{"id":1987352,"date":"2023-07-31T21:15:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T01:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-bidens-sweetheart-plea-deal-now-being-investigated-by-house-republicans\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T21:17:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T01:17:15","slug":"hunter-bidens-sweetheart-plea-deal-now-being-investigated-by-house-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-bidens-sweetheart-plea-deal-now-being-investigated-by-house-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans are currently investigating Hunter Biden&#8217;s plea deal."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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-bidens-sweetheart-plea-deal-now-being-investigated-by-house-republicans%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=1987352&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>House Committees Launch Inquiry into Hunter Biden&#8217;s Plea \u2063Deal<\/h2>\n<p>Despite the\u200c explosive courtroom drama surrounding Hunter \u200dBiden&#8217;s plea deal, leaders of three \u2062House committees are determined to\u2063 uncover the Department of Justice&#8217;s intentions behind it.<\/p>\n<p>The deal fell apart when U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika raised concerns and refused to approve it. Consequently, Hunter\u2064 Biden pleaded not guilty to the charges against him,\u200c and both sides are now expected to \u2063negotiate a new agreement.<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing, Judge Noreika criticized the deal, calling it &#8220;not standard&#8221; and\u200d potentially &#8220;unconstitutional.&#8221; The New York Times reported that she even questioned its validity, suggesting it may not be \u200cworth the paper it&#8217;s printed on.<\/p>\n<p>The rejected \u2062agreement would have granted Hunter Biden broad immunity for crimes not covered by the \u2062deal, according to the New York Post.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, whistleblower comments indicated that Hunter Biden had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/it-started-from-the-bottom-new-details-emerge-as-miami-building-collapse-death-toll-climbs-attention-turns-to-developer\/\" title=\"It \u2018Started From The Bottom\u2019: New Details Emerge As Miami Building Collapse Death Toll Climbs, Attention Turns To Developer\">receiving preferential treatment<\/a>, adding to\u2062 the\u2063 concerns of House Judiciary \u2062Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, and Ways and Means Committee Chairman \u2062Jason Smith. They wrote \u2063a letter to \u2064Attorney General \u2062Merrick Garland demanding an explanation for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-bidens-sweetheart-plea-deal-now-being-investigated-by-house-republicans\/\" title=\"House Republicans are currently investigating Hunter Biden's plea deal.\">unusual events \u200bsurrounding<\/a> the\u200c plea deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Given <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-plea-house-gop-investigates-troubling-provisions-of-doj-deal\/\" title=\"House GOP investigates 'troubling' aspects of Hunter Biden's plea in DOJ deal.\">recent unusual events relating<\/a> to the Department&#8217;s \u200dplea and pretrial diversion agreements with \u2063Mr. Biden, we write to better understand the Department&#8217;s decision to sign off on such apparently atypical agreements,&#8221; the letter said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The letter specifically focused on two parts of the deal, highlighting that it prevents criminal charges against Hunter Biden for the gun charge and other federal charges within\u200b the scope of the agreement. It also raised concerns about the \u2062inclusion\u2064 of unrelated conduct in \u2064the plea agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The letter expressed serious concerns about the Department&#8217;s handling of the matter,\u2062 suggesting that it shifted\u200c a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-could-still-get-saved-by-doj-even-without-immunity\/\" title=\"DOJ could still save Hunter Biden, even without immunity.\">broad immunity provision<\/a> from the plea agreement to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-department-charges-hunter-biden\/\" title=\"Justice Department charges Hunter Biden\">pretrial diversion agreement<\/a> to avoid scrutiny from the District Court.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Read the proposed Hunter Biden plea agreement <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eRO93Ugqpy\">https:\/\/t.co\/eRO93Ugqpy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 POLITICO (@politico) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/politico\/status\/1684390456140996608?\">July 27, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The letter also expressed concerns that the Department \u2064may be using\u2063 ongoing investigations \u2062as a shield to avoid Congressional oversight. It questioned the Department&#8217;s disagreement with Hunter Biden&#8217;s \u2064attorney regarding the \u2062scope of the\u2064 immunity\u2063 provision and raised doubts\u200c about the discussions between the Department and Biden&#8217;s counsel regarding the status \u2064of those investigations.<\/p>\n<p>The letter requested information on similar deals made by the Justice Department in the past 10 years \u200dand inquired whether the sections of concern were suggested by the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office for Delaware or Hunter Biden&#8217;s lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans are determined to \u2064investigate\u2063 Hunter Biden&#8217;s plea deal and shed light on the Department of \u2064Justice&#8217;s decision-making\u2063 process.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2064post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hunter-bidens-sweetheart-plea-deal-now-investigated-house-republicans\/\">Hunter\u200b Biden&#8217;s Sweetheart Plea Deal Now Being Investigated by \u200cHouse Republicans<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The failed Hunter Biden plea deal has piqued the interest of House committee leaders. They aim to scrutinize the Department of Justice&#8217;s intentions behind it. U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika&#8217;s inquiries led to the deal&#8217;s collapse last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":1987353,"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":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1987352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"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\/1987352","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1987352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1987353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}