Indicted! Hunter Biden!

[Jolly]

@89th said in Indicted! Hunter Biden!:

I can't believe Joe Biden would weaponize the DOJ like this.

Absolutely.

How many gun-toting, influence peddling, crackheads can walk away from the DOJ with a plea deal that contains no jail time and no felonies in a deal type that has never been done before?

[jon-nyc]

The question you probably don’t see pondered that much is whether he’d even have been indicted if his name were Hunter Smith. This almost never gets charged, and when it does there’s usually another crime involved.

Some legal analyst said they could find no other cases where a first offender was charged for this with only one gun and no other crimes involved.

[Copper]

I have heard some say politics entered into this conviction.

But I'm sure we will all feel a little safer with Hunter in a cage.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in Indicted! Hunter Biden!:

Some legal analyst said they could find no other cases where a first offender was charged for this with only one gun and no other crimes involved.

I'm sure a creative Manhattan DA could have found another crime to link it to.

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in Indicted! Hunter Biden!:

The question you probably don’t see pondered that much is whether he’d even have been indicted if his name were Hunter Smith. This almost never gets charged, and when it does there’s usually another crime involved.

Some legal analyst said they could find no other cases where a first offender was charged for this with only one gun and no other crimes involved.

If he wasn't Hunter Biden, he'd be on the hook for a heckuva lot worse charges than a simple lying in a federal 4473.

[jon-nyc]

He has tax charges too.

What else are you suggesting?

Unfortunately influence peddling by family isn’t illegal. Hence Jared and his $2B of gulf money.

[taiwan_girl]

@Renauda said in Indicted! Hunter Biden!:

The birdbrains of Alacatraz.

555

[Copper]

@jon-nyc said in Indicted! Hunter Biden!:

Unfortunately influence peddling by family isn’t illegal.

The part about being a spy could get tricky

But his team shredded the plea agreement in a Delaware federal court the following month after prosecutor Leo Wise mentioned that the deal’s terms did not include immunity from future charges — including potential violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

https://nypost.com/2024/05/28/us-news/hunter-biden-hires-ex-bob-menendez-attorney-who-touts-winning-acquittal-of-trump-ally-on-foreign-agent-charge/

[jon-nyc]

Definitely has potential.

[George K]

Who's paying Hunter's legal fees? He can't afford maintenance or child support for Joe's granddaughter?

[jon-nyc]

There was a lawyer in LA paying them but he recently said he’s ’tapped out’.

I heard an analyst estimate his legal fees ay present are probably around 100k-150k per day.

[jon-nyc]

As both he and Trump have figured out, it ain’t cheap to be a felonious punk.

[taiwan_girl]

Different case, but

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/hunter-biden-offers-plea-to-resolve-federal-tax-case-67d9cec2?mod=credit_whatsnews_pos1

Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to federal tax charges Thursday, heading off a trial that was expected to further shine an unflattering light on his past business dealings and freewheeling lifestyle.
Biden’s surprise plea capped a whirlwind morning in Los Angeles federal court, where jury selection was set to begin for Biden’s tax trial.

At the outset of Thursday’s court proceedings, Biden’s lawyer proposed an unusual deal where President Biden’s son would maintain his innocence while conceding that the evidence was sufficient for a guilty verdict.

Prosecutors said they were shocked by the proposal of a so-called Alford deal and wouldn’t support any plea without an admission of guilt. “Hunter Biden is not innocent. Hunter Biden is guilty,” prosecutor Leo Wise told U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi, a Trump appointee presiding over the case.

Later Thursday, a lawyer for Biden came back from a break and told Scarsi his client would abandon the Alford plea and plead guilty without any negotiated deal with prosecutors working under special counsel David Weiss.

[Jolly]

Gotta get lined out for his pardon. Guess Hunter checked Nate Silver's prediction.

[George K]

"To avoid the jury hearing what was exposed in discovery a trial"

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/hunter-biden-intends-plead-guilty-federal-tax-charges-rcna169621

Sentencing in December?

How much time, if any, will get at Club Fed?

Remember the laptop that was "Russian disinformation" was used as evidence in this trial.

[Jolly]

Pardon, FTW!

[Mik]

Joe will pardon him after the election. No question. At which point we will officially be a banana republic.

[Copper]

@Mik said in Indicted! Hunter Biden!:

we will officially be a banana republic.

Close

If he makes Hunter president, then we will be a banana republic.

[jon-nyc]

He keeps doubling down on ‘no pardon’. Maybe he’ll commute any sentences instead and rather weakly claim he kept his word.

[Jolly]

Alford Plea:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/alford_plea