Hunter Biden pleads not guilty after plea deal derailed - eviltoast
Prosecutors told the judge no more charges are expected against the president's son.

Something is starting to smell really rotten about this proceeding. Apparently the judge is a Trump appointee who is now claiming without evidence that Hunter Biden’s lawyers pretended to be opposition lawyers to get things that should be sealed placed under seal, and still refuses to seal those things.

  • utopianfiat@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    There’s a lot that’s starting to smell really rotten here:

    U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika, appointed by Donald Trump, pressed about the terms of the deal that was struck with U.S. Attorney David Weiss of Delaware, another Trump appointee who was kept on by President Joe Biden to oversee the case.

    Separately, from https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/25/hunter-biden-judge-plea-deal-phone-call-00108184

    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.

    Honestly I believe one of two things happened, either a court clerk screwed up and is unwilling to take the blame for it, or someone in Judge Noreika’s office made this up to try to screw Hunter out of a plea deal.

    Knowing the level of corruption in the Republican party, you can guess which theory I’m favoring.