{"id":2006385,"date":"2023-08-20T17:01:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T21:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-investigation-david-weiss-worked-with-beau-biden-when-he-was-state-attorney-general\/"},"modified":"2023-08-20T17:02:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T21:02:15","slug":"hunter-biden-investigation-david-weiss-worked-with-beau-biden-when-he-was-state-attorney-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-investigation-david-weiss-worked-with-beau-biden-when-he-was-state-attorney-general\/","title":{"rendered":"David Weiss collaborated with Beau Biden during his tenure as state attorney general in the Hunter Biden investigation."},"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\">36<\/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-david-weiss-worked-with-beau-biden-when-he-was-state-attorney-general%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=2006385&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>Connections Between United States Attorney David Weiss and Beau Biden<\/h2>\n<p>United States\u2064 Attorney David Weiss and \u2064the late Beau Biden had a\u200c professional relationship while Biden served as Delaware&#8217;s Attorney General.\u2063 Their connection is\u2064 now under scrutiny as the special counsel investigates \u200bHunter Biden \u200band allegations of lenient treatment.<\/p>\n<h3>Collaboration on Legal Cases<\/h3>\n<p>A\u2064 recent report by The Washington Post reveals that Beau Biden, during\u200b his\u200d tenure as Delaware \u200dAttorney General, frequently communicated with Weiss, who was acting U.S. attorney in Delaware at the time.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We are always working hand-in-glove \u200dwith the federal government; there\u2019s nothing unusual about\u2064 that,&#8221; said Tim Mullaney Sr., Beau Biden\u2019s chief of staff at\u200c the state attorney\u2063 general\u2019s \u2064office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mullaney emphasized that their interaction\u2062 was not uncommon, given Delaware&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/male-college-student-complains-about-cisgender-men-installing-radiator-in-his-dorm-room\/\" title=\"Male College Student Complains About \u2018Cisgender Men\u2019 Installing Radiator In His Dorm Room\">close-knit community<\/a>, and suggested that their relationship was strictly professional.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cEverybody knows everybody in Delaware,\u2062 and \u200cit wasn\u2019t\u2063 unusual to see [Joe Biden] at the bookstore, the ice cream shop. It \u2063is normal,\u201d Mullaney\u2062 said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Investigation into Campaign\u2063 Contributions<\/h3>\n<p>Weiss also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-investigation-david-weiss-worked-with-beau-biden-when-he-was-state-attorney-general\/\" title=\"David Weiss collaborated with Beau Biden during his tenure as state attorney general in the Hunter Biden investigation.\">previously investigated illegal campaign contributions\u200d made<\/a> to Joe\u2064 Biden&#8217;s 2008 presidential campaign. Beau\u200c Biden recused\u200c himself from the investigation, which resulted in the\u200b sentencing of Delaware businessman Christopher Tigani in 2012.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a pre-sentencing\u200c memo, Weiss described Tigani as the \u201cembodiment of the \u2018Delaware Way,\u2019 a concept \u2064described \u2064uniformly by the defendant\u200d and others as \u200da form of soft corruption, intersecting business, \u2063and political interests, which has\u200d existed\u2062 in\u2063 this State for years.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Special \u2064Counsel Weiss and the\u200d Hunter Biden Investigation<\/h2>\n<p>Weiss, nominated as a\u2064 U.S.\u2063 attorney in 2017 by former President Donald Trump, is now at\u2064 the\u200c center \u200bof a five-year investigation into Hunter Biden. Earlier this year, \u200cHunter Biden\u200b reached a plea agreement, but it fell apart in court when a judge questioned the \u200bgun charge diversion agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Hunter Biden&#8217;s attorneys asserted that their\u200b deal with federal prosecutors to resolve the\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-lawyers-say-part-of-deal-to-resolve-felony-gun-charge-remains-intact\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden's lawyers confirm that a portion of the agreement to settle the felony gun charge remains unchanged.\">gun charge remains<\/a> &#8220;valid and binding,&#8221; despite \u2062previous indications of\u2064 an impasse.<\/p>\n<h3>Dismissal of Tax \u2062Charges<\/h3>\n<p>A \u2064federal judge in\u200b Delaware recently\u2064 dismissed two tax charges against Hunter Biden. However, there is \u200da possibility of future charges being filed in another jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Examiner has \u2062reached out to Hunter Biden\u2019s legal team and the Department \u200dof Justice for comment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">here<\/a> to read more from \u200dThe Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States Attorney David Weiss collaborated with the late Beau Biden on legal matters during Beau&#8217;s tenure as Delaware&#8217;s Attorney General. As the special counsel probes Hunter Biden and Republicans raise concerns about the president&#8217;s actions, the connections between Weiss and the Biden family are gaining attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2006386,"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-2006385","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\/2006385","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=2006385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2006386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}