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David Weiss, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware and special counsel in the Hunter Biden matter, is under even more scrutiny after a flood of new reports.
There were signs, subtle but unmistakable, that Hunter Biden’s high-stakes plea agreement with federal prosecutors might be on shaky ground hours before it went public in June, according to emails sent by his legal team to the U.S. attorney’s office in Delaware. When one of Biden’s lawyers sent over the draft of the statement they intended to share with the news media, a top deputy to David Weiss, who had overseen the inquiry since 2018, asked to remove two words describing the status of the inv
An examination of confidential correspondence and interviews with those close to Mr. Biden and lawyers involved in the case show how the deal ultimately fell apart amid schisms and withering external pressures.
Hunter Biden and his attorneys began negotiating his guilty plea with the DOJ in May 2023, shortly after Gary Shapley first came forward, court filings show.
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