The Justice Department struck a plea deal with Hunter Biden on Tuesday allowing him to avoid prison time for tax and gun charges, leading Republicans to allege the agency let the president's son off easy but threw the book at former President Donald Trump in its classified document probe—but the two cases share few, if any, similarities and the deal Biden reached is actually stricter than usual, some legal experts have said.... [+]Copyright 2022 The Associated Press.
NYU Law professor and former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann also described Biden’s penalties in both cases as “if anything harsh, not lenient,”prosecutions for first-time tax offenses and false applications for a gun purchase seldom lead to jail time or even prosecutions.
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