Hunter Biden Plea Deal In Doubt After Judge Raises Concerns Over Terms
deadline.comA plea agreement between the Justice Department and Hunter Biden fell apart on Wednesday after the federal judge overseeing the case raised concerns over the terms, the AP and other news outlets reported on Wednesday.
Biden was to plead guilty to two tax violations in an agreement with prosecutors, a deal that stoked furor on the right as it tries to link the president’s son’s business dealings to Joe Biden himself.
The terms of the deal were revealed last month in a letter that U.S. Attorney David Weiss sent to the judge. Biden will plead guilty to two counts of failure to pay federal income tax.
He also has agreed to enter a diversion agreement related to another charge, for felony possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of, or addicted to a controlled substance.
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