “private citizen” received a government funded motor brigade escort to and from court today.

[Seran]

That “private citizen” received a government funded motor brigade escort to and from court today.

So does Trump's children and wife, yet that doesn't make them any less private citizens, and yet the Republican party is using it's politicization of Hunter Biden to impugn a sitting President with no credible evidence whatsoever. Does it make you proud that elements of your party are using the Constitutional authority to destabilize the very democracy it drafted to protect?