It’s the latest development in the long-running negotiation between the Justice Department and Hunter Biden.
The lawyer who represented Hunter Biden in plea negotiations to end a five-year Justice Department investigation into tax and gun offenses stepped down early Tuesday, saying that he intends to testify as a witness on behalf of the president’s son.
The decision by the lawyer, Christopher Clark, is the latest development in the long-running negotiation — which has now devolved into a fight — between the Justice Department and Hunter Biden.
The department has said that a substantial part of the plea agreement no longer stands and suggested in court documents that it could indict Hunter Biden. Clark is now contending that Hunter Biden will need him as a witness to prove that the department is seeking to back out of a legally binding deal intended to definitively end the federal investigation.
