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'The matter under consideration appears to stem from an unfortunate and unintentional miscommunication between a staff member at our firm and employees of the Court. We have no idea how the misunderstanding occurred, but our understanding is there was no misrepresentation,' Salerno wrote to Judge Noreika on Tuesday evening.

Sheeeeeeeeeeeiiiiit

I hope this judge throws out this entire sweetheart deal they had planned for this scumbag.

Yeah, that doesn't pass the sniff test. Not even close.

Hunter's firm is claiming that in both calls, it wasn't mentioned, hinted or said that Bengels was associated with the Kittila firm. The clerk wouldn't document who was calling and why? That's BS. Clerks document everything.

And court clerk just made that up?

The whole thing is counting on the Caller ID saying Latham? That feature can be turned off and on again with just a couple of strokes. That call was made without Caller ID and Bengels turned it off.

All she's really saying is that in the first call, Caller ID should have tipped off the clerk that it said Latham and in the second call, no mention was made of her firm ID.

But the bottom line is that her firm represents Hunter and she unilaterally tried to get documents thrown filed by a friend of the court without filing a noticed motion.

None of this happened by accident or chance. Bengels knew exactly what she was doing and I hope the judge roasts her for it.

This was purposeful and the court will see right through this charade of an excuse.

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What tha FUCK?!

Biden claims he effectively 'ended cancer as we know it'

My late father-in-law had early onset dementia, hastened by industrial chemical exposure. When he was visiting one time, he thought he was on a business trip to Mexico. This was 10 years after he retired. One time he thought aliens had landed in the yard. Each weekly visit was another adventure.

Joe is equally demented.

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Originally posted by parabellum:

Biden claims he effectively 'ended cancer as we know it'

He sounds more and more like Dr. Evil's father.

Was he a mole in the prosecutor's office?


Hunter Biden investigation: Close Biden political aide worked for Weiss when inquiry began

https://www.washingtonexaminer...al-aide-weiss-hunter

A close associate of the Biden family appears to have spent years working in the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office, including during the months when whistleblowers said the office took up an investigation of Hunter Biden.

Alexander Mackler served as press secretary in Joe Biden’s Senate office and, later, as legal counsel in his vice presidential office. Mackler managed the late Beau Biden’s successful campaign for Delaware attorney general in 2010.

And Mackler served on the Biden-Harris transition team in 2020, helping the Biden administration create the blueprint for its Justice Department.

Mackler also appeared to have a close personal relationship with Hunter Biden. In emails found on Hunter Biden’s laptop, Mackler corresponded frequently with Hunter Biden and his business associates and even referred to Hunter Biden fondly as a “brother” in October 2018. Mackler was working under U.S. Attorney David Weiss in the office at that time, according to his LinkedIn page, which lists him as having worked in the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office from August 2016 to May 2019.

According to testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee from Joseph Ziegler, a top IRS agent on the Hunter Biden case for years, the Delaware office had an investigation into Hunter Biden’s financial dealings by January 2019.

The close relationship between Hunter Biden and a former member of the prosecutorial office investigating him could come under scrutiny as House Republicans dig into the reasons why members of Weiss’s team appeared to slow or block key elements of the Hunter Biden investigation.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf featured prominently in the testimony of two IRS agents who spent years working on the Hunter Biden investigation. Both Gary Shapley and Ziegler, the IRS whistleblowers, said Wolf intervened to stop multiple investigative steps from moving forward, including by preventing FBI agents from asking witnesses any questions about Joe Biden’s involvement in foreign business affairs and by tipping off Hunter Biden’s attorneys about a planned search of his storage unit.

Wolf worked alongside Mackler in the U.S. attorney’s office before Mackler’s departure. She and Mackler prosecuted a major case together, for example.

How their relationship may have factored into the decisions by Wolf that whistleblowers found inexplicable remains unclear.

Mackler now works under Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings. In February, Hunter Biden’s attorneys implored Jennings to open an investigation into the Delaware computer repair shop owner who helped publicize the contents of Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop, as well as the Donald Trump associates who helped spread the laptop’s contents.

Jennings’s office did not respond to a request for comment about Mackler’s relationship to the Biden’s, as well as whether her office did ultimately open the investigation into the dissemination of the Hunter Biden laptop.

Jennings herself has extensive ties to the Biden family. She endorsed him almost immediately upon his entry into the presidential race in 2019, boasting to social media that she has known the Biden family “for most of my life.”

Mackler’s deep connections to the Biden family raise questions about whether he should ever have come close to an investigation involving the Bidens.

He emailed with Hunter Biden and Eric Schwerin, one of Hunter Biden’s business partners, on what appears to be the first day of his new job at the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office to talk about the office’s email retention policy.

Schwerin joked to Mackler that his response was “the last email you ever receive from me.”

Days after Mackler had started working for the U.S. attorney’s office, he was still working with the Bidens, according to Hunter Biden’s emails.

Mackler helped edit public statements related to the launch of an institute in Joe Biden’s name at the University of Delaware while working for the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office, for example.

In late August 2016 — after, it would seem, Mackler began his job at the U.S. attorney’s office — Mackler fired off an email to Hunter Biden and Schwerin opining on the public perception of Hillary Clinton’s lucrative work with the Clinton Foundation. He argued that there should be a distinction between powerful people who make money once out of office and those who appear to be monetizing their current or future access to government power.

“When someone leaves public life and they or their spouse no longer hold prominent government positions … they can do almost whatever they want and take money from almost anyone they can personally stomach and who passes their personal barometer,” Mackler wrote. “That's the point (and the good news for us).”

House Republicans are gearing up to conduct a potentially explosive interview next week with Devon Archer, a former business partner of Hunter Biden’s who, facing a conviction and prison time on fraud charges, could have more of an incentive to divulge details to congressional investigators than other witnesses in Hunter Biden’s orbit.

Archer is reportedly poised to testify that Joe Biden frequently spoke to Hunter Biden’s prospective foreign business partners on speakerphone as his son sought to flex his access to his powerful father in the course of negotiations — a clear departure from Joe Biden’s denials of ever having discussed business matters with his son.

The Justice Department said Monday that it would make Weiss available to testify as soon as Sept. 27 — one week after Attorney General Merrick Garland is slated to appear before Congress.

That time frame could clash with what congressional investigators have planned, however; in a letter to the Biden administration last week, House Republicans said they wanted to conduct transcribed interviews with other witnesses, including Wolf, before they held a hearing with Weiss.

Hunter Biden plea deal falling apart as prosecutors keep future charges alive

First son Hunter Biden’s plea agreement was collapsing Wednesday as federal prosecutors declined to rule out charging the political scion with other crimes in the future.

The stunning turn of events came more than 90 minutes into the hearing at the federal courthouse in Wilmington, Del., where Hunter had been expected to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of willful failure to pay taxes and enter a diversion program on a felony federal weapons charge.



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But prosecutors told US District Judge Maryellen Noreika there was still a possibility the first son would be charged with offenses including failing to register as a foreign agent

Biden had appeared confident ahead of his plea hearing Wednesday, showing up alongside his “sugar brother,” attorney Kevin Morris.

Morris, a Hollywood-based lawyer and Democratic donor, was spotted last week outside his Los Angeles home while Hunter, a recovering drug addict, paid a visit

Hunter Biden agreed last month to plead guilty to failing to pay at least $100,000 on more than $1.5 million in earned income in both 2017 and 2018.



https://nypost.com/2023/07/26/...yp&utm_medium=social

Got to wonder how much impact that attempted slight of hand yesterday played into this. Not that I care all that much as long as their "deal" gets put on hold, or at least reduced.

Now that the gift is off the table, make the next offer 10 YEARS IN PRISON, the minimum sentence on the gun charge, plus felony sentences for tax fraud and FARA and ITAR violations.

That would result in one of two outcomes:

1. Pedo Joe pardons his crackhead son, or

2. Hunter betrays the Big Guy to avoid decades in prison.

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Hunter betrays the Big Guy to avoid decades in prison.

As.IF...

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Now that the gift is off the table, make the next offer 10 YEARS IN PRISON, the minimum sentence on the gun charge, plus felony sentences for tax fraud and FARA and ITAR violations.

I'd rather NOT see a plea bargain at all.
Take it to trial. Sunlight is the only cure.

I’ve come to the opinion that it is no longer about admissible evidence, burden of proof, and reasonable doubt – all the catch words we hear about court cases. You are right that it’s not about justice or even legal or moral right and wrong. The whole system of law has been perverted.

Behind the words, it’s about winning at any and all costs. There is complete desperation not to lose. So, we have to look at what they are afraid of losing?

If the Bidens are criminals, then that had to be known by every part of government for years, even decades. So, they are all guilty, every single one of them that has excused and worked to cover the Bidens’ criminal malfeasance. They know the election was rigged so it could be stolen from Donald Trump. It drives them to distraction that he keeps on bringing it up over and over.

They know they are guilty, but they really don’t care because as long as they keep on winning, they will continue having power, elite jobs, enormous coffers of money to plunder. They are desperate to protect the corrupt system in place that have put them in place. As long as they keep winning, we keep losing.

Hunter had his own motorcade this morning. Surely a man this important is above the law.

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Originally posted by Sig2340:
Now that the gift is off the table, make the next offer 10 YEARS IN PRISON, the minimum sentence on the gun charge, plus felony sentences for tax fraud and FARA and ITAR violations.

That would result in one of two outcomes:

1. Pedo Joe pardons his crackhead son, or

2. Hunter betrays the Big Guy to avoid decades in prison.

I'm really curious why it isn't 2 felony gun charges. We know he lied on his 4473.
1) Lied on 4473
2) Prohibited person with a firearm.

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Hunter had his own motorcade this morning. Surely a man this important is above the law.

Isn't he a USSS protected person just like the Bush and Obama daughters were?

Or do they not get that as adults??

Hunter Biden Plea Deal Back In Play As Defense Agrees To Limited Protection

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...orney-scrub-evidence

Update (1240ET): It appears that Hunter Biden's plea deal is back on the table, after the defense agreed to a limited agreement which covers 2014 to 2019 and only includes conduct related to tax offenses, drug use and gun possession.

This all comes down to Hunter's team believing that a plea on the tax charges was full immunity for all future tax charges relating to ongoing investigations.

Hunter expected "broad immunity" for future criminal tax issues and that's now shut down. He has nothing except to go forward however I'm sure that the prosecutors and defense counsel will talk and work out a different deal.

Hunter Biden Pleads Not Guilty As DOJ Deal Placed On Hold

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...orney-scrub-evidence

Update (1332ET): In yet another wild turn of events, today's court session ended with Hunter Biden's plea deal placed on hold, and Hunter pleading not guilty for the time being.

US District Judge Maryellen Noreika said she was not ready to accept the plea deal, and has asked both sides to file additional briefs explaining the legal structure of the revised deal.

She also called the deal federal prosecutors reached with Hunter over his gun possession offense "unusual," and that it contains some "non-standard terms," such as "broad immunity" from other potential charges.

"We don't usually make diversion agreements public," she said.

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She also called the deal federal prosecutors reached with Hunter over his gun possession offense "unusual," and that it contains some "non-standard terms," such as "broad immunity" from other potential charges.

"We don't usually make diversion agreements public," she said.

Ya don't say!