Newly released emails show Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss and his team discussed a congressional request last year for information about a Justice Department official with a potential conflict of interest in the Hunter Biden case.
The heavily redacted emails also show that the Justice Department, not Weiss’s office, took the lead on responding to Congress about questions meant for Weiss, despite assurances from Attorney General Merrick Garland that Weiss was operating the Hunter Biden investigation with total independence.
Prior to joining the Justice Department under President Joe Biden, however, McQuaid was a partner at the law firm handling Hunter Biden’s defense, and before joining the Biden administration, he worked closely with Christopher Clark, who was, until recently, Hunter Biden’s lead defense attorney. McQuaid appeared to depart the Justice Department less than a month before Weiss held a meeting with investigators on the Hunter Biden investigation and informed them that the Justice Department had denied his request for special counsel status. He also said two other Joe Biden-appointed U.S. attorneys had blocked his ability to charge Hunter Biden outside Delaware, according to two IRS whistleblowers who approached Congress this spring.
Clark withdrew from Hunter Biden’s defense team in anticipation of serving as a witness in a potential future challenge to the way Weiss’s office handled the botched plea agreement it attempted to offer Hunter Biden in June.
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