Efforts to forge a new deal have also foundered, doomed by the government’s insistence to offer only narrow immunity and Hunter Biden's push to close this chapter.
Federal prosecutors and Hunter Biden’s attorneys entered a courtroom late last month hoping a judge would approve the plea deal they’d struck, even though they had already publicly disagreed about a key element: what immunity it offered the former president’s son from potential additional criminal charges.The deal seemed likely to go through if U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika didn’t prod them on that question.
And in the three weeks since, efforts to negotiate a new deal have also foundered, doomed by the federal government’s insistence that any immunity offered be narrow while the FBI keeps investigating Hunter Biden’s work for foreign entities — and by the younger Biden’s equally fervent demand that any agreement he signs should put his legal troubles behind him.
Those discussions also reflected a narrowing of the scope of potential charges from when prosecutors and defense attorneys began speaking about the case years ago. Prosecutors have publicly said that any plea deal would only give Hunter Biden immunity from additional tax charges between the years of 2014-2019 — the years that investigators examined — and nothing else.
Last week, federal prosecutors said in court filings that the plea negotiations could not be salvaged and “a trial is therefore in order.” They asked the judge to drop the two tax charges they filed against Biden in Delaware, saying charges should instead be refiled in California or Washington, D.C., where the president’s son has lived.
“This was a problem entirely of their own making and not one that resulted from the drafting of the proposed plea or diversion agreements,” Wise wrote.
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