The government said plea negotiations had broken down, filed to dismiss the tax charges against Hunter Biden in Delaware and indicated they could charge him instead in another court, like Washington, D.C., or California.
House Republicans are pursuing their own congressional investigations into nearly every facet of Hunter Biden’s business dealings and the Justice Department’s handling of the case. They released a transcript of an interview with a former FBI agent who worked the case and said he was unable to interview Hunter Biden after FBI officials notified the Secret Service ahead of time in 2020.
Republicans have denounced Hunter Biden’s plea agreement as a “sweetheart deal.” It had called for him to plead guilty to failing to pay taxes on over $1.5 million in income in both 2017 and 2018, and get probation rather than jail on the misdemeanor counts. A separate agreement was to spare him prosecution on the felony crime of being a drug user in possession of a gun in 2018 if he kept out of trouble for two years.
It comes against the backdrop of the Justice Department’s unprecedented indictments against former President Donald Trump, who is President Biden’s chief rival in next year’s election.
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