{"id":1982759,"date":"2023-07-25T22:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T02:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-plea-judge-threatens-sanctions-on-biden-attorneys-for-suspicious-phone-call\/"},"modified":"2023-07-25T22:27:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T02:27:45","slug":"hunter-biden-plea-judge-threatens-sanctions-on-biden-attorneys-for-suspicious-phone-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-plea-judge-threatens-sanctions-on-biden-attorneys-for-suspicious-phone-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge threatens sanctions on Hunter Biden&#8217;s attorneys over suspicious phone call."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhunter-biden-plea-judge-threatens-sanctions-on-biden-attorneys-for-suspicious-phone-call%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1982759&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Judge Threatens Sanctions Against Hunter Biden&#8217;s Attorneys<\/h2>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-denies-request-to-move-chauvin-trial-limits-evidence\/\" title=\"Judge denies request to move Chauvin trial, limits evidence\">judge presiding<\/a>\u2062 over Hunter Biden&#8217;s forthcoming plea agreement has issued a stern warning\u200d to his legal team. Late Tuesday evening, the \u200djudge\u2064 threatened to sanction the attorneys after it was revealed that a member\u2062 of the team had &#8220;misrepresented her\u200c identity&#8221; to \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-appointed-judge-issues-order-blocking-texas-law-that-protects-unborn-babies\/\" title=\"Obama-Appointed Judge Issues Order Blocking Texas Law That Protects Unborn Babies\">court officials<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The accusations against\u200b Biden&#8217;s legal team\u2062 involve an alleged attempt to remove a brief about IRS whistleblowers testimony from the Delaware federal court \u2062docket. U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika has \u200bgiven\u2062 the attorneys until 9 p.m. on Tuesday to explain their actions.<\/p>\n<h3>Whistleblower Claims and Political Interference<\/h3>\n<p>The\u2064 judge&#8217;s order came shortly after House Ways and Means Committee\u200b Chairman\u200d Jason Smith filed a brief urging the judge to consider denying Hunter \u200dBiden&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fiat-chrysler-to-pay-30m-settlement-linked-to-racketeering-scandal\/\" title=\"Fiat Chrysler to pay M settlement linked to racketeering scandal\">plea deal<\/a>. \u200cThe brief raised \u2064concerns about whistleblower claims that Biden received preferential treatment during the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The filing included testimony from two \u200cIRS\u200d whistleblowers\u2062 who provided \u2064interviews on May 26 \u200dand\u200d June \u20641.<\/p>\n<p>In an\u200d email from the \u2064committee&#8217;s\u200b top lawyer, Theodore Kittila, it was revealed that an individual associated with Biden&#8217;s legal team had called the Clerk&#8217;s Office pretending to be Kittila. \u2063The individual, identified as Jessica Bengels, allegedly misrepresented\u2062 her identity \u2062and \u2062attempted to have the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-plea-judge-threatens-sanctions-on-biden-attorneys-for-suspicious-phone-call\/\" title=\"Judge threatens sanctions on Hunter Biden's attorneys over suspicious phone call.\">amicus materials removed<\/a> from the docket.<\/p>\n<h3>Possible Sanctions and Affidavit \u200bSubmission<\/h3>\n<p>Judge Noreika&#8217;s order\u200b temporarily sealed\u200b the document in\u200d question and\u2062 gave Hunter Biden&#8217;s team until the end of the day on \u200cJuly 26, 2023, to provide an explanation. The\u2062 order also stated that the defendant\u2064 must show cause\u2062 as to why sanctions should not be considered for misrepresentations to the court.<\/p>\n<p>Just before the deadline,\u2063 Jessica Bengels submitted an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-withdraws-contempt-order-against-trump-with-conditions\/\" title=\"Judge Withdraws Contempt Order Against Trump, With Conditions\">affidavit claiming<\/a> that there was \u200da miscommunication \u200camong the clerks regarding the removal of Smith&#8217;s filing. She denied\u200c ever indicating that she was calling \u200dfrom Kittila&#8217;s firm or working \u200cwith him.<\/p>\n<h3>Impact on\u200d Plea \u200cDeal \u2062Decision<\/h3>\n<p>It remains \u200bunclear \u200dwhether the recent activity on \u200bthe docket will affect Judge Noreika&#8217;s\u200c decision regarding Hunter Biden&#8217;s plea deal. Critics \u2063have already labeled the deal as a &#8220;sweetheart&#8221;\u200b agreement. \u200bThe Washington Examiner has reached\u2064 out to \u2062Biden&#8217;s attorney for a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge overseeing Hunter Biden&#8217;s plea deal warned his lawyers of potential sanctions on Tuesday. The legal team allegedly misrepresented their identity to court officials, leading to accusations of removing a document on IRS whistleblowers from the Delaware federal court docket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1982760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1982760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}