The Hunter Biden sweetheart plea deal is finally dead and now Hunter Biden will have to go to court and face the mountains of evidence they have against him. I’m sure the reason for the impasse is that Hunter and his lawyers wanted another deal similar to the one the judge threw out. They just couldn’t convince the prosecutors to offer them another deal that the judge would just throw out.
In a Friday motion, prosecutors said plea negotiations that have continued since Judge Noreika threw out the original case. The main sticking point is that Hunter wanted immunity for all charges not contained in the current case. That was a bridge too far for the prosecutors. The big question is whether prosecutors are willing to change the venue in order to give Hunter a friendly jury pool. The prosecutors will have a tough decision because they have their careers to think of and it is quite possible that Trump will win the presidential election in 2024 and DeSantis in 2028 and 2032.
Noreika, an appointee of former President Donald Trump who had support from Delaware’s Democratic senators, was confirmed in 2018. A search of her political contributions shows that she has donated to Democrats and Republicans in the past. That makes it tough to paint her as a partisan hack, a tool favored by Democrats. But, if they change the venue, the trial would be heard by another judge. They could get the plea deal and a friendly judge would approve it.
Prosecutors filed the motion Friday to dismiss charges filed in Delaware so the government could bring charges in a different district. The filing notes the venue for the charges “does not lie in Delaware” and would be either in the Central District of California or Washington, D.C.
“The information was filed in this District because the parties had previously agreed that the Defendant would waive any challenge to venue and plead guilty in this District,” the motion says.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELBiden’s initial plea deal, which would have had him plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and enter a diversion agreement allowing him to avoid jail time for a felony gun charge, included a promise of broad immunity for future charges that Noreika uncovered during the hearing through careful questioning.
The diversion agreement that contained the immunity provision outlined payments Biden received from his business dealings in China, Ukraine and Romania, which legal experts said could have shielded him from potential future charges under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).
If the government files charges in another district, it would bring Hunter Biden’s case before a different judge than Noreika.
Noreika, an appointee of former President Donald Trump who had support from Delaware’s Democratic senators, was confirmed in 2018. Campaign donation records from her time working at a law firm in the private sector reveal she donated to both Democrats and Republicans.
