by Ben Whedon at Just the News
Retired FBI executive Scott Nelson is criticizing the Justice Department for taking roughly five years to investigate Hunter Biden on alleged tax and gun violations, only to bring charges so light they appear politically motivated.
“The Department of Justice, in my humble view, and in the view of many others, they’re slow walking,” he said on the “John Solomon Reports” podcast. “They undercharged that to a point of it being almost ludicrous.”
Biden in late June reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors in which he would admit to two misdemeanor tax charges and a felony gun charge that could later be dismissed.
The Justice Department recommends he receive probation, and Biden, 53, is expected to go before U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika on July 26 in Wilmington, Del., to formally agree to the plea agreement, which is expected to spare him time behind bars.
Nelson spoke following recent whistleblower allegations from two IRS agents who…
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