Hunter Biden plea: Judge pressured to reject 'sweetheart' deal after IRS whistleblower claims
by Kaelan Deese, Supreme Court Reporter |
July 06, 2023 05:38 AM
The Delaware-based federal judge to preside over Hunter Biden's arraignment later this month is facing mounting pressure by former Department of Justice officials to reject his plea deal as a majority of the nation says the president's son received "sweetheart" treatment.
In a poll that posed questions about 53-year-old Biden's agreement to plead guilty to certain tax charges and enter a diversion program on a gun charge to avoid jail time, Rasmussen Reports said on Wednesday that 55% of likely voters disagree with the deal prosecutors made with the president's son.
That poll comes just one week after a former head of the DOJ's tax division, Eileen O'Connor, penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal headlined "Throw Hunter Biden’s Plea Deal in the Trash."
"The judge to whom that agreement is presented on July 26 ought to consider rejecting it," O'Connor wrote, noting the agreement struck between Biden and U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware David C. Weiss "gives credence" to recent claims made by IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley.
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