Hunter Biden's Aristocratic Prerogative
The Naked Favoritism of the Dirty Deal
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Sean Hannity on Fox News frequently referred to the rip-off, near-exculpation Hunter Biden was about to receive this week in Federal court as a “sweetheart deal.” How typical of the outclassed Right wing that is seldom up to speed. A “sweetheart deal” is what grandma is gifted on her 90th birthday from the bank that cancels her mortgage debt. What Merrick Garland was about to bestow on the First Son was the naked favoritism of a dirty deal. The kind of preferential treatment such as King Henry VIII’s offspring or the scion of a Banana Republic dictator, would obtain. The Democrats are “The Party of the People”? Not.
Prince Hunter was supposed to receive the judicial slap on the wrist which rich kids and the politically connected routinely receive in the U.S. court system. The judge’s approval was expected to be pro forma, after which the media would have declared “case closed” on all of Hunter’s crimes and we the people would have been ordered to “move on.” Any further investigation would be branded Russian disinformation, as Hunter’s infamous laptop was labeled by “fifty “top members of the intelligence community,” most of whom retain their lucrative sinecure as star “experts” in the shameless media’s news firmament.
But like the two brave men who emerged from the IRS to become whistleblowers and sound the alarm about the swindle, the magistrate in the July 25 Delaware hearing, Maryellen Noreika, miraculously refused to serve as what she described as a “rubber stamp” to a deal that constituted furtive future immunity for all Hunter’s past crimes. A hundred other Federal judges would have approved it in a heartbeat. Like IRS officials and prosecutors, judges too have been warned that to resist the cream puff set-up would be “career suicide.”
The legacy media have turned this into a strictly partisan Republican issue. Nothing to see here except of interest to the goofball MAGA mob — “tinfoil…slobbering right-wing fan fiction” in the purple prose of USA Today, which failed to mention the IRS agents’ testimony, or the fact that one of the whistleblowers, Joseph Ziegler, is a Democrat married to a man.
Since when is investigating criminal politics the sole province of one party? It is the concern of every citizen.
IRS whistleblower Ziegler stated July 28 (WSJ, p. A15):
“Looking back on my five-year tax investigation of Hunter Biden, I recall many disagreements between prosecutors and investigators. These involved the search warrants of Hunter Biden’s residence and storage unit, the verification of WhatsApp messages that seemingly detailed Joe Biden’s presence during business discussions, and delayed or blocked interviews with members of the Biden family. I would characterize the Justice Department’s behavior as obstruction….When Biden-appointed U.S. attorneys in the District of Columbia and the Central District of California declined the case after only a brief review, and refused to allow Mr. Shapley or me to brief them on our findings, I knew I had to blow the whistle. Coming forward has already proved costly. It is unlikely that my personal or professional life will ever return to normal. But I have no regrets.”
Excerpt from the sworn Congressional testimony of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Criminal Supervisory Special Agent Gary A. Shapley, Jr., May 26, 2023:
Before October of 2022, I had received the highest awards available to me in my agency and multiple awards from DOJ. In October 2022, I was a senior leader, assistant special agent in charge of the Chicago Field Office, and received the highest performance rating available that year as an outstanding.
I was planning to transition to a new position in headquarters for an international collaboration of foreign tax organizations that I was picked to help set up and operated since 2018. I have led, planned, and executed undercover operations and/or search warrants in over a dozen countries. I have investigated and managed some of the largest cases in U.S. history and of the history of the agency, recovering over $3.5 billion for the United States Government.
Since October 2022, IRS CI has taken every opportunity to retaliate against me and my team. I was passed over for a promotion for which I was clearly most qualified.
The special agent in charge and assistant special agent in charge of the Washington, D.C. Field Office have sent threats to the field office, suppressing additional potential whistleblowers from coming forward.
Even after IRS CI senior leadership had been made aware on a recurring basis that the Delaware U.S. Attorney's Office and the Department of Justice was acting improperly, they acquiesced to a DOJ request to remove the entire team from the Hunter Biden investigation, a team that had been investigating it for over 5 years. Passing the buck and deferring to others was a common theme with IRS CI leadership during this investigation.
After you hear my testimony, I believe you will understand why my conscience would not be silenced. My oath of office would have been unfulfilled if I did nothing. I went from a senior leader to a pariah, and the only thing that happened in between was that I blew the whistle.
I am blowing the whistle because the Delaware U.S. Attorney's Office, Department of Justice Tax, and Department of Justice provided preferential treatment and unchecked conflicts of interest in an important and high-profile investigation of the President's son, Hunter Biden…the criminal tax investigation of Hunter Biden, led by the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Delaware, has been handled differently than any investigation I've ever been a part of for the past 14 years of my IRS service….
[End quote from IRS whistleblower Shapley. His entire testimony, which should be published online in all major newspapers, is available at this link].
“Handled differently.”
Indeed: “From the start, the judge seemed highly skeptical of the unusual deal — which offered Hunter Biden broad immunity from prosecution in perpetuity, questioning why it had been filed under a provision that gave her no legal authority to reject it. When she asked Leo Wise, a prosecutor, if there was any precedent for the kind of deal being proposed, he replied, ‘No, your honor.”
Justice Department lead prosecutor David Weiss is supposed to be scrupulously unbiased because he’s “a Trump appointee!” as the media bellow at every opportunity —as if that makes any difference — woke FBI Director Christopher Wray was also installed by Trump.
It appears that Weiss informed the defense that the First Son’s legal jeopardy would end once the judge accepted it. However, Judge Noreika’s integrity stood in the way, and what was supposed to be a sneak attack on our judicial system went up in smoke as fast as the fumes from Hunter’s crack pipe.
When questioned by the judge, the Feds had to admit that Hunter’s liability could not be at an end. This delicate datum turned on the the Justice Department having evaded disclosing documents to Congress by using the alibi of an “ongoing investigation.”
The IRS whistleblowers provided evidence of the aristocratic prerogatives afforded the princeling. The release of confidential Justice Department documents will further confirm the criminal politics perpetrated by Garland, Weiss and their cronies. To stonewall those revelations the immunity deal with Hunter had to be scuttled under the vigilant eye of Judge Noreika. She openly decried the Justice Department’s proposed settlement of the charges as being very likely unconstitutional, designed to deny her a judge’s customary power to alter its provisions.
Not only the IRS agents have been targeted. Biden’s attorney Christopher J. Clark is alleged to have informed prosecutors that pursuing a case against Hunter would be “career suicide.” Judge Noreika is surely aware that she is included in those threats.
The Justice Department told Congress that the investigation into Hunter’s role as an unregistered agent of foreign governments, a crime for which Paul Manafort was sentenced to prison, remains open.
The other investigation yet to be resolved involve the bribes paid to him by Ukraine, China, and Romania. and perhaps even to his father. The sleuthing must be more vigorous now that we have witnessed in one court the level of Justice Department favoritism at work.
As for Biden’s tax crimes, Scott Kaufmann notes: “Assuming a $12,700 standard deduction, a married couple filing jointly would've paid $534,201 in federal taxes and an income of 1.5 million in 2017. Hunter Biden paid no taxes that year…Last June President Biden stated, ‘It's about time the super wealthy start paying their fair share.” Unless it's your son.
The two tax charges against Hunter carry a maximum of one year in prison and a $25,000 fine, but he was slated to plead guilty to misdemeanor tax evasion with probation and no jail time.
Because he’s a Biden, Hunter is not supposed to have a convicted felon status for the rest of his life, even though he deserves it. Meanwhile, tens of thousands of working class Americans charged with the same crimes will receive a felony conviction.
Who can believe that the Democrats are the party of the working class when they defend this corrupt bargain? His father is gun grabber no. 1, but when his son violates one of the numerous bureaucratic diktats embedded in Federal gun law intended to make a felon out of a redneck, Latino or black worker, Hunter becomes largely immune from the consequences: no felony conviction and the record to be expunged if he stays out of trouble for two years.
Meanwhile, observe the degree to which interference in the judge’s deliberations has been concealed by the American corporate media. England’s Daily Mail newspaper has accused Jessica Bengals, litigation services director at Latham & Watkins, a New York law office, of misrepresenting herself as working for Congressional attorney Theodore Kittila. She allegedly told the judge’s office that the amicus brief the judge received from House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith should not be accessed because it contained private Social Security numbers, and therefore needed to be sealed.
From the Daily Mail: a person in “Hunter's attorney Chris Clark's former law firm called (Noreika’s) Delaware clerk – pretending to be from the office of (Congressman) Smith's attorney, Theodore Kittila – asking them to remove the original filing and, with it, 448 pages of Congressional testimony from the two IRS investigators who worked on the case. The documents were then taken down and sealed.”
Noreika’s office determined the call came from the law office in New York by tracing it using caller ID. This skullduggery amounts to judicial tampering.
What we saw this week in a a Federal court in Delaware was not supposed to be visible to the American people. The agreement was structured to be opaque. A corrupt magistrate was expected to agree to it, Garland’s gang would provide a stripped down summary and the woke media would cheer it into public acceptance with “justice has been served” platitudes.
If the shoe were on the other foot and Republicans had been caught red-handed with an arrangement this duplicitous, the subsequent Democratic hearings and subpoenas in Congress would eat the Republicans alive and shred their reputation like cabbage headed for the sauerkraut tank.
There will be much behind-the-scenes maneuvering in the weeks to come to ensure that doesn’t befall the Democrats and their royal gerontocracy in the White House.
If Republicans press ahead too strongly they too can be menaced with career suicide, or even sterner contingencies, including death made to appear like suicide, a car accident or cardiac arrest.
When the stakes are this high, the Cryptocracy plays for keeps. The prodigal son must be spared a felony conviction and imprisonment, at all costs.
Copyright ©2023 by Independent History and Research
Michael Hoffman is a former reporter for the New York bureau of the Associated Press and the author of ten history books and 122 issues of Revisionist History® newsletter (1997-2022). His podcasts are here; for my tweets google: @HoffmanMichaelA twitter
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