Prosecutors say plea negotiations in the Hunter Biden case are "at an impasse" and President Joe Biden's son is likely heading toward a criminal trial.
Last month, Hunter Biden appeared in federal court expecting to plead guilty as part of a plea deal to avoid jail time. But Judge Maryellen Noreika rejected the plea deal, questioning its constitution...
Hunter Biden and his attorneys began negotiating his guilty plea with the DOJ in May 2023, shortly after Gary Shapley first came forward, court filings show.
Attorneys for Hunter Biden are pushing to keep part of a plea deal they reached with the prosecutor whose new status as special counsel intensified the tax investigation into the president’s son ahead of the 2024 election.
The two-part deal on tax and gun charges was supposed to have largely wrapped up the long-running investigation run by Delaware U.S. attorney David Weiss. But it hit the skids after a judge raised questions about its terms and appeared to have fallen apart completely when prosecutors said the case w…
The move, is the latest salvo in the back and forth between Mr. Biden and David C. Weiss, the federal prosecutor who was appointed special counsel last week.
In a filing late Sunday, lawyers for the president's son said prosecutors “proposed and largely dictated the form and content” of the plea agreement that fell apart.
Hunter Biden's lawyer said Justice Department prosecutors wanted the president's son to avoid trial on tax charges, and he suggested they might still work out a plea deal to save Biden from facing trial.
In a brief filing, Biden’s legal team said prosecutors largely dictated terms for a now-defunct agreement under which the president’s son was to plead guilty.
Lawyers for Hunter Biden said in a late Sunday court filing that prosecutors reneged on a plea deal that would have resolved tax and firearms charges against the president’s son
Special counsel David Weiss roundly rejected claims by Hunter Biden's defense team on Tuesday that part of a plea agreement between them had gone into effect, escalating a dispute in a case that could be headed for trial.
Special Counsel David Weiss on Tuesday strongly rejected claims that his office “reneged" on a plea deal for the president’s son to resolve federal tax and gun charges, while stressing that agreement is “not in effect."
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