President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden will appear in a courtroom Wednesday to formally agree to the plea deal he negotiated last month with federal prosecutors.
President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden will appear in a Delaware courthouse Wednesday to formally agree to the plea deal he negotiated last month with federal prosecutors — a resolution to a yearslong probe that enflamed his father’s political adversaries.
The younger Biden in June agreed to plead guilty to a pair of misdemeanor tax charges and enter into a pretrial diversion program that will allow him to avoid prosecution on a separate felony gun charge.
U.S. Judge Maryellen Norieka will have the opportunity to either reject or accept the terms of the deal on Wednesday morning.
News of the plea agreement reached last month animated GOP partisans to new heights, with critics decrying the deal’s terms as a “sweetheart deal” that would undermine faith in the justice system.
In April, IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, both longtime tax investigators, accused senior Justice Department officials of mishandling and slow-walking their probe — a sentiment at odds with what the Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney David Weiss, who led the investigation, has himself said.
