{"id":1997798,"date":"2023-08-11T12:50:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T16:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-investigation-garland-appoints-david-weiss-as-special-counsel\/"},"modified":"2023-08-11T12:51:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T16:51:28","slug":"hunter-biden-investigation-garland-appoints-david-weiss-as-special-counsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-investigation-garland-appoints-david-weiss-as-special-counsel\/","title":{"rendered":"David Weiss has been appointed as special counsel for the Hunter Biden investigation by Garland."},"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\">30<\/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-investigation-garland-appoints-david-weiss-as-special-counsel%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=1997798&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>Attorney General Merrick Garland Appoints Special Counsel in Hunter Biden Investigation<\/h2>\n<p>Attorney General Merrick Garland made an exciting announcement on Friday, revealing that he has appointed \u2063U.S.\u2064 Attorney David Weiss as a special counsel in the\u200d investigation into Hunter Biden. This decision comes after Weiss himself requested the authority from Garland earlier this week.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Upon considering his \u200drequest,\u2063 as well\u200d as the extraordinary circumstances relating to this matter, I have concluded that it is \u2063in the public interest to appoint him as special counsel,&#8221; Garland stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The investigation into Hunter\u2062 Biden began in 2018 when federal investigators in Delaware initiated an\u2063 inquiry. In 2019, they subpoenaed his now-infamous laptop from a repair shop as part of their investigation.<\/p>\n<p>In June, U.S. Attorney\u200b David\u2064 Weiss&#8217;s office reached a\u200d plea deal with Hunter Biden.\u2062 The younger Biden pleaded guilty to two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-lawyer-calls-irs-whistleblower-a-criminal\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Lawyer Calls IRS Whistleblower a Criminal\">misdemeanor tax charges<\/a> and\u2063 entered into a <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 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/victims-blame-soros-backed-prosecutors-for-crime-wave-in-u-s-cities\/\" title=\"Victims Blame Soros-Backed Prosecutors for Crime Wave in U.S. Cities\">felony gun charge<\/a>. However, this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-investigation-garland-appoints-david-weiss-as-special-counsel\/\" title=\"David Weiss has been appointed as special counsel for the Hunter Biden investigation by Garland.\">plea deal \u200dfaced \u200dcriticism<\/a> from Republicans, who deemed it a &#8220;sweetheart&#8221; deal.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District \u200cJudge Aileen Cannon added to the intrigue last month when she made a surprising decision to defer the deal. She expressed concerns about what she perceived as &#8220;unusual&#8221; provisions and the potential implications for future charges, including violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here to read more from The Washington Examiner<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>This story is developing.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed U.S. Attorney David Weiss as special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation. Weiss had requested the authority, and after careful consideration of the circumstances, Garland granted it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1997799,"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-1997798","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\/1997798","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=1997798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1997799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}