Posted on 06/20/2023 7:39:11 PM PDT by bitt
A prosecutor on the team that struck a sweetheart deal with Hunter Biden worked just years ago for a longtime Biden family friend who did business with the embattled first son, raising potential concerns about an investigation that has already been marred by whistleblower allegations of political favoritism.
Derek Hines, a special assistant U.S. attorney on the Hunter Biden case, was special counsel to former FBI director Louis Freeh at Freeh's private consulting firm from August 2013 to February 2015, according to Hines's LinkedIn profile. Freeh has extensive ties to the Biden family. He was recruited by Hunter Biden in 2016 to help a Romanian businessman fight bribery charges in Europe. That same year, Freeh gave $100,000 to a college trust for two of Joe Biden's grandchildren, according to emails from Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop. Freeh said that he looked forward to "future work" with Hunter Biden and that he had discussed "future work options" with then-vice president Biden. Freeh later joined the board of the Beau Biden Foundation, named for the president's late son.
Hines now serves as special assistant to U.S. attorney David Weiss, according to court filings in Biden's case. Weiss, the federal prosecutor in Delaware, announced Tuesday that Biden agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax crimes for failure to pay taxes in 2017 and 2018. Biden is also charged with one count of felony gun possession, though he will enter a diversionary program that will likely keep him out of jail. Republicans blasted what they called a sweetheart deal handed down by the Biden Justice Department.
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The republic is dead, the rule of law is dead & the legal profession is dead.
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You just knew from the results that something like this was present behind the scenes.
Biden just gave you and your laws the finger dictators and family are above the law.
They’re laughing right in our faces.
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EVEN WE CAN ALL SAY CONFLICT OF INTEREST
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