by Josh Boswell at Daily Mail
Special Prosecutor David Weiss says Hunter Biden‘s tax crimes cannot be dismissed – despite his father’s presidential pardon.
Hunter’s lawyers filed papers asking a California judge to dismiss the case as soon as Joe Biden pardoned him on Sunday.
But in a response on Monday, Weiss, the senior Justice Department official who ran the prosecutions against the felon First Son, argued that it’s not that simple.
In their filing, Weiss and his prosecutors Leo Wise and Derek Hines slammed Hunter’s lawyers for trying to ‘blot out guilt’ and erase the shocking deeds he admitted to in court.
They said that the court should instead close the case with a note acknowledging Hunter’s presidential pardon, but leaving his guilty plea on the record, along with the official finding that prosecutors’ charges of debauchery, deliberate tax-dodging and political perversion were true.
The DoJ officials accused Hunter’s hotshot Washington DC attorney Abbe Lowell of ‘misrepresent[ing] the law’ adding that ‘Nothing requires the dismissal of the indictment in this case.’
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