Weeks after a sweetheart plea deal offered by Joe Biden’s Department of Justice to his son, Hunter Biden, fell apart, the younger Biden has pleaded not guilty to three gun charges.
They are making a false statement in the purchase of a firearm, making a false statement related to information required to be kept by a federal firearms licensed dealer and possession of a firearm by a person who is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance.
Fox News reported Hunter Biden, whose scandals just keep on giving to Republicans, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday in U.S. District Court for Delaware.
He was charged by Special Counsel David Weiss, who earlier as U.S. attorney had offered the sweetheart deal to Hunter Biden, after Weiss was given special counsel status by Attorney General Merrick Garland.
The special deal that was proposed would have had Hunter Biden plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors and participate in a gun charge diversion program. In exchange, prosecutors in Joe Biden administration would have dropped a long list of tax and gun felonies that could have subjected Hunter to years in prison.
According to the Daily Wire, Abbe Lowell, Hunter Biden’s lawyer, told the court, “Mr. Biden pleads not guilty.”
Biden, 53, had been indicted last month of a number of charges regarding his purchase of a Colt Cobra 38SPL revolver in 2018, during a time, he confirmed in his own book, he was addicted to drugs.
On a federal form to make the purchase, he apparently said he was not.
He could face 25 years on prison and fines of up to $750,000.
Terms of his release include, the report said, “supervision by a U.S. probation officer in the Central District of California, seeking employment, and not using drugs or alcohol.”
There still could be charges stemming from his failure to report income and pay taxes.
Further, there’s the entire issue of influence peddling that is the subject of multiple congressional investigations now. That issue could even ensnare Joe Biden, as the evidence suggests he and Hunter both were paid bribes to help a Ukrainian company, and tens of millions of dollars in other payments went to Biden family members in recent years from foreign interests.
The payments allegedly were for nothing more than providing access to Joe Biden as vice president to Barack Obama and as president, and what actions he might have taken to help those making the payments.
WND reported the earlier deal collapsed when a judge questioned an apparent blanket immunity provision that was included.
The investigation of Hunter Biden was begun in 2018, and so far has included tax issues, gun issues and the possibility of violating legal requirements to register as a foreign agent.
The New York Post reported that in October 2018 Hunter Biden’s sister-in-law-turned-lover, Hallie Biden, allegedly tossed Hunter’s .38-caliber revolver in a dumpster outside a grocery store in Wilmington, Del.
Hallie, who had been married to Hunter’s late brother Beau Biden, reportedly claimed in text messages that she was afraid her boyfriend would “use” the gun, the report said.
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