Federal prosecutors and Hunter Biden’s attorneys entered a courtroom late last month hoping a judge would approve the plea deal they’d struck, even though they had already publicly disagreed about a key element:
what immunity it offered the president’s son from potential additional criminal charges.
The move is the latest salvo in the back and forth between Mr. Biden and David C. Weiss, the federal prosecutor who was appointed special counsel last week.
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Hunter Biden told a federal judge late Sunday that the Justice Department was trying to renege on a major part of his deal with the government — his agreement to enroll in a diversion program for gun offenders — that he signed and granted him broad immunity from future federal prosecutions.
The move, included in a court filing by his lawyer, Christopher Clark, is the latest exchange in an escalating dispute between Mr. Biden and David C. Weiss, the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney in Delaware who was
appointed special counsel last week after the implosion of an agreement that would have spared the president’s son prison time.
It adds to the growing uncertainty over how the Biden investigation, which Republicans have made a central prong in their attacks on President Biden, will ultimately be resolved.
The government, in recent filings, has said the yearslong inquiry, which seemed to be nearing an end last month, might be headed to a trial. Another of Hunter Biden’s lawyers, Abbe Lowell, suggested over the weekend that the agreement could somehow be revived.