A legal showdown over the derailed plea deal for Hunter Biden continued Tuesday as prosecutors asserted that an agreement on a gun charge is dead along with the rest of the deal as the case makes a major shift into a special counsel investigation.
While the agreement that was supposed to have wrapped up the long-running investigation of President Joe Biden's son largely unravelled during a contentious court hearing last month, prosecutors said the two sides had continued to negotiate until the defence rejected their final counterproposal the day before U.S. Attorney David Weiss asked to be named special counsel.
The conflict is now in front of U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika, who is weighing the prosecution's motion to pull the tax misdemeanour charges they filed and potentially file them in another court like California or Washington. The plea agreement had been decried as a "sweetheart deal" by Republicans who are pursuing their own congressional investigations into nearly every facet of Biden's business dealings and the Justice Department's handling of the case.
Attorney General Merrick Garland's surprise announcement last week of Weiss as special counsel raised fresh questions about the case ahead of the 2024 election. Hunter Biden's history of drug use and financial dealings have trailed the political career of his father.
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